Sds you scared all the casuals away. Not good for your game.
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I apologize to all the offline players ive offended. I now completely understand. Its not your faults you dont want to play online. Its theirs!
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I apologize to all the offline players ive offended. I now completely understand. Its not your faults you dont want to play online. Its theirs!
I'm not offended. I started playing Baseball (Triple Play '97), & Hockey (Stanley Cup for SNES) videogames way before NFL 2K and SEGA introduced online play in 1999. 'Play anyone, anywhere in the world,' they promoted. I never got any thrill out of playing 'Bob from Botswana,' or 'Ooskie from Bilooski.' I did play Online Team Play in NHL from '12 until last year, when HUT captured me. OTP is truly fun, unless you get some b o o b that won't pass the puck!
There's absolutely no shame in playing offline, when that was all we had for years!
I'd play online if I could cure my PCI dropping. My timing is 'Good' 85% of the time up until HOF. Legend is another realm 🤪 Major props to the ones who are good on it. My baserunning is abysmal. I literally just found out Sunday, 8/2, how to send a runner from 3rd on a sac fly with the bases loaded! I refuse to pitch in anything but pitchers POV. I am aware that pitching vs. the CPU and humans are 2 vastly different things, but i think I'd be good pitching online. I would find a way.
We used to get three inning bosses. We used to have 100 point programs. Things are just not the same in this game, sadly. -
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I apologize to all the offline players ive offended. I now completely understand. Its not your faults you dont want to play online. Its theirs!
I'm not offended either. They trashed online, I can't stomach it. Nothing to do and its cesspool of cheaters and toxic players. Not worth the time or energy. That's why I stay offline.
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I posted something but I deleted it since it was sappy. But I agree. DD doesn't really offer what I want for online play. For online gaming, I'm more of a leagues / realistic rosters enthusiast. I grew up in the late 90s and 2000s where I admired the social aspect of online gaming more than I even realized at that time. DD offers the team building aspect and the ability to play with legends. I wish I enjoyed the online play on it more but...yeah, there's just too much to list. They can't even control the illicit images used on team uniforms. Simple stuff that they just don't care to manage.
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I see posts and videos a lot in June and July that "all the players are leaving". But, whos leaving?
The people in the posts and videos say theyre still here. The hardcore guys dont leave. They have too much invested. They put the sweat in the sweat fest.
The true noobs already left long ago, when they realized that hitting in this game is pretty impossible.
So like, what's the profile of someone who leaves? Maybe like a younger guy who plays all sports games - he's decent at most, but not great at any?
Like, it just seems weird when I hear these "everyone is leaving" claims...I cant picture the guy who is leaving now.
It may be your recent luck - when the event dropped, I played eight people in a row who couldn't hit to save their life.
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All thats left playing are the die hard,
I thought maybe you were exaggerating, but here's my experience this week:
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When the new Multiplayer season opened on Tuesday, I played some Ranked. I am a casual, and started the season at 450. 3 out of my first 4 games I matched up against WS logos. Two games later, a "1000" logo.
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When the new Event opened yesterday, 3 of my first 5 games were against 1000 logos. I did win one of those games though, so maybe I'm way better than I thought I was. Nah, that can't be it.
I know this is all anecdotal information, but it certainly seems harder to find players that I'm "even" with skill-wise.
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I see posts and videos a lot in June and July that "all the players are leaving". But, whos leaving?
The people in the posts and videos say theyre still here. The hardcore guys dont leave. They have too much invested. They put the sweat in the sweat fest.
The true noobs already left long ago, when they realized that hitting in this game is pretty impossible.
So like, what's the profile of someone who leaves? Maybe like a younger guy who plays all sports games - he's decent at most, but not great at any?
Like, it just seems weird when I hear these "everyone is leaving" claims...I cant picture the guy who is leaving now.
It may be your recent luck - when the event dropped, I played eight people in a row who couldn't hit to save their life.
They say the same thing every year, pretty sure these chuds are doing this for approval and to sway people who really don't care about the forums onto their side.
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I am not leaving, too much time invested getting 3 of the 4 major collections done. That being I'll stay mostly offline, maybe pickup a couple events here and there to get the 10k xp but that's about it for online play.
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I apologize to all the offline players ive offended. I now completely understand. Its not your faults you dont want to play online. Its theirs!
I'm not offended either. They trashed online, I can't stomach it. Nothing to do and its cesspool of cheaters and toxic players. Not worth the time or energy. That's why I stay offline.
Unfortunately, that is what Sony and Microsoft have allowed to happen. I will always maintain streamers and cheaters have ruined online game play in every single online game. Lose just the cheaters and the games would be great. Lose both and it would be heaven. I find it very hard to believe Sony/Microsoft couldn't add just $1 measly dollar to everyone's subscription and put that solely toward online cheating. There's someone out there that would do that it for millions of dollars.
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I'm not offended. I started playing Baseball (Triple Play '97), & Hockey (Stanley Cup for SNES) videogames way before NFL 2K and SEGA introduced online play in 1999.
This is a good point. I remember going after school to a friend's house to play NHL 94. In college it was Super Tecmo Bowl. My dorm had a league where we would each control a team in a season.
Couch head to head was a blast. Sure we wanted to win to talk trash later, but it was still super casual. Skill gaps were minimal and the focus was on fun.
Playing a random stranger head to head on the internet will never be fun in the same way. I play MMORPGs for online play where you get to know those random strangers and work with them as a team to kill raid bosses.
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Yup I went from playing a hard three or four hours a day to playing two hours every other day even if that. When servers are still bad five months in ...SOMETHING.....IS......wrong with your product, plain and simple. Needless to say I'll be playing other retro or new games next year. When you refuse to even try to fix your game yet promote add on and micro transactions for your game, that is how you chase consumers away
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I see posts and videos a lot in June and July that "all the players are leaving". But, whos leaving?
I stopped playing online with any regularity in mid 2024 when they got rid of all the innings goals for progress.
I stopped playing 2026 period with any regularity mid inning 3. Not getting the boss in the second inning really rubbed me the wrong way, I played a lot that inning. Between the lack of TA, weekend classic killing inning drops, and the ratio of cards you earn vs cards you buy being too skewed I struggle to get invested again. I haven't fully quit, but its close.
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Madden drops today. Is that not usually the unofficial end of the season, besides the super hardcore streamer types and maybe a few others?
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Madden drops today. Is that not usually the unofficial end of the season, besides the super hardcore streamer types and maybe a few others?
Every year each new sports game that releases is touted by haters as the death of this game.
It's never true. Do some people move on? Yes. Is it as devastating as people predict every year? No.
Also, no matter how popular they are don't forget their are still a lot of folks who have no desire to play EA sports games
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Madden drops today. Is that not usually the unofficial end of the season, besides the super hardcore streamer types and maybe a few others?
Every year each new sports game that releases is touted by haters as the death of this game.
It's never true. Do some people move on? Yes. Is it as devastating as people predict every year? No.
Also, no matter how popular they are don't forget their are still a lot of folks who have no desire to play EA sports games
SoftDrinkTv is gonna do his yearly tradition of telling people not to buy Madden, but he buys it anyways.
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Madden drops today. Is that not usually the unofficial end of the season, besides the super hardcore streamer types and maybe a few others?
Every year each new sports game that releases is touted by haters as the death of this game.
It's never true. Do some people move on? Yes. Is it as devastating as people predict every year? No.
Also, no matter how popular they are don't forget their are still a lot of folks who have no desire to play EA sports games
So you still prefer SDS over EA? I think SDS is essentially a charitable non profit organization compared to EA.
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Madden drops today. Is that not usually the unofficial end of the season, besides the super hardcore streamer types and maybe a few others?
Every year each new sports game that releases is touted by haters as the death of this game.
It's never true. Do some people move on? Yes. Is it as devastating as people predict every year? No.
Also, no matter how popular they are don't forget their are still a lot of folks who have no desire to play EA sports games
So you still prefer SDS over EA? I think SDS is essentially a charitable non profit organization compared to EA.
Honestly, I can't say definitely because it has been more years than I can count since I last played one. Probably more than a decade.
Baseball is my preferred sport.
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I'm trying to figure out how a certain, unnamed, streamer that blatantly abused something to gain thousands of packs, showed people how to do it, and bragged about doing it, is STILL playing the game; when we (the community) were told, by SDS, that there would be punishments handed out to all who abused the exploit.
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I still play ranked online co-op with my buddy, but that’s about it. I went from getting – at the time two of the three inning bosses each inning- to only having been able to get one TOTAL in 6 innings so far. And my playing habits have not changed much either.
I will be back next year, even though SDS doesn’t really deserve the benefit of the doubt – everybody does have a super down year every once in a while, so I am willing to give them a break. But if next year is more of the same, than that will probably be my final purchase
