97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L
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As soon as we found out it was babe I sold all my Takashi cards. Like you said, why would I lock in a 140k lefty firstbaseman for a lefty firstbaseman.
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I disagree that it is an L. You're getting a very popular player with a very popular card that should be a regular starter until the end of the summer. And on top of that Babe Ruth is going to be to this collection what Mariano Rivera was to the big collections last year in that he's the halfway point. The end goal, from the moment Takashi cards were announced was obvious.
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Except you will need Ruth for the Big Collection and imo we won’t be able to skip any on Day 1 since Future Stars won’t be doable on Day 1. So lock Delgado in for Babe or whomever the Big Collection is but it’s the same thing. More annoyed that Maddux might be required as that is a bs move as not many have even been earned yet let alone sold.
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@imdfc_psn said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
I disagree that it is an L. You're getting a very popular player with a very popular card that should be a regular starter until the end of the summer. And on top of that Babe Ruth is going to be to this collection what Mariano Rivera was to the big collections last year in that he's the halfway point. The end goal, from the moment Takashi cards were announced was obvious.
I really wish SDS would offer a physical release of some of there cards like this and the finest cards. I would love to have them to frame and hand on the wall
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@rosborn27_psn said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
Except you will need Ruth for the Big Collection and imo we won’t be able to skip any on Day 1 since Future Stars won’t be doable on Day 1. So lock Delgado in for Babe or whomever the Big Collection is but it’s the same thing. More annoyed that Maddux might be required as that is a bs move as not many have even been earned yet let alone sold.
If you are unable to skip 1 then sds has fully embraced the madden money grab and I'm out.
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I’m sure they will technically say you can but with all the Future Stars being dropped on Friday as well you won’t be able to earn them for a few days at least. Thus to get the Big Collection on Friday you’d have to skip FS.
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@rosborn27_psn said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
I’m sure they will technically say you can but with all the Future Stars being dropped on Friday as well you won’t be able to earn them for a few days at least. Thus to get the Big Collection on Friday you’d have to skip FS.
I’m guessing it will be skip 2 and that both future stars and PoTM will be difficult/impossible to do on Friday (FS until you earn them and PoTM until next Friday).
I’m not upset the collection reward for Takashi is a 97, I’m upset that it’s a 97 first baseman (or bad defensive outfielder).
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@rosborn27_psn said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
I’m sure they will technically say you can but with all the Future Stars being dropped on Friday as well you won’t be able to earn them for a few days at least. Thus to get the Big Collection on Friday you’d have to skip FS.
You are correct. It's a cycle around here when it comes to collections. It's a money grab when it first drops and then people beg for free prime cards or whatever and repeat for the next one. There will always be more than enough cards to go around with patience
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@rosborn27_psn said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
I’m sure they will technically say you can but with all the Future Stars being dropped on Friday as well you won’t be able to earn them for a few days at least. Thus to get the Big Collection on Friday you’d have to skip FS.
Lol that actually makes sense. That would be some grade A corporate pay wall BS tho, the community would be livid.
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I wouldn’t call it a “huge L.” Some people will be excited for this card. I’m never excited about Babe, so I sold everything last night and got my cover athletes ready for the big one. Takashi will be a cheaper collection later on.
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@the_dragon1912 said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
@rosborn27_psn said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
I’m sure they will technically say you can but with all the Future Stars being dropped on Friday as well you won’t be able to earn them for a few days at least. Thus to get the Big Collection on Friday you’d have to skip FS.
You are correct. It's a cycle around here when it comes to collections. It's a money grab when it first drops and then people beg for free prime cards or whatever and repeat for the next one. There will always be more than enough cards to go around with patience
I don't need prime cards, or 2nd heros, or any other cards, I just need to be able to ignore the ridiculously over priced Takashi cards, and not have them hide the collection behind the brand new future cards.
And you are right, the collections are alway millions the first week then they will give out cards like candy, but without TA how will they give the cards out. My guess is always intense packs and headliners. Everything this year is being approached from a business financial mentality and it blows hard.
To be fair tho, the only comparison I have is mlb21 and they spoiled us pretty good.
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He’s basically a lefty Frank Thomas and people locked in a lot more than that to get Frank…
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@genopolanco_psn said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
He’s basically a lefty Frank Thomas and people locked in a lot more than that to get Frank…
Yeah but frank was a very good card early game, and you had to get him for Randy. Silly argument. This turns Delgado into a 140k bench bat.
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Everyone talking Delgado but what about Greg Maddux? This collection over a million stubs right now.
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@go4stros25_psn said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
@the_dragon1912 said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
@rosborn27_psn said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
I’m sure they will technically say you can but with all the Future Stars being dropped on Friday as well you won’t be able to earn them for a few days at least. Thus to get the Big Collection on Friday you’d have to skip FS.
You are correct. It's a cycle around here when it comes to collections. It's a money grab when it first drops and then people beg for free prime cards or whatever and repeat for the next one. There will always be more than enough cards to go around with patience
I don't need prime cards, or 2nd heros, or any other cards, I just need to be able to ignore the ridiculously over priced Takashi cards, and not have them hide the collection behind the brand new future cards.
And you are right, the collections are alway millions the first week then they will give out cards like candy, but without TA how will they give the cards out. My guess is always intense packs and headliners. Everything this year is being approached from a business financial mentality and it blows hard.
To be fair tho, the only comparison I have is mlb21 and they spoiled us pretty good.
At first it likely will be locked behind the future stars, but I don't think the voucher will be much more than whatever they give us in the program(assuming 12) plus a couple. So maybe 15
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@genopolanco_psn said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
He’s basically a lefty Frank Thomas and people locked in a lot more than that to get Frank…
Frank's part of the LS, so that's a different argument.
Nevertheless, I can't tell whether the community moaning about not being able to complete the big one with what's already locked in OR the decision to release cards needed for the big collection simultaneously -- which is worse.
What's worst of all, though, is SDS's decision in retrospect to make Rizzo the Lightning player knowing that Delgado and Babe were right around the corner...sheesh....
Shout out, Live Content team! Ugh.
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Honestly though, Babe is a pretty big fan favorite. For those of you screaming "L"....who did you really expect? Or who did you think it should be? Prime Matsui?
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@jonblaze2424_psn said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
Honestly though, Babe is a pretty big fan favorite. For those of you screaming "L"....who did you really expect? Or who did you think it should be? Prime Matsui?
Someone who wasn’t another lefty 97ovr first baseman. If they were dead set on Ruth, it needed to be the 99 Ruth.
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@go4stros25_psn said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
@the_dragon1912 said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
@rosborn27_psn said in 97 Ruth for Takashi Collection is a Huge L:
I’m sure they will technically say you can but with all the Future Stars being dropped on Friday as well you won’t be able to earn them for a few days at least. Thus to get the Big Collection on Friday you’d have to skip FS.
You are correct. It's a cycle around here when it comes to collections. It's a money grab when it first drops and then people beg for free prime cards or whatever and repeat for the next one. There will always be more than enough cards to go around with patience
I don't need prime cards, or 2nd heros, or any other cards, I just need to be able to ignore the ridiculously over priced Takashi cards, and not have them hide the collection behind the brand new future cards.
And you are right, the collections are alway millions the first week then they will give out cards like candy, but without TA how will they give the cards out. My guess is always intense packs and headliners. Everything this year is being approached from a business financial mentality and it blows hard.
To be fair tho, the only comparison I have is mlb21 and they spoiled us pretty good.
21 is actually the game that did things so differently and likely a result of its release later in April.
19 and 20 were done in a manner very similar to what we have this year only difference so far is TA is gone
For reference TA in 19 had only 1 reward all year and it was a 85 to 87 card for every team and TA was irrelevant after about the first 2 months.
TA in 20 was better and had 30 programs 1 for each team so it was a super slow grind for season 1 and 2 which dropped pretty quick then we went about 3 months till season 4 dropped which was just another round of FoTF cards and they were 97 to 99 overall cards but you had to have completed season 1 and 2 to progress to these card or buy them off the market.
What we have now is being course corrected to have the game normally works and in past years the big collection took time to finish not everyone had it done the day it dropped which I think is a positive.
