I would say so, because the amount of packs you need will quickly drain you. I've been doing the light version since I started pretty much, harvesting for videos and upgrading facilities as quick as possible to gain as many packs as possible the cheap way. But you get nowhere close to the same results. Whereas I would level up about 1 star per season for a normal player to get them to Scout 6*, the token buyers get to Legend, or 8*.