Yoshi P, is this what you wanted? (Terra Branford Blues)

[Welsper59]

I have joined countless primal and CT runs just for fun. Or to help other people, new FC members are always asking for someone to come with them. I had over 700 hours on Pokemon X before I started it again. I don't even battle online, I just like to min/max and breed the Pokemon I find cute and then let them rot in a PC box.

If the content is fun people will play, especially Triple Triad. People play card games all the time for no rewards/achievement online or irl, only because it's fun to play with your friends. If anything, getting all your cards would mean you can finally start to play with a proper deck. It would be the beginning of TT, not the end.

But see, you have a reason to do those things. Friends want to do it (an activity to enjoy with people you know), helping someone, etc. Even if it's just out of boredom, you still had a reason to do it once (or several times) in one sitting. Heck, maybe you are the oddball of the statement. Can you really see yourself doing this content without a single need for a reward for months? Or would you eventually tire of it faster because of that?

I'm quite certain however, you won't find many people that will do content like raids repeatedly without it negatively impacting them for not having some actual goal to reach (e.g. gear/quests). A group of friends doing something repeatedly is an exception to that, of course. But we're implying more towards the DF system with pugs, which is the bread and butter for nearly every player in this game to do group content. Ask someone if they would run Ex primals repeatedly for "fun" if there was nothing they could get or needed out of it though, and I have a feeling they'd say no lol. Things like Pokemon battles (rewarding you with leveling up, stat adjustments, etc), TT, etc are content designed to be fast paced and over with quickly. It's like gambling in Vegas, there's really nothing that requires you to be attentive for more than a few minutes (exceptions with poker tournaments or whatever other obviously different things).

In the case of TT for this game though, your proper deck is actually not hard to get and doesn't require you to get all cards or anything. It's not like you can use more than one 4-5 star card afterall, regardless of rules in place, which are the problematic ones to get. If this were traditional TT, then yeah, completely agree with you lol.