Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies Heroes/@comment-26988423-20160807120454/@comment-29611741-20160813043301

DrPhlogiston wrote: I'll admit, comparing Crits to Instant Blocks is, to say the least, comparing Apples and Oranges in the sense that they are both fruit. Completely different games and completely different mechanics. TF2 is a Skill based game (A game which I have no skill at) and PvZ Heroes is a card based strategy game with a decent helping of luck that couldn't have been pulled off in an IRL TCC. A lot of things in this game rely on luck, from whether the cards you start with are good, to what you get from a Gargantuar's Feast or a Eureka. PvZ Heroes is a game where a lot of things are based on luck. To remove Instant Blocks is taking away one of the things that made this game stand out, the chance. I'll add by saying that although luck can be a balancing factor in games where microtransactions, at least in the earlier stages of the game, can give buyers a benefit in multiplayer. If it were purely to skill and cards to decide where people stand, buyers would have much higher standing than they deserve. But with luck added, non-buyers(or free-fighters) can occasionally get the upper hand in otherwise lost situations against the superior decks of buyers. Without luck, only much higher-skilled free-fighters could get over buyers, and until they put countless hours to collecting cards for their perfect deck, they will always be trumped by the stronger and more ideal decks of half-intelligent buyers. Yes, reward those who give you that $$$, but to not discourage free-fighters that create the community of these online landscapes, give a decent element of luck to weaken the stronger cards or to give a losing player one last shot to win a battle they would've given up to a buyer's superior setup. Yes, the buyers could also use this chink, but let's face it: the desperate always see the chinks and opportunities that the top dog would not see or care about due to their superiority.

tl;dr: It's for balancing low-level play against those who are superior due to buying good cards.