So if you're awful at showdowns, any hope of ever getting Rolen, Williams, etc.?
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@SaveFarris_PSN Really??? The only way for me to get Beltran and Hodges is spend money at this point. Guess I may get them by September. Only way to get Ted is spend money. I'm sure not getting enough stubs playing to buy him. If the only way you can acquire is something is by spending more money on stubs isn't that a paywall? I can't access any of these people without the stubs or the .000001% chance I pull some of them from a pack. Hell, you can put Santana, Posada, Seager, Clemens, Acuna, Yordan and all the other chase cards, spotlight and topps cards in here too. This model absolutely sucks and I'm pretty sure the majority agrees with me.
Love the fanboys. So clueless on how trash this game is for the majority of players. Before you say don't play I'll leave you with these:
Have more hours in PGA Tour 2k25 than this game which would not be the case if the majority of things were behind PAYWALLS
I love baseball and unfortunately this is really the only game in town
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@DemIsE4_XBL ou should invest in high speed internet. I did and my H2H experience improved tenfold.
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I couldn't give a rat's [censored] about getting the live series rewards before the all star break. Summer packs have already started making stubs more common with the base round going for 4.5k. They are increasing the mount of spotlight packs. Things typically become more player friendly around the all star break and we are already seeing this
I personally hate that there are more pack cards than programs cards and we have weekly chase cards (and even packs now have their own chase cards), its a far cry from just 2 years ago, which was a far cry from 2 years prior.
But its factually incorrect to say any single card in this game is behind a paywall. I would rather punch myself in the balls than grind DQ for stubs, but the option exists and plenty of NMS have Williams (and if you have Williams you almost certainly have Rolen and Beltran)
2K on the other hand, factually paywalls cards. The Show does not. yet. Almost certainly by 2027 though if the current trajectory holds.
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@DemIsE4_XBL said in So if you're awful at showdowns, any hope of ever getting Rolen, Williams, etc.?:
The only way for me to get Beltran and Hodges is spend money at this point.
That's not the only way. It's the easiest way. It's the quickest way. But it's not the only way.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS you don’t even need Beltran to get Teddy!
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Thanks all for the advice. For the record, I'm not complaining about the difficulty of showdowns. Just admitting my difficulty of achieving them, both this season and historically. Although, I have done pretty well in the mini showdowns in the Diamond Quests.
I honestly haven't tried the Spring Breakout one yet because of the initial phase where you had to beat it four times to complete the collection. I'll definitely try it if you only need to do it twice.
And I'll give the Jackie Robinson more shots. I feel like if I could win one of those last two minis, I'd have a good chance in the final.
I was mainly just wondering if y'all thought another Negro Leagues storyline would be coming also to help complete that collection. I'm guessing it will at some point, but hopefully I'll have beaten the showdown by then. -
Storylines is done for the year, but all the players will need 99s at some point. The question is whether they'll count towards the collection.
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@SaveFarris_PSN Sure if you really want to count doing DQ over and over again.
I will then counter with this. This is a mode where getting the cards that you can sell is not guaranteed unless you can get the GOAT %'s up to 100 and win on GOAT. You have people that can't complete showdowns or struggle with them yet they are supposed to win on GOAT difficulty? Doesn't this boil down to the elite argument I raised as one of the 4 ways to get these collections done?
I have some more hours on PGA Tour 2k25 than I do on MLB The Show 25. PGA Tour is a 2k game. I feel like my time in PGA Tour has been FAR more rewarding than my time in The Show. I have 5 different golfers over 85 rating including my main one at 99. I was able to upgrade my equipment as soon as it was available due to the VC I had earned by playing. I still have over 20k VC in that game despite buying a ton of cosmetics and spending a ton of VC on trying to get my swing right. I have had to buy countless upgrades to test my swing to see what is comfortable for me (even though I still struggle with the EVO swing at times). Point being playing the game has allowed me to do that. I didn't have to grind a mode where RNG was a huge factor on whether or not I got rewarded.
I'm not mad, it is what it is at this point but this game is by far the least rewarding Show I have played. You can't say I want things easy when I have basically every single team affinity to at least 315k. I'm pretty sure I have all the all star vouchers and almost, if not all, of the finest vouchers.
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I have every DQ card released so far, and every game I've played all year was on Rookie.
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@SaveFarris_PSN So what you're saying is you have no rebuttal? Getting the DQ cards and having to do them countless times to make stubs for collections (especially if you can't beat the cpu on GOAT) are drastically different things. No idea what the % is for say all star but say it's 40% after you've done the entire map. This depending on how many missions you can win also. There is a greater chance every run for you not getting the reward. Saying you can get collections if you do DQ hundreds of times isn't really a viable option for most people imo.
I bet it took you a while to even get those 2 cards in DQ on rookie.
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"having to do them countless times".
That statement has no basis in reality.
I bet it took you a while to even get those 2 cards in DQ on rookie.
First time.
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Well I finally got Tatis and Marte so I just need Ohtani for collections. So the rare cases I get a diamond I only need to pull 183 diamonds at 3k to get Ohtani. smh. Or I could do the DQ and win on goat 36 times pending I both win and get the pull.
I did do the prime DQ once and have to say what a colossal waste of time that is. Of course I pulled one of the worst diamonds you can get (Mazeroski) for a whole 5k. I could do the other DQ's and likely get 15k for the win and the pull.
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The difference with prime DQ is you get a lot of packs + silvers (same live series diamond rate is a pack) instead of bronze cards
Plus the showdowns, while tedious, should have a higher success chance than moments for most people
I would assume its two hours to get through one of these which really makes me question why we cant get a 10 team repeatable conquest for deluxe packs. It would be a worse farming option than DQ, so why not put it in?
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@Teak2112_MLBTS When you never pull anything in packs, the packs are useless. In the rare instance I do pull a diamond it is either base or 3k. I am sitting on a bunch of cards that I could sell but they would only give me probably 200k stubs and put me even further behind for Ted and still no where close to Ohtani.
My team name is Need to sell kidney for Ohtani. Pretty fitting.
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@mietha_MLBTS This is exactly why everyone card should be sellable.
