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Id like a smooth slow power creep honestly. I am not a fan of a ton of 99s by July. By the time finest come out we have been playing with 99s for 3 months.

I may not be in the majority on this but a little worried about the power creep structure this year. Seeing a 90 ovr WBC card that can be pxp’d to 95 day 1 doesn’t seem right. The game gets so stale once 99s come out daily/weekly which was early July last year. It doesn’t really keep me playing until Oct Nov. Seeing these 85 TA jolt series are going to be useless in a few weeks. Am I thinking about this power creep wrong?

Agreed. 95% of the live series cards are useless when this game launches.. Why?! I get we need them in the game for the collections but what’s the point when no one will play with them. Sure we have pxp but when there is already a base 90 for the WBC, that card can essentially be a 95. SDS must have metrics on player engagements with a faster power creep but I don’t like it. I am in that group that once 99s get flooded (early July) the game is so stale afterwards. You can only adjust so many attributes of a 99 player but in reality they are all the same. There hasn’t been a solid power creep in years. They tried resetting every 3 months with sets and season but that was dumb since you couldn’t even use the cards you acquired. I miss the days when in the first couple weeks an 85 was high.

Just gotta rip one and they won’t throw again. Just pick up on the tendencies and sit there. Don’t swing if it’s not there. Best advice I have haha

I am really thankful they implemented this. I would purposely not use players with a long wind up, it was just a waste of time. The games will feel and be slightly faster which is a positive for ranked play. I guess I just don’t see the negative side to this. Why would I want to wait 2-3 more seconds for every pitch.

I say keep holding your stubs. Don’t buy any of the diamonds in live series yet or any of the WBC cards since there could be more WBC packs (maybe in the conquest that drops today). Prices will drop and to finish the live series you will need Judge and Ohtani. Just keep building your stub balance and obviously sell any duplicates you get from packs. And don’t buy packs just open the packs you get for free from playing the game. It’s a grind but you will get there.

@GradektheBard_PSN
Fair. The LS Collection 99 and Division reward cards are always fine. There’s a lot of work or CC purchases to obtain those. Just hoping 99s aren’t super early. It gets stale.

On the player card it always defaults to the attributes section (tab 2) just press up on the d pad and it will go the player info tab

This 40k pxp is ridiculous.. it’s like 20-30 event games

@teak2112_mlbts
To an extent. I wouldn’t buy madden to play a baseball game. DD is the best UT mode out there but I know you could agree it hasn’t been the best start this year.

But what are you rambling about? There’s no context

You and I both. I love baseball games but it’s never going to be perfect. They can’t make it up to everyone’s standards. It’s a sad reality that we fall into. We wouldn’t keep spending money on say the show 27 if 26 was everything. They know this.

Most likely no advantage to keeping em if I remember from last year.

It’s the same game as last year to be fair. Mini seasons was an improvement. Events are some what better but everything else is the exact same. There is no variation to things. And this collection stuff is just annoying now. Collection 4/24 for a 99 card.. don’t know what we have to do.. details should be released a head of time. The players starting at 88-90 (95 pxp)is just silly. I went back to see videos from MTS 17. Diamonds were so rare for the 1st inning program. Now it’s like here you go.. here you go.. 95% are still unusable. It’s all “meta” driven