User:Guy Bukzi Montag/sandbox/Random container

A card is the main item granted by random containers like Pro Kit Boxes or Card Packs in all recent games of the Asphalt series. Cards were first introduced as Pro Kits in the Winter Update of Asphalt 8: Airborne, along with their containers, the Pro Kit Boxes, and were marketed as an alternative way to further enhance a vehicle's stats and gain advantages over opponents (“Pro Kits: Take your car's stats to the limit... then break clear through to the sky!”).

Their main purpose, however, was to implement random processes that create a factor of uncertainty and bind players more closely to the game. From now on, upgrading vehicles, winning competitions and thus earning in-game currencies was no longer only dependent on a player's skills and willingness to play frequently in order to accumulate enough money for vehicle tuning&mdash;success now became dependent on pure luck.

Additional timers were introduced for recurring box offers so that players were encouraged to login more frequently (even every four hours for the free Iron Box in Asphalt Xtreme). Also, if players did not want to spend in-game currencies to buy boxes, they had to, Obtaining cards requires higher login frequencies to earn    and thus higher playing frequencymade strategicc planning more complex and difficult.