Struggling for motivation to play
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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.
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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.
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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
I've tried that, got up to level 10, and may go back for some more even though I am not the biggest fan of turn based combat. It's the dodge/parry timing mechanic I can't seem to execute consistently and it is why I am also not a big fan of the Souls games. I came up against what I assume is a boss the last session where if I did not execute a Dodge/Parry the boss would one shot kill whoever it attacked.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Struggling for motivation to play:
@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
I've tried that, got up to level 10, and may go back for some more even though I am not the biggest fan of turn based combat. It's the dodge/parry timing mechanic I can't seem to execute consistently and it is why I am also not a big fan of the Souls games. I came up against what I assume is a boss the last session where if I did not execute a Dodge/Parry the boss would one shot kill whoever it attacked.
Probably an optional bosses, so far the main bosses have been somewhat forgiving. if it has 'chromatic' in its name its optional.
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@INyOUrNYteMaR3S_XBL Lol, then you want arcade baseball. This game is a baseball sim meant to be consistent with real life physics and results. So no, you are wrong. You don't need a pat on the back everytime you make hard contact. If that's what you want then this isn't the game for you.
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I have 2 suggestions to consider for the game to make players like myself feel more included and not as left out and wanting to quit. Both are in Diamond Dynasty. For starters, I was a player that got to the game early, but one of my favorite things to do is play Road To The Show when I start up the game for the first time. As a result of this, I practically missed all pf the 1st Inning XP Rewards and now, some of the cards/items I wanted are now locked, like the Rookie cards for the Cornerstone programs. I wish there was a way for me to go back to get these cards, even if it is through the shop or something else. Between my time with school and work, I don’t have much time to play the game at all. The second thing is due to my time restraints, location, and social life, I don’t have online required for multiplayer mode. I’m not saying to get rid of multiplayer mode, but I wish there was a way for single-players to be able to obtain the multiplayer rewards without requiring online and also not having to pay an exorbitant amount of stubs for them if they are sellable. In other words, I think the game is fine, but wish it was just more accessible. It’s something that has bothered me about past games and has made me want to stop playing to try and get more players + cards because I know that I will never be able to get all of them for the collections and whatnot.
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Man, all the XP seems to be tucked away in programs. If I want a chance of getting to Ozzie in the reward path then I need to do as many of them as I can. Just playing conquest games with my Cardinals squad ain't going to get me close, even with Double XP.
