NeoChamp25
New Member
I'll chime in as one of the "Less Experienced Players".
A few things to consider:
What is PTCGO trying to accomplish? Trying to set up a testing arena for their TCG market to play around with? That may be part of it but they have put a lot of money and resources into it and expect a return on investment. They are setting up the building blocks of on online version of TCG that will generate income, allow for league/tourney/events (basically everything they do with the TCG but in addition reach the entire market of people on the internet).
Next: What are players trying to get out of playing online? Someone else to test their deck against? That's what the friend feature is for, problem solved.
For players like myself, I want someone to play against. I consider myself competitive, make the best decks I can with the limited amount of cards I have and like to play in Expert mode because I learn better/quicker playing against an 'Elite deck' then just reading about it on the internet. It also opens up other ideas which are outside the box. Matchups or combinations which don't normally occur when everyone is just playing a cookie cutter 'elite deck'.
Does playing a starter Togechu deck really not allow you to test your deck? You can test for consistency, draws, effectiveness, all kinds of stuff even if it isn't a 'challenging' matchup.
I was playing the other night and using a noobish deck in Expert mode and I got matched up against a Mewtwo EX (Eels,Zekrom) 4 games back to back. And yes, I don't think I took a single prize in all 4 matches. Did I enjoy it, yes, did I get some good experience, yes.
Honestly (and this coming from a noob) if the game is so broken that there are only a few 'elite' decks and everyone just uses variations of those decks, then they really need to do something about the formats. If they are going to move PTCGO in a separate path they have an excellent arena for testing other format before introducing them to their TCG players/system.
I've rambled enough. The other benefit I find of playing against elite deck is gleaning information off the player using the deck via in game chat.
Oh, and how do you say 'Thanks for sharing this post', I can't seem to figure out how to do that. (Noob to this forum as well!)
While i can agree with what you said here i can also understand why players who have great resources aren't wanting to face these decks on a regular basis. The problem is double sided and unless they get some sort of ranking system up in the future these issues will continue. It also happens the other way around to, i went into a novice match earlier today and on the card flip i turned over a Nidoran female and a psychic Victini and my opponent flipped over 2 Giratina... i was like you have to be kidding me. Anyway like i said good solid point about seeing how the deck can draw and match up against stronger decks then just other basic started decks.