20 Card Max
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So, yeah, the market is, if anything, worse than last year despite the blatant lies about investing being the problem.
Who could have possibly seen that coming? Oh, yeah, anyone with any experience with video game developer heel turns...
Trust is easy to break but virtually impossible to regain, SDS.
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@ANF_GOLD99_PSN It's a poorly programmed game where the players double as the beta testers.
The people playing the game understand the underlying mechanics of MLB The Show better than some of the people programming it.
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Whats worse is i started playing back in 2018..i got into it because mlb the show was nothing like madden or fifa or nba2k
I fell in love with baseball again.
Grew up during the sosa/bonds era.Became a fan of the orioles watch them growing.
Now 2026.
Mlb the show is worse than madden and fifa and nba2k combined.
From 2018-2022 you could play the game 1000000% for free literally no money spent.
I completed live series and other collections within the 1st month easy no money little effort, i just grinded moments, conquest maps(repeating ones) and got rewards for ranked seasons while improving my team.
From 2018-2022 we didn't have no sale cards. Anything and everything was saleable or flippable.
Cards wasn't capped at a set market value example 84s83s82s81s80s79s78s77s76s75s74s73s72s71s70s69s68s67s66s65s64s
All cards was directly affected by supply and demand it was easier to earn stubs. Yeah collectively the 2018-2022 collections was more expensive as a whole but our means to earn stubs from literally just playing the game was unlimited.
Programs didn't have soft or hard caps
Now Majority of collections now are locked behind limited packs..
5 live series cards are worth more than all other live series cards combined.
Packs are hard to come by via playing the game especially the packs that have other non live series cards.
So its best to sell those to get as much stubs as possible to complete the live series collections for the 99s which 1 or 2 of em will be viable by games end but by the time you can complete the collections now they'll have little to no value.
I left madden and nba for mlb the show.
2018-2022 was peak and we'll never get that again because the community let them nickle n dime us started in 2023 and has only gotten worse year by year.
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@Grungypunk_MLBTS
I got every single card last year and 4 million extra stubs completely no money spent. All you have to do to make stubs is play the game -
It's definitely not as easy this year with flipping being limited. The 20 card rule keeps prices in a range and doesn't allow big market swings. I'm sure this was SDS goal as they want to be the stub source instead of just flipping or working the market.
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Now 2026.
Mlb the show is worse than madden and fifa and nba2k combined.
Go get the event Dr J and AK 47 in 2k26 right now then, should only cost 5k or so.
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20 is such a low limit. If they HAVE to impose a limit, they need to raise it.
What happens if I have 20 of the same player and then get another of that player in a pack?
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@TheRupster12_XBL They dont want to hear that.
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20 is such a low limit. If they HAVE to impose a limit, they need to raise it.
What happens if I have 20 of the same player and then get another of that player in a pack?
Stacks. You just cant PURCHASE more than 20 at once.
Also, you can buy 20 of a player, sell all 20, and the buy 20 again.
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@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN
Then get restricted from using app -
@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN
Then get restricted from using appI havent
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@Grungypunk_MLBTS you obviously haven’t played madden of fifa in a while. Madden gameplay alone makes that game tight to stick with. Mut especially this year is just copy and paste. They have released the same players over and over just this year. FIFA is just people spamming the same thing over and over. Those packs are just fodder. 2k my team might be the 4th best of the big 5. No one is playing 2k for my team. Their big seller is my player. But if you think those are better than the show just leave and play those. There will never be a game that’s enough cuz people will inevitably ask for more
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Whats worse is i started playing back in 2018..i got into it because mlb the show was nothing like madden or fifa or nba2k
I fell in love with baseball again.
Grew up during the sosa/bonds era.Became a fan of the orioles watch them growing.
Now 2026.
Mlb the show is worse than madden and fifa and nba2k combined.
From 2018-2022 you could play the game 1000000% for free literally no money spent.
I completed live series and other collections within the 1st month easy no money little effort, i just grinded moments, conquest maps(repeating ones) and got rewards for ranked seasons while improving my team.
From 2018-2022 we didn't have no sale cards. Anything and everything was saleable or flippable.
Cards wasn't capped at a set market value example 84s83s82s81s80s79s78s77s76s75s74s73s72s71s70s69s68s67s66s65s64s
All cards was directly affected by supply and demand it was easier to earn stubs. Yeah collectively the 2018-2022 collections was more expensive as a whole but our means to earn stubs from literally just playing the game was unlimited.
Programs didn't have soft or hard caps
Now Majority of collections now are locked behind limited packs..
5 live series cards are worth more than all other live series cards combined.
Packs are hard to come by via playing the game especially the packs that have other non live series cards.
So its best to sell those to get as much stubs as possible to complete the live series collections for the 99s which 1 or 2 of em will be viable by games end but by the time you can complete the collections now they'll have little to no value.
I left madden and nba for mlb the show.
2018-2022 was peak and we'll never get that again because the community let them nickle n dime us started in 2023 and has only gotten worse year by year.
I'll have to agree to disagree with you. While last year gameplay suffered, I completed LS collection and I stopped playing only being 2 cards shy of Josh Donaldson and having 3.5 million stubs im the till and every othed collection completed., alll NMS.
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20 is such a low limit. If they HAVE to impose a limit, they need to raise it.
What happens if I have 20 of the same player and then get another of that player in a pack?
Stacks. You just cant PURCHASE more than 20 at once.
Also, you can buy 20 of a player, sell all 20, and the buy 20 again.
ohhhhhh! That clears it up, thanks lol. Would be ridiculous if they just yoinked a 21st player into the void
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@ApolloZ_99_MLBTS I'm playing MUT and CUT instead of MLB The Show right now. They provide better value, with EA actually showing a bit more respect for customers over the past calendar year. That's part of why it's so frustrating to watch SDS trun to the Dark Side this season. They already weren't improving the game each year, but at least they hadn't been greedy until now. With MLB26, they are, and they've even overcorrected on it to boot.
I'm in MLB The Show Discords, and the players are just miserable. It's no way to build a fan base or community, but SDS must learn that the hard way. Incompetence and greed have consequences.
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@TheRupster12_XBL i played since 2018.
Its noticeable they amount of effort you have to put in has increased exponentially.
I have completed collections since 2018.
With ease little effort at all.
In 2026.
20 card limit.
No sale cards.
5 live series cards take up all of the value.
Too many packs that you have to spend money to obtain other collections.Your baseing your ability to collect every soling on random generated numbers and entirely luck based.
From 2018-2022
I earned more stubs
Card flipping from 2018-2022 was a trillion times easierCard flipping in 2026 most cards your lucky to flip for 200 stubs
All golds at 83 are set at a set value
Cards used to not have set values limited based on overall thats a fact.
From 2018-2022 we earned more packs from conquest and programs and rank.
The only time cards was gate kept was the event rewards and ranked world series was limiting to those that won/was good. Now its easier to get world series rewards.
But overall its harder to complete collections because of restrictions and limitations sds has put on the market.
You are literally defending a company robbing its player base.
I literally played madden from 2005-2017 and quit because mut was extremely monetization to the point you had to spend money or play 24/7 literally.
I went to mlb the show i enjoyed it because diamond dynasty was extremely easy to get cards and good ones very quickly and easy. Flipping cards was easy i could sell everything i average 1-2 million extra stub.
Literally go look at 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and notice what changes they have made to market, how cards are obtained, how many more cards are locked behind packs that are purchased(not everyone pulls the best card)
Its objectively a fact sds has literally made changes on how diamond dynasty functions whether how much stubs you can earn. Limitations on market or how things are obtain.
Go look.
Literally its too subtle year to year to notice
But from a person that has only play video games and does literally nothing else with their lives.
Im telling you sds is doing this on purpose.
They want more money from stubs sales.
And if they keep getting greedy stub sales will have a peak but eventually people will buy less stubs because of how little they get in return.
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@ApolloZ_99_MLBTS i played madden from 2005-2017.
I got in mlb the show because of how easy to get all cards from 2018-2022 was.
Sds has in fact objectively blatantly made subtle changes to how stubs are obtained, adding no sale cards(,can get duplicates) , limiting mass sales for mass flipping/ gambling on roster updates.Cards used to not be set at a set value they changed it to where card 83 would by default have a set value.
Cards values used to be set by the players supply and demand.
Sds is manipulating the market with subtle changes over the past 5 years.
Like i don't have a life i only play video games.
I'm telling you from 2018-2022 completing collection and earning stubs was so easy.
It has gotten progressively harder over the last 5 years.
Sds has made changes to diamond dynasty and the market every year for the last several years.
Not a coincidence that they made those changes and it harder to earn stubs abd completing collections
I have done no money spent since 2018.
2018 millions of extra stubs
2019 millions of extra stubs
2020 millions of extra stubs
2021 millions of extra stubs
2022 millions of extra stubsBut 2023 less
2024 even less
2025 even less
2026 cant even break 100k stubs and im 2 million away from completing the live series collection (i own majority of the collection)I once completed the live series in like 2 weeks because i got lucky and pulled both ohtani and judge.
Thats entirely luck and has nothing to do with how easy it is to flip cards or get stubs from playing the game or get rewards that i can sell.
I have more cards i cant sell than i do cards i can sell.
That wasn't the case 8 years ago
Which btw nms is just a way of coercion to get the masses to think its possible to do nonchalantly.
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2021 they added no sale cards(low amount)
Each year since they've added more items that cant be sold which effects the market and things people can't sell to then use to buy orher stuff.
2022/2023 they made the change where sell now values and was restricted for overalls 84-64(the commons)
A 83 card no one has selling for the same as a 83 overall everyone has is not how supply and demand works. Thats blatant market manipulation by sds.
Sds has made 84-40 worthless.
And made high overall diamonds cards that are rarer to obtain means younhave to open even more packs then you used to 8 years ago because i could sell 4 83s for 5k each and then get a low end diamond
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