Too much frustration with the game
I've been playing the game ever since the change from the original, and it feels like the last couple of years, on at least an emotional level, that this game has sucked all of the good out of me every time I play it. For too long, I keep getting forced into a losing streak, no matter what deck I used (bought, given or built from scratch), it feels like I'm being led to a slaughter.
To provide a few examples, I would either be given only a pokemon that is so weak, and nothing else of use, while my opponent is able to spend a few minutes to flex their muscles before delivering the only blow to the game. Even if I go second, I will end up drawing a card that is completely worthless, even worse if that card allows me to get extra ones, only to strike out worse.
Another example would be me getting a full bench of pokemon, but they end up becoming sitting ducks, due to each draw not producing anything of use, such as energy cards. Even after shuffling a bunch of times, the draws end up leading to nowhere. I'm just forced to take some kind of punishment, without being allowed to fight back.
And with things like the daily quests, and all these events, it feels like it's adding more salt to the wounds. Like the cards required to complete the quests, they become harder to access, since they either stay buried deep in the deck no matter what or end up as a prize card. With the events, it makes things worse when it seems like you are required to play certain cards, in order to stand remotely close of a chance of winning, like with the eevee cards, and the current one.
Finally, it feels like the players I'm going up against, is being less and less random, to where I'm feeling like I'm fighting the same ones over and over again, as if I'm stuck in a loop, even the same person multiple times in a row. And they are somehow capable of destroying me, with me not being allowed to up any kind of fight, with what feels like every card being intercepted before I could fully use them, sometimes before I draw them. As if I have been fighting a bunch of bots set on super hard mode or something, where I have to either take the beating, or surrender.
There are even times where some players I go up against seem to have similar luck as I do. To where we are both just throwing out cards onto the field, waiting to be used, while the decks are just throwing out cards that just don't fit situation, until somebody gives up.
The game stopped being fun quite a while ago and feels more it took a big turn for the worse, with all of these upgrades making thing even more each time. So, I'm going to take a long vacation from TCGO, and focus on the Pokemon games on the Switch for now, such as New Pokemon Snap.
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