@NotAGamer221 wrote:
They give plenty of free gems. Character missions, hourly quests, rank up.
If you're rank diamond you should have gotten plenty of gems from ranking up and doing missions in which case you should have a decent amount of SRs or Legends to be able to still compete. Not to mention you can craft them by using sparks from duplicates or from the character missions. If you want more cards then pay a little $ since the game is free at least give something back to the developers for putting in the hard work to make the dang game in the first place.
Ever heard of "time is money"? I've even specifically mentioned it in the OP, 40-50 gems per day is nothing since you need 2000 for the most obvious purchase. Time investment is too much for the reward you get in the end: maybe because of the laughable 10-20 gems per quest (and 20 is rare on its own), maybe because of an astonishingly large 3 hour gap between these quests. Of course one can cheat the phone time to avoid it, cheers to devs for promoting such attitude towards their game. Character missions are basically 6 heroes since you never get one from the packs you buy (see other threads in this forum). There are no hourly quests in this game. Maybe you've meant THREE hours quests? Surely you can use your dust. How many do you need to craft a legendary? How many do you get by dusting the commons, huh? Do your math please. All of these points are obviously invalid.
And mentioning FryEmUp is quite funny since one of his most successful decks is literally called Pay2win.