hrudey has its points
but i find him to be dead or reacts to matters as long its said by another person rather than him.
im not saying his bad or hate the attitude but sometimes even in between the lines of matters just what he says and how we agree or reacts positively doesnt get any warrant either
this is just me
No, you're not wrong at all. I tend to be very much against "you can't play the game X way" simply because it's perceived as less efficient. I'm also very much against anything that's telling people that competing / training is a waste of time, and that they need to tank / recycle old players / etc. I also tend to react strongly when people equate something they don't like in the game to the reason people are leaving the game or that it makes the game too hard for new users.
My opinion is that of course the game is hard for new users. If you come into a league against competent managers at any level, the time they've had to improve their team is a clear advantage. A user's job, then, is to try to figure out how they want to improve their team for the short and long term. The least helpful thing, in my mind, is to reiterate that they're simply at a disadvantage, and that they need to wait for BB to save them - or worse, that they need to just not bother competing at the level they're at to try to build up money to buy their way out of problems.
So of course, I came into the game and it was a time where there was pretty solid deflation, people preaching that there was no way to win doing anything other than LI, that training anyone was a waste and it was stupid to train low potential players. Naturally, I decided that I wasn't going to let other people dictate how to play the game just because it was "more efficient" or anything else. The fact that I've been successful doing so is a nice benefit, but I also think that I had stayed in my IV league with the same group of managers for 10 more seasons I would have enjoyed the game just as much.
I am probably going to try to stay out of this topic now since it is pretty much one of those that it looks like there's never going to be an agreement on and of course, none of us who are involved primarily seems to be one to let it go easily. ;) My parting thoughts, I guess, are that if you want to play the game a certain way (be it training, just purchasing players with gate receipts, homegrown players only, daytrading, whatever), as long as it's legal, don't let anyone talk you out of doing that.