@ApolloZ_99_MLBTS said:

@Sarge1387_PSN because it’s what offline players non-stop complain about. They never should have put that out there. We are in 4th inning and some of yall still complain you can’t make it to the boss. That’s why it’s a crutch. Now is what SDS doing to yall fair, NO. But at some point people have to adjust to what it is. The whole TA was mind boggling that they just killed it.

You need to get over this. You put in 6.5 hours a day for 60 days telling everyone that’s what they needed to do. You did it over 20 times in a single thread. It’s now the most commented thread in forum history. 15% is just you telling everyone to step their grind up.

It wasn’t normal, they adjusted it, it is the 4th inning your correct, stop trying to win a 3 inning old argument nobody agrees with you on. It’s just you still saying this everyday like it’s another job they gave you.

@SDS_JoeK_PSN said:

Appreciate the feedback here, folks. I'll add this to my list to share with the team.

I feel that they overcompensated which seems to happen too often.

The biggest issue with last years TA was it was unbalanced. Different team captains got different boosts, making some team captains more viable than others. Did any Cardinal theme team use Victor Scott II for his Speed and Fielding boosts? Then of course there was the issue of 5 teams never having a pitcher captain until the Finest Series

This year, if they are not going to add other team captains then those team captains should level up every 5 levels or so as the power creep advances. Releasing new versions of those players for the same team just means that we have to use a lesser card to keep the boosts or use the newer card and lose the boosts.

I mainly just wanted you all to know that I see the feedback and appreciate it, and will add it to my running list.

In what sense? Not sure how it's a crutch...they literally used it as their tag-line and it really wasn't true at all. They never should have used that line, you're right- because they've been called out on it being utter bollocks. I'm not trying to be disrespectful, I'm trying to understand your point.

SDS' problem is for whatever reason they always feel like they need to re-invent the wheel, instead of building a better mousetrap if you'll excuse the engineering metaphor. The switch from Innings and Series to Sets and Seasons wasn't a bad idea in theory, they just implemented it very poorly, to the point where it was fairly widely panned(yes there are some who liked it, and that's fine).

Instead of building off of what works, they tend to erase it and put something different. Removing TA is a headscratcher for sure- there's no reason for that other than a blatant push to the Shop for stubs to buy the collection-finishers. This sort of thing began 3 or so years ago when they had the mass staff turnover and whole mentality changed. It's gaming as a whole and I think we need to accept it to a certain extent...but only a certain extent.

Yeah sounds good but doesn’t generate the revenue they are looking for. As others have mentioned it would be super simple to make everything attainable via strictly offline or online play by making all cards sellable and tweaking the stat missions. That would truly make it play your way but that will never happen.

@TripleH-4481_PSN said:

SDS has fully abandoned “play your way”

I remember laughing my @ss off when they used that as their tagline last year...it was always more like "play your way- as long as it's the way we want you to"

It was always all about the money. By neutering TA they eliminated free grindable cards and made the mural, city scapes, and vintage programs with most of the cards needing to be purchased to complete the collections.

SDS has fully abandoned “play your way” for “if it doesn’t make dollars it doesn’t make sense”.

I've taken to conquest lately, actually. At least it keeps me engaged and it's a really really good way to grind stats for the inning too

@rubicante23_PSN said:

I suspect when SDS says "we found people didn't care about the mode" - theyre talking mostly about 12 year olds on adderall

I can't believe they sat in a room and went "Let's cut TA, some streamers don't care about it...and as you know each streamer represents eleventeen million players. So our whole player base hates it"

They tanked the mode last year, people said they didnt like it, so they removed even more. Now you grind and grind with these theme teams and get a a hand full of standard packs and a few ballin.