Average Player
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Just curious as to what others feel is the average player of MLBTS 23?
My thoughts are: male, late teens to early 20s, in school and/or working part time, with no kids, all-star or above level player, that puts in at least 20 hours per week into the game and flips cards a good amount during the day.
This is not a knock on anyone that plays the game but with myself being an “older” player of this game that works a lot, has a family, plays for fun and not to be the best of the best I often feel like I’m constantly playing catch up. I’m sure there are numerous players that can relate to this as the game seems to be evolving more and more towards the competitive hardcore player and away from the casual play for fun crowd. Just an opinion and an observation based on this year’s forum posts and gameplay experiences.
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I’d say average is someone that plays 2 full games a day and that’s it.
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I assume you're not far off. Except I wouldn't say it's geared towards the competitive hardcore players. Instead I'd say it's for the players that spend hundreds or thousands of dollars buying packs. Probably who you meant too.
This will probably be my last show. I play DD cause I'm not a big enough mlb fan to play with real teams. I'm used to playing against better teams over the years but this year it's gotten too stupid. Every team I've played has basically been against 99 top to bottom. It's so dumb. By the time I get some 99s accumulated they won't be eligible to play.
The thing I love about the show is there isn't really a way to cheese play. Unlike 2k & Madden. But it can sure seem like it going against 99s. Most opponents are probably better than me anyway but I really don't have a chance when me and my players are that over matched.
I know I can't be the only Fn guy without a loaded team. But maybe so, since I can't ever get an opponent with a similar overall team.
I'm not mad at any of the games for following the money of pack buyers. I'm just disappointed in the developers lol.
I think it's ridiculous to have so many 99 players. If it was just the old legends it would still be too many. Maybe throughout the yr it would seem reasonable to come out with new current players that are kicking a in real life. I don't get the reasoning behind having cards of players that are high 90s when they've never been that good in the first place. I also don't like having a bunch of versions of a player. Especially retired ones. I know I'm an old head and am the minority so I guess maybe it's time for me to hang up the sticks. I still love playing sports games but they're getting too far away from it being about playing the actual sport. I wish I could enjoy playing against the cpu but I just can't enjoy it. Does t feel like real enough competition for me -
@TripleH-4481_PSN said in Average Player:
My thoughts are: male, late teens to early 20s, in school and/or working part time, with no kids, all-star or above level player, that puts in at least 20 hours per week into the game and flips cards a good amount during the day.
I'd guess that is not correct.
I'd guess that the average age is older, the average hours played a week is lower and the average player does not spend much of their time investing or flipping cards.
We probably don't hear from "average" players on the various forums for the game very often.
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That’s a fair argument. Maybe I’m just skewed by my experiences as of late where it seems everyone has a juiced up team, things completed, talks about getting good, and is a world beater online.
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It's probably one of the oldest demographic in the AAA sports market, maybe even just AAA.
Of course, you're talking average, not top 10%; that would skew towards younger. I'm basing my assumption on the fact that baseball fans are the oldest amongst the "4 Majors" sports in NA.
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Yeah the fact it may skew older probably has a lot to do with baseball fans generally being older than most other major sports.
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There was a forum post a long time ago asking about ages, and I think the majority were 30+. The average age range is probably higher than you think.
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I try to hit batting practice for 30 mins everyday
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@TripleH-4481_PSN said in Average Player:
That’s a fair argument. Maybe I’m just skewed by my experiences as of late where it seems everyone has a juiced up team, things completed, talks about getting good, and is a world beater online.
Just a thought, the average age for online players probably skews younger than that actual average age of all players. You have old geezers like me who never even venture online.
For the overall averages you also have to take into account RTTs and Franchise players and I would guess franchise especially skews older.
