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With the direction this game has gone the last few years moving towards a money grab, and the lack of content this year, it feels like there’s just less effort being put in to make this game mode as great as it used to be. I’ve been playing since 2015, and it currently just feels stale.

I have no idea what the direction for this season is. The WBC content was great to start the year, but it’s been over a month now of basically nothing to do except WBC mini seasons over and over again. There are too many bugs to count that still haven’t been fixed. And it just feels boring.

The old diamond dynasty games had your attention continuously. This year feels as if they’re not even trying to keep our attention.

It’s just sorta sad. Personally, I figured this might be my last year playing intensely anyway with our family plans, but it’s a bummer that this is what it is.

Am I the only one bothered by how quick the diamond player is revealed after the purple or blue lights flash on the screen?

It’s not the most important thing considering all the other issues with DD right now. But I’d appreciate more than 1/2 a second of warning if I’m about to get a 90+ player.

I’ve enjoyed grinding out the team affinity rewards — I completed all 30 Jolt cards a few days ago. But I’d like something else worthwhile to do offline than playing WBC mini seasons over and over and over again.

Each of the last couple content drops I’ve been excited to have something new to do, then I see it takes maybe 30 min total and then you’re back to WBC mini season for the next week.

I’ve been wanting them to just show their overall “vs CPU” stats as opposed to their stats for that mini season.

Let’s face it, most people use mini seasons simply as a grind mode and we really don’t care what their stats are for that specific mini season.

This evening after games the mission progress has only shown 3-4 different stat missions, whereas it before had a long list of all the team affinity missions I progressed towards.

Did they remove the long list intentionally because of the volume of it or is not showing because it’s not accumulating?

Am I not seeing it? Is there a live series collection for the free agent cards or did they remove it?

2024 was WAY worse. There's still a huge micro-transaction aspect of a lot of the DD content they've released this year, but they're giving way more opportunity to earn the packs in the game than they ever did last year.

I've spent $0 and I'm essentially just missing the Chase pack cards at this point. If you want to put in the time, you should be able to get essentially everything. Which is how it should be!

This actually may be worthwhile to grind stats instead of mini seasons.

And avoids my pet peeve with mini seasons that my cards’ overall stats don’t show in-game.

Big win in my book!

@JasonAEMales_PSN A lot of people hate Mike Fiers for coming out publicly with what happened, but to his credit he tried to go to MLB first. He came out publicly only after MLB refused to look into it. Like you said, it’s better to bury your head in the sand, or minimize the situation and move on as quickly as possible. And you could say MLB has done that about A LOT of things the last several decades.

But yeah, I agree with everything you said. And it’s going to be a really sad induction to watch when it happens. But I hope Reds fans pack the place.

@JasonAEMales_PSN That’s a fair point, but even if they were attempting to use it during the WS, it’s probably way more likely than not it wasn’t effective.

For one, hearing an audible sound coming from the dugout in a regular season game is one thing, but I’m not sure how it would be possible to use that system in a closed roof stadium during the World Series. A few years back, someone went back and gathered audio data from that entire season and logged every pitch you can hear it, the success rate, who was hitting, etc. If I remember correctly, I don’t think anything was detected in the postseason. That’s not to say they weren’t trying, but I question the effectiveness. (That site was also what tipped everyone off that Altuve didn’t participate)

On top of that, it was a storyline during that postseason and especially the World Series how often teams were switching up their signs and/or using extremely complicated signs, even with no runners on. Everyone was suspicious of everyone at the time. I think it was even brought up to Brian McCann in the postgame show after Game 7.

Anyway, I’ll get off my soapbox, obviously I’m an Astros fan and I’ve got good memories of that season. Didn’t mean to come across brash if I did.

And about the pitchcom, I think that was coming for awhile but the scandal was probably what pushed it over the edge.

Agree 100% that Manfred is a POS for not doing this while he was alive. It’s incredibly sad.

But get out of here with the “cheated all the way to a ring” BS. You sound lazy. Do a little bit of research into the topic. Say what you want about the morality of cheating in baseball — I’ll most likely agree, it was wrong — but chalking up that entire championship to an advantage they had in some regular season home games is just ignorant. And FYI, they were better on the road that year.

What’s the elevation for the Whales stadium in mini seasons? It’s gotta be close to that lol

I’ve never gotten close to World Series in Ranked in any previous game.

I have gotten to exactly 799 TWO TIMES in the last 24 hours. Both times, I followed it up with a very frustrating loss. I’m back down to the low 700s now.

Oh well.

Is anyone else’s leaderboard constantly changing?

For example I was 7th or 8th last night and now I log in and I’m 2nd with a completely different group

@mietha_PSN it’s not a complaint… I’m trying to speculate if it may benefit me down the road to buy the extra cards… come on people

You only need 28 new threads cards to complete the collection, but there are several more than that. Why wouldn’t they just require all of them?

Anyone think this collection could be extended? It’s notable there’s no Juan Soto or Kyle Tucker in here.

Trying to get Gossage but he’s spiking now after the new rewards were added… in previous years did they eventually add opportunities for players to get the old BR rewards?

Im in no rush to get him if I need to wait, but I dont want to wait only for him to turn into 100k down the line…

I have some questions about how this will work… hopefully some of these have been answered by SDS and I just missed it.

Is there a cap on number of games you play in the weekend classic? Can you just keep playing until you get all the rewards you want?

The leaderboard at the bottom that has separate rewards for 1st, 2nd through 5th, and 6th through 10th — how many people are we talking about being on each leaderboard?

Before I get roasted for saying this, I know I’m in the minority. But…

There should be a way to turn off no doubt home run animations entirely. I generally do not like them at all.

I will say I do like the change this year where they somewhat zoom in on where the ball is landing when it’s coming down.

But while that’s a step forward, they happen overall WAY too often. 90% of my home runs have the animation. If the ball is only a couple rows into the stands, there’s no way it should get that animation. It should be reserved for 430+. Ive had it happen where its a sky ball that lands in the little nook by the right field foul pole at Petco.

I’m splitting hairs here… I think the game overall this year so far is great. But let’s scale the home run animations back a bit.

The last few years I’ve loved playing mini seasons to grind stat missions. And following my players’ stats has always been fun for me in this game.

So why did SDS decide to show current mini season only stats in-game for players instead of their overall offline stats? I want to know how many home runs I have with my players, not how many I’ve hit in the last few mini seasons games.

It really grinds my gears!