Forum:The new booster pack..Why?

First of all I referring to Crimson crisis and though I know Konami probably is the one distributing the cards I wonder a few things.


 * Why did the packs get reduced to 5 cards per pack? They were fine as is and it does feel like you get less for your money (They would have to reduce prices to about half the previous prices or less to make it worth it...I mean 5 cards per pack isn't a lot and you I don't think you would be guaranteed a Rare anymore either. Which is part of the way the game was marketed so when you buy you know you might get something semi worthwhile rather than a bunch of commons that don't work in whatever you are trying to make. Including a guaranteed rare was a good marketing strategy for the game for people to buy.)
 * So...Why is nearly everything either common or rare? Some of the better cards should have been at a higher rarity like normal (as in the case with ET, Which was common in Japan, UR/UtR here making it harder to get and a little more balanced since not everybody was running around with three of them.).
 * And also..Lack of balance, Many cards that have long been in the OCG were never released into the TCG because they would make many things very unbalanced, a Rare DaD for example, or an easy to get Sarcophagus worth about very little. Also Cards like Sirocco of Dawn of black wings I thought would be Super rare, Rather its a common. (Now I am making a black wing deck but...I expected something like that to be harder to get rather than everything common.)

What I am wondering is, why the sudden change of format of the booster pack and rarities? I don't believe it is the best idea to try and synchronize the OCG with TCG in terms of pack rarities and amount of cards in a booster. Since for a long time Upper Deck has marketed the game fairly well and in my opinion, kept it balanced by putting the better cards as higher rarities so not everybody runs around with like 2 DaD's or 2 Sarcophaguses.

Also the lack of organized play such as the bigger tournaments sucks quite a bit since I have never had the time to go to one and was hoping to be able to go to a big event in the future. However with all this change the sneak peeks are now held at local card shops rather than gathering a bunch of people to play the game at a single place.


 * Again this is all my opinions feel free to disagree but these are just my thoughts and questions as to why these changes are happening. (Also does anybody know why UD was sued? It seems many ppl I know either don't know or don't understand why Konami Is taking them to court.)--Takuma. 00:13, 27 February 2009 (UTC)