Opening the Shop today be like: "Wow what a bargain, dirt cheap!"

Citing Wiki: Promo codes—unless specified otherwise—have no expiration dates - that is, they can be redeemed at any time after receiving them. So if you received a promo code, you should be able to redeem it whenever you like, unless you have been informed otherwise when receiving it.

That's why I never ever really try to even get to later checkpoints of literally all of their 'minigames', they are literally all the same boring stuff, the free player is lucky to even get through half of it, and allthough those prizes look nice, that paywall is literally higher than Everest will ever be. I never really understood why they decided on putting these 'progress halting' fields, I too believe that from psychological perspective, it would be much better to have extra steps than being pushed back by so many freaking steps. Imagine tryharding to get those dozens of extra energies from goldboxes as a f2p, spending literally days and thousands of supplies to have all of that gone in a press of one button. Just shame. These games are certainly disappointing and discouraging. At the same time, I think most f2p should have a realistic goal of getting to perhaps 3rd checkpoint at best, I think anything other requires a massive amount of time, collecting those energies in MM and/or massive luck with your rolls.

They could have easily avoid this issue by not adding something as pointless as MK1 equipment. Why they even added something that unlocks within first 6 ranks and is not even worth the prize of old 3500 crystal container is beyond me.

The container update is definitely a major blow. While I appreciate the addition of UC augments, paints, shot effects and drones to the regular containers' prize pool, the rather small chance to grab these very rare items will not be able to compensate for the removal of premium, gold boxes, sets of supplies and the major nerf to the common prizes. Basic modifications of turrets and hulls in containers are completely useless, to be honest. Not only are they badly programmed, they unlock early and are too cheap to facilitate adding them into the prize pool. There is no point in adding a modification that costs 500 crystals, when even on low ranks, you can get this amount of crystals from a couple of battles (or from the common old containers that awarded a common 3500 crystals). Rank up reward is also massively underwhelming as 1 container can never replace a bonus of several thousands of crystals on upper ranks unless you win in the rarity lottery.

Nice sales. I am not disappointed :). Seriously, people need to take a chill pill. There have been an Ultra weekend basically every weekend up to this point, I am certain that is more than enough. People just take this stuff too much for granted. If anything, you can at least enjoy just chilling and not grinding for the Ultra Missions. While I was initially surprised there is nothing this weekend apart from the sales, it is actually looking like a good break from the grinds. Chillax and upgrade your garages....