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Far be it from me to tell anyone else how to play the game. But I view the purchase of PPs as I would a cheat code for a game. For me, I've always felt, what's the point to cheat codes? Particularly for sports sims. Unless you're the Patriots, there are no cheat codes in sports and sims are designed to put us into that world. So why ruin the sim.
Again, for me, having played PT the first two years with my wallet, I always lost interest in the game by June. Now, using patience and living vicariously for those rewards for achievements by my teams so I can accumulate enough PPs for another pack that might give a Gold I can sell for 5,000 which would give me 5 chances at a Diamond or a Perfect. That keeps me engaged.
I mentioned in another thread that I realized that PTXX is still going and my one team was a Gold level team. So while I never did anything with it after about July 4th, it was still in Gold (with a couple of bumps up and down from Diamond). Because I did enjoy the process of opening packs, I went back and ripped 25 with some accumulated PPs. I immediately within those 25 packs pulled a George Brett 100. So, I threw that into the AH and I now have 130,000 PPs. But, I don't care. Those PPs are tainted in my mind.
Again, I'm not saying everyone should play this way. But, I think its the best way. It takes patience. It takes resilience. But its a hell of a lot more fun.
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