What a waste
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Wasted all season and no story lines, why even have that in the game if ya ain't gonna give us anything, at least last year we got alot and even Jeter but this year is trash
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The Jeter storyline was trash anyway. We need different storylines for actual MLB players. Cal Ripken streak is a layup SDS please
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The basis of the problem is not what you think it is. The problem is the notion that there should be virtual trinkets as reward for playing out vignettes filled with baseball history. Was your only motivation to play out these storylines merely to collect a baseball card and DD player at the end?
If that was your entire motivation, then I submit you have missed something very vital. Now, you are not entirely to blame for that. The limited scope of the storyline vignettes themselves feed into the play for trinkets mindset.
What SDS has missed is the immersion of making the dive into history an entire season, played out among all the teams that existed back in that era, played in all the stadiums that existed in that era, and with the equipment standards present in that era.
Whether the origins of barnstorming teams in 1865, immediately after the end of the Civil War, all the way to the formation of professional teams and leagues, with the creation of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players in 1871. The missing element is the total lack of immersing the customer in options to play out baseball from any chosen era.
This has been done before. Long before online games became a viable thing, many baseball video games allowed options to play games in setups from decades past. The current League game mode should allow those who set up the private leagues to select fully fleshed out time periods and play it out.
It seems to me at least that there is a reward out there far more significant that the virtual trinkets SDS currently provides -- a total immersion into the origins of baseball, leading to an increased appreciation for the game. You choose to play in the Deadball Era and a perfectly struck ball with the bat might travel 330 feet! A legendary clout might travel 400 feet, but would only happen once or twice a season played out among 20 teams!
With the loss of the home run blast, you'd have to learn how to play small ball and feast in stadiums that rewarded line drives that didn't roll to a wall because that wall was located 480 feet from the plate and the ball would stop rolling before reaching that wall! But, in getting close you would see an average runner have a stand up triple, and a fast one notching an inside-the-park homer. It would, as the legendary Ty Cobb would say, be "an honest game of baseball."
So, I agree with your premise -- "What a waste." Indeed, you are on the money, but not in my view for the reasons you stated.
Cheers!
