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Im not against spending money at all. I spent on one of my teams pretty early to give it a nice boost to catch up out of the gate.
The problem is now, 200k pp is talked about like no big deal (like to get the Gwynn FOTF card). That is more than a $100 real investment that gets you 175K. Spending $100 would be throwing money into an ocean. Even if I wanted to try to split it up into a bunch of other player purchases, it would be gone in 10 minutes. I could never justify spending more money at this point. There is no other way to generate pp, really, unless I just wait for a few months. Spending money on games like this is supposed to inject life into your fun for awhile. Points to play with and 'gamble' with.
You could buy packs with the pp I guess, but those yield nothing too. I had 30-40 packs pile up through the week from tournaments. I finally opened them last night. Got 1 historical silver of small value and also 3 live golds. That gets me nowhere. Quicksell the golds for 3000pp (which is a drop in the ocean) and hope to grind my way to 40 more packs this week, and watch my pp go from about 24K to maybe in the low-30s range.
Part of it is my fault too. I do have a large pile of doubles through my 3 teams. It is daunting to go through 100s of cards, deactivating a player, activating them, searching for them in the auction house, navigating back to the player, then setting the auction (or quick selling). Then all over again for the next player. I have also been grinding much less in tournaments because the pack payout is nonsense. I mentioned it upthread, but Im over 350 packs in a row now without seeing anything better than a couple live diamonds.
The exchange system would give a much better feel that you are making progress as you grind. In my packs, I got 3 golds which do very little for me. If I could exchange 5 live golds for an historical gold (no idea what the rate would be), those 3 golds get me 60% toward an historical gold which is much more intriguing and I would feel like I got some value. Historical Golds could become Live or Historical Diamonds, and so-on, from Live Iron to Perfect. Common cards could be exchanged for packs too probably. Right now you kind of have that I guess, you could technically exchange 200 Iron Cards for a pack, but why not make it 50 or 100? 40 Bronze cards get you a pack now, maybe 20 could in an exchange. This would also have to be done to not tank the auction house too.
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