Struggling for motivation to play
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@mietha_PSN said in Struggling for motivation to play:
I literally just turned the game on, saw that there was not only still not a repeatable conquest map, but no new one at all, and turned it right back off. I do not want to play ranked. I definitely do not want to play diamond quest. Mini-Seasons is fine, but I want an actual playable version of conquest back. It is completely absurd that they still haven't added a repeatable one. It seems they are actively trying to make the game as unfun as possible.
And I dont think they have released a map with more than 5 games on it since the 2nd or 3rd week.
Conquest maps should be like grapefuit/cactus maps, which were great
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If you don't do DD for head-to-head online, then it's bound to get old and grindy. And the mode is reaching the point in its life that lots of players -- not all, but lots -- are burned out on it. I played hard for a few years, had a love-hate relationship with it last year, and haven't played much at all this year. Didn't complete 1st inning, and won't get very far in 2nd.
I wish franchise were better.
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@Loyal-Wiglaf_XBL said in Struggling for motivation to play:
If you don't do DD for head-to-head online, then it's bound to get old and grindy. And the mode is reaching the point in its life that lots of players -- not all, but lots -- are burned out on it. I played hard for a few years, had a love-hate relationship with it last year, and haven't played much at all this year. Didn't complete 1st inning, and won't get very far in 2nd.
I wish franchise were better.
The game is less fun to play, particularly with the way the CPU pitches
Mini seasons are significantly less rewarding to repeat
There is no grindable conquest
The programs have less than half the cards they had 2 years ago
XP is tougher to get, and the rewards are complete [censored] anyway. For example, the last node on the xp path is a 53.5% chance of a gold card (and the diamonds have little value anyway)Sure, burnout can happen but the real problem is the game has gone downhill
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Again, the joy has to be in playing baseball games within a video game presentation. If that simple act isn't something you enjoy, then no degree of presentation, mode, or extra concept is going to provide joy to your experience. That said, if you are spending more than a few hours a day playing this game, then you are setting yourself up for burnout and that's not the fault of SDS.
My concern with DD mode is that it encourages obsession by those who play it, by placing before the player some vast scope of layers of achievement needed to achieve pre-determined goals/rewards. This may make some sense to a video game company, but I think it ultimately is a double edged sword that burns people out and hurts long term interests.
If I could physically play actual baseball games still, then that's what I would be doing, but my love of the intricacies of playing baseball has lived long past my physical ability to play it for real. So, a video game is the best alternative.
This is the core reason why I don't play DD but instead RTTS. I just want to play baseball games without layers of additional stuff.
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in Struggling for motivation to play:
Again, the joy has to be in playing baseball games within a video game presentation. If that simple act isn't something you enjoy, then no degree of presentation, mode, or extra concept is going to provide joy to your experience. That said, if you are spending more than a few hours a day playing this game, then you are setting yourself up for burnout and that's not the fault of SDS.
My concern with DD mode is that it encourages obsession by those who play it, by placing before the player some vast scope of layers of achievement needed to achieve pre-determined goals/rewards. This may make some sense to a video game company, but I think it ultimately is a double edged sword that burns people out and hurts long term interests.
If I could physically play actual baseball games still, then that's what I would be doing, but my love of the intricacies of playing baseball has lived long past my physical ability to play it for real. So, a video game is the best alternative.
This is the core reason why I don't play DD but instead RTTS. I just want to play baseball games without layers of additional stuff.
But you play RTTS, and not just exhibition games, right? Or one may play franchise to see how things unfold across several seasons. There is a hook besides just simply playing a game of baseball, and DD is no different.
I look at DD as the sports version of an RPG. You play games to grow your team, or your roster of players. People approach this in different ways, I personally absolutely despise mindless grinding for grindings sake (play vs CPU), which is why I enjoy conquest and mini seasons more.
The two main problems this year is that the game is less fun to play mechanically for some of us, and that they have taken away some of the ways for us to progress our roster.
Ultimately its the first one that matters more, gameplay is king after all. I cant stick with NBA 2K for example because I feel gameplay is a mess. The gameplay of The Show is still tops among its peers, but I'm torn between wanting new things vs going back to play the superior game from 2 years ago (which unfortunately has some missing content now)
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Grinding hard and then seeing the live series collection just keep going up, has made not want to put in effort, and I never felt like that before
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@aldridg6in_PSN Thats what happens when they really do nothing to improve the game, same stale gameplay and less intriguing programs. I have played a LOT less this year. Not interested in spending hundreds on a game that is much more stale.
Ready for a new studio and fresh devs to take over this game.
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@Dolenz_PSN Bro as a fellow Cards fan I barely just got to Ozzie, I don't even play it like to use to. Just stale
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@TheGoaler_PSN I'm jumping into that Oblivion Remaster, pretty rare W from Bethesda these days
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@DoIHearBossMusic_PSN said in Struggling for motivation to play:
@TheGoaler_PSN I'm jumping into that Oblivion Remaster, pretty rare W from Bethesda these days
Get Expedition 33 first, its incredible
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@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Struggling for motivation to play:
@DoIHearBossMusic_PSN said in Struggling for motivation to play:
@TheGoaler_PSN I'm jumping into that Oblivion Remaster, pretty rare W from Bethesda these days
Get Expedition 33 first, its incredible
My game of the year so far.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS Oh yeah? What's that about
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@DoIHearBossMusic_PSN said in Struggling for motivation to play:
@Teak2112_MLBTS Oh yeah? What's that about
Turn based RPG but with souls inspired dodge/parry mechanics for defense (far beyond what other JRPGs have done in the past). Stunning visuals, and some of the best music/story/voice acting in recent years, and its much better paced than your average RPG. With GTA VI being delayed its currently the GotY front runner
And its a small studios first game, and is $50 or less.
Cant go wrong with Oblivion either of course
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@thebeev718_NSW said in Struggling for motivation to play:
Anyone else??
I’m finding it harder and harder to get excited to play this game. I love baseball and I’ve enjoyed MLBTheShow for years. I was excited for the changes this year and looking forward to the grinds.
But in my opinion, the content has been boring, the programs are monotonous, and unless you’re walking on water with pack luck, the collections are out of reach unless your willing to spend a few hundred dollars on stubs. (Has there been a stub sale yet this year??)
I say this every year, stub sales create inflation. What would be beneficial is pack sales. More cards in the market is what is needed not more stubs chasing the cards already in the market.
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Could not agree more. Pack luck is abysmal and inexcusable. Prices are insane, which, with poor pack distribution, makes it impossible to complete the Live collection. Everything is a slog. It takes forever to earn stubs and points. I've played every day for 3-5 hours a night and STILL have not finished the 2nd inning program yet (should happen tonight, with about 5 days left, but very late considering I got the 30,000 bump from the previous Inning program cards). And once you hit around 100,000 in any Team Affinity it takes FOREVER to move forward with huge gaps between rewards. Seriously not feeling it this year compared to previous seasons.
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Bingo. Exactly how I feel and my experience this year.
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@trfatboy22_PSN This is a game not real life baseball. The whole point of the game is to get good at it and if you consistently place the pci and get perfect timing you should be rewarded not punished. If I'm getting out 8 out of 10 times on perfects and getting more hits while not even touching the ball with my pci than there is something wrong and SDS has trashcan developers so that's what we are [censored] stuck with this season. Unrewarding unrealistic hitting.
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@INyOUrNYteMaR3S_XBL First of all … If you use this kind of language, nobody should listen to you … ever !!!
Second: If you knew anything about what you just wrote, you would knew, that this makes absolutely no sense. The better the pci and timing, the better the result.
Anyway, welcome to my block list, I do not want to waste my time with such people -
Exactly. For all the clowns saying that’s just baseball. News flash this isn’t baseball it’s a video game simulating baseball. It’s not that every perfect perfect should be a hit. It’s the fact that it’s often a line out. Bloops are much more likely to be hits in this game than hard hit balls and that’s a huge problem.
Watch a full mlb game and count the number of lineouts and bloop hits then compare that to an average MLB the Show game. It’s night and day. Guessing the majority of blind supporters here barely even watch real baseball.
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@INyOUrNYteMaR3S_XBL said in Struggling for motivation to play:
@trfatboy22_PSN The whole point of the game is to get good at it
No, this is ridiculously incorrect unless you add a 'for me' in there. The whole point of a game is to be entertained or have fun. For some people, probably not even a majority, the concept of 'get good' is their idea of fun. Some people like to grind. Some people like to play HR derby. Some people just want to play with their theme team while others p5 a lineup and just stick with it and yet others are constantly switching out cards to try every one that releases.
I like a little bit of resistance personally, but I have absolutely no desire to use pinpoint for example (I absolutely hate how unnatural is). I'm not going to buy some dumb accessory just for the sake of having better PCI control. Instead of making hitting harder on lower difficulties I would rather it be so that high fastball x2 > low circle change didnt work 95% of the time when pitching.
And I'm hitting better online than I did last year, so I apparently am improving although my results in offline games would say I am worse than the day I played the game for the first time.
I would say The Show caters less to the non 'get good' crowd than it used to (using the far superior 23 as a comparison point). They have made changes for the competitive crowd: goat difficulty, weekend classic....even DQ is more for these folks with the sweeper and incentive to play Legend/GOAT. People who just want to relax and mash have been left out. People that like to use a variety of cards have been left out. People that want to grind are stuck with TA which was a good idea but not executed well.