User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-24760042-20140821165753/@comment-1888015-20140824011455

Perhaps TJ, but when it costs £70 for 10k credits, which would give you 3 tries on the 12x mixed premium cards, you've got to ask yourself: "Is it worth paying out the equivalent of a full-priced next-gen game to waste on the off chance of getting a purple card?" And then you need to consider the mergeability of many cards, with many purple Ultra-Rare characters having 4 stages.

It's a rip-off, plain and simple, and the annoyance of "one redeem code per person only" is dumb. Even if you let everyone redeem everyone else's social codes and everyone got the Mary Read card and a bunch of stamina packs and gold, what use will they be when everyone has them? Stamina packs give you faster leveling and gold, which gives you data allocation points for better armour, weapon and ally capacity - it doesn't guarantee you that you'll get great weapons or armour to go with it. Gold's used for merging or augmenting, but that's practically it. And when everyone has Mary Read... well then, everyone has Mary Read. The advantage of possessing her, if she is even that great, is nullified or at the very least, diminished.