User blog comment:Fairingrey/May 3, 2015 Thoughts About Quitting and Where Ishtaria Is Heading/@comment-122.54.153.183-20150504084758/@comment-25948107-20150504142256

Age of Ishtaria is something called a CCG ( a Collectible card game) with that in note there should be a base of collecting. Collecting normally comes from either pulling the units from a pack or getting them as a reward. If all the cards were alwais availible without any being exclusive then there would be no need to make this a multiplayer game with trading and ranking. Just like Pokemon games where you need to collect every pokemon to complete the pokedex which is bound to happen whatever you do. And as that system being punitive for people who join later well id refer to you to try to buy stocks in now huge company or making the next technological breakthrought: Harder than it was 10-20 years ago. But still is doable as is getting the older units and being here NOW to get the units people in a year will complain about being too rare.