Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

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waynegg

waynegg

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reading though these forums i read a whole lot of **whine** **whine** i don't get enough free stuff **whine**...

grow up already! we have by far the best tcg game, with reasonable rarities, widespread distribution, and free events. did i say free events? yep FREE events! any other tcg i've dabbled in, even if they started off with free events, began charging for every tournament you attended before long. try to complete a set of WoW cards with 1 of every loot card. how would you like it if you had the chance of getting a specific level X only once out of 586 BOXES!

be grateful for what you have and, really, stop complaining about what you feel is "owed" to you, it really brings people down and sucks all the fun out of it for those of us who are in it for just that- the pure fun of it!
 
You, my friend, win the forum. I totally agree with what you're saying.

[begin rant] And, I'd like to add that it is extremely presumptuous of certain individuals to volunteer the rest of the player base to pay tournament entry fees in order to give them what they feel they're owed. Just because some people can regularly win prizes from such events and want those prizes to be larger doesn't mean they should ask everyone else to chip in for that purpose. [/end rant]
 
Why are you whining about whiners?

It's SO ANNOYING to read about WHINING, and here you are, whining.

Go figure.
 
Lol @ reasonable rarities. I can count on my fingers how many playable rares that are in RR, not to mention out of 4 boxes I opened 2 Gallade and 2 Hippowdon (some of the wanted rares) while i got like 5-12 Yanmega/Heracross/Bronzong/Golem/Rhyperior/Mr. Mime/other poop.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
 
I'm a mediocre player at best. I'm the very first one to admit it. I've never won a Premier event, although I've come in second a couple of times. Speaking as such, I think the prizes are quite generous for a game that we play for free. Playing this game isn't meant to be anyone's profession, there is no "pro-circuit". It's not the "World Series of Poker" either, where the entrants all pay a pretty steep fee to play so that the winners can walk away with big prizes. Let's keep it in perspective. It's a card game based on a popular videogame marketed primarily to children. We love to play because it's fun... not because we might "get something out of it".
 
ryanvergel said:
Why are you whining about whiners?

It's SO ANNOYING to read about WHINING, and here you are, whining.

Go figure.
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lol at the irony, but i agree. there are a lot of people that complain about free events. the only case i see is when you have to travel a lot to get to places.
 
You know what's fun? Getting invites to play in Worlds. I could care less about the scholarships. It's always been about Worlds, and always will be for me.

I will never stop asking for invites until I see that the US has a more proportional receiving of the invites for worlds. I don't think it's fair that it's much easier to obtain entrance to an invite-only event in one area over another. I think this makes the legitimacy of the tournament entirely compromised, and undermines the legitimacy of the title. If it is not as difficult to enter via some countries, that takes away prestige from the title. If it all 128+ invites were as difficult as they were to get in the US, my God, we would have a disgustingly good Worlds. As it is now, there are many, many states and Regionals that are much harder to win than other countries nationals. I've seen CITIES pull over 64 masters, which a lot of nationals try hard to reach.

I don't think it's whiney to ask for something that we have already gotten in the past. Or for something with marginal cost but greater improvement to the game. Do you guys realize that increasing the participants in Worlds by 10%, so that more than .3% of our population is represented, if we even increased worlds by 13 invites, it would only add players that are worlds-caliber. To even GET INTO THE top 40 in NA you have to do extremely well, usually winning a states or finalizing regionals, and doing well at nationals. This kind of skill would likely translate to winning a nationals in Europe. If you can win a regionals in the states, I see no reason you couldn't win a foreign nationals. Winning a 120 person MA event here doesn't warrant an invite, when 4 people get an invite from a country that could never manage that kind of showing.

This year's Nats was our first free Nats- all the other ones required paying 40-75 dollars for entrance into origins. If Pokemon charged 10 dollars entrance fee for MA, it could do a lot. I would actually like to see experimentation with charging for Nats. 5 dollars would even have an impact, at least enough to cover the cost of adding tripless invites right =X Like 13+ of them. You guys would never want to give it a try and see what we thought of it? They could easily do a poll as you register. Drop off a little thing filled out. Charge 5 bucks next year.


We need more invites. It isn't whining. It's leveling the field. I am tired of the disparity in difficulty for receiving an invite. I am tired of cut US invites despite growth.
 
thegeneral69 said:
He's not whining because they're whining, he's whining about WHAT they're whining about. Duh.
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He is still whining. He is annoying at a specific kind of "whining". What is this whining? It's likely the ONE thread on the forum discussing the issue of Nationals and invites and the sate of the game's tournament structure. aka "whining". This thread is just clutter and trash. It needs to be locked. What is it even doing? What are we aiming to discuss?
 
The worst whining is about worlds invites. I see nothing beneficial to TPCi or the game in giving NA players an even shot at worlds.
 
I'll stop complaining when I POP stops being so biased about where you live. Seriously, why even have worlds when most players can never get there? The amount of work I put into playing this year for just a small chance at worlds is sickening, and I didn't even get an invite, which I knew very well probably wouldn't happen. I plan on trying again next year, but it's getting really depressing knowing the odds are so against me JUST because of where I live.
 
DarthPika said:
I'll stop complaining when I POP stops being so biased about where you live. Seriously, why even have worlds when most players can never get there? The amount of work I put into playing this year for just a small chance at worlds is sickening, and I didn't even get an invite, which I knew very well probably wouldn't happen. I plan on trying again next year, but it's getting really depressing knowing the odds are so against me JUST because of where I live.
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Dude, something just flew over your head!

Was it a bird?
Was it a plane?
No, it was the point of this game.
 
Your position is that the TCG should be hyper-competitive and, as such, much time should be spent to ensure that only the best players get the chance to play cards with people form other countries.

POP's position is that the TCG should be more about having fun and building a community of fun-loving individuals, and as such, while it is still important that skilled players populate Worlds, one should be motivated by the experience, not the glory.

Your platform is entirely different from theirs. You can't argue them into submission like that.

You have to understand one of life's basic truths: what matters is not where you are, but how you got there. You're attitude is effectively reducing the entire POP season to a bunch of level grinding. That's all you talk about: how terrible your season will be, just because you can't get to worlds. That is not what it should be about. It should be about the fun you (should have) had along the way. If this is honestly the way you feel about it, you need to make sure that the same attitude does not follow you to real life. Life is worse than this, dude. Live as stress-free as possible while you still can.
 
I think along with this they should have Ironman weight competitions for all the Pokedads as a side event.
 
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