Wait, that's it?
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One supercharge player? No one else? Nothing for the Hank Aaron Anniversary?
I know there is nothing on the schedule but seriously you'd think they'd at least try.
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I really don’t think this as important as you seem to think it is…
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Celebrating Hank who also happens to be a highlighted Negro league player? Sure dude - not important
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Never said it wasn’t important. Just not as important as you seem to think it is… in a video game world…
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@bostondirtdog21 said in Wait, that's it?:
One supercharge player? No one else? Nothing for the Hank Aaron Anniversary?
I know there is nothing on the schedule but seriously you'd think they'd at least try.
While I think a Hank Aaron tribute of some kind would have been nice the Supercharge thing is different. They don't supercharge players just to supercharge players.
They have some set of criteria that the player has to achieve in order to be supercharged. Opening day is the only time they just choose players who performed well and supercharge them. I don't know if it has changed but 2 HRs in a game was not enough, the player needed to hit 3.
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@Dolenz said in Wait, that's it?:
@bostondirtdog21 said in Wait, that's it?:
One supercharge player? No one else? Nothing for the Hank Aaron Anniversary?
I know there is nothing on the schedule but seriously you'd think they'd at least try.
While I think a Hank Aaron tribute of some kind would have been nice the Supercharge thing is different. They don't supercharge players just to supercharge players.
They have some set of criteria that the player has to achieve in order to be supercharged. Opening day is the only time they just choose players who performed well and supercharge them. I don't know if it has changed but 2 HRs in a game was not enough, the player needed to hit 3.
I get it. I guess I'm just frustrated With The game like many others. It would be nice on Mondays to have a handful of players supercharged for the following week just to add something but I understand that's not what it's for.
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@JDHalfrack said in Wait, that's it?:
Never said it wasn’t important. Just not as important as you seem to think it is… in a video game world…
I normally don't like to go back-and-forth in a forum. But you have to realize they literally built an entire game mode around players who helped bring baseball to the forefront for black athletes in a time when they were not accepted. In a video game. You also have to remember that breaking the record 50 years ago Hank Aaron literally had death threats made against him From people who did not want him to break The record just because he was black. So yes, it is very important not just to me but for the history of baseball. And considering All the work that this video game has made in bringing the Negro storylines to help educate everyone, it is a major oversight not to recognize the 50 year anniversary.
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@bostondirtdog21 100% agree…Amen brother
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They definitely missed the mark, but I’m not even sure if the developers watch enough baseball to know that it was the 50th Anniversary or that there was a big ceremony in Atlanta. That being said, there were players last night in several games that probably could’ve also been supercharged but haven’t been. I’m a Braves fan, but Nimmo pretty much single-handedly beat the Braves last night.
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@JDHalfrack said in Wait, that's it?:
Never said it wasn’t important. Just not as important as you seem to think it is… in a video game world…
You are wrong.
Hank Aaron breaking Babe's record is one of the most important moments in US social history. People were afraid he would be attacked, and Hank even said that when that guy ran on the field to congratulate him, he thought he was going to die.
Add that to the fact that SDS is SUPPOSEDLY celebrating the Negro Leagues and black pioneers in baseball, and this is a huge miss.
Had SDS not been so incompetent with the launch this year and so disrespectful in its apology embargo, I'd have been surprised by this.
Given how they've operated this year, I'm not.
