Worst version of the game that I’ve ever seen, they made literally everything under a pay-to-win style format. This transparently highlights their shameless money grab tendencies. I typically wouldn’t care so much about a milking attempt such as obvious as this game is, as I simply won’t ever pay more money for a game that I’ve already bought, but I have a friend who will, and they even told me that they spent $50 on vc to get better players. Good for you, I guess, if you want to and are able to spend extra money in a game to get the things you want, but here’s the problem with that in 2k24: you can’t just choose and buy players like you have previously been able to in every past 2k. The only option is to buy packs, and hope that you get something good. Somewhere around 80% of the time, the packs you open don’t even have one of the players advertised that caused you to buy the pack in the first place, it’s literally like a lottery system. So, my friend essentially payed $50 in real money to get a leg up in this soulless pay-to-win scam of a game, and they DIDN’T EVEN GIVE HIM WHAT HE PAYED FOR!!! If you’re so clearly focused on milking your fan base more than humanly possible, the very least you could do is actually give them the things they pay for. But instead, they choose to run on a “Pay us x amount and we MIGHT give you what you bought, probably not though 🤪”. Using a lottery system for in game transactions inside of a game that we ALREADY bought is the worst idea you have ever had. The person responsible for this decision needs more than to lose their job, they need to be taken out in public and shot twice in the back of their wasted head.