Pipeline past program
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This new content is amazing but there are some serious flaws here. My first concern is that this program feels regressive. Having just had the moonshot program as well as the color storm. This feels like a downgrade. The majority of the pipeline cards besides the ones hidden behind pay walls are unusable. A lot of people wanted MLB the show 25 to have a power creep while I’m not in favor of it. I do support it but being in June and still getting crappy 88 overalls is a bit concerning with the All-Star break next month. SDS releases these crappy cards, but boost the overall by giving them high durability and high discipline. It is a really shady tactic to try to get people to buy packs with real money. That same reason destroyed the call of duty franchise and many more.
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I get some of the complaining on some gameplay elements line hitting and fielding. Never got the complaint about unusable cards though. Are you talking about online only? Even then there are people who can use these “unusable” cards.
If you’re also talking about vs cpu modes, not even close. Plenty of us who do team builds can use these cards.
It seems people wanted them to give us 99s day one AND for them never to expire. Can’t have it both ways it seems and not everyone deserves a 99
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One thing that works against the perception of these cards is that the moonshot cards were more offensive at the expense of their defense. These cards are more well rounded.
Will I personally take a team of these cards and run through a conquest map or two? Absolutely. Well I take them online? Well I use Topps Now regularly online so why not?
I admit that I am underwhelmed with some of the choices here. Did we need Mitch Keller to be in this program? Didn't we get a mid tier Keller prospect card last year? But there are a few of these I am looking forward to using, even the 88s.
One thing I need to call out is that this program's missions are a massive improvement to others we have seen. No program should ever release without a repeatable mission and I dont know why they have gotten away from it so often.
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@cjhanz84_PSN No one here is asking for a bunch of day 1 99’s. People are just wondering why we’re getting 30 87/88’s a week after we got 30 91/92’s with captain boosts. It does seem regressive.
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The one good thing I can say with this program is they did with Adel and Moncada give you a budget Candelerio and Buxton for people that don’t want to spend the crazy stubs on the moonshot cards.
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@Cam8w_MLBTS said in Pipeline past program:
The majority of the pipeline cards besides the ones hidden behind pay walls are unusable.
Your Focus is too narrow. Some people it seems only want to improve their ranked season team.
But there are plenty of others who can use these cards to help them complete Team or Position Specific stat or PXP grinds. There are some people (I am one of them) that play almost entirely offline with their favorite team's players so new diamonds for their theme team is usually going to be a welcome addition.
I do grow tired of the tendency of online players to dismiss any content drop as useless if it does not specifically upgrade their team in some way.
