A current assessment of BfN

There's an odd cadence and imbalance to player engagement in the game right now IMHO. I'm referring to BFN as a whole, not TT matches or the like.

I'll start out the month with 50 prize bulbs which I'll spend as soon as the new prize bulb challenge is up. It will take me about a week to get all the prize bulbs and rewards. Then about another week or so to reach 50 more prize bulbs - and that's that for the prize bulbs for another two weeks. 

Having completed all the PvE challenges and puzzles and emptied out the ROT. That leaves the weekly Rainbow Star challenges which if completed fast enough leaves another gap before the next one.  I'm not much for BA so I'll play TT and watch the prize bulbs evaporate as I play. I'll play to increase my character's rank but watching those prize bulbs disappear is frustrating. Then Maybe use coins to get some XP which  has a daily limit. Then I'll wonder away and play GW2 until the next prize bulb challenge. 

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that in GW2, even after you completed the PvE challenges and puzzles and even after you maxed all your characters you could still play for coins and get minions and costumes. And there were community challenges and the town hall. And yes there were gaps between them but you could still earn coins that you could spend.  You always were and still are rewarded for playing the game. I would think that one of the primary goals of any game is to make sure you have fun and keep playing and one of the best ways is to keep usable rewards coming through challenges and game play. But BFN is not doing that. To have currency that you can't use seems to me a huge lost opportunity to ensure "stickiness" and increases player frustration level (sorry the ROT  is empty but you can go over to Rux and spend real $$). And to see another player go to the ROT and get rewards and you can not? What are they thinking? And then Rux gives us free coins that we can't use? Wow. I understand this is a work in progress and I do like playing the game, but I just don't get it. I know the empty ROT and useless currency has been brought up before but I'm shocked that it's still going on and surprised the developers don't understand how negative it is to the overall experience of playing the game. 

 And of course I'm holding out hope that all the coins I've accumulated will be useful somewhere, sometime, somehow. Right.