User blog comment:Lily yuri/Golden apple swap? Another stupidity from zynga.../@comment-6041566-20130710104520/@comment-9611915-20130710163002

Yeah, but 80 6-packs are probably gonna get you a lot of other decent cards too along the way, unlike doing an event.

If the golden apples are going to stay forever, and aren't limited then I think it'll be ok. If Sanada sticks around and isn't switched out for another daemon for like at least 6 months or more, I don't see the problem. People will just work to get him over time, instead of blowing over $9000 in one sitting (they'd have to be pretty desperate to do that).

Also if it was only 8 6-packs to get Sanada, cash players would probably go and get 5 of him and that just makes the gap between cash and free players even bigger.

This isn't the best new idea of Zynga's ever, but it could've been worse.