The PTCGO beta feels like it was just a few years ago
Man those were good times. Genuinely became a nice user interface compared to other card games at the time. Remember that time I posted about an 'exploit' to get even more free stuff from the tournament beta tests and then they immediately cancelled all further tournament testing? LOL I was pretty naive to think at that point they must have been okay with it. The 'exploit' was just conceding early because you get the tickets back when the tournament ends so you could join the next tournament sooner and get rewards which were sometimes tickets therefore you could join more faster. Got a hundred tickets that way. Never used them they were still in the account when I migrated.
I had recently been saddened by investing in a freemium games like need for speed world that had just ended all support. I thought for sure Pokemon was a safe investment and I guess in a way, it was with some value transferred to live.
Posted May 3, 2023, 1:29 PM UTC
PTCGO beta was such a struggle, playing a web based game before they sacked the devs and gave it over to dire wolf, hardly anyone had reverse holos from HGSS because in the web based game the holo animation caused so much lag they weren't worth keeping.
Yeah I was actually thinking of the post HGSS era, it was technically still in beta for awhile or at least some features like tournaments were. The original client was pretty rough.