Why SDS Loves Seasons
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It is quite obvious. SDS figured out that they sell more stubs at the beginning of the year, the season, than at any other time. So someone at SDS, who has since surely been promoted, decided why not have 4 starts of the year (seasons). No one will have cards again and we will see that green flow in 4 times instead of just once.
This primarily affects DD and people who want to play their favorite team. Competitive DD players will be throwing cash at the game at the beginning of each season when they no longer have the best cards. For me, how am I to make an all time Cubs team? By the time I have a Cubs team together I will have to start all over again. Sure those cards will be better, but by the time I have the new team together they too will be taken from me. Over and over again. Non-Core cards will be worth nothing except for collections. No one will have their favorite team put together for any significant period of time.
And why? So SDS and Sony can keep the cash flowing in at our expense (literally). Oh so you don't want to spend money at the beginning of each season? Good luck with that.
SDS goes the way of EA.
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To make matters worse, they didn't even use that money to update the game. Same graphics, same celebration animations, very few updates to franchise, etc. It seems they just pocketed the cash and gave us basically 2023 part 2.
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What makes you think they sell more stubs with seasons? I know I didn’t buy any in 23 and I’m sitting on over 1m. Granted, during the regular season, I was between 300k-700k depending on the cards I was buying, but I never purchased any stubs. What’s the point of buying stubs when they were giving them away so freely?
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Just copying other game formats. But MLB is different.
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@Vipersneak
For me, the greed started the day SDS took away the ability to sell the BR rewards. That was the only way I was able to make any money at this game. -
@Blind_Bleeder because that fits his narrative
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I still don’t understand why it’s bad for a, for profit company to want to make money?
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@BJDUBBYAH Agreed, why does every seem to have a problem with a company trying to make a profit?
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@baseball229056 There is a difference between trying to make a profit and taking advantage of your customers when you have a monopoly on baseball games. They would make a profit without seasons.
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@Vipersneak said in Why SDS Loves Seasons:
@baseball229056 There is a difference between trying to make a profit and taking advantage of your customers when you have a monopoly on baseball games. They would make a profit without seasons.
And there is an incredible amount of free content. And thousands of “No Money Spent” players every year. So I’m still not sure why you have a problem with a company making money off of their product.
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@Vipersneak Unless you have access to their P and L how would you know how profitable they are? If you do have access to their numbers, please post. It's possible Sony is putting pressure on them to raise revenue or increase profitability.
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To me this theory from OP doesn't make much sense. With the setup of '23's content it was the first time since I started DD that I didn't spend any money on the game. There were so many easily attainable good cards that it was the first time I didn't feel like buying stubs was even necessary.
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@baseball229056 said in Why SDS Loves Seasons:
Unless you have access to their P and L
You had me at P&L...
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Yeah this theory doesn't land, beyond the digital deluxe edition I didn't spend a dime extra on this game. That was the first time ever, normally I spend close to an extra 200 to 300 on stubs over the course of the year.
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@Blind_Bleeder Your post is amusing. So because you don't buy stubs then no one does? lol Obviously, when no one has cards, those that buy stubs (especially whales) are going to buy most of their stubs at that time. Or, this year once again, at each of those times.
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The only thing amusing about this thread is your refusal to embrace reality. Sure, there are people out there who will purchase their teams day one but for the remaining 99% of us we’re going to play the game and acquire our teams…just like you will, just like I will. Maybe, just, maybe the goal is to get people to play the game and enjoy the ride?
As for being frustrated regarding not being able to assemble an all time Cubs team in a short time frame just imagine the frustration the franchise has in reality! They’ve been around since 1876 and still can’t put a decent team together lol
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I didn't bother buying stubs cuz I got so many for free. sitting at 500k
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I didn’t buy stubs and literally have everything in the game minus a few cards. Don’t be mad others chose to buy stubs and you don’t
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I've got almost all the cards also, would be closer if I did more of the topps now and monthly programs but I have every card I want and sitting on 1,000,000 that I should have spent, lol.
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@LIONED-33 whos mad?
