Community Forum

Mini Seasons:
Casual player offline only, only have the chance to play a few times a week. Wasn't going to buy the game this year, but heard about offline seasons and decided to take a dip. The reasoning behind playing offline is to excuse yourself from people who pay thousands of dollars the first day a game comes out for the best team. So, finding out that each mini season has two fully 99 teams, literally the best in the game, was a let down. I Beat the season, restarted and found yet again 2 fully 99 teams to face, like it is a template. As a matter of principle: I'm not playing against teams that cost thousands of dollars day one, if you want to spend your money like that, who cares, but it's infringing on my offline game now. If I wanted that experience, I'd play online and sweat my days away.

Streamers and Packs:
I watched about 6 different streamers pull trout day one after opening like 100 dollars of packs, another streamer pull 8 diamonds from 50 regular packs, pulling pujols in the first chase pack, etc etc
So I grinded the market and made around 150k, spent it on packs and after opening around 85 assorted packs I got one diamond. Wooooo. Out of 2 chase packs (one from the bundle and the other was in a pack) i got a gold player and got the aforementioned diamond Corbin burnes. Never have i felt so disincentivized to pay money in a game. As for grinding the market: it's like a whole game in itself and requires a decent amount of time to make any significant profit. Pair that with people undercutting by a thousand coins (seriously, I don't understand it.), destroying margins, meaning you need to spend more time practicing item flipping than playing the game. Why wouldn't I play an mmo with a better economy if I wanted this gameplay loop?

Really just complaining, but hoping that this could shed some light on issues that new players have with the game; and perhaps spur a change for offline players that doesn't try to recreate the sweaty online environment. Let it be clear as well that I'm entirely convinced that they boost streamer packs to entice consumers to pay for them themselves; and before you think this is conspiracy theory-esque, realize that it is literally the cheapest (ie, free) marketing you have for your game and your in game transactions.

To anyone who actually read this:
Thanks person, have a good day.

Recently squared up 4 hits with perfect pci placement and timing that was ridiculously close to perfect, all line outs. Lindor steps up to the plate, miss a cutter with his pci and am late, gets a homerun. I understand different swings are... different; but it shouldn't be the case that Ryan Howard belts one directly into the outfielders mitt with a power swing, perfect pci and hardly early/late timing while lindor hits bombs off of bad pci placement and poor timing. Just wack sometimes.