GAMEPLAY:

swing timing: for whatever reason outside pitches will register as slightly late when you hit them the other way and the perfect window is to center which makes no sense
swing types: The square swing needs a buff. There is literally 0 reason to use it. The exit velocities stay the same, it shrinks the zone to a pea, and the timing window is so small it's insane. Along with that, the X swing should be nerfed. If you're not swinging for power there's no reason a ball should go 530 feet or an inside pitch flying to the wall in center field. Circle swings are fine where they are for the most part. However I feel like more balls should drop in front of outfielders off of them if squared up.
pitching: some pitchers have an almost unusable pinpoint. You'll go the same speed and it just turns yellow or is so fast its impossible to time it. Really pinpoint was an overall negative add to the show in my opinion and they should have buffed other pitching types like analog when they added it so you aren't basically forced to use it to be competitive. The par and strikezone is just a joke as well. You made a perfect pitch? Rng ball on the corner. You made a perfect pitch? The ball is actually just going to tickle the par and end up a strike even though you aimed it in the dirt. Sinkers shouldn't sink high, but I think we are at the point where they are too lazy to code that into the game. Also make pitchers throw what they actually throw velo wise, so tired of seeing guys that throw high 90s pumping 104 with a 96 mph slider in the 7th inning when they have 85 pitches.
fielding: the fielders still aren't urgent at all even though that's what we were all told this year. You cancel a throw because someone rounds third trying to finesse a run and your fielders just have a stroke for like 2 whole seconds before they throw the ball. Then of course you have the opposite where a fielder dives (elly...) halfway across the field to catch a ball hit 105 up the middle. The superman dives aren't it. The field is also made of concrete or something, I've never seen a 60 mph blooper bounce 15 feet in the air like in this game.
co-op: I don't understand why it matters if we make a full goon squad with captains and everything. Would instantly make it more fun to play if it was all players we wanted to use. Still get freezeoffs too here and there. SDS says it's one of the least played game modes, but maybe that's the case because your execution was cheeks, not the game mode.

NON GAMEPLAY ISSUES:

DD: I sound like a broken record echoed by the community but a majority does NOT like seasons. At least yall haven't added a "battlepass" yet, but the way it's going I could see that xp rewards path turning into one somehow. Power creep is just objectively better, one feels like you are constantly building a better squad, while sets feel like you built the squad and then steal all the hard work you put in to upgrade your team. They should reintroduce team "epics" next year as well, and the program shouldbe reworked to build a cohesive theme team that you can then upgrade with power creep throughout the year with new epic missions that add more players to the team. The 1st team epic should come with a captain and a few players and add from there. Overall I just want to see more promos and events that are fun.
franchise: Nobody plays it because you put no effort in. Everyone used to play franchise game modes back in the ps2 days because it was so in depth and you could spend hours on it, but they won't spend money on microtransactions so screw those people.
DD (Cont.) packs: Overall this year's game felt like a cashgrab, lots of cards only obtainable through packs that were "meta" on release and that wouldn't be a problem, but the pack odds and values of cards makes it hard to justify packs. Madden gets away with it because they release ltds and all of a sudden packs aren't a bad proposition. You can get your "lottery" card and make out like a bandit. The packs in DD just feel dull and the only thing expensive you can pull at all is a high live series or a chase card, neither of which return you enough stubs to justify packs because a majority of the time you spend 75k and get like 15% back on return to player. If you compared putting your money in mlb packs to a slot machine you should just throw it in a slot machine and buy the stubs with the money you might win, it's that bad.

CONCLUSION:
Overall I would say this game gets a 80/100. It's not unplayable, heck sometimes it's even kind of fun. However the downsides of the game will make you tilt so fast and make you not want to play it. Even when you're better than someone you can end up losing because of a fault of the game and not your own and that combined with how DD is run is why the score is an 80. The game could easily be a 90-95 if they just fixed small frustrations.

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