Content is in bad shape
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I really am having trouble this year. The pivot to just giving us the cards for Team Affinity at the All Star break was a major L. I only play a couple hours at most a night and I ran out of things to do a week ago. Today’s drop was a total yawn. Great cards. But not much to do. I know there is more coming in a couple days but this is why Team Affinity is such a big deal to me. It provides a program in the background that lasts for a long time. Instead we just keep getting these quick programs we can knock out in a couple days and then we have nothing to do. I’m sure someone will say, play the game. And I do. All I’m asking is that they provide enough content to keep us busy. Team Affinity is usually the way they do that. Skipping it for the All Star game was a bad move. And we know they are doing the same for Finest. There is no reason why they couldn’t have program path with rewards for TA. .
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Unfortunately I think this is what happens when everyone always complains that everything is too hard and takes too long to complete.
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They hit their quota for the year and are in cruise control
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Innings sucks, at least in this format. If you take away sets, seasons (aka longer innings) were so far superior to this uninspired slop.
Where is the David Wright program? Did SDS not know they retired his number last week? Surely they could have slipped in that since they skipped spotlight?
Why does the inning path suck [censored]? Where are the premier/ultra packs? Where is a HRD pack? Why does the wheel still have headliners where i can pull pudge rodriguez for the 5th time but never anything current?
Why have we not gotten a conquest map bigger than 5 teams since the preseason? Why isnt there a fresh miniseason with each inning?
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@Pergo_MLBTS said in Content is in bad shape:
Unfortunately I think this is what happens when everyone always complains that everything is too hard and takes too long to complete.
I hate when they brag about how short their programs are.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS Yep, but that's what the complainers seem to want. They don't want to have to do a showdown, or a mini-season, or a long grind of a program, or TA that takes too long, or play online, or play offline...and on and on. So this is what we get instead.
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Yeah it’s really bad. That huge All Star program release took me about 4 days of not much game play. I’m usually not one to complain. But I needs programs and conquests and Mini Seasons. DQ was a decent addition but if they simply add a reward path for each team in TA we’d have a ton of playable content.
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I'm an old man, I remember when it was just a USA Conquest or play VS CPU as the only options for offline grinding.
It also reminds me of my old days playing Everquest where the devs would work for months on an expansion or a raid and see players blast through it in a weekend and start asking when the next one was coming out.
There are plenty of ways to play. Plenty of ways to advance the Inning XP path. They even added a repeatable conquest but it is just never enough. But that is the nature of the beast as it will never be "enough" for some player out there.
And let's be honest, people are actually saying that there is not enough content that grants rewards. Conquest is conquest regardless of the shape of the map or the teams you face. The only difference between a playing a new map and an old one is that the new map will have rewards.
I'm not against new content though and would be happy for everyone if they added more and I'm one of the first to say, as someone concentrating on his theme team this year, that TA content has been disappointing and, in my opinion, poorly planned.
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@davisonkj17_PSN said in Content is in bad shape:
They hit their quota for the year and are in cruise control
Yep, this game is just like every other sports game now, and it's a real shame. They essentially release the same game with minimal improvements to keep DD spenders happy. They throw a bone to RTTS or franchise players. There's no going back; the innovation is gone, and creativity is dead.
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I wish they would add boss moments, even if it’s only 1k xp per boss, it would be fun to try out before the making the selections
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@Dolenz_PSN I agree they are in a difficult position when it comes to pleasing the players as nothing is ever enough. My main gripe this year is with Team Affinity. At first I loved that they split it into individual team programs and thought for sure that meant I’d never run out of things to do. Since then we got Color storm which was cool but that is it.
My favorite thing to do in the game is build different squads and then complete missions and track stats to see who are my favorite cards. That is easily my favorite thing about playing the Show. It goes back to being a kid and making lineups with baseball cards.
Team Affinity plays right into that. You need to build a squad based on a particular team or division and then you have the long program path with tons of rewards to use them on. The way they did it in 2021 was perfect.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Content is in bad shape:
I'm an old man, I remember when it was just a USA Conquest or play VS CPU as the only options for offline grinding.
It also reminds me of my old days playing Everquest where the devs would work for months on an expansion or a raid and see players blast through it in a weekend and start asking when the next one was coming out.
There are plenty of ways to play. Plenty of ways to advance the Inning XP path. They even added a repeatable conquest but it is just never enough. But that is the nature of the beast as it will never be "enough" for some player out there.
And let's be honest, people are actually saying that there is not enough content that grants rewards. Conquest is conquest regardless of the shape of the map or the teams you face. The only difference between a playing a new map and an old one is that the new map will have rewards.
I'm not against new content though and would be happy for everyone if they added more and I'm one of the first to say, as someone concentrating on his theme team this year, that TA content has been disappointing and, in my opinion, poorly planned.
And here I was killing Quarm when Omens of War was the current expansion...
I just want the vastly superior version of content we had in 2023. I want repeatable rewards worth doing in the mini seasons. I want to plan how to tackle TA each cycle. I want weekly wonders. I want Topps Now to all be earnable. I want programs with 10+ cards in them. I want conquests with 10+ teams in them. I want wheel spins that were actually somewhat exciting. Remember when collections used to give big chunks of XP towards those wheel spins?
I get for some people 2023 was too offline grindy, and that was mostly the fault of collections making people feel compelled to do everything. Surely there was a better answer than gut programs entirely.
I'm not asking for more. I am asking for the things they added that I did not want at all (WC and DQ) to not take away from what I used to have. And I want to grind for cards, not stubs to buy cards or icons I will never use anyway
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@Ericulous1_XBL said in Content is in bad shape:
Team Affinity plays right into that. You need to build a squad based on a particular team or division and then you have the long program path with tons of rewards to use them on. The way they did it in 2021 was perfect.
It worked well. the 2021 model (also used in 2023) was great.
I can appreciate them trying something different, but this was definitely a swing and a miss
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They didn't skip spotlight, there wasn't any games last week cause the all-star game stuff, the 3 games friday-sunday will be part of this weeks spotlight on next Friday.
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@PAinPA_PSN said in Content is in bad shape:
They didn't skip spotlight, there wasn't any games last week cause the all-star game stuff, the 3 games friday-sunday will be part of this weeks spotlight on next Friday.
Guys that got a Topps Now card that werent in the All Star/HRD sets:
Trent Grisham
Brice Matthews
Cole Young (repeat, but so what)and the two names that were all over the stream today as missing cards
Ronald Acuna
David WrightBoth of those guys could have absolutely been given a 98 in advance of a 99 later in the season
And they can use whatever they want for Spotlight. David Peterson scoreless all star game inning for example since hes still cardless for the last two years. or fill in the Topps Now cards from earlier in the year they skipped...like David Peterson.
That said, moving spotlight to midweek permanently could work, but it left the inning drop with just Gunnar.
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Acuna or Wright are probably collection awards no?
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@Ericulous1_XBL depends on the definition of „content“. They released some awesome cards today to play for (Manny, the Bosses). They added a little conquest with good rewards and xp, player and cornerstone program… That is a good B imo … and they have stuff coming on sunday
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@NWOStunna_PSN said in Content is in bad shape:
Acuna or Wright are probably collection awards no?
They should both get 99s at some point
Realistically Wright should have gotten one this week but they dropped the ball big timeThey dropped the ball in general on mid tier cards this year. Guys like Henderson only having the easter card is a waste of the roster. yes, he will get a 99 but why not a card in the middle too?
And I still dont understand how they get a guy like Reggie Sanders to be a legend, then only give him a live series collection. Definitely going to be one and done for the legends list. How many people still dont have Chase Headley?
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@NWOStunna_PSN said in Content is in bad shape:
Acuna or Wright are probably collection awards no?
There is little doubt that Acuna will get a 99 at some point and that it will be either Expensive or very grindy.
Wright most likely will get a 99 OVR card too but I am not sure if there is any precedence of guys getting their numbers retired by a team immediately getting a 99 card.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Content is in bad shape:
@NWOStunna_PSN said in Content is in bad shape:
Acuna or Wright are probably collection awards no?
There is little doubt that Acuna will get a 99 at some point and that it will be either Expensive or very grindy.
Wright most likely will get a 99 OVR card too but I am not sure if there is any precedence of guys getting their numbers retired by a team immediately getting a 99 card.
Fernando got a program 2 years ago. they created a whole number retirement set for it (I think Ozzie got a lower card in it)
Wright is the first guy to have his number retired on the legends roster since that set was released
