Plenty of people play both, I play the cpu on hall of fame with ease, ive played probably 50 mininseaosns, 20+ DQ, and every conquest. I also play online, im not great, but I make WS to get the rewards.

There are a bunch of old dudes on here that dont want to deal with all the shenanigans online. Truth is, I get it—online is fun 90% of the time, but that 10% is awful and makes even me never want to play again.

People forget that it used to be go 12-0 to get the card; make WS to get the card. Now the online rewards are all available on the market. That was done for the offline players.

Let me put my old man cap on. Back in my day, if you liked the game, you just did everything in the game. And you got good at all the modes. Now its like "offline is targeted to these people" and "ranked is targeted to these people" and "BR is targeted to these people" - and those groups never meet each other.

Online we get a 4 day event every other week, 1 multilayer program each season, and all the online rewards can be bought on the market. They removed full event paths and the removed the BR path.

How is online being favored? Because of this 1 program?

The reason I believe it is a massive fail is because this was clearly meant as a make good, to give people some extra stuff in light of all the bad things this year, whereas all that's happened is that it's caused a near civil war in the community and much disappointment.

The community has to take some responsibility for that disharmony, but SDS had a chance to do something good for everyone and they fumbled it.

You’re a little snarky tonight

The problem is Joe we’ve been saying stuff since day 1 and absolutely nothing has been done. Not once has the team said anything nor have they really did anything that resembled our requests. We aren’t asking for free judge and ohtani cards we just want a game that’s not dog And enjoyable to play.

I do appreciate the response from you but bro they are just leaving you out to dry and take all the criticism. At this point I don’t think the employees there really care about the community and are just there to make money and appease Sony and sds. I get this is a business and money needs to be made but you catch more flies with honey than vinegar!!! If they just communicate and actual give us a sliver of what we ask for if it’s reasonable then more people would play and spend money. No one wants to spend money on a game that’s not even playable.

Again thanks for your responses but maybe tell the other clowns to follow suit!

Yeah, time limited was a… choice…

Not sure their thinking on that.

@SpawnOfDitka_XBL said:

We all were asking for a little creativity. They are at least doing something different for a change and you offline players are still complaining. You guys are the worst.

When the content divides the community it's a L program -- period

@JDHalfrack_PSN said:

@NotesOfJohn_PSN said:

@Apolloz_99_MLBTS In all seriousness, though, seeing the community split like this shows a lot of things, but one of them is what a spectacular own goal this is from SDS.

They could have easily offered paths for everyone and this thread, the angst and the divisiveness wouldn't exist.

Setting aside the online vs offline culture wars, it's just a massive fail from SDS to read the room and understand their community.

I don’t think it was a massive fail. And I don’t think they weren’t reading the room. I think they were misinterpreting the room. The complaints from both the online and offline community have been two fold:

1. Not enough [insert either online or offline here] content, and
2. Too much [insert other option here] content.

The solution: make a program that involves both.

I think the solution was a valiant attempt, but a misunderstanding of what the actual complaint is: offline people don’t want to play anything online, and office people don’t want to play anything online. And they want all card rewards possible to earn that way.

Maybe it’s a fool’s thought, who knows.its a more realistic request than some of the others that just expect to be given rewards and cards for slight inconveniences or for doing nothing.

1. I would imagine less than 1% of players wanted a time limited program.

2. They know full well a large portion of their population does not enjoy online play

3. They know full well online players are sick of all the offline grinding they have to do

What they may not know is how much of a struggle it can be for something like 10 hits in a ranked game for some people because quitting is rampant at lower ranked levels.

I wouldn't have as big of an issue with this if either:
a. It wasnt time limited
b. It didnt have cards behind it

As it stands its the worst piece of content I can remember. I

And the thing that sucks is they did put a piece of great content along side of it, that actually caters to one request (meaningful higher difficulty offline content) without negatively impacting the people that don't want to play on HoF. But that gets buried by this disaster.

One hand at least they are trying something new, but this isnt not reading the room. this is not giving a [censored] about the room.

@NotesOfJohn_PSN said:

@Apolloz_99_MLBTS In all seriousness, though, seeing the community split like this shows a lot of things, but one of them is what a spectacular own goal this is from SDS.

They could have easily offered paths for everyone and this thread, the angst and the divisiveness wouldn't exist.

Setting aside the online vs offline culture wars, it's just a massive fail from SDS to read the room and understand their community.

I don’t think it was a massive fail. And I don’t think they weren’t reading the room. I think they were misinterpreting the room. The complaints from both the online and offline community have been two fold:

1. Not enough [insert either online or offline here] content, and
2. Too much [insert other option here] content.

The solution: make a program that involves both.

I think the solution was a valiant attempt, but a misunderstanding of what the actual complaint is: offline people don’t want to play anything online, and online people don’t want to play anything offline. And they want all card rewards possible to earn that way.

Maybe it’s a fool’s thought, who knows.its a more realistic request than some of the others that just expect to be given rewards and cards for slight inconveniences or for doing nothing.

I actually threw a perfect game today with 26 strikeouts.

Hope you match up with someone who wants to boost.

@T4RbRuSh_XBL said:

5 wins in BR
10 hits in a single MP game
15 runs in ranked
1,000 PXP with Castellanos

Hard tier missions. SMH.

You missed one didn't you? On reddit I also saw 24 Ks in a game.

I consider myself a pretty good pitcher against the CPU, regularly netting 18-20 Ks a game but 24 is tough.

I guess you can cheese it and let pop ups drop and just not throw to first on grounders