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Originally Posted by logicliker

Back in PT 2021 or PT 2022 i think i put in like 1K+ hours in Perfect Team just doing "perfect drafts" non stop. Didn't even care about the other modes as they are all pay to win and perfect draft was the only true competitive/fair online h2h mode (without pay to win/microtransaction BS tied to it). of course they limited/nixed this mode shortly there after.

i hate modern game development .. even your smallish indie type studios (like the ootp team) can't escape the crappy business models these days despite being wealthier than ever before.

funny enough, i was the one who suggested a perfect draft mode in the "wish list" forum here a year or two before they added it to the game -- and when they added the mode, it was overwhelmingly popular so they found a way to put it behind some kind of restriction/paywall because they know the mode was attracting non-extra-paying-players because it didn't have a pay to win element to it. it was just a fun competitive mode that stat junkies were competing in around the clock.

they then of course shut down the servers and forced everybody to upgrade to the latest years version to play online modes (and restricted the"perfect draft" mode to whatever it is now) and i shortly ditched the series after that.

you can see the "perfect draft" mode feature request here (post made in june 2020): https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=317940

i_got_wood_34 is my old account name that was banned because i became too critical of the greed of this company

With all due respect, there are a LOT of wild statements in whatever this post is that have little to no basis in reality. In what ways have we, in your words, "limited/nixed" Perfect Drafts? What do you mean by "restrictions"? Because in reality, there are no restrictions and there are barely any limitations when it comes to Perfect Drafts, other than the amount of slots you can use to enter them (and if that's what you mean by "restrictions," that's a very weird hill to die on).

You are correct in that Perfect Draft is popular, but the only times there have ever been any "paywall" were the very few entry fee variations, which are now relegated to pop-up tournaments for a very small entry fee.

As to your comment about shutting down the servers, that was a whole thing necessitated by the shutdown of our old host provider that we had no control over. That has been the only time there has been a premature shutdown of servers, and we have had full service lengths of one year on-cycle and one year while the new-edition cycle goes ever since. An unfortunate blip on the radar, but a blip nonetheless.

Perfect Draft is still one of the best H2H parts of Perfect Team, in my opinion, and is still a fun competitive mode with barely any limitations or restrictions.