New update Ranked matches

landy2

why the half of the matches in ranked matches are bots ? it's so easy to win and it makes the game experience not fun. and the matchmaking is just worse than before, either the opponent game experience is too low or others game experience is very high like .. what is the point of making the game worse and not take accountability about it's a game and having fun is essential. all my opponents ragequit because I am level 52 why y'all did this update for ?

Baulder

I play PTCGP mostly for collecting, and since I learned about the game just recently, I'm way behind to fill my card dex.

If I participate in battles, I play for fun not for top rank in leaderboards.

Still… I got curious and entered few ranked matches just for the experience, and for me it's always two consecutive matches against bots at level 4-8 that perform their action with zero delay and completely randomly, often to ensure loosing the match, with their deck build as much useless as possible.

Then once I have winning streak of two matches vs bots, third match is against real person at lvl 40+ with high performing meta deck who absolutely does not belong in the Beginner League, and I have zero chance to score single point against them.

Instead of playing against other players at my rank with beginner's deck to move forward if things goes well, I play vs bots designed to provide easy win for the player, followed by taking on that role and ensure easy win for top competitive player who is ranking up to the league where they belong.

So much for fun while playing ranked battles.

That is to say, I do not concede even though I'm outranked by several leagues, since I highly dislike when they do this to me in PTCGL.

I'm honest person though, thus I simply cannot send thanks for battle that was unfair.

BoHuggabee

Exact same pattern for me. Ranking up ruined the game. Before it was genuine strategy and back and forth. Now its all bots for me. I dont even think the high ranks are real either as its consistently the same decks. Dark rai sitting in back while i have just a jigglypuff. Or other energy buff cards that fill their ex cards in 2 or 3 turns. Typically they get draw 2’s and pokeballs where im stuck with cards i need after a build. Wasting 5-7 of my turns on absolutely nothing.

I believe the company sees this as advertisement, where sabotaging your battles incentivizes you to buy more cards and use these. Its been so consistent now that i know to just quit the app or concede. I havent seen a real player in days.