I've never understood this about Triple Triad. I've been grinding for MGP on Indolent Imperial for the past week or so, but I never really understood why I'm paying this NPC 30 MGP to play him, but only get back 18 MGP if neither of us win or lose. I'm fine with owing 12 for losing, that much makes sense. What doesn't make sense is losing MGP even though I didn't lose the match.

People try to justify this by saying "at least a draw is better than a loss", but if I'm losing MGP in either scenario, I'm just picking a lesser of the evils at that point. Hopefully they will consider making adjustments to this in the future so a draw doesn't take way MGP from you and you simply get your full 30 (or however much the NPC charges) MGP back as if the match never happened (since there wasn't a winner or a loser).