Ranked and BR Change Explanation
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Bingo…..this was always the plan and all the other reasons/excuses being trumpeted by the masses were simply to convince just enough people to believe otherwise to prevent excessive backlash. More and more players are realizing this over time and when set 3 launches the real show will begin.
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Why have 1 game cycle when you can artificially create 6 mini cycles in 1 year? This is an experiment and even if most of the player base leaves if the game makes more money, which it likely will, this will be here to stay. It’s why so many of us have been so vocal because we are witnessing the slow death of a game we loved playing and there is nothing we can do about it. The change in BR and WS rewards is just the icing on the cake to a paradigm shift set in motion long ago to maximize revenue player satisfaction be damned. To most of us the game was simply a welcome temporary distraction/escape from daily life and not the center of our lives.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
I have used the phrase before and I am sure that I will use it again.
Aggressive Monetization.
Everything about this years game seems to be pushing people to buy stubs.
- 99's in very expensive packs that are sold for a very short time, ensuring their rarity and higher prices.
- Expiration dates on cards, which means you may have to pay a lot of stubs for a 99 of your favorite players multiple times.
- No Sell POTM cards
- No Sell BR program rewards
- Pitiful Stubs payouts in programs, moments, and now Showdowns. In showdown you used to be able to make your stubs back after three or four bosses. Not so in the Kaiju showdown.
So more expensive cards than ever before + less opportunities to earn stubs = Aggressive Monetization.
It's a real slap in the teeth seeing something like 6 stubs earned after a game vs the CPU. They have killed most avenues for making stubs unless you want to play a market simulator or are in the top 1% skill level and playing the game is your full time job.
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@JiggidyJJ_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
@Tuke7-1_MLBTS said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
@JiggidyJJ_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
@Firestormx_MLBTS said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
I find the explanation infuriating for the change to Ranked and BR. More snobbish elitism. The basic answer is only those who go 12-0 or make 900 should have stubs. Nobody else is allowed only the 1% is allowed to get richer in stubs. The program is not cost-efficient enough for an average to causal player to do the program. You lose too many stubs with 100 million stubs per attempt cost to enter the BR Program. The stupid pack you get for each entry gives about 150-250 stubs back normally max. This explanation will not help anything but will further divide between snobbish elites and everyone else. Even if those who go 12-0 or make 900 are not snobbish elites, that is the impression. Taking away from those in the middle to bottom to cater to those at the very top seldom goes over well. Take away the ability for anyone to sell or reverse this decision is the only fair answer.
click the link and scroll to the bottom for official explanation of change
https://theshow.com/news/game23-update-7/You know it's real easy to flip stubbs. Prolly could have made 10k by the time it took you to write this.
Flipping isn't nearly as easy as it used to be. The new quick sell prices have tightened all the margins to the point where it actually takes an effort.
I used to make a killing selling silvers right after a new program with exchange options would drop. SDS killed that with the increased exchange requirements. Instead of doing easy exchanges, players are now just doing all the repeatable missions like MTO, and mini, which, is the smart way to do do it but the extreme shift in the exchange requirements ruined that stub making method as well.
I'm doing just fine, I've made ~5M stubbs. Mainly by investing in the right non-live series cards. The point is rather than spending all the effort in complaining, that effort could be put to better use which would get the OP closer to his goal. In this case, making stubbs to buy a BR reward.
I never stated that flipping cards and building a bank could not be done, because it can. However, that does not change the fact that regardless of whatever over inflated number you throw out, SDS has made a concerted effort to make it more difficult than in years past. The fact that you made your bank by flipping "select non LS cards" validates the point.
In years prior, a player could build a substantial bank off silver & gold cards with minimal starting capital, effort, or thought put in to the process. Those days are gone and SDS is continuing their effort to make it more difficult by making not just BR & WS program rewards non sellable (which I am fine with BTW) but making many "run of the mill" rewards non sellable as well.
As far as the OP's complaint, if no one speaks out, nothing ever changes. I would rather read a complaint like his as opposed to someone posting about how "this game sucks because their perfect/perfect was a lineout to the wall and their opponent won the game on a late bloop to RF."
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@TripleH-4481_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
Why have 1 game cycle when you can artificially create 6 mini cycles in 1 year? This is an experiment and even if most of the player base leaves if the game makes more money, which it likely will, this will be here to stay. It’s why so many of us have been so vocal because we are witnessing the slow death of a game we loved playing and there is nothing we can do about it. The change in BR and WS rewards is just the icing on the cake to a paradigm shift set in motion long ago to maximize revenue player satisfaction be damned. To most of us the game was simply a welcome temporary distraction/escape from daily life and not the center of our lives.
Someone on reddit summed it up "Why fleece the whales once at the beginning of the year when you can do it over and over?"
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Honestly the packs being non sellable wouldn't bother me. But if you're going to tell me to "Grind 99" then you better have 3 packs available so I can grind my way to getting all 3 of the non sellable rewards.
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@Tuke7-1_MLBTS said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
@JiggidyJJ_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
@Tuke7-1_MLBTS said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
@JiggidyJJ_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
@Firestormx_MLBTS said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
I find the explanation infuriating for the change to Ranked and BR. More snobbish elitism. The basic answer is only those who go 12-0 or make 900 should have stubs. Nobody else is allowed only the 1% is allowed to get richer in stubs. The program is not cost-efficient enough for an average to causal player to do the program. You lose too many stubs with 100 million stubs per attempt cost to enter the BR Program. The stupid pack you get for each entry gives about 150-250 stubs back normally max. This explanation will not help anything but will further divide between snobbish elites and everyone else. Even if those who go 12-0 or make 900 are not snobbish elites, that is the impression. Taking away from those in the middle to bottom to cater to those at the very top seldom goes over well. Take away the ability for anyone to sell or reverse this decision is the only fair answer.
click the link and scroll to the bottom for official explanation of change
https://theshow.com/news/game23-update-7/You know it's real easy to flip stubbs. Prolly could have made 10k by the time it took you to write this.
Flipping isn't nearly as easy as it used to be. The new quick sell prices have tightened all the margins to the point where it actually takes an effort.
I used to make a killing selling silvers right after a new program with exchange options would drop. SDS killed that with the increased exchange requirements. Instead of doing easy exchanges, players are now just doing all the repeatable missions like MTO, and mini, which, is the smart way to do do it but the extreme shift in the exchange requirements ruined that stub making method as well.
I'm doing just fine, I've made ~5M stubbs. Mainly by investing in the right non-live series cards. The point is rather than spending all the effort in complaining, that effort could be put to better use which would get the OP closer to his goal. In this case, making stubbs to buy a BR reward.
I never stated that flipping cards and building a bank could not be done, because it can. However, that does not change the fact that regardless of whatever over inflated number you throw out, SDS has made a concerted effort to make it more difficult than in years past. The fact that you made your bank by flipping "select non LS cards" validates the point.
In years prior, a player could build a substantial bank off silver & gold cards with minimal starting capital, effort, or thought put in to the process. Those days are gone and SDS is continuing their effort to make it more difficult by making not just BR & WS program rewards non sellable (which I am fine with BTW) but making many "run of the mill" rewards non sellable as well.
As far as the OP's complaint, if no one speaks out, nothing ever changes. I would rather read a complaint like his as opposed to someone posting about how "this game sucks because their perfect/perfect was a lineout to the wall and their opponent won the game on a late bloop to RF."
I really don't see what the big deal is, but whatevs.... complain away. To each their own.
I do disagree with all the "It's all about buying Stubbs" chatter. It is extremely easy to build a bankroll in this game. Yes, it's not as mind-numbingly easy as years past, but still extremely easy and none of it is a secret. If SDS truly was gearing everything towards "buying Stubbs" there are some very simple and easy things they can do to make it very difficult to build a bankroll. They haven't.
I think the simpler answer is more likely to be true in that SDS wanted to create a more significant reward for challenging avenues so peeps feel rewarded when they accomplish a feat. But hey, what do I know? Other than that is exactly what they posted in the new patch description.
My point was that rather than focusing time and attention on the so-called negative aspects of the game, focus your time and attention on building a bankroll, and then the whole thing is mute. You can buy whatever card you want without spending a dime.
Or.... Continue to complain away, as I said earlier to each their own. I'll go back to making stubbs. I already lost 10k writing this
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I don’t have a problem with the no sells , but for a no sell card the time investment on a non flawless run seems to be too heavy. Not saying they should give cards away or that there shouldn’t be any grind to it but with these programs and suffering through loss after loss after loss to get a no sell card seems too much. I won’t be doing it. At least I won’t be for now. Nothing about the rewards really screams I gotta have it to me
I will say that at least in ranked , I can co-op grind those cards with friends and even though we lose more often than we win , we still have fun with it. We’re losing together , as a team and at times having fun doing so. Never have I played solo and lost a head to head game where I can say that.
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@JiggidyJJ_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
@Firestormx_MLBTS said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
I find the explanation infuriating for the change to Ranked and BR. More snobbish elitism. The basic answer is only those who go 12-0 or make 900 should have stubs. Nobody else is allowed only the 1% is allowed to get richer in stubs. The program is not cost-efficient enough for an average to causal player to do the program. You lose too many stubs with 100 million stubs per attempt cost to enter the BR Program. The stupid pack you get for each entry gives about 150-250 stubs back normally max. This explanation will not help anything but will further divide between snobbish elites and everyone else. Even if those who go 12-0 or make 900 are not snobbish elites, that is the impression. Taking away from those in the middle to bottom to cater to those at the very top seldom goes over well. Take away the ability for anyone to sell or reverse this decision is the only fair answer.
click the link and scroll to the bottom for official explanation of change
https://theshow.com/news/game23-update-7/You know it's real easy to flip stubbs. Prolly could have made 10k by the time it took you to write this.
Nothing against people that flip but I have zero interest in playing a fake stock market. I want to play the game and get stubs from playing the game. They are making this game where you have to do stuff you really don't want to if you want a good competitive team online. This includes flipping, conquests, mini seasons and playing the computer.
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@BrikMahorn_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
Follow the $$$...
They are going to continue to make moves that not only increase the need for players to buy Stubs...but also the need to buy Stubs later in the game cycle...ie when a new Season starts and an entire Set of cards becomes UNUSABLE in the most competitive game modes (Ranked).
They are also going to continue to favor STREAMERS over casuals.
Streamers make them money. Streamers are some of their BEST customers when it comes to buying Stubs. A Streamer can drop $200 on Stubs without even thinking about it, knowing they will make it back in YT ad revenue. Some of them might even be able to write it off as a "business expense". (I'm not a lawyer or accountant...so there's that)
You think it's just a coincidence that there's 73 Set 1 cards that are 99s...and 4 Core cards that are 99s?
What's going to be really funny is when they PULL all these Set 1 cards for Season 3...and then start releasing different versions of all the SAME PLAYERS!
Griffey Jr, Chipper, Ohtani, Trout, Tatis, Lindor, etc, etc...
They will all get "Set 3" cards that you'll either have to grind again for or BUY Stubs to get.
All of this was pretty OBVIOUS from Day 1...the fact that some of you just refused to believe doesn't mean it wasn't.
Why is everyone so against SDS turning a profit? People always seem to go nuts if there is even the idea of SDS doing anything that could cause people to choose to spend a few dollars.
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@baseball229056_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
Why is everyone so against SDS turning a profit? People always seem to go nuts if there is even the idea of SDS doing anything that could cause people to choose to spend a few dollars.
Well, to me it is a bad thing. I am old enough to remember when you bought a baseball game and you got the ENTIRE GAME upon purchase. None of this, well, you paid full price, but unless you are part of the 1% of online players, you only get 60% of the game, despite paying full price.
In addition to that, they released a half completed game this year, but charged everyone full price. That screams RIP OFF to me. So glad I dodged that bullet. Sure, they are saying "we are aware of the problem, and are looking into it", but the fact that we are 2 months into the season and stuff that was not done on launch is still broken tells me that have zero intention of fixing it now, and why would they? They already suckered everyone into full price.
It's like buying a car online, having the car delivered, and when you get inside you find out "oh, you need to pay us an additional amount for the engine, some more for tires, and a little more for the transmission."
What they should be doing is waiting until the entire game is good to go, tested, and any bugs found FIXED, then put to market. We can still play other years versions of the game until then. Then charge ONE price for ALL CONTENT up front.
This eliminates the need to even have a market, and those of us who despise the toxic online experience can play offline and be happier. Those who want that head to head experience, or those who like to be toxic and see what they can get away with will also be happier.
But corrupt greedy SDS will never do that when they can vampire 10 times as much for "early access" or microtransactions.
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@darkblue1876_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
@baseball229056_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
Why is everyone so against SDS turning a profit? People always seem to go nuts if there is even the idea of SDS doing anything that could cause people to choose to spend a few dollars.
Well, to me it is a bad thing. I am old enough to remember when you bought a baseball game and you got the ENTIRE GAME upon purchase. None of this, well, you paid full price, but unless you are part of the 1% of online players, you only get 60% of the game, despite paying full price.
In addition to that, they released a half completed game this year, but charged everyone full price. That screams RIP OFF to me. So glad I dodged that bullet. Sure, they are saying "we are aware of the problem, and are looking into it", but the fact that we are 2 months into the season and stuff that was not done on launch is still broken tells me that have zero intention of fixing it now, and why would they? They already suckered everyone into full price.
It's like buying a car online, having the car delivered, and when you get inside you find out "oh, you need to pay us an additional amount for the engine, some more for tires, and a little more for the transmission."
What they should be doing is waiting until the entire game is good to go, tested, and any bugs found FIXED, then put to market. We can still play other years versions of the game until then. Then charge ONE price for ALL CONTENT up front.
This eliminates the need to even have a market, and those of us who despise the toxic online experience can play offline and be happier. Those who want that head to head experience, or those who like to be toxic and see what they can get away with will also be happier.
But corrupt greedy SDS will never do that when they can vampire 10 times as much for "early access" or microtransactions.
Yeah I definitely wouldn’t like it if they just gave me every card. Then what’s the point of playing DD? I like playing through the programs to get the new cards. And it doesn’t cost me any extra money. You do get the full game and all of the content released without paying any extra. You just have to earn the players. And even the ones only in packs, you can make enough stubs without spending money to buy those players. Sure, it takes longer this year. But you can still do it.
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@baseball229056_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
I like the change. The way it was before, there was no value in the reward cards. I think the ws rewards last season were going for about 40k. There should be some incentive and reward for doing something good in the game. Not everyone should get a trophy.
There was already an incentive. You can get 2 reward players instead of 1. If they continue this BS of catering to the elite players they'll lose a bunch of money on next year's game when people stop buying it. It's bad enough we have to grind for cards that we can't sell but we also can't use all of them in a few months .
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Exclusivity is a good thing. I want to be able to use a card that not many others have. Game was watered down and constantly catering to the general public. This is a massive W
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@nashbandicoot1_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
Exclusivity is a good thing. I want to be able to use a card that not many others have. Game was watered down and constantly catering to the general public. This is a massive W
So "I got mine, too bad for you" eh?
They could still give us lower tier players chances to earn the card but telling 99% of the customers they pay full price for 60% of the game is garbage.
But that's how the "get gud" crowd has always been. They want the game for themselves, and ONLY for themselves. Everyone else can just shut up and take it while they "sMasH nOObs" and pat themselves on the back.
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@darkblue1876_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
@baseball229056_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
Why is everyone so against SDS turning a profit? People always seem to go nuts if there is even the idea of SDS doing anything that could cause people to choose to spend a few dollars.
Well, to me it is a bad thing. I am old enough to remember when you bought a baseball game and you got the ENTIRE GAME upon purchase. None of this, well, you paid full price, but unless you are part of the 1% of online players, you only get 60% of the game, despite paying full price.
In addition to that, they released a half completed game this year, but charged everyone full price. That screams RIP OFF to me. So glad I dodged that bullet. Sure, they are saying "we are aware of the problem, and are looking into it", but the fact that we are 2 months into the season and stuff that was not done on launch is still broken tells me that have zero intention of fixing it now, and why would they? They already suckered everyone into full price.
It's like buying a car online, having the car delivered, and when you get inside you find out "oh, you need to pay us an additional amount for the engine, some more for tires, and a little more for the transmission."
What they should be doing is waiting until the entire game is good to go, tested, and any bugs found FIXED, then put to market. We can still play other years versions of the game until then. Then charge ONE price for ALL CONTENT up front.
This eliminates the need to even have a market, and those of us who despise the toxic online experience can play offline and be happier. Those who want that head to head experience, or those who like to be toxic and see what they can get away with will also be happier.
But corrupt greedy SDS will never do that when they can vampire 10 times as much for "early access" or microtransactions.
Are you old enough to remember that those games you bought didn't have anything close to a mode like Diamond Dynasty that had a full content team employed to release new content throughout the season?
Also, wait until you find out what car companies are doing now with subscriptions to use certain features!
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@baseball229056_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
@BrikMahorn_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
Follow the $$$...
They are going to continue to make moves that not only increase the need for players to buy Stubs...but also the need to buy Stubs later in the game cycle...ie when a new Season starts and an entire Set of cards becomes UNUSABLE in the most competitive game modes (Ranked).
They are also going to continue to favor STREAMERS over casuals.
Streamers make them money. Streamers are some of their BEST customers when it comes to buying Stubs. A Streamer can drop $200 on Stubs without even thinking about it, knowing they will make it back in YT ad revenue. Some of them might even be able to write it off as a "business expense". (I'm not a lawyer or accountant...so there's that)
You think it's just a coincidence that there's 73 Set 1 cards that are 99s...and 4 Core cards that are 99s?
What's going to be really funny is when they PULL all these Set 1 cards for Season 3...and then start releasing different versions of all the SAME PLAYERS!
Griffey Jr, Chipper, Ohtani, Trout, Tatis, Lindor, etc, etc...
They will all get "Set 3" cards that you'll either have to grind again for or BUY Stubs to get.
All of this was pretty OBVIOUS from Day 1...the fact that some of you just refused to believe doesn't mean it wasn't.
Why is everyone so against SDS turning a profit? People always seem to go nuts if there is even the idea of SDS doing anything that could cause people to choose to spend a few dollars.
Where did I say im against SDS making a profit???
What I’m against is being told by everyone that this was NOT the reason they’ve made the changes they have. It’s been clear as day this is the direction things were going, yet here and on Reddit those of us who saw this coming were told we were WRONG.
I actually have zero issue with it. I’m a weirdo who actually prefers when these team modes are HARD. When not everyone has the ability to get EVERY single card with relative ease.
And if people want to spend real money to get what they want, I have no problem with that either.
My “beef” is with the hordes of people who told people like me not even two months ago that we were wrong…and that SDS would never go down the path that EA and 2K have.
Seriously…I made a post asking why there was no uproar over SDS taking this path, when if EA or 2K did…there would be hate and vitriol everywhere.
I have no issues with it.
However, I will say it’s kind of CRINGE how many of these addictive tactics taken from the playbooks of casinos are directed at those under the age of 18.
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@nashbandicoot1_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
Exclusivity is a good thing. I want to be able to use a card that not many others have. Game was watered down and constantly catering to the general public. This is a massive W
Catering to the general public? WTF? Who do you think buys this game? Where is your flex World Series Banner like the rest?
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@BrikMahorn_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
Follow the $$$...
They are going to continue to make moves that not only increase the need for players to buy Stubs...but also the need to buy Stubs later in the game cycle...ie when a new Season starts and an entire Set of cards becomes UNUSABLE in the most competitive game modes (Ranked).
They are also going to continue to favor STREAMERS over casuals.
Streamers make them money. Streamers are some of their BEST customers when it comes to buying Stubs. A Streamer can drop $200 on Stubs without even thinking about it, knowing they will make it back in YT ad revenue. Some of them might even be able to write it off as a "business expense". (I'm not a lawyer or accountant...so there's that)
You think it's just a coincidence that there's 73 Set 1 cards that are 99s...and 4 Core cards that are 99s?
What's going to be really funny is when they PULL all these Set 1 cards for Season 3...and then start releasing different versions of all the SAME PLAYERS!
Griffey Jr, Chipper, Ohtani, Trout, Tatis, Lindor, etc, etc...
They will all get "Set 3" cards that you'll either have to grind again for or BUY Stubs to get.
All of this was pretty OBVIOUS from Day 1...the fact that some of you just refused to believe doesn't mean it wasn't.
Hit the nail on the head.
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@Pergo_MLBTS said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
@darkblue1876_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
@baseball229056_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:
Why is everyone so against SDS turning a profit? People always seem to go nuts if there is even the idea of SDS doing anything that could cause people to choose to spend a few dollars.
Well, to me it is a bad thing. I am old enough to remember when you bought a baseball game and you got the ENTIRE GAME upon purchase. None of this, well, you paid full price, but unless you are part of the 1% of online players, you only get 60% of the game, despite paying full price.
In addition to that, they released a half completed game this year, but charged everyone full price. That screams RIP OFF to me. So glad I dodged that bullet. Sure, they are saying "we are aware of the problem, and are looking into it", but the fact that we are 2 months into the season and stuff that was not done on launch is still broken tells me that have zero intention of fixing it now, and why would they? They already suckered everyone into full price.
It's like buying a car online, having the car delivered, and when you get inside you find out "oh, you need to pay us an additional amount for the engine, some more for tires, and a little more for the transmission."
What they should be doing is waiting until the entire game is good to go, tested, and any bugs found FIXED, then put to market. We can still play other years versions of the game until then. Then charge ONE price for ALL CONTENT up front.
This eliminates the need to even have a market, and those of us who despise the toxic online experience can play offline and be happier. Those who want that head to head experience, or those who like to be toxic and see what they can get away with will also be happier.
But corrupt greedy SDS will never do that when they can vampire 10 times as much for "early access" or microtransactions.
Are you old enough to remember that those games you bought didn't have anything close to a mode like Diamond Dynasty that had a full content team employed to release new content throughout the season?
Also, wait until you find out what car companies are doing now with subscriptions to use certain features!
And yet they still released a half complete game for full price. Sorry, not sure having broken content is better than a fully functional game at the prices SDS is charging.
I would be completely satisfied with a return to the older way of games that actually worked with less features at a smaller price.
