@yankblan_psn said in I'm over it. Casual player woes.:
That is the biggest pile of [censored] I've come across since I visited my uncle's farm last year.
Playing DD, an online mode with some offline grinding element, I should turn on the power, get auto-complete 34-0 in mini-seasons and get Randy Johnson 99 as a reward.
/Whoosh
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.
What is up,
Have been playing Diamond Dynasty Mini Seasons and have noted that two of the teams are predominately 99s with a few 96-98. The rest are a bit better than my team, but aren't miles ahead. Doesn't feel good to try to play a game f2p offline just to come up against two teams that are objectively the best in the game. If I wanted to play against teams where the owner dropped a grand day one, I would play online.
NHL 22 has a similar feature, but the teams are more evenly split (some lower, maybe 1 of 4 being higher) and it feels more rewarding to know I'm not going up against end game cards that I won't have for 3+ months.
Perhaps a limit could be set on the overalls of the team to be within "x" of yours or, if there has to be, a season that only puts one 99 overall team to compete against while the rest are slightly above your overall rating.
Can't see myself even finishing the current season with the way it is at the moment; just unwilling to sweat against the best team in the game for casual rewards.
Hope this is taken into consideration for the future, thanks.