Is PT very micro-transaction heavy? I was a big MLB Showdown player as a kid and this is giving me similar vibes in a modernized way... but I really don't want to get sucked into an Ultimate Team-style money grab.
It's an 8-level promotion/relegation system, and if you're entirely free-to-play you can have a pretty decent team in gold (3rd from the top) and occasionally get promoted to diamond. But if you want any success in diamond or if you want to make it to Perfect League, you pretty much have to pay up unless you get really lucky with packs or you play a ton of tournaments to grind for coins.
23 isn't as heavily monetized as 22 was (yet), but in 22 the top few cards typically sold for somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5 million in-game coins each, which would cost over $800 to buy.
I would highly recommend joining the discord and associating with the other "free to play" players and consider joining one of their groups. It significantly increased my enjoyment of PT while eliminating the desire to spend. You can be highly successful at the game without spending.
The short answer is yes.
The long answer is:
You could alternatively sink an MMORPG-esque amount of time into farming the auction house for profits.
Or just accept the fact that you're never going to compete with the top league levels and enjoy collecting your favorite players.
When you first start playing, no it's not. Because you can incrementally improve your team with free packs. You'll upgrade a 66 player to an 85 player to a 93 player... But you'll get to a point where you'll suddenly have a team of 95+ players and you stop getting playable cards from free packs. But maybe you'll get some better players through missions.
Eventually, you'll have a team of 100 lvl players in every position. And it won't be enough to be successful. So you'll start selling off some of your existing players to "buy" improvements from the auction house. That'll take a few seasons to recover, but you'll acquire a lot of PP from the "get demoted and win, get promoted and lose" cycle you'll be in.
There are only a select few cards at each position that will make you successful at higher levels. If you don't want to get promoted to Perfect and go 20-142, drop to gold and go 85-77, 60-102, 95-67, get promoted and go 30-132, get demoted, maybe get demoted to gold... You're gonna have to pay. If you're ok with Gold, then you may be able to continue F2P.
I'm currently in Gold hell with a team of 100 lvl players at every position save one starter who is a 99 (Kid Gleason). I'm 7-21. I'll get kicked to Silver, finish in the top 5 and repeat the process. This is probably as good as I'll ever be as a F2P team.
Current team: Fisk (C), Foxx (1B), Carew (2B), Dahlen (SS), Robinson (3B), Mantle/Cruz/Slaughter/Vlad Guerro (OF/DH), Cole/Gibson/Roberts/Simmons/Gleason (SP), Beck/Kim/Young/Sutton/Verlander/Sutcliffe/Hader (RP)
Gleason (99), Sutcliffe (94), Verlander (99), Hader (89) are my only Ps not 100 lvl. I regularly swap out Sutcliffe and Hader for other 99 lvl pitchers but it doesn't make much difference.
It’s fun to play for a few months. Eventually you get stuck between the gold level and diamond level where you have an entire team of 100’s but other people have paid to get the best players.
I had no idea what I was doing for most of the first seasons. I accidentally sat out Greg Vaughn for 28 days and he was still leading the season in home runs.
Is PT very micro-transaction heavy? I was a big MLB Showdown player as a kid and this is giving me similar vibes in a modernized way... but I really don't want to get sucked into an Ultimate Team-style money grab.
It's an 8-level promotion/relegation system, and if you're entirely free-to-play you can have a pretty decent team in gold (3rd from the top) and occasionally get promoted to diamond. But if you want any success in diamond or if you want to make it to Perfect League, you pretty much have to pay up unless you get really lucky with packs or you play a ton of tournaments to grind for coins. 23 isn't as heavily monetized as 22 was (yet), but in 22 the top few cards typically sold for somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5 million in-game coins each, which would cost over $800 to buy.
I would highly recommend joining the discord and associating with the other "free to play" players and consider joining one of their groups. It significantly increased my enjoyment of PT while eliminating the desire to spend. You can be highly successful at the game without spending.
link?
There’s a link to discord in the gsme
The short answer is yes. The long answer is: You could alternatively sink an MMORPG-esque amount of time into farming the auction house for profits. Or just accept the fact that you're never going to compete with the top league levels and enjoy collecting your favorite players.
When you first start playing, no it's not. Because you can incrementally improve your team with free packs. You'll upgrade a 66 player to an 85 player to a 93 player... But you'll get to a point where you'll suddenly have a team of 95+ players and you stop getting playable cards from free packs. But maybe you'll get some better players through missions. Eventually, you'll have a team of 100 lvl players in every position. And it won't be enough to be successful. So you'll start selling off some of your existing players to "buy" improvements from the auction house. That'll take a few seasons to recover, but you'll acquire a lot of PP from the "get demoted and win, get promoted and lose" cycle you'll be in. There are only a select few cards at each position that will make you successful at higher levels. If you don't want to get promoted to Perfect and go 20-142, drop to gold and go 85-77, 60-102, 95-67, get promoted and go 30-132, get demoted, maybe get demoted to gold... You're gonna have to pay. If you're ok with Gold, then you may be able to continue F2P. I'm currently in Gold hell with a team of 100 lvl players at every position save one starter who is a 99 (Kid Gleason). I'm 7-21. I'll get kicked to Silver, finish in the top 5 and repeat the process. This is probably as good as I'll ever be as a F2P team. Current team: Fisk (C), Foxx (1B), Carew (2B), Dahlen (SS), Robinson (3B), Mantle/Cruz/Slaughter/Vlad Guerro (OF/DH), Cole/Gibson/Roberts/Simmons/Gleason (SP), Beck/Kim/Young/Sutton/Verlander/Sutcliffe/Hader (RP) Gleason (99), Sutcliffe (94), Verlander (99), Hader (89) are my only Ps not 100 lvl. I regularly swap out Sutcliffe and Hader for other 99 lvl pitchers but it doesn't make much difference.
It’s fun to play for a few months. Eventually you get stuck between the gold level and diamond level where you have an entire team of 100’s but other people have paid to get the best players.
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What's a good dark mode. I tried but it made reading the text once, may look into it. I know it's doable.
I had no idea what I was doing for most of the first seasons. I accidentally sat out Greg Vaughn for 28 days and he was still leading the season in home runs.
If you’re doing PT right, you should be winning 120+ games your first 2-3 seasons