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[Tactician]

Those are among the main downsides of this game. Someone cannot play the game as a proper game manager else he is likely to get significantly penalised.

Basically, this game has become a manipulation game. Manipulation was already required way back in the past, but is was mainly for those who wanted to have significanlty more chance to win the Cup, but these days it applies to almost in any competition and even to events. They should changed the name and call it Top Fourteen - Be A Football Manager and Manipulator. Users manipulating draws are not to be blamed as they do not have must choice themselves, even those that spend a lot of money get penalised if they do not manipulate because they get put into tough competitions that only become a pain in the as* in the long run. This game, especially when the events are around, has become more like a real life daily job than a game for entertainment itself except that instead of the users getting paid, it is them that pay.

You spoke about matches being closely set together... what does a manager suppose to do when being put into such situations? He has to have a large squad with most players having enough quality so that a squad rotation system can be used as required. But, how will that be feasible if the user has to sell half of his squad at the end of every season and buy a new half at the start of the next season? How can a user (even a decent spender) do that repetitively every season in this game? Does Nordeus think it is reasonable to spend a 100 of USD or more every season? Only those that have collected a lot resources with time (for example, those that played this game for years non-stop, and profited from the offer flaws or those that been tanking a lot of months and saved resources) can do that. All this together with the difficulty in finding the desired players from the market has made this game a big pain to play.

They call this game a football management game? It is more like a game of one season disposables, where players have become a buy, use one season and throw away unless the user opts for tanking. In some way, tankers cannot be blamed for having opted to tank because the company encourages to do so and even indirectly give rewards for doing so.

I, myself, I never significantly manipulated the quality of my team to get better draws. I mostly sold players that were past it or that will not be useful in the same or the next season. I never even had those midgets (1-3 star players) in my team. I was selling or releasing those that came from the academy. I am more the type of manager that prefers to keep a big squad of players for both the present season and the futur seasons, but for next season, I will go the manipulation way. Just what Nordeus think of themselves? I have said a lot in this thread: https://forum.topeleven.com/suggesti...tml#post642736. I have spent more than 100 USD in the space of less than 1.5 months since my comeback to build a team that was supposed to be a long term investment, but look into what competitions they have put me to play this season. I was put to play against +1 level teams in the Cup and Champions League, where many of the opponents were active themselves and some were double and treble winners last season. The league has been so tough that I could have ended up below top 4. What was I suppose to do, spend another 100 USD or so? Someone can take all this for a challenge once, but in the long run it will become a pain. It is clear that this company has moved in the direction of dirty business. They set things in such a way that users will have to keep spending and spending and not small amounts but big amounts (unacceptable and beyond limit) so that they have a chance to win, and their scammy offers and so-called sales just says it all. Instead of continuing to buy a lot, I stopped, and if many other big token buyers do the same as me, it will be a good way to teach them a lesson. You know what, some have said that there are marketing problems and communications problems, but I tell you that it is likely that some people there at Nordeus know very well whet they been doing, and in some way to say, if they see our complaints, they will be smiling at the corner of their mouths. They did many things on purpose. Admins read through threads on this forum itself, and they likely to be reporting back their findings. There are no excuses.