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Originally Posted by Kushiel
I am mid 70's also but blessed with my wife of 54 years still by my side. Like you, I have too much time and spend too much of it on PT. But I just try to read every post through the lens that not everyone can spend the time we do. And few people have the money that others spend here.
I am, it seems, much more concerned about the future health and longevity of PT than the new management that reminds me of those alien movies. You know the ones where the aliens come to strip all the resources from the planet, kill it, and move on?
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100% agree with this. I'm in my 40s, have an engineering job and a family that takes up 97% of my free time (and I love them for it). I enjoy logging in daily and checking my team, shifting things around, buying a new player to add to my team, opening a couple of packs, setting up some tourneys, etc. Occasionally I leave the game run on the tournament page and spam tournaments, but those days are rare.
I subscribed to PT+ for a couple of months, before I started feeling badly that I'm spending $10/mo on a game. I know, we pay for my son to be able to play WoW monthly, so I don't know why I feel badly about it, but I do. Maybe it's just family guilt lol. But as a dad I always feel like I need to be the one to make sacrifices for my family, and I'm happy to do so.
I respect that it takes a lot of time and effort to compete at the PeL level. I'm hanging out in DiL mediocrity (occasionally bouncing down to GoL) and can't seem to get over that hump. That said, I have a feeling most people playing in PeL at.500 ball or better spent quite a bit of money to get there, and I think that's the grating part for most of us. I also think everyone here knows it - which is why you never have people admitting they spent $500 on their team on these forums. Everyone wants to win but nobody wants to admit what they did to win. Like any internet forum, I have a feeling a lot of people come here and pretend they have played like everyone else just to feel like they are part of a community, even when they spent money for their advantages. I'd love to see amount of money spent added to that little "success bar" people post in their signatures!
I'm only half-joking, I know it won't happen and don't expect it to.
Speaking for myself, I would appreciate a version of PT where everyone is on a level playing field no matter how much time you devote. I feel like those who devote even less time than I do deserve a persistent mode where they can actually compete with me as well as others, and vice versa, and no, tournaments and perfect drafts don't hit the same as PT itself.
One suggestion which I've heard on here before is that I would love to see every licensed version of OOTP25 be given a F2P-only team where no money can be spent to improve that team, and only daily rewards are given - tourneys, perfect drafts, and twitch drops don't contribute. That way, it only requires a daily login to keep up with other teams, which seems reasonable to me.