Content: Quantity VS. Quality
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Just my thoughts.. while not a fan of juiced prospects these type of cards do help grow the game and that is part of what baseball needs
Also topps now is great because it also helps griws the game and gives peolle chances to use current players in a competetive setting, such as joey wendle
It also has allowed lineups to b different, live a little mix it up, what works well for one person may not for others
U are not competeting for money, u want bragging rights.. no thanks..
once u make world series and get reward then mix up team, u have accomplished the goal, u control it -
@quinnymcquinn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
After a month almost every live series card is useless. I understand that better versions of these cards will be available. But do we need 95+ cards early in the game cycle. Every year everyone says the game played better at launch or at the beginning of the year.An easy FIX for this is to restrict which cards are being used within certain levels of Ranked Seasons.
WS) No Limit. Can use 25 "99 Diamond Cards"
CS) 15 Cards 95+ / 10 Cards Max 94
DS) 10 Cards 95+ / 15 Cards Max 94
WC) 5 Cards 95+ / 15 Cards 86-94 / 5 Cards Max 85
PR) 5 Cards 96+ / 10 Cards 86-95 / 10 Cards Max 85
RS) 10 Cards 86-95 Max / 10 Cards 80-85 / 5 Cards Max 79
ST) 5 Cards 86-95 Max / 10 Cards 80-85 / 10 Cards Max 79 -
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@painpa_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@dbarmonstar_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@dbarmonstar_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
While i agree that some of these cards are boosted way too much, the other edge of that sword is that they wont be competitive and it will be the same 25 players in every lineup. which did actually happen in the year everyone pretends doesnt exist
Most of the Cards being released having Juiced Up God Stat Attributes are really just for show & does NOT play & preform to those attributes. Only certain cards will truly play & preform to what it's attributes reflects. That's why NO MATTER how many cards are released & launched. It will ALWAYS be the same core of 50 cards that everyone will be using 25 out of those 50 cards within their DD team. For example: ..... who does NOT have Degrom within their rotation? Enough said.
I do not have Degrom in my Rotation, I like actually pitching
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@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
I do feel the game does need huge amounts of Content to keep many vested to play & grind hours on end to earn cards, stubs, complete missions, etc. MLBTS is doing just that & even more so this year. MLBTS 21 has more content to be earned rather then outright bought then any of the previous years.
They definitely overwhelmed us with "Quantity" this year & are sure to soon launch the Finest Series soon. Many my feel & think the "Quality" of all these cards are very good. With the fact that there are so many Diamonds 95+ within Signature, Awards, Mile-Stones, Finest, Etc. How can any NOT think or feel the Quality is great. However I do NOT & this is why ......
I'm 51 years old. I been seeing Baseball since I was 5 to 6 years old. I have seen 1,000's of player go thru their career & followed their career like most true devoted fans of the game does. Many of these players they are making into Diamonds & releasing out does NOT deserve to be Diamond Level. yes these players are very well known, popular & even famous. However their actual career stat totals does NOT meet Diamond level if you go by how Live players are evaluated with when they go up or down within Diamond, Gold, Silver, Bronze & Common. Many of these retired players released as Diamonds are Gold cards at best & some are even Silvers at best. Many of these retired players released as Diamonds are NOT even Hall Of Fame inductee's & were never even within top 5 list of votes received to enter the HOF during the years they were on the ballot before finally taken off the yearly ballot.
I do feel we do need all this content & all these retired players because us as fans will enjoy playing with or against such names. However these cards should reflect realistically on how their career stats were compared to Live series players today.
In regards to Live Series players that are getting premier cards released as Diamonds with Juiced Up stats is also OVER-KILLED with how Juiced up they are.Yes some of these players are the best within the sport today. And yes having a special card for them which is better then their Live Series card is needed. But it makes it more Comic Book Super Hero Fantasy with how high they are Juicing up attributes. Especially with Rookies or players with only 2 to 3 seasons put in so far & are getting cards like if they are GUARANTEED to have Caliber careers. The reality is that the Future is UNKNOWN & can NOT be predicted. So to me it makes NO SENSE to make a GOD-Card for someone who has NOT proven themselves yet at that level.
Again I do feel we need tons of Content & we have that. We have QUANTITY, But NOT QUALITY. I just feel cards should reflect more on REAL stats & if any are Juiced Up, then do it so it is better then Live Series, But NOT Flooding the game with OVER-KILLED Juiced Up God Cards for players whom does NOT merit that based on Career stats. The game will still be great to play with MORE REALISTIC cards.
You should see what NBA 2K does. They consistently give out 99 overall cards to players like Bol Bol and Tacko Fall who barely ever play.
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@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@quinnymcquinn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
After a month almost every live series card is useless. I understand that better versions of these cards will be available. But do we need 95+ cards early in the game cycle. Every year everyone says the game played better at launch or at the beginning of the year.An easy FIX for this is to restrict which cards are being used within certain levels of Ranked Seasons.
WS) No Limit. Can use 25 "99 Diamond Cards"
CS) 15 Cards 95+ / 10 Cards Max 94
DS) 10 Cards 95+ / 15 Cards Max 94
WC) 5 Cards 95+ / 15 Cards 86-94 / 5 Cards Max 85
PR) 5 Cards 96+ / 10 Cards 86-95 / 10 Cards Max 85
RS) 10 Cards 86-95 Max / 10 Cards 80-85 / 5 Cards Max 79
ST) 5 Cards 86-95 Max / 10 Cards 80-85 / 10 Cards Max 79Lol, everyone would whine at that idea later on in the year. The whole point of ranked is that it’s YOUR BEST squad vs other people’s and even though everyone may have 99 cards that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed in lower ranks. You’re turning ranked into a lineup restricted event, but that destroys the whole point. And I think would maybe even make it less fun. Also, let’s say little Timmy just got the game and grinds ta4 and gets an all 97-99 lineup. If he wants to use his lineup online (Which he will have to do for some missions). He will have to get to WS to use his real lineup? This idea would only work at the start of the year at best and the guys with god squads early game are not gonna be matching with Timmy and his half bronze lineup. Just doesn’t make sense to me. You’re gonna play against better teams, that’s baseball. And that’s the sacrifice you’re making to not grind as much. But save time and hop into h2h earlier. People just can’t take l’s nowadays huh?
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@penguinztoocold_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@quinnymcquinn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
After a month almost every live series card is useless. I understand that better versions of these cards will be available. But do we need 95+ cards early in the game cycle. Every year everyone says the game played better at launch or at the beginning of the year.Lol, everyone would whine at that idea later on in the year. The whole point of ranked is that it’s YOUR BEST squad vs other people’s and even though everyone may have 99 cards that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed in lower ranks. Your turning ranked into a lineup restricted event but that destroys the whole point and I think would maybe even make it less fun. Also let’s say little Timmy just got the game and grinds ta4 and gets an all 97-99 lineup. If he wants to use his lineup online (Which he will have to do for some missions). He will have to get to WS to use his real lineup? This idea would only work at the start of the year at best and the guys with god squads early game are not gonna be matching with Timmy and his half bronze lineup. Just doesn’t make sense to me.
SORRY If I forgot to mention that yes this restriction should only be within the 1st 60 days from the day the game is released.
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@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@penguinztoocold_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@quinnymcquinn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
After a month almost every live series card is useless. I understand that better versions of these cards will be available. But do we need 95+ cards early in the game cycle. Every year everyone says the game played better at launch or at the beginning of the year.Lol, everyone would whine at that idea later on in the year. The whole point of ranked is that it’s YOUR BEST squad vs other people’s and even though everyone may have 99 cards that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed in lower ranks. Your turning ranked into a lineup restricted event but that destroys the whole point and I think would maybe even make it less fun. Also let’s say little Timmy just got the game and grinds ta4 and gets an all 97-99 lineup. If he wants to use his lineup online (Which he will have to do for some missions). He will have to get to WS to use his real lineup? This idea would only work at the start of the year at best and the guys with god squads early game are not gonna be matching with Timmy and his half bronze lineup. Just doesn’t make sense to me.
SORRY If I forgot to mention that yes this restriction should only be within the 1st 60 days from the day the game is released.
Oh lol, I thought that was your idea the whole year.
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@penguinztoocold_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@penguinztoocold_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@quinnymcquinn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
After a month almost every live series card is useless. I understand that better versions of these cards will be available. But do we need 95+ cards early in the game cycle. Every year everyone says the game played better at launch or at the beginning of the year.Lol, everyone would whine at that idea later on in the year. The whole point of ranked is that it’s YOUR BEST squad vs other people’s and even though everyone may have 99 cards that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed in lower ranks. Your turning ranked into a lineup restricted event but that destroys the whole point and I think would maybe even make it less fun. Also let’s say little Timmy just got the game and grinds ta4 and gets an all 97-99 lineup. If he wants to use his lineup online (Which he will have to do for some missions). He will have to get to WS to use his real lineup? This idea would only work at the start of the year at best and the guys with god squads early game are not gonna be matching with Timmy and his half bronze lineup. Just doesn’t make sense to me.
SORRY If I forgot to mention that yes this restriction should only be within the 1st 60 days from the day the game is released.
Oh lol, I thought that was your idea the whole year.
No Way !!!! Only for 1st 60 days because it makes it fair play for EVERYONE because NOT everyone has the time to grind or money to buy stubs to develop their own God-Squad as quick as others do. So 60 days is very reasonable after the game is released. But you are 100% correct that anyone coming new into the game NOW can easily obtain a God-Squad team in 2 weeks to month via grinding out TA's.
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@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@penguinztoocold_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@penguinztoocold_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@quinnymcquinn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
After a month almost every live series card is useless. I understand that better versions of these cards will be available. But do we need 95+ cards early in the game cycle. Every year everyone says the game played better at launch or at the beginning of the year.Lol, everyone would whine at that idea later on in the year. The whole point of ranked is that it’s YOUR BEST squad vs other people’s and even though everyone may have 99 cards that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed in lower ranks. Your turning ranked into a lineup restricted event but that destroys the whole point and I think would maybe even make it less fun. Also let’s say little Timmy just got the game and grinds ta4 and gets an all 97-99 lineup. If he wants to use his lineup online (Which he will have to do for some missions). He will have to get to WS to use his real lineup? This idea would only work at the start of the year at best and the guys with god squads early game are not gonna be matching with Timmy and his half bronze lineup. Just doesn’t make sense to me.
SORRY If I forgot to mention that yes this restriction should only be within the 1st 60 days from the day the game is released.
Oh lol, I thought that was your idea the whole year.
No Way !!!! Only for 1st 60 days because it makes it fair play for EVERYONE because NOT everyone has the time to grind or money to buy stubs to develop their own God-Squad as quick as others do. So 60 days is very reasonable after the game is released. But you are 100% correct that anyone coming new into the game NOW can easily obtain a God-Squad team in 2 weeks to month via grinding out TA's.
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@penguinztoocold_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@penguinztoocold_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@quinnymcquinn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
After a month almost every live series card is useless. I understand that better versions of these cards will be available. But do we need 95+ cards early in the game cycle. Every year everyone says the game played better at launch or at the beginning of the year.Lol, everyone would whine at that idea later on in the year. The whole point of ranked is that it’s YOUR BEST squad vs other people’s and even though everyone may have 99 cards that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed in lower ranks. Your turning ranked into a lineup restricted event but that destroys the whole point and I think would maybe even make it less fun. Also let’s say little Timmy just got the game and grinds ta4 and gets an all 97-99 lineup. If he wants to use his lineup online (Which he will have to do for some missions). He will have to get to WS to use his real lineup? This idea would only work at the start of the year at best and the guys with god squads early game are not gonna be matching with Timmy and his half bronze lineup. Just doesn’t make sense to me.
SORRY If I forgot to mention that yes this restriction should only be within the 1st 60 days from the day the game is released.
Oh lol, I thought that was your idea the whole year.
No Way !!!! Only for 1st 60 days because it makes it fair play for EVERYONE because NOT everyone has the time to grind or money to buy stubs to develop their own God-Squad as quick as others do. So 60 days is very reasonable after the game is released. But you are 100% correct that anyone coming new into the game NOW can easily obtain a God-Squad team in 2 weeks to month via grinding out TA's.
While I like this idea I feel like it takes out a good amount of the fun. When your in regular season with a pci big as a house basically any card can rake and it’s fun to be the underdog. Although I see where you’re coming from the randomness and the chance to match up and beat some guy with every card is part of the fun to me. Especially when I was starting getting no hitters vs chipper jones guys with my 92 marichal.
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I think there are so many good things they could do with content, because there are a lot of really cool things in place. However, the content is never going to fully make sense to the majority of players. The content is designed in a manner to make money for SDS. Yes, I know that the content is free and is so much better than any other sports game. But it is still designed in a way to get people to spend money. The game is not designed for the cards and gameplay to work and make sense over the course of twelve months...it is designed to maximize profits for as long as possible, until the next year drops. You don't need to spend money on the game, but many do and SDS has designed it in a way to capitalize on that. It is a business and you can't blame them for that.
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@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@penguinztoocold_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@penguinztoocold_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@quinnymcquinn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
After a month almost every live series card is useless. I understand that better versions of these cards will be available. But do we need 95+ cards early in the game cycle. Every year everyone says the game played better at launch or at the beginning of the year.Lol, everyone would whine at that idea later on in the year. The whole point of ranked is that it’s YOUR BEST squad vs other people’s and even though everyone may have 99 cards that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed in lower ranks. Your turning ranked into a lineup restricted event but that destroys the whole point and I think would maybe even make it less fun. Also let’s say little Timmy just got the game and grinds ta4 and gets an all 97-99 lineup. If he wants to use his lineup online (Which he will have to do for some missions). He will have to get to WS to use his real lineup? This idea would only work at the start of the year at best and the guys with god squads early game are not gonna be matching with Timmy and his half bronze lineup. Just doesn’t make sense to me.
SORRY If I forgot to mention that yes this restriction should only be within the 1st 60 days from the day the game is released.
Oh lol, I thought that was your idea the whole year.
No Way !!!! Only for 1st 60 days because it makes it fair play for EVERYONE because NOT everyone has the time to grind or money to buy stubs to develop their own God-Squad as quick as others do. So 60 days is very reasonable after the game is released. But you are 100% correct that anyone coming new into the game NOW can easily obtain a God-Squad team in 2 weeks to month via grinding out TA's.
It doesnt make it fair for everyone.it penalizes those that put more into it.doesnt matter if it is time or money, those that put more into it should get more out of it, not be held back by those who cant or wont.
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@penguinztoocold_psn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@tonythetiger2k16 said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
@quinnymcquinn said in Content: Quantity VS. Quality:
After a month almost every live series card is useless. I understand that better versions of these cards will be available. But do we need 95+ cards early in the game cycle. Every year everyone says the game played better at launch or at the beginning of the year.An easy FIX for this is to restrict which cards are being used within certain levels of Ranked Seasons.
WS) No Limit. Can use 25 "99 Diamond Cards"
CS) 15 Cards 95+ / 10 Cards Max 94
DS) 10 Cards 95+ / 15 Cards Max 94
WC) 5 Cards 95+ / 15 Cards 86-94 / 5 Cards Max 85
PR) 5 Cards 96+ / 10 Cards 86-95 / 10 Cards Max 85
RS) 10 Cards 86-95 Max / 10 Cards 80-85 / 5 Cards Max 79
ST) 5 Cards 86-95 Max / 10 Cards 80-85 / 10 Cards Max 79Lol, everyone would whine at that idea later on in the year. The whole point of ranked is that it’s YOUR BEST squad vs other people’s and even though everyone may have 99 cards that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed in lower ranks. You’re turning ranked into a lineup restricted event, but that destroys the whole point. And I think would maybe even make it less fun. Also, let’s say little Timmy just got the game and grinds ta4 and gets an all 97-99 lineup. If he wants to use his lineup online (Which he will have to do for some missions). He will have to get to WS to use his real lineup? This idea would only work at the start of the year at best and the guys with god squads early game are not gonna be matching with Timmy and his half bronze lineup. Just doesn’t make sense to me. You’re gonna play against better teams, that’s baseball. And that’s the sacrifice you’re making to not grind as much. But save time and hop into h2h earlier. People just can’t take l’s nowadays huh?
Tell little Timmy to “Git Gud,” then. I kind
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I think one possible answer to the grind for useless 99's would be to have multiple events going on at the same time, with good rewards, that restricted teams in interesting ways. Someone else mentioned this in a different post. RS could even have multiple venues with interesting restrictions, maybe?
I would love to use cards that I'd never consider just for variety's sake.
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I just wish they made some effort to keep ratings consistent among the different card types at least.
Vinny Castilla’s 1998 Silver Slugger card should not be a higher overall than Kris Bryant’s 2016 MVP card, and certainly shouldn’t be the same overall as George Brett’s 1980 MVP card. Honestly, it should be the lowest Awards series 3B card.
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