Fire and Finesse Program tomorrow (reward card shown)
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I'm underwhelmed.
But I have been unable to motivate myself to finish many of the programs. -
Yeah I have already moved on to other games I just can't get excited about the game, I want to but can't
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That card is going to be gross
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Dustin May cards are usually pretty solid. Looking forward to this one.
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Are you underwhelmed because it’s a Dustin May card? Or because it’s not a 99?
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Fire and Finesse Program tomorrow (reward card shown):
I'm underwhelmed.
What else is new? You been underwhelmed for like 3 years lol.
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But... It's gonna be May?
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@dmc04005_PSN said in Fire and Finesse Program tomorrow (reward card shown):
Are you underwhelmed because it’s a Dustin May card? Or because it’s not a 99?
Because it is May, and another Dodger. Nothing to do with the overall.
Apparently people like using him and are looking forward to using it, so it is just a me issue. As I said, I am just having motivation issues this year with the game in general.
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@Pergo_MLBTS yea, you're right. always solid player on the rotation.
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@Dolenz_PSN for me helpful was almost year of break from the game - last year I preordered, but played only till may. after that i abandoned game due to lack of fun during play. This year till now I'm fulfilling all programs and don't feel underwhelmed. Enjoy from the game is back for me.
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@dantheranman_XBL said in Fire and Finesse Program tomorrow (reward card shown):
But... It's gonna be May?
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I feel you on this. I actually turned the game on yesterday, stared at my manage squad screen for a few minutes, and turned it off. I’ve really tried to give this year a chance to turn a corner but I’m just about done. At the very least I need to take an extended break.
It’s just not fun or rewarding and struggling to keep up or get any of the gatekeepers in the live collection or Scott Rolen collection has soured me a great deal.
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Things have lifecycles. SDS tried to spice up the formula with sets and seasons and it was a disaster. They returned to what people wanted (or were used to), and I'm curious to see how the numbers are. For me, at 50, I can't keep investing in a mode that expires every year -- build the sandcastle, watch it disintegrate into the surf, then build another one next year, then watch it wash away into the surf...
For all businesses now, it's about capture and upcharge.
Fire up the Oblivion remaster, and join me in the glory of Bethesda jank.
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@TripleH-4481_PSN said in Fire and Finesse Program tomorrow (reward card shown):
I feel you on this. I actually turned the game on yesterday, stared at my manage squad screen for a few minutes, and turned it off. I’ve really tried to give this year a chance to turn a corner but I’m just about done. At the very least I need to take an extended break.
It’s just not fun or rewarding and struggling to keep up or get any of the gatekeepers in the live collection or Scott Rolen collection has soured me a great deal.
I didn't mean to turn this into a complaint thread. My problem this year is that I told myself I was not going to fall into the pattern of me getting all the Cardinal Cards, creating a lineup of them and then rarely using them because I constantly have other squads playing to earn PXP or stats with a certain card type or team. I've never played enough hours each week to do both.
@Loyal-Wiglaf_XBL said in Fire and Finesse Program tomorrow (reward card shown):
Fire up the Oblivion remaster, and join me in the glory of Bethesda jank.
I actually did play a little of that this morning.
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I am still excited about the game, but maybe a little less than in previous years. But at some point it just isn't SDS's fault anymore. Baseball is baseball and there's really not a lot new they can do without making it not-baseball. They can give us fun rewards or make new modes like DQ, but in the end it's still pitching, hitting, fielding, running. We are all baseball nuts, but at some point our attention spans turn elsewhere. Sometimes I mix in another game just to keep things fresh, but MLBTS will always be my faithful old standby -- even if I lose interest now and then.
(BTW, gentlemen -- do not make this analogy to your wives. She does not want to mix in a new game to keep it fresh, no matter how obvious it was that our new neighbor was clearly hitting on both of us when we were gardening a couple weekends ago. Clarissa is NOT the Oblivion remaster, plain and simple)
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While I agree that there is only so much you can do with baseball my biggest thing is the game just doesn’t feel fun or rewarding.
They have made hitting a mess. The CPU pitches like Rick Vaughn one minute and Greg Maddux the next. I enjoyed just being able to get on the game, mash with my favorite players, flip to get the cards I wanted, and be rewarded plentifully for my time with decent pack and stub rewards.
All of that has taken a massive step backwards to where the only thing keeping me playing is my love for baseball.
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I'll add that the removal of Costco as an offline grinding option (I understand limiting it in online) has made the stat and PXP grinds just a little more grindy.
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@TripleH-4481_PSN said in Fire and Finesse Program tomorrow (reward card shown):
While I agree that there is only so much you can do with baseball my biggest thing is the game just doesn’t feel fun or rewarding.
They have made hitting a mess. The CPU pitches like Rick Vaughn one minute and Greg Maddux the next. I enjoyed just being able to get on the game, mash with my favorite players, flip to get the cards I wanted, and be rewarded plentifully for my time with decent pack and stub rewards.
All of that has taken a massive step backwards to where the only thing keeping me playing is my love for baseball.
I feel like I always feel like this in April. Especially this year with the power creep reset. Most of us are probably still remembering what it felt like from about June onward last year, and it's easy to forget we aren't playing with 99s anymore. I think there are definitely things that need to be addressed, but overall I attribute a lot of the inconsistencies to the fact that I'm playing with mid-level diamonds or lower.
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Yeah that’s definitely part of it. Play vs CPU games are the least fun to play. They used to be fun to just mash and get xp but now aren’t even worth the hassle this year.
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@CDNMoneyMaker93_XBL said in Fire and Finesse Program tomorrow (reward card shown):
Yeah I have already moved on to other games I just can't get excited about the game, I want to but can't
Hurts me to say, but yeah...the programs honestly just aren't captivating me like they have in the past. I did the grind in the 1st inning...but now I'm barely 1/3 of the way through #2. They need to bump up the Game XP back to where it was in '23 and back, for starters. Slashing the in game XP last year was certainly an odd choice. I just don't have the time to full time grind anymore...and I get there's additional XP in the programs but you shouldn't have to do them just to get additional XP.
@TripleH-4481_PSN said in Fire and Finesse Program tomorrow (reward card shown):
Yeah that’s definitely part of it. Play vs CPU games are the least fun to play. They used to be fun to just mash and get xp but now aren’t even worth the hassle this year.
Tell me about it. I still have no clue why they slashed gameplay XP starting last year...used to be worth it for XP to play against the CPU PLUS I could pause the game if I needed to
