The Legend Problem & how to solve it
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This post has nothing to do with Sets/Seasons but rather another issue that Gomes brought up in a recent video that doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves…The number of legends in DD…Madden & NBA2K have like triple the legends that The Show has. The reason isn’t the All Time greats. The Show does a good job of having Ruth, Mays, Mantle, ect in the game…That’s not the problem. The problem is they don’t have nearly enough of “good” former players in the game that would get people ALOT more excited. Like every year it’s the same.players.every.time….Let’s use the Pirates for example - Every year there’s Clemente, Stargell & Wagner. No doubt these are the best legends of that franchise. But we’ve grinded for these guys repeatedly for YEARS….What if they went in a different direction and introduced Andy Van Slyke, Doug Drabek, Steve Blass, Mike LaVallier, ect…These players are not as big of “legends” but they would be fresh & new and I think doing this across ALL teams would GREATLY increase interest & desire to play.
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I want a Dock Ellis No No Milestone card badly, they could really have fun with the card art
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@BJDUBBYAH There ya go man - A perfect example. Of course the all time greats are important. But players that were good but a much bigger deal to the local market than on the national stage are players that the community would eat up. The ability to play with these guys would ultimately take people back to their childhood & they’d get to relive memories from a better time.
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They could make the Dock card all trippy with acid like flashbacks, lol I would love a Bill Madlock card for Pitt.
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Dock Ellis was in the game (2018 I believe).
And Drabek was in 2017.One thing that usually goes unmentioned when comparing MLB and NFL/NBA legends is that you can basically ignore NFL and NBA history up until about 1960 and not really miss anyone of importance.
Do that with MLB and you miss out on Babe, Gehrig, Jackie, Cy, Wagner, Walter, Foxx and Feller (not to mention Ted, Tris, DiMaggio, Berra, Hornsby, Tinkers/Evers/Chance) and a slew of others.
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I don’t think there is a union for veterans that former players sign into like other games or if so I don’t think the baseball one works the same, it’s why we don’t have the legends the other games do.
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