Things I'd like to see 2026
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@LIONED-33_XBL
You don't need Dolenz, I can tell you for a fact that you are way off, my goodness lol. Other than that, I agree with everything, especially the POTM and Topps Now statements. -
@TheBigPapa55_PSN Well with 3 kids in sports and grinding when they go to bed it seems like alot. Forgive me...:( lol
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As someone who is offline preferred (in fact, most of the time I find online flat out unfun unless its an equal matchup):
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Biggest issue this year for me was TA was a big miss. I am more forgiving of SDS for this because they tried something new, but frankly i thought it sucked.
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Too much grind stubs to buy cards. I don't like online (mostly), and int he past it wasn't a huge problem buying those cards with stubs. But now I had the hundreds of pack cards as well as DQ cards competing for my stubs. And the two modes i actually enjoy didnt have sellable
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And with so many modes, many of which different players find unfun, I think its really time for The Show to consider making mode exclusivity a limited time thing. Cards should be limited to certain places when they are fresh, but rotate to alternative (non stubs) ways of
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Make innings drops exciting. With sets ans seasons there was content overload with these drops, with innings it was just a regular friday, but with WC for those that enjoy it
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Programs should be 10 cards or more, in most cases (player specific is fine). No excuse for rivalry weekend with...2 cards
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9 inning offline mode that acts like a franchise where I can play on legend or hall of fame and get adequate rewards and packs for doing so.
Online is too much cheesy garbage humans plus bad connections where I gotta be in the right mood to put myself thru that.
Moments are kind've busy work as is show down. 3 inning modes to much random rng happens.
Id like a franchise where I can consistently upgrade my dd team and use in franchise mode against cpu on high challenge difficulties
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Soo they said they were adding DD game modes and I would absolutely love if they could cook up some sort of Story mode that you can play through with your DD team. I dont know exactly but it would be a fun game mode where you wouldn't have to play against real people.
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@ref479ode_PSN said in Things I'd like to see 2026:
9 inning offline mode that acts like a franchise where I can play on legend or hall of fame and get adequate rewards and packs for doing so.
Online is too much cheesy garbage humans plus bad connections where I gotta be in the right mood to put myself thru that.
Moments are kind've busy work as is show down. 3 inning modes to much random rng happens.
Id like a franchise where I can consistently upgrade my dd team and use in franchise mode against cpu on high challenge difficulties
What you describe sounds much more like a mode that encourages people to play on higher difficulties, as opposed to DQ which can punish people for doing it.
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My number one is: make all modes play the same for similar levels. So, DQ, Showdown, Vs CPU, Moments (etc) all play the same on Veteran ( for example). No slider nonsense whatsoever. If they want a mode to be tougher, put higher rated cards in for the opponent.
So tired of Showdown ( in particular) with a bunch of Live Series players acting like Hall of Famers/Gold Glovers!!
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@TheBigPapa55_PSN said in Things I'd like to see 2026:
@LIONED-33_XBL
You don't need Dolenz, I can tell you for a fact that you are way off, my goodness lol. Other than that, I agree with everything, especially the POTM and Topps Now statements.Everybody needs Dolenz (sorry I could not resist
)Here are the exact numbers.
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We are actually really close to 2024's numbers and may even surpass it. We would need just 22 more cards released to tie last years total number of cards. Although we probably won't equal the number of 99s from last year, although we will inch closer with Retro Finest coming up.
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Obviously we are not close to the 2023's numbers
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Lot's more cards than 2021 or 2022 but fewer golds than those years
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Strangely the of number Diamonds dropped between 2023 and 2024 by roughly 460 cards but there were actually 41 more 99s in 2024
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The number of Silvers is scarily consistent in all 4 years.
| Tier | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total | | ------------------- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | --------- | | Diamond | 876 | 1013 | 1935 | 1472 | 1405 | 6701 | | Diamond (99) | 193 | 274 | 494 | 535 | 464 | 1960 | | Diamond (95–98) | 282 | 279 | 859 | 325 | 288 | 2033 | | Diamond (90–94) | 179 | 276 | 428 | 314 | 285 | 1482 | | Diamond (85–89) | 222 | 184 | 154 | 298 | 368 | 1226 | | Gold | 255 | 242 | 205 | 207 | 239 | 1148 | | Silver | 280 | 270 | 278 | 285 | 280 | 1393 | | Bronze | 772 | 916 | 821 | 844 | 822 | 4175 | | Common | 932 | 711 | 862 | 828 | 868 | 4201 | | **Total** | 3115 | 3152 | 4101 | 3636 | 3614 | 17618 | -
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2023 had the right spread in my view, but of course those 95s-98s were not used by many with the 99s always being around.
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I’d love to see Nomar Garciaparra/Troy Tulowitzki in the game
