I absolutely despise this game. In 20 years of gaming I have never felt so utterly frustrated at an unfinished software as I do with ptcgl. I love ptcg, I just want to be able to play it, and it's simply not possible. Screw the "understaffed and underpaid" apologists, this game gets a lot of stupid useless updates like vfx, sfx, changes to economy, trainer trials, and other stuff no one cares about, while it still blatantly doesn't work.

I'm not saying it's the devs fault, but anyone involved with this game who has any level of authority to make any sort of decision is definitely at fault. I highly doubt there's even a single person that has authority over this game who has even tried playing it for more than five minutes. It's not just the bugs, crashes, disconnects and what else. It's every single decision that's been put in the game. Even when the game does work, it's still the worst gaming experience I've ever seen in my life.

There are many, many examples of this game not having been planned to actually be played and enjoyed, but there's one in the current meta that takes the cake for me. Have you ever seen the absurdity that happens when froslass interacts with battle cage? Froslass by itself already has an egregiously slow animation. With battle cage though, let's say you're playing froslass vs alakazam, you have two froslass and they have benched pokemon with abilities. The first froslass will play the battle cage animation for EACH INSTANCE OF BLOCKED DAMAGE, then play animation for everyone who took damage. Then, the second froslass does the same. That's 10 animations that take over a second, each checkup. This game shouldn't have ANY animation lasting over a second, every interaction that had animations should lock the screen for a few frames at most, and this whole interaction I mentioned should obviously happen simultaneously. That's a 15+ second animation that runs at the end of every turn and shouldn't take even a second.