It feels like diamond dynasty is dying
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It speaks volumes the state of this game/company is currently in when you have a complete monopoly on the market, and still hardly anyone wants to play said product.
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I agree, such a shame.
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It speaks volumes the state of this game/company is currently in when you have a complete monopoly on the market, and still hardly anyone wants to play said product.
What's worse is these guys don't even have a monopoly. EA does with the NFL; these guys are just lucky. No other company sees the value in acquiring the rights to an MLB license. 2K Sports had a year on their contract and simply gave up back in 2014. If that doesn't tell you how these companies perceive baseball and video game baseball in general, hopefully Konami, of all companies, will step up and give us a decent product. It's pretty sad when I have to say that.
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@TripleH-4481_PSN I was hesitant on getting this years game after playing the previous 6 years. I ended up caving just due to boredom during the time this game drops in March.
These threads have been popping up lately, I felt the same way for a couple weeks.
This is the first year I’ve lost interest and stopped playing as early as April.
Mid April I got burnt out playing mini seasons over and over.
Weekend Classic was mostly the final straw. I was placed in the wrong division and started my leaderboard with a negative score.
My final straw was the Miggy Collection and how pointless the endless grind for collections is.
Last years game was fun because it had new modes:
- DQ was a blast to grind and fun way to achieve collections.
- collection rewards (Roger, Beltran) and new legends (manny, Ted) were fire
- weekend classic brought good rewards to ranked.
This year:
- DQ has been castrated
- collection rewards are MID at best, and a waste of stubs at worst.
- weekend classic is still broken and unplayable with this years pitching.
The show ‘26 has 0 redeemable qualities. The only slight positive is parallels mods but even those can’t fix the gameplay.
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I hear ya and I get it. I’ve played DD since 2020 and the show itself since the original back in 2006 and this is really bad. Losing interest at warp speed. What a disaster on every level this game has been.
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Im with you on content lacking. Its hard to blame SDS for the cheating epidemic - no game is handling that well now, no matter how big their budget is. And if they ever start really trying to handle it, theyre going to make lots of errors that may be just as bad as not handling it.
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Ultimate team modes are dying because they really can’t do anything new, you’re just grinding to get cards, and then you get a good team, then the season ends and the next one happens. Content is either good bad to people personally depending on if there is a card you want or if it’s card you don’t. Today, you could log in and if you want the headliner it’s an okay day, if you have no interest, then it’s wait until the next drop.
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Its crazy how much the game was pushing things out in 2023. Content every tuesday, wednesday, and Friday. The smallest program of the year was bigger than the Jackie program that they were gushing over.
I thought 2024 was bad, but this stretch we are in now is brutal.
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@jcassaro44_PSN I agree with this generally. Problem is in this game’s case they’re actually rolling back on content (with the major exception of the WBC drop that carried the game’s first month and yes, was much bigger than 23’s) this year.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS I enjoyed 23.
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@jcassaro44_PSN I agree with this generally. Problem is in this game’s case they’re actually rolling back on content (with the major exception of the WBC drop that carried the game’s first month and yes, was much bigger than 23’s) this year.
We ended up with 31 more WBC cards this year, and the WBC mini season is..well its profitable but I love playing Mexico with Brazil uniforms while having stats from who knows where resulting in a win that doesnt reward me with a win. ANd by me I mean of course the Baltimore Orioles.
Snark aside, I was praising the content through New Threads. But boy have they fallen off a cliff.
I think they replaced all the missing content with bugs instead.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS Launch content was solid. It’s been a complete disaster since.
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Id imagine their understanding is that boredom is a massive mover of stub sales and pack openings....years ago packs became content and we are now left with that....buy packs if you're bored...never know might hit a big one...lol
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Id imagine their understanding is that boredom is a massive mover of stub sales and pack openings....
It is? For me it's going to play other games.
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If they start giving a lot of xp dumps, I'll probably try to save a lot of them for Inning 3. Pretty close to Randy right now.
BTW, it occurred to me that if I'd have saved a lot of xp from last inning, I probably could've picked up Randy when he was selling for 250k.
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@Auburn2525_XBL The fact that it is a monopoly is a huge advantage to SDS. They know they can get by by doing the minimum and still have people playing because they are the only game in town. It would be nice to have some competition to give them a reason to do better.
I also wonder if the studio is cutting jobs to save money. Maybe they cant push more content because there is not enough of them. Seems like over the years they have less and less of people on stream. Not sure it that means anything. Maybe this also explains their lack of communication to the community? -
@rubicante23_PSN They are doing this as inning missions intentionally, so people can’t save xp.
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I also wonder if the studio is cutting jobs to save money. Maybe they cant push more content because there is not enough of them.
I cant imagine its very difficult to put out conquest maps.
I can understand miniseasons to a lesser extent since teams have to be made.
But this is the sort of stuff they should be using AI for.
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Idk I am a longtime online player and dd grinder probably since 18 so my way of looking at this is I feel as unmotivated as ever to play dd because of the amount of cheaters on this game rn. That’s just my view it’s made my love for this game hit a alltime low.
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@TripleH-4481_PSN I have barely played since the first wknd pre-launch, and I love the early season the most. I even tried to get a refund, super stale and lazy output this season. No reason to get 27 and on until we see a MAJOR overhaul, which is unlikely bc the devs would have to actually work.
