Wow, possibly the only format worse than the one they already had...
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"The top players will still win, people who buy their way in will be eliminated in the finals quickly"
Yeah, but what about the players who were kicked out of the lower half of the division because they didn't want to spend a paycheck?
Any pump and dump format rewards spare cash over skill, there's no way around it. Skill will still come out on top in many cases, but there's no denying people can pay to place better. If you want to have unlimited qualifying, make it a one time fee per day, and then rig the software to give priority to people with less plays.
Quoted from ninjadoug:Also, all the games at PAPA this year will be on free play, so coin drop has nothing to do with it.
paying to play a game is the same whether it goes into the slots or into a ticket, as far as causing imbalance goes
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