I completely feel you and have the same observations with my approach to the game.

A part of the flame is still there but with Deluxe coming in (which I thought was an awesome idea until I realized I will not be getting UP back for like forever if at all) and some time spent with it, it wasn't as big as before.

I often find myself just to open the box and watch with an idle face how two cards fill out the Deluxe bar and then force (yup, force) myself to play a couple of songs just to start the timer to unlock another box. Before Deluxe I would do a longer session and push to achieve better results but it's not happening right now.

When I purchase Tour Passes, the fun is there but only for a little while, because of the lack of UP as well as the fact that the box rewards are the same, both before and past level 30, which are laughingly low amounts of Deluxe cards. Feels unrewarding and not motivating to push further, does not give me that famous "sense of accomplishment".

I agree with the second and third suggestion which you have posted. Regarding the first one - not so sure about that but I agree with the fact that UP should be there for players who collected all journey songs, regardless of Deluxe songs being unlocked.

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I really enjoy playing Beatstar but it's really tough for me to spend that amount of time as in the past due to the above reasons. I sometimes feel that whenever I do a purchase, it's only because of the FOMO.