Quote Originally Posted by Alberel View Post
The thing is fluff content like these mini-games should be able to be burned through quickly. [...]
That's true, but there needs to be a middle-ground. If it's something that you exhaust almost immediately the first time you do it, you're SOL the next time you want to fall back onto that content. That was my point, I should have worded it better.

Take Triple Triad again for example. If they made it so that a player was guaranteed to receive a card when defeating an NPC in a match they would be able to build out their decks quickly [...]
Yes, I agree it's irritating as piss to fight your way through unfair rules and even if you win, you get nothing to show for it. Especially when you need to obtain 30 cards before you're even allowed to start building good decks. It's a stipulation that's not very conducive to something that's supposed to be a mini-game.

If I recall in FFVIII and FFIX [...]
It's been so long I can't remember either game very well when it comes to match rewards. In IX I believe you were given the option of selecting one of the opponent's cards that you captured during the match. If you managed a clean sweep and captured the entire board, then you earn all of the cards that were in play. Something like that anyway. I don't remember a lick about VIII.