User blog comment:LonelySouI/Food For Thought/@comment-24229449-20140721121621

I also agree. the barter trade was one thing, but the gcq cards power creep the game rapidly. sure its fun defeating fallen with your team mates but after 6-8 gcq you could see that people were easily reaching cq team with over 180-190k hp. creating a domino like effect just as you said, made the rankings a bit easier for them, made climbing easier to 100 above and placed free players on equal footing atleast with whales.

Now we know how hard it is being a free player but planning and wisely using stock items will go a long way,zynga is already being somehow generous with fallens and pure due to gcq.. I was level 70+ before i even got my first 5* I envied the cashers being able to get rank cards and 100cq beasts but I just played the game and eventually gotten stronger and got my cq team that I could boast(no fallen on cq team,2 pures though)