Mini seasons in August
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@Weshill627_PSN said in Mini seasons in August:
Yeah mini season is so stale. Ive won 16 games & completed all the missions, and I don't wanna finish it but because they refuse to allow us to buy the card I need Santana to get the collection finished. It is a terrible game mode & I hope it's adjusted in 26 to being optional or removed.
I don’t think it needs to be removed, maybe add a button to simulate games in the calendar, make it more themed oriented and make rewards sellable for people that really like it, like @GoozeFn_PSN does.
For some of us mini seasons is just a means to an end, for others it’s a mode where they can grind and get rewards while doing something they like, so we can’t think radically like this.
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@iBonafideScrub__PSN I’d love to see the rewards sellable. I think we can all agree on that.
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@GoozeFn_PSN said in Mini seasons in August:
@iBonafideScrub__PSN I’d love to see the rewards sellable. I think we can all agree on that.
Yes, I can actually say that when they put effort and think about mini seasons it’s a fun mode, but thy have gotten lazy since they launched MS, they can do a latin america mini season, east coast vs west coast vs USA central teams only and you select which side you’re on before setting your lineup, teams with rivalries only, etc.
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I started a mini season today. Putting my Cardinals theme team to the test.
Quit after the game. Playing on veteran I only got two hits the first game but one was a HR so I won. I lost the second game in extra innings when I was forced to bring in a bad reliever and Gil Hodges an opposite field blooper just inside the line.
Meanwhile, at the plate, I just experienced more of what I had been experience all year while facing the better pitchers on these teams. If I get decent velocity then the launch angle is high. If I get a decent launch angle the exit velocity is reduced and the ball is ran down by the fielders (or hit right at them).
Maybe I was just having an off day.
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@Weshill627_PSN said in Mini seasons in August:
Remember mlb 20, we had to play like 50 3 inning games to get 99 babe Ruth? That is an example of how im tired of 3 inning cpu games.
The All Timer program, that was fun.
Playing the best possible lineups for every team, it was a grind but a fun challenging grind.
Signature Greg Maddux was the MVP for me during that.
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@rubicante23_PSN said in Mini seasons in August:
@BJDUBBYAH_PSN yeah, I don't know why people hate on the grind. The grind is the whole point of a trading card collecting game.
Do you want everybody to just have all the cards? The grind is one of the best gatekeeping methods - it rewards skill (because you can grind a lot quicker if you're good), but it doesnt lock you out if youre not super skilled. It also doesn't make you spend money.
They don't want to grind offline though they want to play competitively online.
Let's say their skilled / good enough to finish a mini season on the first try. That's a minimum 24 games (18 reg season wins to clinch postseason berth + 6 postseason wins) to get one card---which may not even be a card that they want but is required for a collection---. For a skilled player or someone who doesn't play simply to relax on rookie mode, that's 6-8 hours of brain rot. Then they have to readjust to online play (e.g. timing, latencies).
Some people want to save money. Others want to save time.
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I love mini seasons, but cards should be sellable, so those who do not enjoy mini seasons can have access to the cards, and those who do enjoy mini seasons, can continue to make stubs on it.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Mini seasons in August:
Maybe I was just having an off day.
In my last MS game, I went 10 innings, finally winning 5-2. I was making decent contact, but almost every flyball I hit died. I don't think I've ever had a 3 inning game go 10 innings. Weird.
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@xRatedGProdigyx_PSN exactly
!!!! Im an online player i dont want anything to do with having to play the cpu for any extended amount of time. Because then I go back to online and lose all my timing i worked so hard to get. If you want to get better at ranked and online. You cannot consistently play vs the cpu. Its a completely different experience. Those cards in mini seasons need to be sell able. Thats not asking for anything to be free. Or given to us. Us online players have way more stress than you easy going cpu players. -
It’s because the CPU pitching is an absolute joke this year. The programming is to make them nibble on and just off the edges non stop. Common and bronze pitchers shouldn’t be able to do that repeatedly and yet they do in this game just to make it more challenging?
This is made worse ten fold in moments that require an XBH when they refuse to give you a hittable pitch, throw 4 straight balls, or just outright plunk the hitter.
