How do you motivate yourself to keep playing this mode when scripting and rubber banding ultimately decide your stats?
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Every season is the same, first 4 months you can do what you want, then after the AS break the great ‘rein it in’ begins and the game starts making you tank for no apparent reason other than to keep your stats down.
I’ve reached a point now where I’ve just given into the fact that user input doesn’t mean a great deal. I’m not a player I’m just a viewer watching a computer force a predetermined outcome in front of me as I press buttons.
You can only be as good as the computer wants you to be and you can only be as bad as the computer wants you to be.
How do you guys motivate yourself to keep picking up the game even though you know it’s not really fair, you’re just at the mercy of the RNG gods?
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Everything that's been correctly addressed as a fundamental flaw in the game code (such as this OP) is rooted in one motivation -- to perpetuate the online competition mode.
The solution to this, and all the other problems, is for the game to stop trying to be something other than the best possible video game simulation of actual baseball games.
Equal outcomes is the mortal enemy of sports.
That deserves repeat ... equal outcomes is the mortal enemy of sports.
Sports are the ultimate expression of the measurement of human skill. Your skills with the game control pad should be the only determining factor when it comes to wins and loses. If someone can develop the skills to go 162-0, then so be it. It is up to the customer himself to determine if his definition of happiness playing this game requires an increase in difficulty level. It should never be the game code that determines that for the customer.
SDS is destroying itself by yielding itself to profits above quality, and equality above merit.
