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Originally Posted by deejqu1k
Wild, we are currently in the same division! What are the odds. Also, why is everyone so anti-antagonistic. It's a literally game about fake baseball players, talking **** and adding some WWE flair gets the juices going.
It's nothing personal, I think everyone in this community is extra extra special.
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Well darn, now I wish I wouldn't have done a 1.5M selloff of my top studs last week. Ah well, PL playoffs probably impossible until post-FotF and I'm not going to worry about it until then.
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Originally Posted by Marleigh
PT21 started out with top players having inflated ratings compared to 20, this has then been added to with subsequent releases. This makes the gap between the top teams and ''average'' teams far larger than in 20
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Live SEs were talked about everywhere on launch as being potentially too strong too quickly. For months, whales complained that the gap between them and casual players was too small. And it's not like the "lesser" cards didn't get ratings inflation, that they only did it for the top. No, look at Mike Trout's Live from this year and last year, or really any number of qualitatively similar cards. Everything got a boost.
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Originally Posted by HRBaker
This price increase has gotten so high that most casual players cannot possibly earn enough PP to obtain these cards - thus there is a ceiling as to how far a casual team can go without quitting his job and sitting in front of his/her computer 8 hours a day.
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These are the type of comments that seriously undermine your argument. You just don't understand what a time investment to make your team competitive looks like because you've never done it, and acting like the engaged players are constantly on the AH is really ignorant. For the people that spend truly zero time, just spending achievement PP and barely monitoring the game, well yeah they're never going to go anywhere. And the bar between totally casual and competitive is not that high, assuming you're making a sincere effort to look around and figure out the decisions you should be making. The time barrier, as I have said elsewhere, is probably more in learning the right information rather than the time required to put it into action.
I think there are underlying problems in PT, but everyone should stick to the experience they can speak to. I can't speak to the whale experience, since I'm not one. I can speak to the casual and poweruser experience, since I run teams in both circles. I'd like to think my poweruser experience and a whale's experience become similar since our PP assets are similar, but it's not quite the same thing.
Comments from more casual players are valuable, since everyone engaging in the game needs a voice. But casuals shouting "why would I EVER want to PLAY THIS GAME more often??? Anyone highly engaged must be a no-lifer" is never going to be well received by anyone.