A New 'New Threads' Program?
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@SakAttack87_PSN said in A New 'New Threads' Program?:
I think they did a really good job with the power creep this year until they hit that mid 90s diamond threshold. It's like we had 94s then within two weeks there were 98s already creeping in.
I wonder if this was because of all the people complaining about their inputs not mattering all year. Now people will have more hard hit balls so less complaining! (And yes, I know that's missing the point of the complaints...to a degree. The god squad type players really do seem to want everyone to hit like they are 110+ across the board when they are low diamonds)
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in A New 'New Threads' Program?:
@samguenther1987_PSN said in A New 'New Threads' Program?:
And then put them in packs and sell them for 25k in the show shop because hey new cards. I'm really not a fan of this years game. At this point there's no way McMahon should be a 99. 99 should be saved for elite players like Griffey/Mantle/ even Manny Ramirez.
2018 would have been right up your alley. Only 22 99s in the entire game.
Aww,c'mon man.some of us are still trying to forget that year ever happened
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Gimme my 99 Duran Phillies card
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We are at the point of the year where it’s fun with more useable cards, who cares if some of these guys don’t deserve 99s, it’s a fun program, people forget in the early days how little variety we had. I remember when there were like 9 guys all year that were diamond relievers so.
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@Jcassaro44_MLBTS said in A New 'New Threads' Program?:
We are at the point of the year where it’s fun with more useable cards, who cares if some of these guys don’t deserve 99s, it’s a fun program, people forget in the early days how little variety we had. I remember when there were like 9 guys all year that were diamond relievers so.
I stopped playing online for the year, the game is much more interesting when cards are not overpowered
Although they did have a thing against relievers this year for sure
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in A New 'New Threads' Program?:
@samguenther1987_PSN said in A New 'New Threads' Program?:
And then put them in packs and sell them for 25k in the show shop because hey new cards. I'm really not a fan of this years game. At this point there's no way McMahon should be a 99. 99 should be saved for elite players like Griffey/Mantle/ even Manny Ramirez.
2018 would have been right up your alley. Only 22 99s in the entire game.
Hahaha, ironically I think i only made it halfway through 2018, I hadn't really gotten into conquest yet so I didn't enjoy DD yet, 2019 was the year that really got me into MLB the Show.
I'm not opposed of having 99s i just don't think McMahon has done enough to deserve a 99. But I have loved the Finest sets the last couple of years and those are all 99s and deservedly so.
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In the early days I think for 18 and 19 the only lefties were Chapman, Hader and Wagner. A gold Brett Cecil was the fourth best lefty in the game
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There really is no excuse not to give a TON of relievers. They could justify a dozen at least. Toss them in the early part of the program, not the packs.
While I am not a fan of DQ I think it would be funny if the rewards were the Rogers twins
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Ah, MLB 18 the year that made me quite faster than any other.
They Made Bob Gibson and Albert Pujols Immortals so they were unreachable for me and after they said, before release in the streams, that you would be able to grind offline for any reward they released an Immortal Stan Musial that required online play.
Three unreachable Cardinals and a stat grind that I got tired of really quickly pushed me over the edge.
I also think that was the year that they added Archetypes to RTTS so you could not choose where to put your earned points anymore.
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You nailed it. By eliminating TA this time around and again with Finest, there is a major lack of playable content. Yea the cards are great but I have nothing to do and I don’t play anywhere near as much as a lot of others.
SDS- please recommit to Team Affinity and give us more to do there.
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Playing with 99s can get boring because the players are created so similarly. Sub .250 hitters getting maxed or near-maxed CON L CON R and CLU with 90+ vision. e.g. Kyle Schwarber getting near Tony Gwynn-ish CON & CLU attributes. The players start to feel like they're wearing a skin that doesn't fit them at all.
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in A New 'New Threads' Program?:
2018 would have been right up your alley. Only 22 99s in the entire game.
Did they have 125 as maximum for contact/power/vision back then, or was it 99? I didn't play DD back then. I'm wondering if the number of 99's exploded as a result of that.
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@Ericulous1_XBL said in A New 'New Threads' Program?:
You nailed it. By eliminating TA this time around and again with Finest, there is a major lack of playable content. Yea the cards are great but I have nothing to do and I don’t play anywhere near as much as a lot of others.
SDS- please recommit to Team Affinity and give us more to do there.
I think they still have some additions ready for TA to come. The gap between the Finest voucher and the #1 Fan icon is like 1,000,000 points and I agree without any grindable content that is just a wasteland that many will simply abandon. You have to think they surely will add a new set of missions/moments/stats with added rewards along the path to entice players to invest back into TA.
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@SakAttack87_PSN said in A New 'New Threads' Program?:
@Ericulous1_XBL said in A New 'New Threads' Program?:
You nailed it. By eliminating TA this time around and again with Finest, there is a major lack of playable content. Yea the cards are great but I have nothing to do and I don’t play anywhere near as much as a lot of others.
SDS- please recommit to Team Affinity and give us more to do there.
I think they still have some additions ready for TA to come. The gap between the Finest voucher and the #1 Fan icon is like 1,000,000 points and I agree without any grindable content that is just a wasteland that many will simply abandon. You have to think they surely will add a new set of missions/moments/stats with added rewards along the path to entice players to invest back into TA.
They won't. Any new TA content will come in the form as new programs like the Color Storm one.
My biggest complaint about that final stretch between the finest and the #1 fan is the fact that every team has different goal posts. I understand why and what their intention was but it still seems unbalanced.
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@PAinPA_PSN Bring back the immortals!
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It's just my opinion but it's too early in the real season to have so many 99s. I think the increments went up too fast too soon and 2 bad things happened because of it.
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Everyone will have a God Squad by the end of August, if they don't already.
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Most Golds and low end diamonds became useless right out of the gate. It's why the market and stub earning became a chore this year. By the end of April an 85 Diamond was barely worth 5000. It's why there are so many complaints about pack luck this year. It's probably not that odds are down but odds are when you pull one it's barely at quick sell price.
I would love to see us have to grind more with silver and golds to earn those Diamonds and have them slow down progression. At this rate who's gonna give a [censored] about the finest voucher trade ins.....
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@Ledfoot_19_PSN said in A New 'New Threads' Program?:
It's just my opinion but it's too early in the real season to have so many 99s. I think the increments went up too fast too soon and 2 bad things happened because of it.
From this point forward, you get complaints of "If you're giving us a card that's NOT a 99, what's the point?".
The end of the power creep has arrived.
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@xRatedGProdigyx_PSN said in A New 'New Threads' Program?:
Playing with 99s can get boring because the players are created so similarly. Sub .250 hitters getting maxed or near-maxed CON L CON R and CLU with 90+ vision. e.g. Kyle Schwarber getting near Tony Gwynn-ish CON & CLU attributes. The players start to feel like they're wearing a skin that doesn't fit them at all.
The Joey Bats card is particularly egregious. He hit .302 that season, not .340.
I worry we will devolve even further into something like NBA 2K25 where they will give Gheorghe Muresan, a guy whose claim to fame is being tall and ugly but not a particularly good player, a card with the best jump shot animation in the game.
I'm waiting for the 99 Greg Maddux with the same off speed stuff but an outlier fastball
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That said, i do enjoy the Topps Now and Draft/Pipeline cards, which are better than those players deserve. At least the latter can be treated as 'what if they end up at full potential'. Topps Now are just goofy fun for players that would usually not see a card otherwise, but always purposefully behind the curve at least.
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98 Helsley Showdown
I'll be extremely disappointed if they give another Helsely but dont give a Tyler Rogers, but there is room for both.
The showdown should have been Bednar, so you can beat up the Yankees new additions just like it actually happened
