The three features that received the most L's in todays stream
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@omegaminus_sk said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@yankblan said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
I mean, can’t you play a franchise using “add Legend to the FA pool” option?
It's not just about being able to play with the legends; a huge part of it (for me, at least) is the journey of building and improving my team by collecting cards, which I find much more interesting and entertaining than being a GM in Franchise.
Yes, I completely agree. The journey from a low overall to a high overall team, the build, is what attracts me to this mode as well as the completionist parts of my brain for getting cards. Then we have the online community, which gets their pleasure from that same mentality of collecting and building, but with competition added into it. Some of either group may not care about the card collecting, but I'm guessing those are the biggest reasons people play this mode.
The decision of focus that people are upset with, including myself, only limit one of these groups, and it just so happens to be the group with less of a reason to play the mode already.
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This is a great idea. I'm down for it. Bring this up again when the game launches....
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@nflman2033 said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@Dolenz said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@A_PerfectGame said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@LankyRyan said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@A_PerfectGame said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@LankyRyan said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@omegaminus_sk said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@LankyRyan said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
I guess I don't fully see where offline folks are coming from with this.
There were a ton of cards that were only obtainable through conquest maps, an offline mode. There was also the moments rewards cards, which were akin to WS rewards cards. I don't particularly enjoy offline play, but you know what? I did them, because that's the only way you could get those cards.
I fully support both online and offline folks getting what they want, but I'm just not sure I understand what exactly is missing from the offline experience, even after reading it in a bunch of different threads?
From my perspective, the problem was that there was a poor variety of meaningful things that could be done with the cards I collected.
Conquest is nothing but three-inning road games. Only Play vs. CPU offered 9-inning games, but Play vs. CPU is unfulfilling - it's like if there were no Ranked Seasons, just Casual Online. Moments? The overwhelming majority of them didn't involve our DD teams.
OK now I hear you. That would feel unfulfilling. I don't know what the answer is, because I don't know what a good proxy for playing a human is. But you're right, smashing out vs. the cpu in its current format would get old quick.
They have online franchise again. You can invite a few friends then set teams to computer. Start your own league with your DD team.
That isn't offline though, man. That's 100% online, but against people you don't mind playing against.
I’m pretty sure They said in the stream that cpu can take over teams.
Only if the original owner of the team drops out. You can't assign the CPU to teams at the beginning. Many of us offline players wanted that and were disappointed to find out you can't do it.
We really should get all of us offline guys to take turns creating a league and kicking each other out of it. Then we would all have our own vs CPU league. Only issue I have is I canceled PS plus last year, I'd have to get it back.
I'm in.
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Agree with several of the posters above. I really enjoy DD for two reasons - 1) the completion aspect (mission accomplished!!!) and 2) the one out of every 3-4 online games that are really competitive against enjoyable opponents. And oh yeah, 3) every so often you get the thrill of beating some [censored] who cheeses and taunts.
I'm one of the odd ducks who actually enjoyed the crazy grinds in 18 - until you got to the immortal level and it just got stupid. But playing offline games with a variety of players and figuring out how to maximize the grind impact of every AB and pitch thrown. Had a big a$$ notebook and everything and I had a blast with it. Played enough RS games to get those rewards and that was it.
And then I played mostly online in 19, went 102-58 in RS and made CS once, and that was fun too.
And I've never spent an extra cent on the game. I like the content that SDS delivers. Are there hiccups, sure! are there issues, sure! But for 60 bucks a year I get thousands of hours of great playable content and it's really fun and gets me engaged with the MLB season better.
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@Vipersneak said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@SaveFarris said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@Vipersneak said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
but SDS has ignored offline play with DD cards
@Vipersneak ignoring Showdown.
I do not know everything about Showdown, but it did not look to me like you could use your DD collection for that. Is that wrong?
Correct, there’s is now a way to play the CPU with your DD team, and a completely new mode to play offline as well while completing missions, team affinities, and everything else in DD. How many different ways do people need to play offline?
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@ChArTeRBuS said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@Vipersneak said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@SaveFarris said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@Vipersneak said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
but SDS has ignored offline play with DD cards
@Vipersneak ignoring Showdown.
I do not know everything about Showdown, but it did not look to me like you could use your DD collection for that. Is that wrong?
Correct, there’s is now a way to play the CPU with your DD team, and a completely new mode to play offline as well while completing missions, team affinities, and everything else in DD. How many different ways do people need to play offline?
Here we go again piling on. I thought this has been explained enough already in this thread.
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@nflman2033 said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@ChArTeRBuS said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@Vipersneak said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@SaveFarris said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@Vipersneak said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
but SDS has ignored offline play with DD cards
@Vipersneak ignoring Showdown.
I do not know everything about Showdown, but it did not look to me like you could use your DD collection for that. Is that wrong?
Correct, there’s is now a way to play the CPU with your DD team, and a completely new mode to play offline as well while completing missions, team affinities, and everything else in DD. How many different ways do people need to play offline?
Here we go again piling on. I thought this has been explained enough already in this thread.
People hear what they want to hear I guess.
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The first one really bothers me. I'm back in for the offline grind and unlocking cards this year but it would be great if I could earn the cards offline.
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@ChArTeRBuS said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@Vipersneak said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@SaveFarris said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
@Vipersneak said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
but SDS has ignored offline play with DD cards
@Vipersneak ignoring Showdown.
I do not know everything about Showdown, but it did not look to me like you could use your DD collection for that. Is that wrong?
Correct, there’s is now a way to play the CPU with your DD team, and a completely new mode to play offline as well while completing missions, team affinities, and everything else in DD. How many different ways do people need to play offline?
Wrong. You cannot use your DD collection for Showdown.
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What exactly does “ 3 Batters minimum Rule” mean?
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@DrSHREEVEERA said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
What exactly does “ 3 Batters minimum Rule” mean?
Whenever you bring in a pitcher he has to pitch to 3 batters or until the end of the inning before being allowed to be taken out of the game for a reliever. It's a new rule in the mlb this year. You can find the full rule here:
http://m.mlb.com/glossary/rules/three-batter-minimum -
@foge011 said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
The biggest L was not being able to even quick sell collected cards. The other 2 don't bother me so much. Mostly because I play online anyway
Absolutely this imo.
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@Dolenz said in The three features that received the most L's in todays stream:
- Prestige Diamonds can only be earned by grinding stats online
- If you collect a card then that card is completely unsellable. No quick selling.
- Three Batter minimum applies in BR (I don't play BR and this seems extreme even to me)
Overall, I loved all the new stuff and it pushed me forward to pre-order. The first one is really the only one that kind of tilted me a little.
I do have a slight issue with #1.
I completed 18 in January, where I finished all the immortals/arcs/team epics/player of the month/programs/collectors programs, etc(outside of Musial and the previous monthly programs from when I bought it in August). Not being able to get some players, due to online success I understand, and have no problem with, like Kershaw. I actually enjoyed some of the grinding, and using so many different lineups and players.
What I dont like, is having too many cards unavailable except through online success. It makes sense to keep some rewards for online players only, but is somewhat irrational in the sense of strictly offline players. The offline players getting those cards wont be using them online for the most part anyway.
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I've always been an offline player. 19 got me playing online alot more, but I do feel that any card that requires long stat grind shouldn't be sellable. IMO if you aren't willing to put in the grind, then you dont deserve the card.
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