Am I The Only One Bored With DD
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As far as the Show..
WBC is definitely carrying it. The miniseason is great for a pretty quick run through, and I rotate all the WBC cards when playing it. Most of them are now P3 for me (I think only a few pitchers are still p1), but the only p5 is Tejada.
As a Mets fan, New Threads miniseason was good too. I think I like the repeating rewards for it better than WBC, but I just like the WBC more because I can change teams throughout whereas new threads has a more limited pool. Also the generic GBL teams don't help. Give me a mini season with random MLB theme teams please SDS.
The last two weeks or so though, the cracks are showing. I liked last years April fools program, but having three things in a row that were exact copies of last year (Common Courtesy, Egg Hunt, Spotlight) was a bit disappointing.
I am, however, deeply concerned that the rest of the year will be bad. TA is used up. USA maps are used up. They will likely never do a huge drop like WBC mid season. If its just more of the same low effort programs and the cycle remains grind for packs and hope RNG blesses you its tough to see me still engaged for more than another month or so. Especially if stats are still terrible and the bugs dont get squished a little.
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Don't play the mode, so no opinion
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Are you interested in EQ Legends at all?
I had not heard about it but just looked it up and it does look interesting. Original EQ (which was my first MMO) was fun and I remember even at the time saying that I wish there was a more solo friendly version - Then I discovered an upcoming game called The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and that was what I was looking for.
Crimson Desert starts out really slowly. It is so big! I mainly focus on a few attacks and don't try and memorize everything. It's not for everyone though.
Sorry to everyone else for the off topic chatter.
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The content is barebones this year.
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Wbc mini seasons rinse repeat till tulo. Cap on players... way to go sds. So mini seasons and ranked.... but hey we will get new packs every 3 days or some [censored] just to not afford cause we are getting burnt out on mini seasons. But ya ignore us on your live streams when people give their opinion on the game we bought.
That only works if you get Judge and/or Ohtani in packs. Trust me, I have played a ton of mini seasons and still like 1.2 million from getting the N.L. done. I also checked WBC mini seasons and for some reason the 28 games is still locked. Will not let me select 7 games.
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This is exactly why I’m getting burned out on the game super fast this year. Doing this mini season run repeatedly for a few thousand stubs doesn’t get me any closer to Ohtani or judge in the grand scheme of things.
Ultimately this is going to make me just hop on to complete programs and then wait until mid season when the actual good cards start dropping and margins open up for flipping to where you can make more than 50 stubs per flip. Right now it’s just a lot of work for very little reward. Feels like a huge time sink.
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@DemIsE4_XBL the WBC mini season uses the real-life format, so you only play the four pool play games and the three single-elimination ones
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@DemIsE4_XBL the WBC mini season uses the real-life format, so you only play the four pool play games and the three single-elimination ones
Thanks! I did it when the game first came out. Must have forgot how to do it. I am old so I'll use that.
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This is exactly why I’m getting burned out on the game super fast this year. Doing this mini season run repeatedly for a few thousand stubs doesn’t get me any closer to Ohtani or judge in the grand scheme of things.
Ultimately this is going to make me just hop on to complete programs and then wait until mid season when the actual good cards start dropping and margins open up for flipping to where you can make more than 50 stubs per flip. Right now it’s just a lot of work for very little reward. Feels like a huge time sink.
Yes. I'll still play but extremely unrewarding. Without pulling Judge and/or Ohtani it would take an insane amount of runs to get LS done. I'm talking into the thousands.
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Yep and as soon as people start to rationalize that they will step away. I love baseball but the lack of tangible progress is pushing me away.
The best pull I’ve had all year was skenes. Otherwise I’ve pulled buxton, seager and vlad but otherwise none of the big guns. I’ve had to buy all the others and I’m still missing a ton. Including crochet, Chapman, judge, Witt, Ramirez, skubal, Raleigh, Linder, Soto, wheeler, marte, Ohtani and miller.
That’s 13 diamonds while opening a ton of earnable packs as I’ve completed all programs and am at 748K xp. I bought Henderson, Alonso, bellinger, fried, caminero, Alvarez, harder, brown, pena, Wilson, Rodriguez, Gilbert, woo, degrom, acuna, Harper, schwarber, turner, crow-Armstrong, Greene, Carroll, Tucker, freeman, Yamamoto, betts, snell, Glasnow, Diaz, and Tatis.
More than a little discouraging to put it lightly.
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I had no idea how deep the obsession was with live series for some people.
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I'm enjoying it so far, although I'm not getting the boss pack due to the fact of having no time to play being on night shifts at work
Me too (lack of time from work- fortunately not nights, though) I fell about 30k XP short, sadly
@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Am I The Only One Bored With DD:
I had no idea how deep the obsession was with live series for some people.
Honestly, as I've gotten older I've turned into more of a completionist gamer. Just something aesthetically fulfilling about seeing "100% complete".
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I'm throwing in the towel on DD. I've never been one for the big collections, so card caps and overpriced LS don't have as meaningful an impact on me as they do on others. For my style, I could always get the cards I wanted by playing the game; even this year, I hadn't had any issue getting enough stubs just from playing to buy the cards I wanted. Ranked lost luster for me with the further enfeebling of pitching and high scoring, but I figured I’d move to mostly off-line play. There were still plenty of cards in programs that I could grind for, but ultimately I just didn't feel like putting the time in and playing with cards I didn't want to play with to earn the cards I actually wanted.
I was bored. I thought I’d just play some Franchise, like the old days... but that wasn't a lot of fun, either. Granted, it played a bit better with lower ranked cards, but still far too easy to put the bat on the ball, the batted ball outcomes too repetitive, the physics not quite right, the fielders far too fast with arms like cannons... and I realized why I don't want to play DD anymore: sure, you can still get “rewards” by just playing the game, but I just don’t enjoy playing this game that much anymore.
I’d just heard about the F2P game Konami dropped a month or so ago, and tried it out. It’s bare bones, and has its own quirks, but it plays more like baseball. Admittedly, it doesn’t look as nice when the ball is put in play, but things generally progress realistically and at the right pace; a deep drive may hang in the air for a few seconds and fielders still can’t track it down, balls hook around the bag, fair, and curl into foul territory before rattling around in the corner. Home runs are rare enough to be special. Pitching matters, because making good contact is hard.
I liked it enough to order the NPB import version, and that arrives today, so I’m moving away from The Show this year. In April, which says something. And maybe people like the heavy emphasis on offense and home runs, in particular; if that’s you, this is probably a good game for you and I hope it brings you joy. If it’s not your bag, maybe that F2P game is the first salvo in what will ultimately be a US Konami release that will push both franchises to get better through healthy competition… and offer fans both a simulation and a slugfest.
But, yes; I think DD has gotten boring, and it’s more than a little sad for me.
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Honestly, as I've gotten older I've turned into more of a completionist gamer. Just something aesthetically fulfilling about seeing "100% complete".
I get that for sure, but this is something thats intended to take time. People are losing their minds they cant complete it in 1 month.
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Not about completing in a month it’s feeling like the grind isn’t making a dent when those 13 cards I listed go for about 2M stubs. So unless you pull them in packs it’s a steep hill for those of us that can’t flip all day at our jobs, sweat it out online, or spend a ton of money. Not saying they should be handouts just that the pull rates were better and the prices were semi reasonable. Lifting the 500K stub cap on Ohtani was a pure money grab move no matter how you spin it.
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I must admit, I opened the game today and am thoroughly underwhelmed by the XP Reward Path.
I am usually excited for it, especially in the early stages, but it feels super unrewarding now with so many single base packs as 'rewards' and less players than we used to get.
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Not about completing in a month it’s feeling like the grind isn’t making a dent when those 13 cards I listed go for about 2M stubs. So unless you pull them in packs it’s a steep hill for those of us that can’t flip all day at our jobs, sweat it out online, or spend a ton of money. Not saying they should be handouts just that the pull rates were better and the prices were semi reasonable. Lifting the 500K stub cap on Ohtani was a pure money grab move no matter how you spin it.
Hell, I'm just grateful when I open a pack that isn't an item and four common/bronzes. I'm to the point where I dread opening packs.
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Yep it’s expecting disappointment and getting it 99% of the time.
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@Dolenz_PSN Original EQ player here also. What an experience, was literally the only game I played for years. EQ2 was good but easier to get to raid level so it was pretty much just a raid simulator, but nothing compares to the experiences of EQ. Only game I've come close to in hours was Ark, but quit that last year as it just got too buggy on Xbox series S (it's really only viable on newest consoles or high end gaming comp).
On the OP topic, I've found my excitement for the game died with MtO. That turned into my favorite mode and I loved when it tied into the TA program. There's very little to grind for now, I'm way ahead on TA stuff than I think I should be, programs are done in like 10 min, and you can't hit 500k on the content so the exp program is really not even worth looking at.
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@TheBigPapa55_PSN VERY, lazy content drops, now I'm just logging in to see what dropped, and usually it's nothing significant or engaging. Never so early in the game have I not even wanted to play. Especially with the lack of extra cards for my Cards theme teams
But the game is super stale, they shadow banned me for a bit when I asked for a refund lol
