Who Has Fun Playing RS?
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I've not played ranked seasons in close to month now. Best, stress free time of my "Show" life.
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Wow look at all these posts mentioning how much fun were all having.
Remind me, what's the point of paying the $60 for this game?
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If you don’t play RS what’s the point of Diamond Dynasty? There’s no other mode where you can use the cards you’ve collected to build a team free of restrictions to play a competitive 9 inning game H2H.
Now you could play a 9 inning friendly, but that’s not progressing your Diamond Dynasty in any way, other than the XP and handful of stubs you’d gain for playing 9 innings. The same applies to 9 innings vs CPU. Events are capped and restricted and are 3 or 6 inning games. BR doesn’t require you to own any cards and is a mode played, not unlike events, in order to earn cards as a reward in order to build a squad that you can only use in RS. Stubs and stub sales are used to buy cards, or complete collections to get better cards, again to build a squad for RS. XP progresses you along the XP reward path to earn stubs and cards, which again, are to be used to build a squad that can only be used with any real purpose online in RS. Showdowns progress TA for more cards and stubs to add to your squad which you can only use in RS. If not for RS, Diamond Dynasty is pointless in it’s entirety.So you’d expect RS to be the flagship mode, the pinnacle of DD and the main focus on getting things right.
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I played roughly 200 RS games last year. As of today, my record is 7-3, and that’s probably where it will stand for the foreseeable future. I still enjoy conquest, MtO, Events, RttS and I’m even coming around on showdown. But I’m not willing to carve out 45-60 minutes to play a mode that’s as big of a mess as RS.
Someone on this forum had a really interesting suggestion recently, and that was to temporarily suspend rating losses in RS when you lose a game (my only suggestion would be to continue to deduct points for rage quits). That would make RS much more palatable. I don’t feel like seeing my already low rating dip even lower because I lose a crapshoot (or is it a crapfest?).
When I started playing this game, RttS is what drew me in. I remember RttS fans complaining that SDS didn’t care about that mode, or, frankly, any mode other than RS. That still feels true. They do putt almost
all of their resources into RS. But it also feels like the developers are, as Tony Soprano once put it, “like King Midas in reverse — everything (they) touch turns to [censored].”To be clear, I absolutely do NOT believe the game was “perfect” or even passable on launch. This forum tends to have a bizarre nostalgia for an imagined history. But the game hasn’t gotten appreciably better on a macro level. Fielding is better, but hitting is worse. Pitching still sucks. And baserunning! How did they wreck base running so badly? SDS seems to have a knack for breaking 2 new things for every 1 thing they fix.
I want to believe the quarantine is at least partially at fault. But the truth is they released a mess of a game before the lockdown started. Other games are still releasing updates, DLC, and patches.
I know this company has to have the resources to fix things that are objectively bad. I think at this point, hitting is the best we’re going to get and it’s probably where they want it. Why they want it like this, I’ll never know. But fielders taking pop ups off the face and runners getting stuck in between bases and pitches that should be in the dirt ending up belt-high... these aren’t even up for discussion. They’re just incorrect and need to be fixed.
I have a lot of work to do today and I’m just using this post as a way of procrastinating. Good day to you, kind sirs and madam (I’m under the impression this place is a complete sausage fest except for squishie, right?)
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@PoopsyMcDoodle said in Who Has Fun Playing RS?:
Wow look at all these posts mentioning how much fun were all having.
Remind me, what's the point of paying the $60 for this game?
Its beisbol and at this point a yearly tradition of mine.
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My first year of online play was 2015. I was strictly an online only type of player. I hated playing the cpu. 2017 was my favorite year playing the game. Made WS 4 or 5 times. Made top 5 in one of the events. Then it started going downhill. Gameplay I mean. Now it’s so bad that I have more fun playing showdown or doing player programs.
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@SchnauzerFace said in Who Has Fun Playing RS?:
I played roughly 200 RS games last year. As of today, my record is 7-3, and that’s probably where it will stand for the foreseeable future. I still enjoy conquest, MtO, Events, RttS and I’m even coming around on showdown. But I’m not willing to carve out 45-60 minutes to play a mode that’s as big of a mess as RS.
Someone on this forum had a really interesting suggestion recently, and that was to temporarily suspend rating losses in RS when you lose a game (my only suggestion would be to continue to deduct points for rage quits). That would make RS much more palatable. I don’t feel like seeing my already low rating dip even lower because I lose a crapshoot (or is it a crapfest?).
When I started playing this game, RttS is what drew me in. I remember RttS fans complaining that SDS didn’t care about that mode, or, frankly, any mode other than RS. That still feels true. They do putt almost
all of their resources into RS. But it also feels like the developers are, as Tony Soprano once put it, “like King Midas in reverse — everything (they) touch turns to [censored].”To be clear, I absolutely do NOT believe the game was “perfect” or even passable on launch. This forum tends to have a bizarre nostalgia for an imagined history. But the game hasn’t gotten appreciably better on a macro level. Fielding is better, but hitting is worse. Pitching still sucks. And baserunning! How did they wreck base running so badly? SDS seems to have a knack for breaking 2 new things for every 1 thing they fix.
I want to believe the quarantine is at least partially at fault. But the truth is they released a mess of a game before the lockdown started. Other games are still releasing updates, DLC, and patches.
I know this company has to have the resources to fix things that are objectively bad. I think at this point, hitting is the best we’re going to get and it’s probably where they want it. Why they want it like this, I’ll never know. But fielders taking pop ups off the face and runners getting stuck in between bases and pitches that should be in the dirt ending up belt-high... these aren’t even up for discussion. They’re just incorrect and need to be fixed.
I have a lot of work to do today and I’m just using this post as a way of procrastinating. Good day to you, kind sirs and madam (I’m under the impression this place is a complete sausage fest except for squishie, right?)
Yes, vienna for myself.
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@PoopsyMcDoodle said in Who Has Fun Playing RS?:
I'd love honest responses..
I can't see how anyone who plays regularly can say its enjoyable. The gameplay is so poor, even for the Show
Every basic aspect of the game is majorly flawed and its so obvious its truly shameful
Who has fun playing ranked seasons??
" Not I " said the Cat.
" Not I " said the Mouse.
" Not I " said Trevor May -
@tomivory23 said in Who Has Fun Playing RS?:
@PoopsyMcDoodle said in Who Has Fun Playing RS?:
I'd love honest responses..
I can't see how anyone who plays regularly can say its enjoyable. The gameplay is so poor, even for the Show
Every basic aspect of the game is majorly flawed and its so obvious its truly shameful
Who has fun playing ranked seasons??
" Not I " said the Cat.
" Not I " said the Mouse.
" Not I " said Trevor MayTrevor May is the whole reason we saw a defense patch.
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@SchnauzerFace said I’m under the impression this place is a complete sausage fest except for squishie, right?)
Ahhhhhh too many.....now I'm scared
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There's no incentive to play RS at all. The gameplay is awful and the reward distribution sucks. Who wants to grind all the way up to WS only to get a bench player for your time and aggravation?
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I am not good online. i swing at everything for some reason, im always late on fastballs, and usually can only get a hit or two. BUT, when i play someone my skill level. its alot of fun lol
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The randomness and bs in the game makes you clench your butthole every pitch hoping it doesn’t hang or your fielder actually catches it lol. I personally have t had but 1 of these “18-16 “ type games. I’m 36-13 in RS but still feel like I suck bc I stop playing at around the 600 level. The 700 and 800 rewards suck so I could care less to try for WS. I maybe could squeeze in to WS but it’s not that important to me. I want that Griffey, but that’s it. My era is around 3 and I’m batting 315. I feel like I suck at hitting so I’m not sure how the average is so high. I normally win 4-2 or 3-1. The gameplay is trash but better than 18, I just wish hitters with less power were more viable. I’d never put Gwynn on my squad and he was one of the best hitters of all time. On this game I feel like he would be a weak fly machine
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@Ikasnu said in Who Has Fun Playing RS?:
@tomivory23 said in Who Has Fun Playing RS?:
@PoopsyMcDoodle said in Who Has Fun Playing RS?:
I'd love honest responses..
I can't see how anyone who plays regularly can say its enjoyable. The gameplay is so poor, even for the Show
Every basic aspect of the game is majorly flawed and its so obvious its truly shameful
Who has fun playing ranked seasons??
" Not I " said the Cat.
" Not I " said the Mouse.
" Not I " said Trevor MayTrevor May is the whole reason we saw a defense patch.
I wish somehow sds could let May test it during development and then he gives us his honest opinion.
At this point its.... May > Developers on how "realistic" gameplay is as a "simulation" baseball game. Get May on board and I would pre order product unseen with no new content just for the fact to experience a fully functioning version of the show..approved by a current Mlb player who just happened to be dissapointed in past gameplay.
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@ComebackLogic said in Who Has Fun Playing RS?:
No, it’s nothing like it was in years past. As I only really play RS it formulates my view of the game as a whole and in my view, this is probably the worst edition of the show I’ve ever played and I’ve played every year since ‘16. It’s definitely now on a par with ‘18 in terms of gameplay quality and may even sink beyond that given enough time.
You can’t pitch anywhere without batters making contact, you can’t reliably expect to have any success with good input, every game features a combined 15-20+ runs on 30-40 hits, even if you avoid Shippet, Good/Okay is absolutely out of control, terrible animations abound, outfielders are still dicey about fielding balls hit close to the base of outfield walls, hit variety is way down (unless you count the different types of home run under hit variety), ERAs are into the stratosphere, desync makes the game look terrible online, if not downright farcical at times, bunting is OP due to bad infield defending, outcomes and feedback - Both on the hitting and pitching sides - are totally random as opposed to being dictated by, or in many cases bearing any vague relation to, inputs and visual indicators of success, there are still issues with MLB stadiums dropping frames, the list is endless. None of this, unsurprisingly, makes for a great baseball experience.Well said!
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I used to love it...
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I definitely don't have fun playing anymore despite a solid run as of late. I had a potential 5-game winning streak ruined by the usual late-game comeback followed by a bug (forcing a position player to pitch despite that being a violation of MLB rules). I just want to get my record to 1 game over .500 and then I'll probably quit RS for the year or actually forever since I don't plan to buy next year's game unless there are major improvements.
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