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If half of you spent as much time playing the game as you do watching those goons yell at the screen….you too could profit.

Wish I had that much free time.

(A) If people keep playing (B) spend money. what do they care? The older you get the more you learn.

@ryty13h60_psn said in Early Timing:

@c_lawson3_mlbts said in Early Timing:

I'm still trying to understand hitting outcomes in this game. How can a not-good-timed swing... on legend difficulty, not only be a hit but result in at least three home runs in the same game???

According to SDS, Good-Okay is .174 on Legend. Am I the only one who feels the game doesn't play to the reported stats???

And it's not just this one game. Two games ago on legend, my opponent and I went a combined 0/2 on Perfect-Perfects... SDS is reporting almost a .900 average on that difficulty. So the odds 0/2 happens is around 1%

Where did you find this info from sds? Just curious what other nuggets are out there.

https://theshow.com/2022-community-stats/?cs-date=APR+2022

Nope, I guess SDS just hates me...

Disconnects and game crashes have lost me around 200 points in RS this season alone. It's been about a month since I filed a bug report and still no response.

@c_lawson3_mlbts said in How do you report a player?:

@dlgltal-athlete_psn said in How do you report a player?:

I'm curious as to what you are referring?

I don't want/need you to come on here and explain it to me; as if other's don't know about it, that will make it more widespread.

But is this something that I can see for myself if I search for it?

@DlGlTAL-ATHLETE_PSN you can watch the video here: https://twitter.com/YourFriendKyle_/status/1538260245301977088

Yikes, I never saw that video until now. Heard about it, but wow, and that guy seems like a total [censored] looking at his socials

Now a freeze-off... I can't get a break

I've spent thousands on this franchise, hopefully a decent competitor can come soon

@texas10pt_psn said in Why did skill and execution matter more 10 years ago?:

@pscrabro_psn said in Why did skill and execution matter more 10 years ago?:

It's intentional, because now the gaming companies are using the modes like DD and MUT to make massive amounts of money. If the lesser players have a little help, they are more likely to stay engaged and keep spending money. EA sports are the masters of manipulation and other gaming companies are starting to follow the lead there and want in on that action. EA sports yearly revenue speaks for itself in how they have changed the game to revolve around getting players to spend money. They literally have patents on logic that makes players feel the urgency to hurry up and make upgrades. It is shady and sneaky, but if you look at their numbers... you can't blame them or any company for going that route. The #1 goal of any business is to make money and companies like EA are cashing in even though the players are frustrated. EA went from making around 300 million in microtransactions (2015) to over 1.5 billion last year... it's not because the game is better or more popular, it is because they have mastered tricking the players into spending money all year long to keep playing. Some of those tactics are by making lesser players feel like they are better than they are.

This guy gets it completely. It’s called Player Retention. You can google it and it will explain exactly what this post is saying.

Yes... any gaming company will admit that the the #1 thing that makes a successful game is keeping players engaged. That goes even further in recent years with how much extra revenue can be had through microtransactions. People always slam these companies for not fixing things like hitting in this game and cheese plays in Madden... but it's 100% intentional. If they make this game only reward perfect hits online and take out random outcomes, lesser players will quit and ultimately stop spending money on the game. Same with Madden cheese... so many people rely on the same cheesy Madden plays, if suddenly they stop working, players will quit. They are tricking the middle class and lesser skill guys into thinking they can compete and not worrying about the hard-core players, because numbers have shown them hard-core players won't stop playing anyways. It goes even deeper than this in games like Madden to where the whole MUT mode (similar to DD) is designed to make players feel the need and urgency to upgrade all year long in order to compete. DD is nowhere near as bad as EA games yet, but if you have been playing for years and pay attention you can see what's happening... it's easy to see DD is heading down that road more and more every year.