I'm sorry I greatly disagree
You said that there is a promotional partnership between EDS and those Japanese publishers, are you an EDS employee?. As an Investor and ICO backer I'm fine with such promotional agreement (I perfectly undrestand the importance of an game ecosystem) but I have the right to ask how it works. (I do not expect an answer, but I have the right to ask)
Moreover some SoG user spent their money (bcy is digital money) to buy cards that now are give up for free.
I do not think that this issue is so transparent.
And Coin, the right way to contribute on the SoG project is not " give the team a break ", every details have its importance, and by the way those are not details.
No I'm not an EDS employee but I have been following the project since its inception, you can see when I got into it by looking at the first few pages of this thread.
I also own BCY and most cards, and I fucken love this project!
How did I find out they are partnerships? By reading the announcements on this thread or on the SoG blog. Each card is announced in both places including who they are done in collaboration with
and how they will be sold. One example, the Sarutobi card:
http://spellsofgenesis.tumblr.com/post/140625317755/sarutobi-get-your-flying-monkey (there's all you need to know that I know, right there).
Also the team is quite active on Slack and if and when there is a change they ask people for feedback first.
As in the example above it was known when announced that:
"You can get your flying monkey for 60 BCY, or 15 SaruTobi, starting from Tuesday, March 8th, 3pm CET."When you do a partnership with another game if the other publisher says: we'll promote your game and you promote ours but we want the card to be given to our fans for Sarutobi tokens what's the big deal?
I'm not sure how you get Sarutobi tokens, maybe by playing the game? Who cares? So long as it creates buzz within the two communities I am happy with it.
There have been several articles when Sarutobi became available on Android and in each one of them there was a mention of SoG. (big applause to the team!)
People have also bought the Sarutobi card for BCY and those BCY have been counted as revenue from sales, half of which have been burned. I see nothing wrong.
As others have said: chill Sherlock.
It's ok to provide feedback but try do it with respect towards the project and other fans.