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Originally Posted by saltuskin
Been playing for about 3 months now and unless you want to spend 1000s for real life money you will get no higher than gold/dia league and the dia you will not compete at all, i am in dia and spent a little money and there is no way i can compete with all these people
the teams these people have is impossible to get from packs, i have opened over 400 packs and have not got a lone 100 not saying a 100 that can be used
This game is 100% pay to win to bad they cant make it so the normal people can play, well we can play just up to gold league and it ends there.
you will never get the give away cards or any special cards
example how does a ftp get a Frank Thomas or and Ichro card
yes i know the all the ftp players will come to here and say it is posable no it is not want to see a ftp player win a diamond league or a perfect league
ok rant over game is some much fun to bad it it ruined by pay to win mechanics
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400 packs is a tiny sample, friend. I've gone 1200+ packs without a perfect pull, and 2800+ packs without a non-live perfect pull. I've also pulled three non-live perfects in a 25 pack before. It's all chance, evens out the more you open. I opened like 40K packs last year as F2P to give you an idea of what an elite F2P player can do, though that was with the old tournament rewards.
They nerfed Tourney rewards in PT24, but with PT+ (if you want to pay for it) it balances it back out a bit.
In PT23 a F2P player won 2 Perfect League titles, I know that. I made Perfect League 5 times myself, even making a good run in the playoffs. This year, I've been in diamond the last 11 seasons, in position for make my 5th playoff appearance this season (6.5 games up in the WC).
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To be a top F2P team, it really helps to start the season at the beginning and be able to take advantage of all the LIVE updates. Last year there were way more players that went to 100 (particularly SP and RP's that performed way above their original rating), and I was maxxing out everything (I had over 24 of four different diamonds that went perfect on the final update), so it was definitely more rewarding - I made around 5 million PP on the final update alone.
But I'll end up with 5-6 million PP profit from updates overall this year, which is equivalent to thousands of dollars for a P2P player.
Until the Immortal missions it was definitely reasonable to shoot for PL as a F2P this year; and even now, I'm sure there are some F2P/PT+ players in PL right now. It takes a few years of playing to know all of the ins and outs of how to best utilize what is available for F2P. Definitely possible to compete, though not easy.
Pack luck always helps (I've had zero this year, haven't pulled a single card on my main squad worth over 80,000 PP).
And remember, if you're playing for free, it's the whales who spend thousands of dollars that keep the game afloat and free for us. As I always say, "thank you!" to the P2W players.