The most boring edition of DD yet?
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The content just isn’t as much fun as it used to be and even TA turned kinda weird. Oh you’re a fan? Heres all the rewards after about three games but now using anyone from this team is kinda hindering you from completing progress towards anything else.
Programs feel like battle passes where the challenge is about as hard as logging in every week with not a single actual challenge just chores.
Even if it was just conquest extreme or something in between immortals and rookie2Prime that also got included at the end of TA it would go along way. I finished a couple on accident that’s how short they are.
When they had good content the gameplay wasn’t great. It’s pretty good these days and the content has taken a hit. It’s a shame because of all the sports game Baseball teams are probably the most fun to build and make your own.
They’ll never get themes teams right, they’ll never get captains right. They’ll just keep throwing out moonshot events to start the year and talk about how everyone loves it when nobody does. No effort just copy pasta
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@yankblan_PSN VERY stale and boring, usually the start of the year is the best time for the game because of lack of all god teams and more strategy with team building (even though I usually just do Cards teams)
I have barely played this stale mess,
Same stale theme, 'duUh DuUh.Duh...dUh.DuH.dUh.DUh.dUH.duH..DUUH.Just a lazy half a$$ed mess, then has the nerve to be buggy and error prone.
Absolute thieves these clown devs..they recently shadow banned me for asking for a refund, they can do it again who cares! -
I like DD and thinks there's lots of content that's fun to play, especially Events.
My biggest issue is that there's not enough reason to use most of the rewards you get. I know you can build "theme teams" for fun, and I love constructing teams...but you need more reason to use the non-elite cards. I know that BR and Events give you a little of this, but I still have a tough time finding good uses for most of my binder.
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best DD since 21
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Yeah, the problem isn’t the direction they are headed. The problem is that the game seemingly isn’t headed in ANY direction. The only thing that they’ve really changed the last few years is the increased emphasis on more and more packs. Programs are always accompanied by packs that have better cards in them. The way they handle packs has also led to an inflated amount and difficulty needed to complete live series collections. The odds are low, but they are probably what they state. The problem is that they include low-level diamonds from the other series which lessens the likelihood of receiving live series diamonds. I’ve played this game for many years and I’ve completed live series quite a few times; the last 3 years I’ve pulled fewer and fewer live series diamonds. They are creating a situation where the game is getting very tedious and not rewarding enough. I’m sitting at 350k or so season XP after playing what seems like a whole lot relative to other seasons in other years. Not enough XP for playing games and I have very few live series diamonds after opening a lot of packs.
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SDS will never win here because we all want different things from the mode.
That said:
I feel the game has settled into the grind to get stubs to buy cards cycle that made last year's game dull. The whole concept of "grind 99" is gone at this point (granted its always been a pretty dumb slogan to begin with) and now its login for a couple hours every week, complete the week's content, and then grind for stubs to buy cards to complete collections.
And as others have alluded to, the stub grind is RNG dependent. So if you spend an hour and 15 doing a miniseason run and only get a 400 stub gold from your 10+1, it feels like you wasted time. There are no medium, let along long, term guide for cards directly outside of the lone TA drop.
And I still don't understand why people like innings at all. One of the most boring battle passes I have ever seen.
I want more interesting (interesting to me, some would say tedious) grinds again, but that makes me no longer the target audience for this mode which sucks for me but is good for others.
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WBC has 100% carried so far this year. I will stand by this till I decide to put away the ps5 for good one day mlb has not been casual since pre Fortnite. Fortnite ruined video games as we know it and made them all about sweating and grinding things out. Which post Fortnite has made every gaming community very toxic just my opinion but mlb was much better in the earlier titles like the show 18 19 for example. or if u wanna go back even further before dd was even a thing like for example my first shows as a kid 08/09/10 those shows where rly fun no grinding at all. Just casually pick up my controller or at the time psp and just sit on the couch on my weekends home from school and just do a franchise or homerun derby what I would give to go back to that . Simple times.
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DD is unquestionably the casual ultimate team mode.
Much less grinding, exponentially less fomo, less forced difficulty offline, etc
Toxicity in gaming is everywhere. MMORPG communities are pretty tame these days (especially non WoW ones) compared to gaming in general. Mostly because there hasnt been a good MMORPG released in over a decade. Check out the gacha communities if you want to see some absurd toxicity
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@Teak2112_MLBTS as somebody who plays all ultimate team mode dd is by far the most casual I can agree with that.
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I’ve completely givin up on 2k don’t think madden will be on the agenda this year both way to big of money grabs and toxic
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SDS will never win here because we all want different things from the mode.
That said:
I feel the game has settled into the grind to get stubs to buy cards cycle that made last year's game dull. The whole concept of "grind 99" is gone at this point (granted its always been a pretty dumb slogan to begin with) and now its login for a couple hours every week, complete the week's content, and then grind for stubs to buy cards to complete collections.
And as others have alluded to, the stub grind is RNG dependent. So if you spend an hour and 15 doing a miniseason run and only get a 400 stub gold from your 10+1, it feels like you wasted time. There are no medium, let along long, term guide for cards directly outside of the lone TA drop.
And I still don't understand why people like innings at all. One of the most boring battle passes I have ever seen.
I want more interesting (interesting to me, some would say tedious) grinds again, but that makes me no longer the target audience for this mode which sucks for me but is good for others.
Last 13 mini seasons runs I have got 3 diamonds totaling 26k and that is pulling PCA on my 13th run. I'll keep playing because I love baseball but as far as rewarding, this game is not. After selling pretty much everything I can and doing everything I can I finally finished A.L. Still need like almost every diamond on N.L. which is what 1.2 million (haven't done the actual math but it is a lot). At the rate of my last 13 mini seasons runs I would need to do about (1.2 million/30k for diamonds, golds, etc/13 runs) 3,076 runs if my math is correct. That is beyond ridiculous. I have also done every TA (not #1 fan) to 100%. Maybe a math guy can tell me if that is correct. This pretty much proves my statement that if you don't spend money, get extremely lucky pack pulls, flip or can do 10 win br runs, it is extremely difficult to do the collections. Maybe DQ is the best mode with my pack pulls but I can't stand playing a mode for what 2 hours and maybe getting nothing.
As far as events, I would like to see some creativity. Like all silver, gold, live series only, etc.
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Its supposed to be extremely difficult to do live series, I think people are a bit too obsessed with finishing it in April or May.
SDS does need to do a better job to ensure Tulo is still a top card by the end of August though. Which we all know wont happen since they dont juice these cards like they do later 99s
I guess this highlights that the Live Series collection is itself stale, but its also one of the key identities of the mode and probably 50-75% of SDS's revenue for the mode
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@cusejuice315_PSN I agree with you. The mods were a great idea!! It’s a great way to make live series cards relevant until July 4 at least. That’s usually when they start dropping the all star cards.
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Your math seems a little off
1,200,000/30,000 =40 runs
Unless I misunderstand your numbers
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Honestly the most hours I spent on a season of MLB the Show was when they had a large variety of missions for Team Affinity, and you could play March to October to grind points for TA. I think I played every franchise in MtO that season, it was so fun trying to win with underdogs, and play a franchise without having to spend a billion hours on it like Franchise mode. Last year TA took a huge step back and this year it seems even thinner in content. When you have crappy programs like the Egg Hunt this year or stretches of lack of programs it's nice to have a monster grind to fall back on like TA used to be. I don't play online, the one game I tried it last season I lost like 20 to 0 the dude hit everything no matter where I pitched. I'm just bored with this one already, no MtO, TA feels like I'll have it complete in a month, Egg Hunt is down to buying extremely inflated Yepez or Puk to complete, everything else is done. I hate to say it as a long time MLB the Show "subscriber" this may be my last year.
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Your math seems a little off
1,200,000/30,000 =40 runs
Unless I misunderstand your numbers
That would be if I was getting 30,000 stubs per run which over the last 13 runs I am probably around just over 2k per run. Last 13 runs have been absolutely brutal and making me question my life decision on continuing to do them. I keep saying next one but the next one hasn't happened.
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Its supposed to be extremely difficult to do live series, I think people are a bit too obsessed with finishing it in April or May.
SDS does need to do a better job to ensure Tulo is still a top card by the end of August though. Which we all know wont happen since they dont juice these cards like they do later 99s
I guess this highlights that the Live Series collection is itself stale, but its also one of the key identities of the mode and probably 50-75% of SDS's revenue for the mode
I think my point is you need a lot of luck too (or flipping, spending money, 10 win br runs). Just playing the game obviously doesn't do it. Been saying this for a while. At this point I think I would be better off shifting from LS to the other collections unless I pull a Judge or Ohtani. I would have the other collections done if I wouldn't have done the A.L. LS. The N.L. without pulling one of those 2 will just take entirely too long and feel like I haven't accomplished anything. That's my $.02 especially having done all the TA's which limits the packs I get.
At my current mini season pace, I would have to do like 40 runs just to get a Soto. Highly unmotivating and feels very unrewarding.
