If people are going to be charged anyway, they'll staff the extra players. With the extra players they:ll be deeper and more competitive.
Adding 7 7k salary guys would not change a lot for my team, it would be as competitive as it is right now - abuse bots and lose to semi-decent human teams. Plus - where will the hundreds or thousands of ~5-10k salary guys come from? Maybe scrubfarming would become the next big thing...
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