Maybe 8000 people suddenly got disqualified.
You want to hear about something that's really pay2win? Marvle Puzzel Quest has limited-time missions, like the descend dungeons in PaD, that you can only play if you own a certain monster superherorvillain. For instance, there's one mission chain up right now that you have to have the 3* Daken (Wolverine's evil son) to start the chain. The same character is available in a 2* form, but that one is slightly different (and more common) so it doesn't count.
I'm ranked 5th highest in event points for that chain right now because I happened to roll him from the REM with a 2.4% chance, and another slight coincidence.
That guy and 4 other villains have their stats majorly boosted while playing those missions. Two of them are 2* and I had gotten them and kept both of those in my roster. Roster space gets pretty expensive, at about 15-20 heroes it costs about 2$ per extra slot (assuming you pay, which you don't have to but they're pretty stingy with the free points). So, I have 3 OP villains roflstomping the Xmen ...
except that healing guys is the main "free to wait" factor of this game (yes there are others too). So, if my guys take damage, I have to enter dungeons low on health, wait several minutes for them to heal, or use a medpack which recharges in 40 mins. If they take all their damage, there's an additional wait time while they resurrect.
This should make it obvious why expanding your roster makes it much much easier to play this game, but I'm tired and maybe should have posted this in a different thread.