Sooooo how are you supposed to get the blue thingies?

i think it's safe to say they now prefer setting the drop rate low at first, so you feel the pressure and build a habit of logging in more often. Then after a week they can analyze progress data and increase the drop rate. Which is better than having us gripe we have more currency than we want to bother crafting, which has happened before.

It's better to have us scramble first, rather than later, IMHO.