>>47781255It's not bad new with the game is new.
Join a year from now and everyone is going to have sets of 30 items, and a new player is going to feel pretty pressure to dump money to catch up.
Even if you somehow argued that the difference didn't matter (which is basically impossible to prove without detailed win/loss data), the bigger point is that the game already has an utter shitton of ways to squeeze money out of it's players. It's enough to make EA sports blush.
The item leveling system just has no good reason to exist except drain more money from confused kids who don't know better, which is just fucking disgusting man.
