Saw these two posts on X
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@Sarge1387
Yep I’m in the 86%. I’m close to the 1st boss but it’s crazy it’s taken this long and season 1 will be over in 2 weeks. In years past I’ve had no issue getting all the bosses. If SDS doesn’t course correct this the combo of not reaching bosses, season 2 shelving season 1 cards, and NCAA football dropping is going to put this game in a very bad way.
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@TripleH-4481
I'm all for the grind, don't get me wrong. But it's gotta feel like it's getting somewhere with it, and it just doesn't. At least not for the average gamer. I mentioned this in a thread in the MLBTS Subreddit: Having a longer XP path while simultaneously halving/nerfing XP gains was a horrible move. Bump the cap by 10k, and revert XP gains back to regular amounts...nobody gives a s#it how fast some hardcore grinders get the boss cards
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I'm one of the 86% too that don't have their 1st boss, I'm at 832k so hopefully I'll get there soon, as for mays, Brett and satchel then I'm about 40 cards away from one of them
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@Sarge1387
100% agree
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I play every day but I feel like I'm not even making a dent in the XP reward path, of course I suck at hitting so that may be the problem but I also shouldn't only be getting 400-500 XP at the end of a conquest game that I play on Veteran difficulty, I hope that they do double XP this weekend
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I've put in a solid amount of time in playing basically every game mode the game offers and I likely won't get a 99 outside of the TA3's.
If you have a life outside of this game, you're basically SOL if you want to earn the high end cards. And if you happen to get them, you'll have maybe a week to use them at this rate.
They've ruined this game for me.
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@Sarge1387 said in Saw these two posts on X:
It’s gotta bring up some warning signs for SDS here.
Which metric should SDS trust more: their own internal stats or twitter polls?
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@SaveFarris I'd hope both. 20K is a solid sample size and likely has some statistical significance.
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@sbchamps17
I think they will. They might make the final two weeks all double(regular) XP which could help some people. If they were smart, they'd triple the XP and quintuple the cap for the final week or something
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@SaveFarris
Respectfully, nigh 20k votes on each one is an extremely safe sample size to at least look into. But we all know SDS would spin/cherrypick their metrics in a manner that would support their decisions.
For example: Last year I opened a survey link, started it. First question was "Would you like to provide positive feedback on Sets introduced in MLBTS 23?" or something along those lines. I selected "No", next screen: "You are ineligible for this survey at this time. Thank you"
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@Sarge1387 to be fair just turn off the cap and run double for the last 2 weeks. But they have failed miserably at reading the room. I get there are some who are going to complain no matter what but there are an overwhelmingly number of content creators and community members who are pooping all over them. The lack of transparency hurts as well. Bottomline season 2 I’ll play but not like before I know NCAA comes out July 19th and my focus will go to that.
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@SteelyMacBeam said in Saw these two posts on X:
@SaveFarris I'd hope both. 20K is a solid sample size and likely has some statistical significance.
The twitter poll has a sample size.
Their internal metrics isn't a sample. It's the entire dataset.
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I'm at 982K XP. So I should hopefully at least get 2 of the 3 XP path bosses. Could get all 3 if there is another double XP weekend. I was hoping they would do double XP for this upcoming weekend with the extended holiday on Monday. Haven't seen that they have announced that yet (huge miss for the player base if they don't). As for collections...I finally hit 200 cards last night after getting 5 in TA3. No way I'm getting any bosses in that.
I'm really disappointed in the game this year. I've been playing DD since 2017. This yr definitely seems the most unrewarding as far as XP goes. I don't even mind the grind to 1 million XP or 1,150,000 for all 3 bosses - with the old XP rates this would've been achievable over a 12 week period. But this yr it just feels like a second job and I'm already burnt out - I normally make it to early / mid August before I stop playing (normally move to Madden). As others have said - I'll be lucky to make it to mid July this yr...but NCAA will get all of my time starting July 16th.
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@SaveFarris The Twitter poll was done voted on by the most hardcore players. You really think more than 14% of the casual player base has a one player from the boss pack? Get real, they probably couldn't even get one if the it was 2xp all week.
Not like it matters anyway, if the 14% of voters are whales that outspending the other 86% of players, SDS will cater to them— see Madden & NHL
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So double XP weekend helped a lot if peopleget there, I expect to see more of that to get people through the XP path.
I suspect this weekend program is going to yield a lot of free packs with S1 cards in them, this will not only help the 86% by getting free ones, but will lower prices.
I also wouldn't be surprised if the program yields some big XP too.
The only real complaint I can see when it's over will be all these S1 cards people won't have until season is over and will have to use WC slots to actually get to use them.
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@AfterShockGamer said in Saw these two posts on X:
@SaveFarris The Twitter poll was done voted on by the most hardcore players. You really think more than 14% of the casual player base has a one player from the boss pack? Get real, they probably couldn't even get one if the it was 2xp all week.
SDS doesn't need a twitter poll to get that information. They can go look at the ACTUAL data to see where everyone is.
Oh, and if that poll doesn't match reality? Congratulations! You've just given SDS reason to never listen to fan complaints again because they know fans are lying about their status.
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@SaveFarris
Bold of you to assume they listen to us to begin with! /s
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I'm just not sure about how reliable twitter polls are going to be. I could easily see people that are unhappy with the game and want the setup to be changed just lying and saying they haven't reached certain rewards in hope it changes things. Either way, as was mentioned above, SDS has the actual numbers so they know where people are at.
For the collection rewards boss packs, I wonder how many are in the same boat as me, where I could get them right now if I wanted to, but I am not locking in those season 1 cards for a season 1 reward. If the rewards were core I would be locking them in.
