Been playing Duel links again more regularly after really only trying a bit at launch and.. really I'm surprised I've felt no urge to pay money, which is having the opposite effect of wanting to give them money just to reward them for the amount of time and enjoyment I've got out of it so far, wish more mobile games would employ this strategy (looking at you KHUX).
Really surprised seeing its.. 1. A konami game and 2. A game all about packs (loot boxes) hoping to get the thing you want. It could so easily be so very worse, but packs have a limited amount of cards, so the more you get the more likely you'll get something you're after, and introduction of tickets which gets you any card of a certain list, most of which have had something I've found very useful to have.
And they even gave away the God cards for free! Though you had to win Slifer I believe and Ra I got from beating Yugi as Marik, but as someone who doesn't consider themselves particularly good, surprised I managed it. I kept expecting a catch. Guess the only thing close of recent memory was against Sartorius, with the destiny ability and a certain item would stop it working 100% of the time.
My only real problem(s) with it are I wish there was at least a 5 monster/spell/trap zone mode. Kinda makes the feasibility of using some monsters/strategies a lot lower, that and some cards that are yet present (Cyber Dragon :(, though I've heard it may be more for balance reasons?, but just annoying when there are cards that link to cyber dragon already, which I know other cards can substitute but.. sigh).
That and I want Zane as a character ha, but missed the chance a while ago it seems :(
Wouldn't say I'm the best at setting up decks either, feel it's mostly monsters and as soon as my "best" monster is gone, it's very unlikely I'll recover, but hopefully will get better with it over time. Like I want a Cyber deck, but without the main cyber dragon doesn't feel worth it and my deck currently mostly focuses on dragons, but I have XYZ dragon cannon monsters in and creator monsters as I've been finding them pretty handy.