One big win for TA
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Because it punishes people that prioritized grinding it in order to ensure people that didn’t can still get the same rewards, as it doesn’t give any of the people that prioritized grinding it anything for actually spending the time.
If SDS says this is what you have to do, you do it, and then SDS gives the cards to everyone else too anyway, it is an L. As I said in my reply, a competent company would have given those people that did it something for actually doing it (like my suggestion of removing any grind to get the Color Storm cards). Instead, they just screw over the people that actually listened.
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I can see how it would be disliked, but for me and others like me who don't have the same volume of time as some others, I'm kinda happy about it. That's not to say I don't wish I had that amount of time where I wouldn't need that "quick jump"
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Friendly reminder/request for us to stay on topic in this one, folks. Thanks!
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@RealMessiah_XBL I’m with you on this. They made a year long grind in team affinity and then blew it up because some casual players who won’t even be around in November said it was too hard.
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@RealPudgyPanda_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:
Because it punishes people that prioritized grinding it in order to ensure people that didn’t can still get the same rewards, as it doesn’t give any of the people that prioritized grinding it anything for actually spending the time.
If SDS says this is what you have to do, you do it, and then SDS gives the cards to everyone else too anyway, it is an L. As I said in my reply, a competent company would have given those people that did it something for actually doing it (like my suggestion of removing any grind to get the Color Storm cards). Instead, they just screw over the people that actually listened.
Or don't go crazy trying to get to the end if a reward path.
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It’s not really “[going] crazy” — it’s just that some of us are able to do things like hit HRs with Arraez and Siri to progress through programs.
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I myself like it, I do play a lot and have grinded a ton to be where I am but to me it makes me relax and stop trying to fit in team affinity grinds every game when truly I’d like to just play with a singular theme team. Knocking out color storm and the TA bonus gives a crapton of packs - especially with the 5X HR xp boost - to open and get me closer to Beltran. Once I’m done with all TA I can focus on just playing online ranked with the team I want. I understand the gripe that people don’t like everyone getting the vouchers but there’s already 1,000 cards in the game and you can only use 25 of them. Who cares if everyone has them. Keep the gated cards as BR or WS rewards and let people who don’t have as much free time finish the TA grind so they can get cards they wouldn’t normally have the time yo get access to. Especially theme team players. For me it’s more about getting the plethora of packs to sell cards to optimize my theme team.
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@RealPudgyPanda_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:
It’s not really “[going] crazy” — it’s just that some of us are able to do things like hit HRs with Arraez and Siri to progress through programs.
And in which stadium did you play your games?
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If the difference between you and someone who went 50x flawless in 24, consistently makes WS, and consistently goes to the top of the event leaderboard is the ballpark that you’re playing in, you should probably switch ballparks already.
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@RealPudgyPanda_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:
If the difference between you and someone who went 50x flawless in 24, consistently makes WS, and consistently goes to the top of the event leaderboard is the ballpark that you’re playing in, you should probably switch ballparks already.
You didn't answer my question.
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If we’re going to address unanswered questions, maybe we should start here instead: https://forums.theshow.com/post/709013 ?
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@RealPudgyPanda_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:
Because it punishes people that prioritized grinding it in order to ensure people that didn’t can still get the same rewards, as it doesn’t give any of the people that prioritized grinding it anything for actually spending the time.
If SDS says this is what you have to do, you do it, and then SDS gives the cards to everyone else too anyway, it is an L. As I said in my reply, a competent company would have given those people that did it something for actually doing it (like my suggestion of removing any grind to get the Color Storm cards). Instead, they just screw over the people that actually listened.
Good gravy. Nobody is getting “punished.” So many people think of this as some sort of zero sum game. Just because some people are getting a boost doesn’t mean you’re somehow getting screwed. Such a weird way to view this. It’s not a “punishment” unless SDS is taking things away from you. How is your life any worse because someone got to an all-star voucher easier than you did lol
Did you enjoy the time you spent grinding toward those vouchers? Hopefully the answer is “yes” (otherwise why would you even do it lol). So what’s the problem here big guy?
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@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:
@RealPudgyPanda_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:
Because it punishes people that prioritized grinding it in order to ensure people that didn’t can still get the same rewards, as it doesn’t give any of the people that prioritized grinding it anything for actually spending the time.
If SDS says this is what you have to do, you do it, and then SDS gives the cards to everyone else too anyway, it is an L. As I said in my reply, a competent company would have given those people that did it something for actually doing it (like my suggestion of removing any grind to get the Color Storm cards). Instead, they just screw over the people that actually listened.
Good gravy. Nobody is getting “punished.” So many people think of this as some sort of zero sum game. Just because some people are getting a boost doesn’t mean you’re somehow getting screwed. Such a weird way to view this. It’s not a “punishment” unless SDS is taking things away from you. How is your life any worse because someone got to an all-star voucher easier than you did lol
Did you enjoy the time you spent grinding toward those vouchers? Hopefully the answer is “yes” (otherwise why would you even do it lol). So what’s the problem here big guy?
^^^This. Completely agree.^^^
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It is a zero-sum game. People don’t have endless time to play video games. It is finite. Literally, in every sense. That is a zero-sum game. They only have 24 hours in a day and they can only spend so much of it playing. They have to allocate whatever time they have and they don’t always get to allocate it to what they enjoy the most because they want the reward. Two people allocate their time differently, one following the instructions and another completely ignoring them, and then SDS feeling bad and pretending it didn’t matter as if they aren’t just completely screwing over the one following the instructions is inherently wrong.
I provided an example of an actual equitable way to fix their mistakes, instead of what they did, which is make the people who followed the instructions have to grind twice to end up in the same place. It’s not like there was no other option to SDS. There was. They just don’t care and happily screw people over, every single year.
I’m not even replying because this impacted me negatively. It didn’t. I had all 30 finest vouchers two weeks ago. I will have all 30 programs at 100% before finest even drops. My game history is easily viewable to all of us and it’s quite clear this has basically no impact on me because I play this game as much as anyone.
But it’s incredibly annoying for people that don’t have the ability to play this game endlessly and actually did the tasks because that’s what they were told to do to get the reward.
Your reply is just indicative of someone with absolutely no ability to feel empathy for others.
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Again, I dont see the issue.
The year long grind was just for a silly profile icon and a fairly small amount of packs along the way
And they can always extend the path further, and maybe they will, for gold versions of a future TA set for example.The vouchers are just there for shortcuts to get cards the minute they dropped instead of doing a program
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@RealPudgyPanda_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:
It is a zero-sum game. People don’t have endless time to play video games. It is finite. Literally, in every sense. That is a zero-sum game. They only have 24 hours in a day and they can only spend so much of it playing. They have to allocate whatever time they have and they don’t always get to allocate it to what they enjoy the most because they want the reward. Two people allocate their time differently, one following the instructions and another completely ignoring them, and then SDS feeling bad and pretending it didn’t matter as if they aren’t just completely screwing over the one following the instructions is inherently wrong.
I provided an example of an actual equitable way to fix their mistakes, instead of what they did, which is make the people who followed the instructions have to grind twice to end up in the same place. It’s not like there was no other option to SDS. There was. They just don’t care and happily screw people over, every single year.
I’m not even replying because this impacted me negatively. It didn’t. I had all 30 finest vouchers two weeks ago. I will have all 30 programs at 100% before finest even drops. My game history is easily viewable to all of us and it’s quite clear this has basically no impact on me because I play this game as much as anyone.
But it’s incredibly annoying for people that don’t have the ability to play this game endlessly and actually did the tasks because that’s what they were told to do to get the reward.
Your reply is just indicative of someone with absolutely no ability to feel empathy for others.
First of all, I don't think you know what zero-sum game means.
And it's shocking that in your assessment, I am somehow the one who has no ability to feel empathy for others LOL. I don't feel empathy that you completed all 30 finest vouchers two weeks ago. You're right. I feel zero empathy for that. I do, however (unlike you), feel empathy for people who want to unlock all-star vouchers and don't have your unlimited wealth of time to play this game. They should get to play with their favorite players, too. I guess I'm not empathetic enough to your mindset that you're the only one who should get to enjoy this video game? If that's what you think "empathy" means, then by all means, call me someone who lacks empathy.
What an UNREAL take, chief. It's not too late to just admit that you're stamping your feet because other people can have digital baseball cards too. Good gravy, little buddy. I've seen some bad takes, but THAT.... is a shockingly bad take. It makes Juan Soto watching 6 straight strikes vs. Crochet look like genius takes. Whoo boy. Yikes. Good luck at life, chief.
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I intentionally spoke and outlined that the participants in the zero-sum game were the player’s potential activities, not other players. You wanting to frame the discussion to ignore that doesn’t make me unaware of what a zero-sum game is. It’s just disingenuous [censored] because you don’t want to admit that SDS removed the value for time spent for a lot of players because you almost certainly didn’t spend the time yourself and you don’t care if SDS screws over others to benefit yourself.
I’m not really going to reply to any of these issues going forward though. We’re on three straight years of SDS drastically overhauling the content/design and as of two weeks ago, four straight years of SDS abandoning their intended content/design mid-cycle because of how bad their metrics are doing.
At this point, people who show up on the forums to defend their decision-making are just a lost cause. It’s incredibly clear that SDS has no confidence in what they’re doing. None. Yet magically, someone like you does.
I look forward to seeing how they screw up 26’s content/design overhaul.
Maybe then they’ll realize relying primarily on the feedback of less than 30 people, an incredibly homogenous group of content creators, will continue to result in the same problem over and over again. They’ll do something that appeals to that group, while completely ignoring how it impacts people that aren’t in it and then have to abandon the design/content once that impact to other people becomes obvious.
I won’t hold my breath as them figuring that out is as likely as you waking up and developing critical thinking skills tomorrow.
Have a nice day.
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@RealPudgyPanda_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:
I intentionally spoke and outlined that the participants in the zero-sum game were the player’s potential activities, not other players. You wanting to frame the discussion to ignore that doesn’t make me unaware of what a zero-sum game is. It’s just disingenuous [censored] because you don’t want to admit that SDS removed the value for time spent for a lot of players because you almost certainly didn’t spend the time yourself and you don’t care if SDS screws over others to benefit yourself.
I’m not really going to reply to any of these issues going forward though. We’re on three straight years of SDS drastically overhauling the content/design and as of two weeks ago, four straight years of SDS abandoning their intended content/design mid-cycle because of how bad their metrics are doing.
At this point, people who show up on the forums to defend their decision-making are just a lost cause. It’s incredibly clear that SDS has no confidence in what they’re doing. None. Yet magically, someone like you does.
I look forward to seeing how they screw up 26’s content/design overhaul.
Maybe then they’ll realize relying primarily on the feedback of less than 30 people, an incredibly homogenous group of content creators, will continue to result in the same problem over and over again. They’ll do something that appeals to that group, while completely ignoring how it impacts people that aren’t in it and then have to abandon the design/content once that impact to other people becomes obvious.
I won’t hold my breath as them figuring that out is as likely as you waking up and developing critical thinking skills tomorrow.
Have a nice day.
You still don't seem to know what a zero sum game is.
