Sds you scared all the casuals away. Not good for your game.
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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
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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?
Usually when CFB drops it's the end of the MLB THE SHOW season for me. I still play some of the programs like Topps Now but that's about it. but I'm also excited for Madden this year so that'll take a lot of my mlb the show time away too.
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Um, its August. Casuals all left a long time ago, and even if the game were perfect they'd still all be gone.
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Um, its August. Casuals all left a long time ago, and even if the game were perfect they'd still all be gone.
This is absolutely not true. Plenty of casuals play this late into the season.
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Casuals randomly pick the game up at various points, play a bit, then leave pretty quick. This game is really hard to just pick up and play with not much experience.
It gets said every year - oh its June, people are gonna be leaving - oh, its end of July, this is the end of the season....but its hard for me to picture the regular players who actually leave.
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I still don’t know what yall consider causal players to be
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Let me clarify. Its not so much about the remaining players being great, or losing games. The main reason the casuals.. aka people who are not fantastic at the game are not playing online is because of one simple fact. There are not enough online programs. Lack of creativity on sds part to keep people engaged. This is far from an i lost a game.. so im crying post. This is lack of engagement for good reason by not great players.
This has nothing to do with anything along the lines of players not coming back and just saying things to say things. People will continue to play. But engagement will continue to be down.
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Ps - I always chuckle when someone who is really good at the game says "this game is all sweats now!". But...you're the sweat!
Thats like saying "I shouldn't have to try...I should just win easily, what's going on!"
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@SpawnOfDitka_XBL I just feel like the majority of online players are under 600.
