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nrockway · 06-23-2023, 02:13 AM

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Hi, I'm a new player to OOTP and newer to Perfect Team. Forgive me if this is the wrong avenue to express this opinion, but it makes absolutely no sense to me why 'daily' tournaments that people actually want to play are off-limits to everybody except the same sweaty people with nothing else to do at 4am. I've been playing PT for a few weeks now and I can never join the early *4* silver tournament because I don't wake up at 4am with the express purpose of opening up the video game so I can sign up before everyone else does, 24 hours in advance of the actual tournament. I would like to play in these tournaments and I bet a lot of other people do too.

I figure it has something to do with the game economy and com2us extracting as much money from the franchise as possible before running it into the ground (no comment on the stock market simulator attached to a baseball game), and I thought about it from the moneymaking perspective. A thinking executive would realize that the 'whales' who are going to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars on cards probably have to go to work in the morning and aren't going to be able to sign up for the tournaments they actually want to play in and test their roster building skills against other good players (no, 'quick' is obviously not an alternative and you know why). Thus, potential whales are not going to have an opportunity to micromanage their roster and spend $ on upgrades to their silver tournament. Following this logic, they're not going to want to sign up for gold or diamond tournaments and spend serious money without testing in silver or lower. Clearly the franchise nowadays is all about making money through these sorts of microtransactions (it takes far more precedence over balancing the single player game that is very broken months after release) until the relatively small and loyal fanbase deteriorates, but you're not even doing a good job of extracting money from potential whales.

I assume this forum is only read by the employees who actually like baseball and the franchise and aren't shareholders profiting off this incredibly exploitative financial model that should probably be illegal, but maybe my critical language can be distilled into marketing speak to make the executives realize that by making the game more fun, they can also make more money and keep their jobs a little longer.

06-23-2023, 02:13 AM	#1
nrockway Bat Boy Join Date: Jun 2023 Posts: 2	Will it ever be possible to join a silver tournament without waking up at 4am to click before anyone else? Hi, I'm a new player to OOTP and newer to Perfect Team. Forgive me if this is the wrong avenue to express this opinion, but it makes absolutely no sense to me why 'daily' tournaments that people actually want to play are off-limits to everybody except the same sweaty people with nothing else to do at 4am. I've been playing PT for a few weeks now and I can never join the early 4 silver tournament because I don't wake up at 4am with the express purpose of opening up the video game so I can sign up before everyone else does, 24 hours in advance of the actual tournament. I would like to play in these tournaments and I bet a lot of other people do too. I figure it has something to do with the game economy and com2us extracting as much money from the franchise as possible before running it into the ground (no comment on the stock market simulator attached to a baseball game), and I thought about it from the moneymaking perspective. A thinking executive would realize that the 'whales' who are going to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars on cards probably have to go to work in the morning and aren't going to be able to sign up for the tournaments they actually want to play in and test their roster building skills against other good players (no, 'quick' is obviously not an alternative and you know why). Thus, potential whales are not going to have an opportunity to micromanage their roster and spend $ on upgrades to their silver tournament. Following this logic, they're not going to want to sign up for gold or diamond tournaments and spend serious money without testing in silver or lower. Clearly the franchise nowadays is all about making money through these sorts of microtransactions (it takes far more precedence over balancing the single player game that is very broken months after release) until the relatively small and loyal fanbase deteriorates, but you're not even doing a good job of extracting money from potential whales. I assume this forum is only read by the employees who actually like baseball and the franchise and aren't shareholders profiting off this incredibly exploitative financial model that should probably be illegal, but maybe my critical language can be distilled into marketing speak to make the executives realize that by making the game more fun, they can also make more money and keep their jobs a little longer.