I'm fairly certain everyone realizes that. My question to you is, would you really drop 200$ in one go on ANY of their games with the intent to use it all at some point? I admit that I spend money on this game, but it's only in the form of the daily e-gachas and card reveals to go with them. Beyond that, I don't buy any kind of recovery items etc, if you do even remotely well in the events, you can create a fair stockpile of them yourself. Regardless of being technical for the sake of it and saying the cards actually cost "2000 medals," the fact remains that you cannot obtain the cards without first paying 200$ or 50$.

It's the exact same type of crap most businesses sell people with, just on a huge scale. "Buy this thing and get this thing *free*." It isn't free, you had to pay money on something else to attempt to justify calling it such.