I started playing at the end of the Untamed set. Chaos Legion was on the horizon...

One of the big draws to this game was: "If you play, you can earn Tokens and Cards!! You don't have to put in a ton of money, if you have the time. Earn Reward Cards, combine them to level them up and then sell the extras or ones you don't need so you can buy the cards you do!"

This allowed us players to earn cards with "Future Value"... as in: I earned them now... but later I could sell/trade/move them as I saw fit. They were Digital Assets (NFTs) and they were PLAYER owned - that's kinda the definition of Web3...

If my account got nuked or something, I'd still have my assets and be able to transfer them to another account or sell them...

This gives power to the Players, not the company e.g. Blizzard Entertainment 😵

I might lose an account but I wouldn't lose the thousands of dollars and hours I put into it.

With Soulbound cards, the first issue is - they are not Web3 Assets... They are Web2 and I didn't sign up for just another Web2 game... I certainly wouldn't put nearly as much $$$ into it as I have!

The second issue is... I can't sell a bunch of them to buy something like a Legendary Rebellion Card I needed...

The third issue is, I can't rent them (I used to make a ton off the Reward Card rentals)

The fourth issue is... once maxxxxxxxxxxxxed out... they're useless (now we can burn for Glint but kinda useless still)

The fifth issue is... I can't use them as slav... well compensated workers on my Land... but here's issue 5.5... I have a PLAY account... "CaptainDingus" but for my OCD I have the majority of my Land on a different account... So I can't send my Soulbound Cards to my Alt... even if they COULD work on Land 😡

The last issue I'll write is this and it kinda got fixed with the recent Glint shop...

Having to rely on RNG to get cards that you can ONLY get by [Generic Task] is F#$*%# STUPID.

I don't need or want 145,424,246 BCX of Terraceous Grunt or whatever... I NEEEEEED... 11 Copies of Kulu Mastermind... AND I STILL HAVE ZERO EVEN WITH JACKPOT CHESTS 😡😡😡🤡

With Unlocked Reward cards, I could sell the trash and buy the good ones... Since the team DOESN'T WANT TO LET US BUY SINGLES and just keeps F'ing us with RNG ASS... I shall continue to bitch about it because here's what happens:

Player A: I have all the cards because [Reasons]...
Player B: I have Money and want to play the Game!
Player A: Awesome, join me!
Player B: I bought every card in game with Money, now I can play too!
Player A: Beats the shit out of Player B
Player B: What the hell - where'd you get those cards?
Player A: I got them over a LONG PERIOD OF TIME using a Bot and being in a Guild!
Player B: Can I just BUY them? To play the game?
Player A: Uhhh... technically no, they're "Locked" to your account and can't be "Bought"...

Player B: ...
Player A: Fun, right?!?

Player B: Let me understand this... I spent $25,000 USD buying all these cards to play the game... yet... you routinely beat me because you have cards I can't BUY???

Player A: Well... you can earn them too...

Player B: WHAT GAME EXPECTS YOU TO PLAY IT BUT WON'T LET YOU BUY ALL THE PIECES?!?!?! WHY ON EARTH WOULD I PUT MONEY, ESPECIALLY THAT MUCH MONEY, INTO A GAME I CAN'T BUY ALL THE PIECES?!?! Oh, and on top of that... you're saying even if I DO stick around... I have to rely on RANDOM F#$^%#$ CHANCE to get the cards you're clobbering me with???

Player A: Uhh...

Player B has left the chat

So yeah, that's why we should go back to a better distributed print run of ACTUAL WEB3 REWARD CARDS...

Thank you for asking and it's 100% ok to feel one way or another and you can disagree with me and I won't be mad at you for it, I'm a semi-mature old-ish person that some may refer to as an looks around "adult" (but don't tell anyone and I'll deny it if you do).

Have a great day!