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I’m more into the legends than the flashbacks so I’m no rush to finish this collection. I’m thinking I may try Horizon Forbidden West next. I liked the first game a lot. Or maybe do the Yotei dlc

It’s a struggle when the part of my brain that likes incremental progress and grinding argues with the part that needs some variety.

I completely agree with you. I played DD for full seasons from TS 18-22. Quit mid season during 23. Got completely burned out. This year I started late when it was free through PS plus and I’ve got a solid two months out of it, but am hitting that burnout point again and am about to take a break starting today. Might come back for 10th inning. May not come back at all. Enjoyed the last two months for the most part but I’m glad I didn’t play the whole season. Late start you get so much progress towards things every game that it’s pretty fun. I think that’s the only way I’ll play DD going forward

As long as it was optional I think it would be an interesting idea. Automatic I wouldn’t be in favor of just as player says above would impact stats for programs.

Did you go into the collections for diamond quest and mini season and lock in Buckholz and Wood/Bichette?

They are in the exchanges. Exchange 5 red diamonds for a one voucher pack.

@PapaRick68_MLBTS at the moment I don’t think they are but can’t rule out a future collection. Someone earlier speculated maybe there will be a collection tomorrow for Halloween or there’s a big legends/flashback collection coming in about a week maybe something there.

WolfgangMLB_XBL I think that’s fair. Admittedly my reaction was a bit kneejerk. Although if it ends up being a collection I will probably stand by it. Obviously the kaiju and nicknames series that released borderline unusable cards in 2023 was the worst thing ever haha

I’m not a cosmetic change only fan myself but I know a lot of people are so if they like these variants that’s cool.

In past versions of the game I’ve always tried to collect every card and I guess I’m a little annoyed that they’ve added more cards to collect that are exactly the same as cards already in my collection except for the card art. A minor stat boost would have been nice.

And fwiw the dd home screen says “variant card art” and doesn’t mention attribute differences

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Wonder if it is parallels. I looked at Sosa and Wood in my inventory. I haven’t used either card in my lineup yet and all the attributes looked the same to me.

I got a rock

If I’m reading the card stats right, These are purely cosmetic changes so not worth doing if that’s not your thing. Unless of course they make it a sub-collection for the next big collection reward. I had wished to see more exchanges I get the feeling when I did that a finger on a monkey’s paw curled somewhere.

LMAO this variant/voucher stuff is the lamest thing I’ve seen in this game yet and that is saying something

I joined late in the year when the game was free after not playing for two or three years. I've enjoyed some things and other things reminded me why I quit mid-season in 2023 (got so tired of showdown, mini seasons, the glut of flashbacks compared to legends, and doing new programs for cards that were borderline unusable if you're a player that keeps up every week). My notes from this year:

Positive:

1. At least for me as a late season joiner, there was a ton to do. I'm an offline grind/collection player so I like doing stuff that works towards new cards and there was plenty of that
2. PXP seemed easier to come by than I remember from 23
3. WBC - I imagine it was even more fun earlier in the year when it was new, but I enjoyed that big program and collection
4. Collections (actually both pos/neg) - I thought they were good for the most part. But also, it's disappointing that Zobrist was a huge collection reward (and I'm a cub fan). I get that they are doing rewards that are good for the way the game plays, but Zobrist just isn't a big enough name for a huge collection reward imo.

Negatives

1. Offline modes - Yeah, I still don't care for mini season or showdown. I know there's only so many ways to play offline but I'd like to see some new modes that are actually fun. Showdown does seem a bit better, but I still don't like it. Those two modes are like my two children, I dislike them both equally. Diamond Quest was new to me and it's...fine. I have nothing against it but don't' love it. I do like conquest, so I like that there's plenty of that.
2. Offline hitting - plenty of threads on this but it sure seems like it has been severely nerfed this year. I play this game to chill and unlock cards and enjoy a "mindless" grind and the number of 1-0 games I had against the cpu on lower difficulties really sucked the fun out of that at times.
3. Team Affinity/Exchanges - I really missed those things. I'd like to see a return to bigger TAs and have more to do with duplicate cards than quick sell them.
4. Legends compared to flashbacks - there continues to be way too much emphasis on flashbacks for my taste. But maybe most players love it so whatever

Overall, for a free game, I got plenty of enjoyment out of it for the last couple of months. But, unless I see some changes I can't see spending money to buy the game and playing a full season again.

Very true. I did the extreme Anderson one and got it right away. Allowed me to skip a couple. I practically couldn't get one out of the infield with Boggs on the veteran difficutly one. I've never been able to hit with any Boggs card in any version of the show for some reason. But give me a Lindor or an Adam Dunn and I can do no wrong.

I’m sure it’s a combo of bad luck and bad swings from whoever is using my controller, but sometimes getting stuck on a moment ruins a card for me. The other day it took me forever to do the Julio Franco xbh moment. I had five or six straight perfect/perfects go for singles or outs. Today it was a Greenberg xbh moment and me hitting multiple warning track power shots. I know it’s petty but after those I’m like “welp that noodle bat is never going in my lineup”

Has this ever happened to you? What moment/card?

Took advantage of the free download and have been playing for about a week. I played the show from 18-23 and then took a break, got a little burned out. Been enjoying the new game for the most part. Couple of things...

Team Affinity - Real bummer that you can't do exchanges anymore. That'll be quite a grind to get all of those done. But I guess that's what I get for starting in September.

Duplicates - Is there anything to do with dupes other than sell them? I did the exchanges that were available. Is there any reason to hold on to them? Selling all of those will also be quite the grind, but you just can't beat 5 stubs for a common, baby! (Just a side idea for this, I came to the show directly from playing FUT on FC26 and having something similar to their squad building challenges could be a nice thing to do with duplicates)

I'm am most definitely not and never will be a world series level player, but cool to see some exclusive rewards for gettting to 1000 in ranked. Bummer that it'll mean I have no shot at collecting every player.

Anything else I should know about how DD has changed in the last couple years?

Why so dramatic with the “I’m deleting the game for a few weeks” comment

I see that often on here

Congrats on getting a console with infinite storage space. Some of us have to delete games to make room to try new games.

You see comments like this often because a lot of players are frustrated/losing interest in the game, and this is a good forum for providing feedback to SDS.

Boring grinds, quantity over quality when it comes to content, etc. etc., I agree with most of the criticisms of this year's game that appear on this forum regularly.

Maybe I've just been playing the game for too long IDK, but this year's DD has just not been fun since about week 2 or 3.

I realize this isn't an airport and I don't have to announce my departure, but I'm deleting the game for at least a few weeks. Maybe I'll come back for season 3 where there will be 30 brand new unusable future starts to grind for in TA3.

Hope things get better and more interesting in future seasons, but I have a feeling '24 will be the first year since '18 that I don't buy this game.

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