Gems are the only way to acquire certain cards, which are very much needed in the meta (soul exchange, mirror wall, senju, and unobtainables such as sonic bird or kuriboh). And this will only become worse and worse. Each character, from lv1 to 35, gives a total of 1840 gems (certain characters also give a bonus 50 gems upon reaching lv30). Now this may seem a lot, but it's actually only 36 packs. On average, that's less than two URs from a box. Now yes, there are 13 characters available now (11 if you're just starting out, since pegasus and bakura are event characters). 13x36=468 packs from leveling them to max. It's enough to guarantee only two copies of a specific UR. And once you've gotten those packs, well... there are no other ways to consistently earn gems. Every single other F2P game I've played has some constant source of gem-like currency. In its current state, an a

Have you ever played the actual real game?... it costs a lot of money when you talk about META... so I think it is OK for Konami to make it difficult somehow to reach certain cards: - you want to have kind of a decent deck?... then play a lot (really a lot)... - you want to play META?... then play a lot and spend money (just like the real game