there's always specs in the store i want but without points, i can't buy them. They added daily and weekly quests but daily is only like 500 and weekly is like 1,000 but not all are arcade which i like so i can't do those. i hope someone can help get this part figured out. they should even make some specs available with real money if possible. i just want to finish up updating my character. ☹️

@agentputt They should definitely add some way of getting more coins. As someone who has completed all of the quests and challenges in the game, I have no way to get more gold coins other than the tournaments and daily/weekly quests that appear. Online victories should be rewarded with something. Most people's XP has been maxed since the first week of the game so they should reward gold coins for completing stuff, even career mode. I do every daily tournament each day and end up paying 7k coins and get a return of 1.5k, so I am losing 5k coins per day just by choosing to compete in each tournament. Certainly there needs to be another way to get coins.

Im afraid I have reached this point in the game. I am now losing more coins that its worth to participate in any "cost" tournament. The same players will win the same tournaments every day / week / season so for any player outside the top 25% we can not earn enough coins to continue. This doesn't make sense!!My player is maxed out at 50 and to make it interesting I've started a new golfer otherwise I'd be finished.

Elf they are some good suggestions you make. When I wrote my message I only thought there was one page on this topic but can now see there’s a lot of other people with the same problem. For example i sweated for an hour on the daily all 18 pro tourney 4000 coins at banff. Got a -17 which I was really happy with tied 87 in the world but only got ranked as it was set at 25-75% and got 4 tickets. I could have literally just bought the 4 tickets and saved myself an hour. The highest score was -24! That’s every birdie and eagle obtained which is just crazy. Surpirse surpirse all the same people top of the leaderboard. They need to do something as it’s really putting me off doing them anymore now. I’m half way through my first season on career, done a lot of the challenges and can’t see myself playing much longer when I’ve completed my career. 2k pga is free on PlayStation next month, some of my mates don’t have a ps5 yet so we can’t play with them so we will be jumping on 2k with them. If it’s good and more rewarding can’t see myself coming back much at all which is shame.

@agentputt wrote:Easy 80k coins for this weekWell yes but that's because you'll be a 'Winner' in everything you enter 🙂. By definition of the finishing position categories, the vast majority will earn a lot less than this, and with tournaments many also run the risk of players making a net loss if they finish too low. Even on the pay-to-enter dailies people who finish in the bottom 25% make a net loss (since tickets can be bought for 1000 reward points). This is a lot of players.Over time my guess is the average standard in each level will increase, with those finishing in the bottom 25% with any regularity stopping playing them. Then players that were previously outside this group will fall into it, and the process will repeat itself.Personally I think the risk of losing out by entering tournaments is too high currently and will harm long-term participation.

I've just been having another look at the tournament situation and it's actually worse than I thought for most players.'Tickets' can be bought for 1000 Reward Points each in the shop. Across all of the daily tournaments where you can win Tickets, the bottom 75% only get 1 ticket per 1000 Reward Points paid as entry fee, or worse fewer or even none. For 75% of players we can therefore view the entry costs to the weekly and seasonal tournaments to be at least 1000 Rewards Points per Ticket the entrance costs. To win more than this a player needs to finish as follows in each tournament:Weekly Arcade: top 35%.Weekly Pro: top 40%.Weekly Tour: top 40%.Weekly Sim: top 40%.Seasonal Arcade: top 20%.Seasonal Pro: top 25%.Seasonal Tour: top 30%.Overall this means that for most players (comfortably >50%) they'd be better off not playing tournaments at all and just using the reward points earned from the free daily tournaments to buy specs or cosmetic items they want. Not a sustainable model IMHO.

PGA needs more ways to get points to buy store items

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Ultrasonic_77
Hero
3 years ago
@Knockout8080 for Season 1 I was mostly focusing on Tournaments mode, in part to earn reward points for specs. Now I'm spending most time playing Online instead. Re. tournaments my current plan is just to try to earn enough tickets each week for the weekly Tour level tournament as a challenge to aim at, and possibly accrue enough additional tickets for one of the seasonal tournaments as well.
c4a1d589907a2d5
3 years ago
well as mentioned Daily tournaments usually reward no more then 500. Weekly relies on spending points and based on what i heard, all you get is tickets. same thing with career. i'm getting like 775 every 4 rounds. and challenges were easy at first but lately they make it tougher. "get 3 balls on the green" hits 3, and they slide off the green to the fringe or fairway. "get the ball to at least 5 feet of the hole" ends up more like 15 or 20 every try. "make 3 putts" miss every one. so that;s no way to get points. That;s why i think every quick round should reward points too.
blue4eva77
3 years ago
@c4a1d589907a2d55 Those are all easy challenges if you put your skill points in the right categories and use your spin of the ball correctly to reach the green, stay on the green, push it towards the hole after landing etc

I realize the game can be difficult for some but why should EA dumb down the game to hand out all these points to the user, cutting off other parts of their game they created ( challenges )

As said, it seems people just want instant gratification and everything at their disposal right away rather than earn it. Play the game, figure it out like the rest of us have
c4a1d589907a2d5
3 years ago
oh I've been playing the game. had it since early April. i pre-ordered it so i can play it like a couple of days early. if yu recall, EA Golf Games in the past used to make all your skills at 100% in everything. They even had cheat codes so you can obtain the maxed out clubs so you play at 200% but anyway i've been playing Career and i won a few so far. hwever Torrey Pines was tough and ddn;t won it. i ended up in 2nd with -5 while 1st place was -6. remembeer this game is supposed to make it easy or hard as you want to play it so given that, it's pretty much good reason to let us have easier ways to get the things we want. But it's cool though.
agentputt
3 years ago
@blue4eva77 Have to disagree here the game need to cater for everyone

I’m in the top 10% in almost every tournament I enter so it’s easy for me to gain coins but I can’t imagine the grind for some people as @UltraSonic eluded to
c4a1d589907a2d5
3 years ago
I know. it should be as easy or hard as you want. if that;s how you want to play it dfine. however if you want to up the diffuculty, you can do that too. but playing the game the way i am now, it could take months before you get the points you need to get stuff. so that;s why i say it should be easier.
Slap96shot
3 years ago
Play in career mode and do the challenges. I was able to get my guy to a 97 overall with decent specs for all my clubs. Also if you play online you get 200 vc regardless of how you do.
Mark_Miwurdz
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Slap96shot Coins for an online match? You sure?
agentputt
3 years ago
@Slap96shot You don’t get anything for completing an online match
packattack04082
3 years ago
@agentputt They should definitely add some way of getting more coins. As someone who has completed all of the quests and challenges in the game, I have no way to get more gold coins other than the tournaments and daily/weekly quests that appear. Online victories should be rewarded with something. Most people's XP has been maxed since the first week of the game so they should reward gold coins for completing stuff, even career mode. I do every daily tournament each day and end up paying 7k coins and get a return of 1.5k, so I am losing 5k coins per day just by choosing to compete in each tournament. Certainly there needs to be another way to get coins.

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