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Look I get it. At some points this game is boring and frustrating. It’s a HARD game. It seems like everyone likes to complain about every little thing that SDS decides to do. But at the same time I think SDS has created the best Diamond Dynasty/MyTeam mode there is to offer from sports games.

People complain about the same game being released with a different cover athlete year after year. SDS listened and tried a new format which was and IS refreshing. Instead of giving everyone 86 overalls on day one that are obsolete by June. Turned into 95 overalls turned obsolete by June. They just gave us better cards sooner. But people still have to complain.

People complain that the content is flat and not worth grinding. But at the same time SDS doesn’t have to release these programs or cards or conquests. If you don’t play the game three hours a day for the most part there is always something to do. If you don’t want to play online you can play offline through countless of modes added throughout the years to make it better for those who like the offline grind. If you only play online they refresh ranked seasons and BR rewards. They didn’t have to add the incognito or kaiju programs but they did.

The best part about this game is you can play it and have a competitive team without spending a single dime on the game. The offer countless of free packs and rewards just by playing. People complained in previous games finishing the XP path and having nothing to do so they added a reroll. There are free packs through conquest and free cards through programs and TA. I get it that it looks like it is shifting towards Madden making cards no sell and things like that. But at the same time people complained about the BR rewards being yanked in price cause everyone was able to get them.

There is so many things people find to complain about the game. In reality I think SDS has done a really good job listening to the community and they keep pushing out content. Even if the cards aren’t as good as others you can use them in events or try them out in BR.

Anyways that’s my piece of mind.

Look the game is not perfect and no game is.

People last year complained about how easy it was to get TA cards, SDS this year made it harder to get them but people are still complaining.

The game has always pumped out free cards to get later down the road you just have to be patient. The game is meant to be fun. If you are pumping hours into the game and not having fun then don’t play the game. Don’t just come on here to complain. I have had fun just playing the game. Sure it would be nice to have 5 million stubs from sitting and flipping the market but I’m having fun just playing.

People are comparing this game to Madden and it is nowhere close to Madden. Madden you can’t compete unless you pump hundreds of dollars into the game. SDS made it so that you can have a good team that can compete without spending a single dime. But because you don’t get enough stubs after completing a RS game people are saying that it has turned into EA. People complain how Madden and 2K are just the same game with a different cover so SDS changed things up on how they are doing things and people still complain about how it is so different from last year. Give me a break.

Look I get this game is not as good as some people wanted, but it still has the best experience for no money spent players out there. Diamond Dynasty was so great because you didn't have to spend a dime on the game to have a good team. Madden Ultimate Team and 2k MyTeam are almost unplayable without buying extra packs.

Are there things that I wished were different in the game? Yes. Are they moving towards micro transactions to improve your team? Yes. But is this still a good game and a good experience for those who don't want to spend money? Yes.

I love the power creep because it is fun to use lower overall cards with swings that I like. I do wish that they reverted to the innings programs, but I am not mad about the way it is set up now.

There is just no winning with this community. These cards are too bad. These cards are too good. There are not enough packs circulating, yet they don't have to give out free packs at all (MUT doesn't and neither does 2K). Not enough conquests, but conquests aren't worth it.

If you don't like the game then delete it. Nobody is forcing you to play this game.

@blitz77tw Like what do want them to do? By no means am I an SDS fanboy, but I also am happy with where the game is at. People were complaining that event cards were too hard to get in a week so they made it two. The BR program and RS programs were easy to complete and it was fun and not to hard.

I just don't know where this game wins for people.

I like the idea of percentages under the team affinity to see how far we are. However, I think it would be a lot easier if you put the numbers of the team affinity for example like 83/120 or just 83. I don't know how many points I have when it says 60% so I end up having to go to the team to see how many points I was at.

I have Apple TV so it’s not a problem for me, but to grow the audience for baseball this is terrible for the game.

In one of the most important days of the year, not only for baseball, but for civil rights and Jackie breaking the color barrier, having all games being exclusively on Apple TV is dumb.

The new deal with Apple TV sucks as well. Every game on Friday, the start of the weekend, to watch baseball you have to get Apple TV+. This is idiotic in hopes to try and grow the game. It would be fine if the last game on Friday night is streamed exclusively on Apple TV, but it is every game.

Not to mention the Apple TV broadcasts absolutely suck. Last Friday was terrible and heard nothing but bad reviews. It’s a money grab for the MLB, which sucks because they are stuck in contract so they can’t get out of it.

I just faced Oswalt in my last ranked season game. All I saw was low sinkers outside of the zone. Then when you finally make contact it doesn't go anywhere. When people pitch Kluber and Oswalt no one ever pitches strikes.

I don't necessarily like the idea and was hoping for flashbacks but I don't hate the idea. I think rising stars will be different than the prospects. Hopefully, it is going to be cards who have already played a year or two at the MLB level and has the potential to be a star in the league. My predictions on who some cards could be.

ALE: BAL: John Means; BOS: Andrew Benintendi; NYY: Miguel Andujar; TB: Brandon Lowe; TOR: Bo Bichette
ALC: CWS: Eloy Jiminez; CLE: Shane Bieber; DET: Jeimer Candelario; KC: Adalberto Mondesi; MIN: Jose Berrios
ALW: LAA: Luis Rengifo, OAK: Ramon Laureano; SEA: Dan Vogelbach; TEX: Willie Calhoun; HOU; Yordan Alverez
NLE: ATL: Mike Soroka; MIA: Sandy Alcantara; NYM: Jeff McNeil; PHI: Scott Kingery; WAS: Carter Kieboom
NLC: CHC: Nico Hoerner; CIN: Aristides Aquino; MIL: Keston Hiura; PIT: Bryan Reynolds; STL: Jordan Hicks
NLW: ARI: Ketel Marte; COL: German Marquez; LAD: Dustin May; SD: Francisco Mejia; SF: Mike Yastrzemski

@eatyum said in My opinion on the future stars with predictions...:

I'd really love STL to be Tommy Edman, he's one of my favorite RL players and his POTM diamond last year was great.

I was debating between Hicks and Edman but I think this time around they are going to add a reliever and Hicks is really the only option

Personally, with the whole Last Dance documentary going on I think it would be perfect to see a Future Stars collection reward 98 Michael Jordan. Great speed, great batting clutch, a little bit of pop. He would definitely start on my team

Definitely not you can get a lot of the Future Stars and Face of the Franchise players who are better than Bellinger for half the price of Bellinger. The only way you should buy Bellinger is if you need him for collections.

Kluber
Verlander
Ohtani
Snell
Sale

Have yet to start grinding for the Future Stars cards yet but they will likely replace Verlander and Sale

So I pulled Mike Trout on launch night I could sell him right now to complete other collections. However I remember last year all the prices of cards skyrocketed in late June/early July. Do you think it would be better off selling Trout then? He reached over 500k around that time last year. Same goes for the high diamonds like Acuña and DeGrom.

I always find it intriguing how some people structure their lineups. Some lineups make sense while others are mind boggling.

Im curious how everyone approaches their lineup. When I do mine I take into consideration not having too many lefty’s batting right after each other and same with righty’s.

I structure my lineup like this:

L Jazz Chisholm
R Mike Trout
S Josh Bell
L Cody Bellinger
R Miguel Cabrera
L Kyle Tucker
S Adley Rutschman
L Corey Seager

@bob_loblaw1984 said in How does everyone structure your lineups?:

@deetch_30_psn said in How does everyone structure your lineups?:

I always find it intriguing how some people structure their lineups. Some lineups make sense while others are mind boggling.

Im curious how everyone approaches their lineup. When I do mine I take into consideration not having too many lefty’s batting right after each other and same with righty’s.

I structure my lineup like this:

L Jazz Chisholm
R Mike Trout
S Josh Bell
L Cody Bellinger
R Miguel Cabrera
L Kyle Tucker
S Adley Rutschman
L Corey Seager

I’m terrible lefty on lefty, so I like to have 2 hitters between them. I also consider my reverse split guys like Trout to be left handed when crafting the lineup.

Your first 4 hitters are all weaker against LHP. I’d switch that up.

They are but this early in the game I don’t see many lefty’s and if there are lefty’s they are ones that I can hit.

Plus I feel confident in hitting lefty’s with Trout (LS) and Bell even though they aren’t as strong.

Played 5 event games… got absolutely rocked.

They hit perfect perfects left and right on pitches outside of the zone.

Lefty on lefty. High and in sinkers. Sliders outside of the zone. Didn’t matter home runs.

On my end great contact with the pci in the middle of the ball and it’s a weak fly out to center. Line drives right at people.

Oh well…

Ranked seasons unfortunately is something I haven’t focused on. 400 innings is just way to much and I don’t have the time for that.

I’ve enjoyed events so far and have been doing the BR program. Doing that takes up a majority of my time. All that combined with the programs that come out is too much.

So I only play ranked if I have nothing else to do or want to play a full 9 inning game. I’m only 4-0 rn with about 27 innings

I’m not gonna complain about the gameplay. But I am gonna complain about this event.

I wish that they would just skip to extra innings because all my games go to them anyways. It’s full of 0-0 games with 2 hits combined.

Once you get into extra innings you get a combination of Chapman, Dibble or Clase or whoever else has 100+ pitch speed. Just when hitting was already hard enough in this event it’s flamethrowers with 99 break 99 velo.

Not to mention if you make good time Inc and contact they are fly out because this stadium is complete the amount of balls that I have hit 430 to center just to be fly outs. The home runs that are hit in this event are just early or just late.

This event is terrible and should never be added back to the game ever.

@t-rox_09_mlbts said in This event is brutal…:

@deetch_30_psn said in This event is brutal…:

I’m not gonna complain about the gameplay. But I am gonna complain about this event.

I wish that they would just skip to extra innings because all my games go to them anyways. It’s full of 0-0 games with 2 hits combined.

Once you get into extra innings you get a combination of Chapman, Dibble or Clase or whoever else has 100+ pitch speed. Just when hitting was already hard enough in this event it’s flamethrowers with 99 break 99 velo.

Not to mention if you make good time Inc and contact they are fly out because this stadium is complete the amount of balls that I have hit 430 to center just to be fly outs. The home runs that are hit in this event are just early or just late.

This event is terrible and should never be added back to the game ever.

This event is a blast and the field is great for gap hitters and speed guys. The only bad part I found was the difficulty seeing the ball out of the pitchers hand during the day. Other than that I didn't feel like exit velocities we're low and I felt the ball traveled well.

I’ll hit with good exit velocities but everyone has 90+ speed in the outfield so they run everything down. I’m putting the ball 420 into the gap but it just hangs too long and turns into the longest fly out of all time.

This might be a little biased opinion but the event rewind reward pack is bogus. I’ve been sitting on 3 Nolan Ryan’s from the very first event. My thinking behind this was that only a limited amount of people were able to play that event so the Nolan Ryan was “rare”.

I was sitting on it hoping that when the master collection comes out his price will go up. It was already sitting at about 33k over the last couple days.

Now this pack rewards the people who didn’t play the event and they get the opportunity to get the reward cards. Not only tanking the price of all the cards but making my time spent in the events worth nothing.

If I would’ve known they were going to do this pack I would not have played the atrocious event at Forbes.

I understand the other side of it that some people did not have the game yet so they couldn’t get the cards. Or not everyone has the time to play every event.

It’s whatever at this point still gonna hang on to them, but the cards should be available only for the event. I can’t remember them doing this in the past and definitely not this early. Defeats the purpose of getting the wins in my opinion.