To offline players
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@painpa_psn said in To offline players:
"meant for online". DD has had vs cpu and vs ppl content in every year of its existence, and as the years have gone by it has gotten more friendly to the vs cpu only crowd. This debate has raged for a long time now and players have said this onljne purpose, but i never recall a dev saying anything one way or another, and recently they have been saying play how you want.which would seem to indicate that it is meant for both(and always has been)
Exactly this. SDS will be fully aware or the player base who play online or offline and will adjust accordingly.
I do wonder though if they make more money from online as opposed to offline with stubs purchases though. I’d probably lean towards online as the competitive edge.
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@lewisnadasurf1_psn said in To offline players:
What did we do in pre-2000 or so, when online gaming wasnt a thing.
We played Strat-O-Matic, and we LIKED IT.
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I don't generally have a problem with people that play offline. Play how you want to play, for the most part. The problem lies with the showdown hate club that thinks they deserve special treatment for the FOD program despite online players being forced to play offline for every program Except FOD.
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Online is as little fun for me as offline is for you. Pretty simple.
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@arvcpa_psn said in To offline players:
@lewisnadasurf1_psn said in To offline players:
What did we do in pre-2000 or so, when online gaming wasnt a thing.
We played Strat-O-Matic, and we LIKED IT.
You know i posted that and thought i bet about 50% of the people in this forum werent even born in 2000! getting old (mature)!
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@bsmith4263_psn said in To offline players:
The fun for me is the nostalgia of card collecting and satisfying my need to accomplish missions.
This exactly for me as well. I chose to play online to get Clemente, but it's not my preference. I enjoy mission based content and the collecting of cards especially players I loved like Piazza.
As a man who has passed the mid-way point in life, I really don't feel like dealing with kids using all the exploits they see on youtube to win instead of playing the game the way it was meant to be played.
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Who on earth said DD was meant to be online? lol
Online is full of pay to win cheesers and I'd rather not have to worry about if I'm going to get a decent opponent.
As someone else stated, for me my time is limited with having a full time job, wife, and two kids. Not to mention God forbid I may actually want to play another game occasionally. It takes most of my gaming time to keep up with all the offline content so I have absolutely no reason to subject myself to all the complaints people have about online opponents.
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@chriscolbert_xbl said in To offline players:
Who on earth said DD was meant to be online? lol
People who play online and hate offline content.
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First year player and someone who has gone from playing more offline to online. My preference lately has been Events and BR and I am so bored with moments I can't see straight. However, my interest in Events and BR has grown mainly because there are very few offline options. (For the record...I am in favor of more options offline and online). I would love some form of an offline season mode where you basically play "Extra Innings" games in a season format. Something like that would probably keep my attention more than anything...even without rewards of any sort. DD is not just offline and not just online in my opinion...so I try to make the best out of what is available. Basically just saying I get the people who want to play offline and I could see myself being happy as a straight offline player if there were more options. I just feel my time is better spent with BR or Events in the current system.
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I played a lot online last year but mostly offline this year. Sometimes I just don't want to deal with humans. Depends on my tolerance of selfish jerks at any given time.
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This thread is surprisingly civil with well thought out responses.
I think SDS has done an exceptional job of swatting away the bots that are infecting other games and forcing their developers to drastically cut down on rewards for offline play. MUT this year has basically given the proverbial finger to all but the fat wallet whales, by making the offline grind impossible.
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I think DD is meant to force people to do both. It's not an offline or online format...it's both. I guess you could technically finish an Inning program by grinding out RS/BR/Event games but I don't know if you would have enough time to get 650,000 on just online games. You also have to put in time for collections, moments, showdown, conquest and so on. Same with offline, they are forcing you to take some part in the online content by stopping you at 98 in a program instead of letting you get to 100. SDS is trying to make DD their hybrid option for the game.
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dd myteam all of these type of modes are not and online or offline mode they are a card collection mode with the option to use the cards you have to play a game and to many people have forgot that because someone on you tube told them how to use someone fake jucied up aa player to exploit the game
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Not sure the purpose of these posts. Why does the way other people want to play the game bother people? I play online and offline both but I can completely get why someone would want to play DD exclusively offline.
Some people like a mode where they can collect cards to better build their team, without having to play people online.
People may not want to play online because:
A) they aren't as skilled and dont have the time to become skilled
B) don't have the best stable internet connection to play games
C) Don't have the best monitor to deal with input lag
Plus it's clear this the mode SDS focuses on the most as oppose to something like franchise or road to the show.So yeah I am all for people that play DD offline only. I wish there was more content for them though besides doing the USA conquest over and over
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As a mostly offline player, I actually feel like there's plenty of content. I'm sure I would feel differently if I had time to play every day, but the amount of stuff to do is just about perfect for keeping myself entertained on the weekends.
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@bk2025_psn said in To offline players:
I seen a lot of posts of "oh I only play offline, and how can this program be done offline..."
I just don't get this concept. DD is meant to be online. I don't play RS often but do dive into BR and def a lot of Events.
If you are playing offline, what's the fun? to get a better team to beat the same missions, conquest or vs CPU all over again???
I'm just not understanding playing ONLY offline and never wanting to play vs people even if it can be toxic players online ie bunt dances pausing etc. For the most part the players you face online play fair and it's really not hard to get some wins in an event or stats to complete the programs.
Agreed, only playing offline is just wimpy. Like sitting down to pee
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I mainly play offline. Have only played about 15 ranked games so far. But there is quite a bit offline content. I just feel there isn't a great deal of opportunity as I'd like to play with my "Main Squad" that I work hard to get. Most things are moments, programs, showdowns etc. Even TAs you usually end up loading a specific squad to use to get stats to complete that isn't your main team. There is conquest but you're basically relegated to repeating the repeatable one or USA map since any new ones are knocked out relatively quickly. And besides paralleling, playing vs the cpu over and over does get a bit boring. But overall, I enjoy the offline content. And for people that don't live on the game there is plenty to do.
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@bjd10048842_psn said in To offline players:
@bk2025_psn said in To offline players:
I seen a lot of posts of "oh I only play offline, and how can this program be done offline..."
I just don't get this concept. DD is meant to be online. I don't play RS often but do dive into BR and def a lot of Events.
If you are playing offline, what's the fun? to get a better team to beat the same missions, conquest or vs CPU all over again???
I'm just not understanding playing ONLY offline and never wanting to play vs people even if it can be toxic players online ie bunt dances pausing etc. For the most part the players you face online play fair and it's really not hard to get some wins in an event or stats to complete the programs.
Agreed, only playing offline is just wimpy. Like sitting down to pee
It’s not wimpy. There are reasons for why people choose to play only offline. I don’t have time that I can dedicate to play a game without interruptions. I use a TV with bad input lag so I don’t feel like getting destroyed every game because I’m going to be spammed fastballs knowing I can’t keep up. Also, I don’t care to play against other people. I play video games to relax and not have to deal with cheesers that use every exploit possible.
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@thestealthtank_mlbts said in To offline players:
This thread is surprisingly civil with well thought out responses.
That's because offline players are generally the more mature gamers. The twitch generation tends to play online with each other. See:
@bjd10048842_psn said in To offline players:
@bk2025_psn said in To offline players:
I seen a lot of posts of "oh I only play offline, and how can this program be done offline..."
I just don't get this concept. DD is meant to be online. I don't play RS often but do dive into BR and def a lot of Events.
If you are playing offline, what's the fun? to get a better team to beat the same missions, conquest or vs CPU all over again???
I'm just not understanding playing ONLY offline and never wanting to play vs people even if it can be toxic players online ie bunt dances pausing etc. For the most part the players you face online play fair and it's really not hard to get some wins in an event or stats to complete the programs.
Agreed, only playing offline is just wimpy. Like sitting down to pee
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The whole online vs offline play has been going on for years now. Only SDS has the answer since they have the metrics, but I would be curious as to where the majority of their revenue stream is coming from.
Casual players and "hardcore offline" players (I place myself in the latter) prefer to play offline because, in general, we are looking to have an enjoyable time playing the game our way, on our difficulty setting without having to worry about possible cheaters, freeze-offs, connection issues and the general "toxicity" that seems to come out of online play.
Now before you ask, as a matter of full disclosure, while I love offline and would play it almost exclusively, I am not averse to the online portion, but I play it at the strictist minimum and not a single game more than I need to in order to obtain what I want.
While I think many in the online community are decent enough people and want to play against another person as a way to test their skill, there are those who want to abuse the mechanics as much as possible, and generally make the game as unenjoyable as possible for their opponent because their only goal is to win at all costs. Now I know I am generalizing here, but that crowd is usually the younger crowd, the less "mature" crowd.
The best comparision I can make is a PvE vs PvP environment. Most people prefer a PvE environment because they just don't like to have their gameplay experience ruined by someone else who is intent on having fun at someone elses expense. An old game I used to play, Ultima Online, at one point decided to "split" the world into a mirror image of itself, Felucca and Trammel, with Trammel being the PvE only world. Overnight, Felucca became a barren wasteland because people prefered to play without PvP and when they wanted some PvP would simply go to the Felucca shard to get their fix.
This game is no different. I think both communities can co-exist, and I think SDS has an obligation to ensure that both can get what they want out of this game. There needs to be an offline RS mode (I made a post about that several weeks back) for the offline community so that vs CPU has more meaning. Those that refuse to play online except say events and the occasional BR won't invest money into the game to play a mode they refuse to, but I suspect that many of them would invest a few $$$ more to get some better cards in order to play an offline mode that gives them a REASON to play and a goal to work towards.
