Then you actually use strategy. Bidding 50 tokens for an auction player was and is a dumb move. You can get better Negotiations players and better Scouting players for cheaper than that.
It also prevents token buyers from artificially bidding up on players. Lose big chunks of tokens enough times and you stop seeing token buyers influence the auction market as much.
DRAGONS SC
THE PERMANENT END
I am a fan of the old version and played a lot there.
Don't remember that I spent more than 30 tokens in a season, even if had to built a whole new team.
You could buy players like DC, MC , ST with 85-90% today's quality and 27-30 y.o. with one or three tokens
and now those now cost at least 8-10 tokens- not the first week.