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@halfbutt_PSN said in tried coming back to the game...:
Here we go.
“Complainer” vs “fanboy” volume 770096.4
Thats the only reason I am here
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@aaronjw76_psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
@i4theluvofthegam said in tried coming back to the game...:
Game sucks end of thread. I left madden for this game 3 years ago. They both suck now
They really do. I wanted a break from madden so I came back hoping some thing would have been fixed but nope.
Hopefully I get beta access to try the new version but even at that the game played very different from beta to launch last year and that's not even including the fact they changed hitting 3 days after official launch.
Because the newbies complained it was too hard to hit
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@aaronjw76_psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
I see gravity balls, weird hitting feeedback, and framerate issues still rule in this game.
I will definitely be waiting for real player feedback after the game drops before even thinking about buying this game again.
Played a bunch of showdown as well and I've done fine there but those diving catches from bronze fielders are still featured I see lol
It amazes me that there are literally no sports games that don't complete suck [censored] these days. Hopefully Gran Turismo 7 will be good.
this game is head and shoulders above Madden and NBA 2K, its really not even a comparison.
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@tyrusthebull_psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
@ComebackLogic said in tried coming back to the game...:
Yeah, ‘20 was the last straw for me, I won’t be playing ‘21 at all. This franchise has been in decline for a while and I don’t have any realistic hope for improvements in the coming year. Yes, the show is the best baseball game available, but when the only other game is RBI that’s not saying much. I’m tired of it all now, SDS can’t make a realistic baseball game to save their lives and the deliberate tactic of taking away full user control and replacing it with....... whatever you call the weird gameplay - Has really killed my desire to ever play the show again. Pitches that don’t locate with perfect input, batted ball outcomes that make no sense, losing games to a clearly inferior opponent who has no idea how to play baseball correctly and just pounds buttons arcade style etc. All you can do is express your dissatisfaction, which I have done many, many times, both on the forum and in emails offering feedback to SDS and hope they realise they’re killing the franchise with these terrible decisions.
All I can do is vote with my wallet and I’m not returning for ‘21 due to the hugely disappointing games SDS have churned out in the past few years. ‘16 and ‘17 were the pinnacle of gameplay, due to the absolute control afforded to users when pitching. ‘17 had the best pitching of any MLB the Show game because it was accurate when you were accurate with the controls. Later editions may have surpassed ‘16 and ‘17 in terms of content and availability of content to all players but the gameplay has been in a severe state of decline, every year I feel like I have less and less control of outcomes in game and everything feels more scripted and out of my hands.It’s actually pretty sad as I would regularly play for thousands of hours and play thousands of H2H games each year, but this franchise is no longer worth the investment for me, be that the financial investment of a PS5 and copy of the game plus stubs, or indeed, the time and effort invested to improve at a game that doesn’t offer any incentive to do so, instead being ruled by nonsensical and seemingly random outcomes. The final concern is that the content last year was horrible, if SDS see fit to continue down that path, giving legitimate legends like Griffey and Babe Ruth worse cards than some minor leaguer who has yet to play a game, giving multiple high diamond cards to the same player with slightly different stats and handing out 99s to anyone and everyone who don’t deserve them, then ‘21 will be just as garbage as last year. SDS really need to get a grip and think about the sport of baseball in a realistic manner, in every aspect from what happens when you throw a pitch, to how a ball should behave when making contact with a bat, to the comparison between Jacob Stallings and Jorge Posada and how that should affect the ratings of their best cards. I just can’t go through that nonsense again. Not this year, maybe ever.
Games tailored to kids who just slam buttons. It's painfully obvious. Takes zero skill level. Just as sds would want it. There bringing in a new fanbase by doing so.
this is it, this is the post.
just login to twtich and watch the people who play the game. they do have some solid guys who provide solid entertainment.
but for the most part its entitled little pricks who think SDS owes them the world and love breaking controllers when their perfect, perfect is caught at the track.
i hate to say it but bringing the far less superior game system over to a PS exclusive is kind of a bummer.
but thats just my two cents that doesnt matter.
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SDS and Sony realized they could make tons of money if their game was tuned for a more casual player and they spent their time creating content instead of spending their resources to please a niche audience by constantly upgrading the tech and innovating for realism with the technology available.
Now they need to make the old tech work on XBox platforms and next gen consoles. SDS is probably fried just trying to get everything working for launch. It may take multiple years for them to get this new dev process ironed out.
Unfortunately it means a Madden like dev cycle that will slowly see the game play sink in quality, and features be cut more often than added. The studio is in a very tough position but i think they should have told the MLB to go find someone else to make the XBox version. Especially in a year with two generations of consoles.
Bah, who knows what the situation was. I just hope for the best game and content possible.
Ive enjoyed The Show for the last 3 years more than any other game. Even if i never played it again. Its been a pretty awesome time.
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@themoshow___psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
@aaronjw76_psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
I see gravity balls, weird hitting feeedback, and framerate issues still rule in this game.
I will definitely be waiting for real player feedback after the game drops before even thinking about buying this game again.
Played a bunch of showdown as well and I've done fine there but those diving catches from bronze fielders are still featured I see lol
It amazes me that there are literally no sports games that don't complete suck [censored] these days. Hopefully Gran Turismo 7 will be good.
this game is head and shoulders above Madden and NBA 2K, its really not even a comparison.
I don't deny that but that doesn't mean MLB is a good game in of itself. "My current bf is better than my ex because he only talks to me like [censored] instead of being the [censored] out of me" is not exactly a winning endorsement.
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@comebacklogic said in tried coming back to the game...:
Yeah, ‘20 was the last straw for me, I won’t be playing ‘21 at all. This franchise has been in decline for a while and I don’t have any realistic hope for improvements in the coming year. Yes, the show is the best baseball game available, but when the only other game is RBI that’s not saying much. I’m tired of it all now, SDS can’t make a realistic baseball game to save their lives and the deliberate tactic of taking away full user control and replacing it with....... whatever you call the weird gameplay - Has really killed my desire to ever play the show again. Pitches that don’t locate with perfect input, batted ball outcomes that make no sense, losing games to a clearly inferior opponent who has no idea how to play baseball correctly and just pounds buttons arcade style etc. All you can do is express your dissatisfaction, which I have done many, many times, both on the forum and in emails offering feedback to SDS and hope they realise they’re killing the franchise with these terrible decisions.
All I can do is vote with my wallet and I’m not returning for ‘21 due to the hugely disappointing games SDS have churned out in the past few years. ‘16 and ‘17 were the pinnacle of gameplay, due to the absolute control afforded to users when pitching. ‘17 had the best pitching of any MLB the Show game because it was accurate when you were accurate with the controls. Later editions may have surpassed ‘16 and ‘17 in terms of content and availability of content to all players but the gameplay has been in a severe state of decline, every year I feel like I have less and less control of outcomes in game and everything feels more scripted and out of my hands.It’s actually pretty sad as I would regularly play for thousands of hours and play thousands of H2H games each year, but this franchise is no longer worth the investment for me, be that the financial investment of a PS5 and copy of the game plus stubs, or indeed, the time and effort invested to improve at a game that doesn’t offer any incentive to do so, instead being ruled by nonsensical and seemingly random outcomes. The final concern is that the content last year was horrible, if SDS see fit to continue down that path, giving legitimate legends like Griffey and Babe Ruth worse cards than some minor leaguer who has yet to play a game, giving multiple high diamond cards to the same player with slightly different stats and handing out 99s to anyone and everyone who don’t deserve them, then ‘21 will be just as garbage as last year. SDS really need to get a grip and think about the sport of baseball in a realistic manner, in every aspect from what happens when you throw a pitch, to how a ball should behave when making contact with a bat, to the comparison between Jacob Stallings and Jorge Posada and how that should affect the ratings of their best cards. I just can’t go through that nonsense again. Not this year, maybe ever.
Here's food for thought. This is a franchise that has ALWAYS been a PS exclusive. Why would they all the sudden want to go cross play if the game was healthy and selling on the PS? I also think the game has been in decline and they are trying to bring in lost money from Xbox. Game has been a train wreck since '18. DDA is blatantly obvious.
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@aaronjw76_psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
@themoshow___psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
@aaronjw76_psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
I see gravity balls, weird hitting feeedback, and framerate issues still rule in this game.
I will definitely be waiting for real player feedback after the game drops before even thinking about buying this game again.
Played a bunch of showdown as well and I've done fine there but those diving catches from bronze fielders are still featured I see lol
It amazes me that there are literally no sports games that don't complete suck [censored] these days. Hopefully Gran Turismo 7 will be good.
this game is head and shoulders above Madden and NBA 2K, its really not even a comparison.
I don't deny that but that doesn't mean MLB is a good game in of itself. "My current bf is better than my ex because he only talks to me like [censored] instead of being the [censored] out of me" is not exactly a winning endorsement.
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@jeviduty_psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
Gran Turismo is always good, i'd suggest investing in a wheel, was worth it for me.
Delayed until 2022
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This is my first year playing The Show. In my experience, this game has a huge skill gap. Mashing buttons won't get you to World Series. The best players recognize pitches and have the discipline to only swing at hitters' pitches with less than two strikes. They also know how to exploit an opponent's batting weaknesses and sequence pitches for maximum deception.
I see some complaints about perfect / perfect contact not being hits and pitches with perfect releases not being dots. I understand the frustration but I think the little bit of rng that results in perfect input sometimes leading to imperfect results is necessary to prevent the game from feeling robotic. The developers are striving to make this video game seem as lifelike as possible and I think the illusion would take a hit if we knew the exact outcome based on our input. Obviously, the inputs and outputs need to be correlated, which they are, but that bit of wiggle room that leaves the outcome uncertain is necessary for the magic of the presentation.
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what if it was as simple tiered DDA but also manipulating certain peoples accounts or console ID's to allow certain players to be free from DDA such as Pitching_Rebel so that they can maintain the illusion that there is a skill gap.
wouldn't be that hard to program the game so that certain players can make the game look like it has a skill gap meanwhile still have DDA to keep more guys playing.
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@veganmeatbawls said in tried coming back to the game...:
what if it was as simple tiered DDA but also manipulating certain peoples accounts or console ID's to allow certain players to be free from DDA such as Pitching_Rebel so that they can maintain the illusion that there is a skill gap.
wouldn't be that hard to program the game so that certain players can make the game look like it has a skill gap meanwhile still have DDA to keep more guys playing.
Isn’t that apparently what the difficulty jump at ranked seasons level 700 is? Getting out of ‘all star hell’ is this game’s equivalent of going from little league to majors.
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@d_e_m_i_s_e said in tried coming back to the game...:
@comebacklogic said in tried coming back to the game...:
Yeah, ‘20 was the last straw for me, I won’t be playing ‘21 at all. This franchise has been in decline for a while and I don’t have any realistic hope for improvements in the coming year. Yes, the show is the best baseball game available, but when the only other game is RBI that’s not saying much. I’m tired of it all now, SDS can’t make a realistic baseball game to save their lives and the deliberate tactic of taking away full user control and replacing it with....... whatever you call the weird gameplay - Has really killed my desire to ever play the show again. Pitches that don’t locate with perfect input, batted ball outcomes that make no sense, losing games to a clearly inferior opponent who has no idea how to play baseball correctly and just pounds buttons arcade style etc. All you can do is express your dissatisfaction, which I have done many, many times, both on the forum and in emails offering feedback to SDS and hope they realise they’re killing the franchise with these terrible decisions.
All I can do is vote with my wallet and I’m not returning for ‘21 due to the hugely disappointing games SDS have churned out in the past few years. ‘16 and ‘17 were the pinnacle of gameplay, due to the absolute control afforded to users when pitching. ‘17 had the best pitching of any MLB the Show game because it was accurate when you were accurate with the controls. Later editions may have surpassed ‘16 and ‘17 in terms of content and availability of content to all players but the gameplay has been in a severe state of decline, every year I feel like I have less and less control of outcomes in game and everything feels more scripted and out of my hands.It’s actually pretty sad as I would regularly play for thousands of hours and play thousands of H2H games each year, but this franchise is no longer worth the investment for me, be that the financial investment of a PS5 and copy of the game plus stubs, or indeed, the time and effort invested to improve at a game that doesn’t offer any incentive to do so, instead being ruled by nonsensical and seemingly random outcomes. The final concern is that the content last year was horrible, if SDS see fit to continue down that path, giving legitimate legends like Griffey and Babe Ruth worse cards than some minor leaguer who has yet to play a game, giving multiple high diamond cards to the same player with slightly different stats and handing out 99s to anyone and everyone who don’t deserve them, then ‘21 will be just as garbage as last year. SDS really need to get a grip and think about the sport of baseball in a realistic manner, in every aspect from what happens when you throw a pitch, to how a ball should behave when making contact with a bat, to the comparison between Jacob Stallings and Jorge Posada and how that should affect the ratings of their best cards. I just can’t go through that nonsense again. Not this year, maybe ever.
Here's food for thought. This is a franchise that has ALWAYS been a PS exclusive. Why would they all the sudden want to go cross play if the game was healthy and selling on the PS?
Pressure from MLB.
MLB controls the rights to the use of anything MLB in the game and gets income from the game. MLB says ‘you expand your market or we pull the plug at end of contract’.
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@tyrusthebull_psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
@ComebackLogic said in tried coming back to the game...:
Yeah, ‘20 was the last straw for me, I won’t be playing ‘21 at all. This franchise has been in decline for a while and I don’t have any realistic hope for improvements in the coming year. Yes, the show is the best baseball game available, but when the only other game is RBI that’s not saying much. I’m tired of it all now, SDS can’t make a realistic baseball game to save their lives and the deliberate tactic of taking away full user control and replacing it with....... whatever you call the weird gameplay - Has really killed my desire to ever play the show again. Pitches that don’t locate with perfect input, batted ball outcomes that make no sense, losing games to a clearly inferior opponent who has no idea how to play baseball correctly and just pounds buttons arcade style etc. All you can do is express your dissatisfaction, which I have done many, many times, both on the forum and in emails offering feedback to SDS and hope they realise they’re killing the franchise with these terrible decisions.
All I can do is vote with my wallet and I’m not returning for ‘21 due to the hugely disappointing games SDS have churned out in the past few years. ‘16 and ‘17 were the pinnacle of gameplay, due to the absolute control afforded to users when pitching. ‘17 had the best pitching of any MLB the Show game because it was accurate when you were accurate with the controls. Later editions may have surpassed ‘16 and ‘17 in terms of content and availability of content to all players but the gameplay has been in a severe state of decline, every year I feel like I have less and less control of outcomes in game and everything feels more scripted and out of my hands.It’s actually pretty sad as I would regularly play for thousands of hours and play thousands of H2H games each year, but this franchise is no longer worth the investment for me, be that the financial investment of a PS5 and copy of the game plus stubs, or indeed, the time and effort invested to improve at a game that doesn’t offer any incentive to do so, instead being ruled by nonsensical and seemingly random outcomes. The final concern is that the content last year was horrible, if SDS see fit to continue down that path, giving legitimate legends like Griffey and Babe Ruth worse cards than some minor leaguer who has yet to play a game, giving multiple high diamond cards to the same player with slightly different stats and handing out 99s to anyone and everyone who don’t deserve them, then ‘21 will be just as garbage as last year. SDS really need to get a grip and think about the sport of baseball in a realistic manner, in every aspect from what happens when you throw a pitch, to how a ball should behave when making contact with a bat, to the comparison between Jacob Stallings and Jorge Posada and how that should affect the ratings of their best cards. I just can’t go through that nonsense again. Not this year, maybe ever.
Games tailored to kids who just slam buttons. It's painfully obvious. Takes zero skill level. Just as sds would want it. There bringing in a new fanbase by doing so.
Have to tried playing this game just bashing buttons? how did it go?
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@shuker23_psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
@tyrusthebull_psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
@ComebackLogic said in tried coming back to the game...:
Yeah, ‘20 was the last straw for me, I won’t be playing ‘21 at all. This franchise has been in decline for a while and I don’t have any realistic hope for improvements in the coming year. Yes, the show is the best baseball game available, but when the only other game is RBI that’s not saying much. I’m tired of it all now, SDS can’t make a realistic baseball game to save their lives and the deliberate tactic of taking away full user control and replacing it with....... whatever you call the weird gameplay - Has really killed my desire to ever play the show again. Pitches that don’t locate with perfect input, batted ball outcomes that make no sense, losing games to a clearly inferior opponent who has no idea how to play baseball correctly and just pounds buttons arcade style etc. All you can do is express your dissatisfaction, which I have done many, many times, both on the forum and in emails offering feedback to SDS and hope they realise they’re killing the franchise with these terrible decisions.
All I can do is vote with my wallet and I’m not returning for ‘21 due to the hugely disappointing games SDS have churned out in the past few years. ‘16 and ‘17 were the pinnacle of gameplay, due to the absolute control afforded to users when pitching. ‘17 had the best pitching of any MLB the Show game because it was accurate when you were accurate with the controls. Later editions may have surpassed ‘16 and ‘17 in terms of content and availability of content to all players but the gameplay has been in a severe state of decline, every year I feel like I have less and less control of outcomes in game and everything feels more scripted and out of my hands.It’s actually pretty sad as I would regularly play for thousands of hours and play thousands of H2H games each year, but this franchise is no longer worth the investment for me, be that the financial investment of a PS5 and copy of the game plus stubs, or indeed, the time and effort invested to improve at a game that doesn’t offer any incentive to do so, instead being ruled by nonsensical and seemingly random outcomes. The final concern is that the content last year was horrible, if SDS see fit to continue down that path, giving legitimate legends like Griffey and Babe Ruth worse cards than some minor leaguer who has yet to play a game, giving multiple high diamond cards to the same player with slightly different stats and handing out 99s to anyone and everyone who don’t deserve them, then ‘21 will be just as garbage as last year. SDS really need to get a grip and think about the sport of baseball in a realistic manner, in every aspect from what happens when you throw a pitch, to how a ball should behave when making contact with a bat, to the comparison between Jacob Stallings and Jorge Posada and how that should affect the ratings of their best cards. I just can’t go through that nonsense again. Not this year, maybe ever.
Games tailored to kids who just slam buttons. It's painfully obvious. Takes zero skill level. Just as sds would want it. There bringing in a new fanbase by doing so.
Have to tried playing this game just bashing buttons? how did it go?
I should. Might have more success by just flailing away, fouling pitches off with trash timing, until the game decides to have my opponent deliver a meatball right down the middle. And then, because I'm using directional(lol) I'll hit a 500 ft homerun and replay it like i used some skill to do it.
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@veganmeatbawls said in tried coming back to the game...:
what if it was as simple tiered DDA but also manipulating certain peoples accounts or console ID's to allow certain players to be free from DDA such as Pitching_Rebel so that they can maintain the illusion that there is a skill gap.
wouldn't be that hard to program the game so that certain players can make the game look like it has a skill gap meanwhile still have DDA to keep more guys playing.
Crazy I was thinking about the same thing yesterday while playing the game. Pitching Rebel bad contacts on the ball seem to be rewarded for the most part while my many good and even perfect contacts seem to find their way in an infielder glove for a double play lol.
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@thierry007007 said in tried coming back to the game...:
@veganmeatbawls said in tried coming back to the game...:
what if it was as simple tiered DDA but also manipulating certain peoples accounts or console ID's to allow certain players to be free from DDA such as Pitching_Rebel so that they can maintain the illusion that there is a skill gap.
wouldn't be that hard to program the game so that certain players can make the game look like it has a skill gap meanwhile still have DDA to keep more guys playing.
Crazy I was thinking about the same thing yesterday while playing the game. Pitching Rebel bad contacts on the ball seem to be rewarded for the most part while my many good and even perfect contacts seem to find their way in an infielder glove for a double play lol.
it could also be as simple as giving him a regular timing window. i know on legend difficulty offline i could mash the ball like that, even more so, heck, i can hit the ball pretty well with pitch speed all the way up .
however, I am not salty about his skill. he is good no doubt but sometimes I wonder how easy it would be to make it so that there is a number 1 player in order to create that illusion and to trick other players into the chase for number one.
one of the biggest red flags for me this year was when i played a world series player with a 12-0 badge and i beat him using directional.
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@red_ted_is_back said in tried coming back to the game...:
@veganmeatbawls said in tried coming back to the game...:
what if it was as simple tiered DDA but also manipulating certain peoples accounts or console ID's to allow certain players to be free from DDA such as Pitching_Rebel so that they can maintain the illusion that there is a skill gap.
wouldn't be that hard to program the game so that certain players can make the game look like it has a skill gap meanwhile still have DDA to keep more guys playing.
Isn’t that apparently what the difficulty jump at ranked seasons level 700 is? Getting out of ‘all star hell’ is this game’s equivalent of going from little league to majors.
That’s a horrific decision which has curtailed my enjoyment of RS for the last couple of years as well. To have such a noticeable and jarring shift in pitch speeds and swing timing windows (as has become the standard differential between AS and HoF in recent years) inserted at a point in the ratings which ensures the majority of players will be forced to go back and forth between enforced settings from game to game was a terrible decision. When you factor in the absolutely terrible synchronisation between two online players that SDS has never addressed and the issues that causes as well, it’s little wonder players are leaving the show in droves. I’m still checking the forum once every month or two to see if they’ve finally added Mark McGwire or Barry Bonds (Ha ha, yeah right!), but I have zero inclination to play any more. I’ve actually sold my PS4 off and ultimately didn’t bother with the upgrade to a PS5 as MLB the Show is the only game I play. No Show, no need for a console really.
The chances of SDS ever making a truly great game where players have absolute control of pitch location with accurate input, batted ball outcomes make sense in terms of the contact we’re being told that we made and skill plays a greater role in outcomes than randomly occurring events and what appeared to me in ‘20 to be the game blatantly handing cookies to trash players in order to keep them invested in the game (At the expensive of pushing their more experienced, loyal players who’ve been around the franchise for multiple iterations away completely) are so slim at this point, I’m fairly confident I’ll never need another games console for baseball again.
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@savefarris_psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
Posada averaged a 2.5 Career WAR over his 17 years.
Stalling's 2020 WAR pro-rated to a 162 game schedule is 2.97.I'd certainly pick Posada over Stallings if I were picking an all-time team (and I'd pick Jim Sundberg much less Pudge over either of them.) But an argument for Stallings' best card being better than Posada's best card can be made.
Odd it's mostly the same people that complained about lineup diversity in 18 are now the loudest voices when it comes to there being too many options in 20.
‘18 was absolutely awful for lineup diversity. There was not even enough immortals to fill out a complete line up and bullpen and it took 198373791919 hours of grinding and exchanging stupid hats to unlock each individual card. It’s not that there are too many useable options in ‘20, it’s that the over saturation of high diamonds means there is really no sense of achievement when you obtain an elite card like Griffey or whoever. They feel very generic and much like any other card, be that a minor leaguer who has yet to make his debut or Willie Mays himself.
While ‘18 took the concept to the absolute extreme by starving players of useable options and hiding the only cards of interest behind a ridiculously long grind and paywall of sorts, ‘20 - For me personally - Instilled a sense of “What’s the point to this game? They just hand you a bunch of 99s with 125 everything and let you go out there swinging.” I wasn’t excited to obtain an elite card for my DD team like I would have been in years past. I was like “hmm great another juiced Topps Now 99 with 125 power both sides, I wish they’d actually made the all time great players I like to use have stats on a par with these cards. Not that it matters, they all play exactly the same anyway.”
That ain’t the way it should be, in my opinion.
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@comebacklogic said in tried coming back to the game...:
@savefarris_psn said in tried coming back to the game...:
Posada averaged a 2.5 Career WAR over his 17 years.
Stalling's 2020 WAR pro-rated to a 162 game schedule is 2.97.I'd certainly pick Posada over Stallings if I were picking an all-time team (and I'd pick Jim Sundberg much less Pudge over either of them.) But an argument for Stallings' best card being better than Posada's best card can be made.
Odd it's mostly the same people that complained about lineup diversity in 18 are now the loudest voices when it comes to there being too many options in 20.
‘18 was absolutely awful for lineup diversity. There was not even enough immortals to fill out a complete line up and bullpen and it took 198373791919 hours of grinding and exchanging stupid hats to unlock each individual card. It’s not that there are too many useable options in ‘20, it’s that the over saturation of high diamonds means there is really no sense of achievement when you obtain an elite card like Griffey or whoever. They feel very generic and much like any other card, be that a minor leaguer who has yet to make his debut or Willie Mays himself.
While ‘18 took the concept to the absolute extreme by starving players of useable options and hiding the only cards of interest behind a ridiculously long grind and paywall of sorts, ‘20 - For me personally - Instilled a sense of “What’s the point to this game? They just hand you a bunch of 99s with 125 everything and let you go out there swinging.” I wasn’t excited to obtain an elite card for my DD team like I would have been in years past. I was like “hmm great another juiced Topps Now 99 with 125 power both sides, I wish they’d actually made the all time great players I like to use have stats on a par with these cards. Not that it matters, they all play exactly the same anyway.”
That ain’t the way it should be, in my opinion.
I agree with the overall 99 dilemma. I went through and counted 118 cards that arent in my squad that are 99s. I get the lineup diversity aspect, but it's gone way beyond reasonable at this point.
