Weren't you the one who, last year, complained about the game all year long and swore that you were not buying the game this year?

@mr_murda_cap_psn said in I see why packs are a joke to Buy:

it's kind of funny how all the You tuber and Twitch star pull diamonds all day long in 50 bundle packs when i should at least received 4 diamonds

That is not how odds work. 1 in 50 odds is not a guarantee of a diamond every 50 packs.
Your odds of pulling a diamond in the first pack is 1 in 50
Your odds of pulling a diamond in the second pack is 1 in 50
Your odds of pulling a diamond on the 200th pack is 1 in 50

A few other points.

Anyone here who has played the game for years could have warned you that packs are a waste of stubs/money.

YouTubers can edit their videos to make it seem like they are far luckier than they actually are. YouTubers know that people don't want to watch a video without any diamond pulls.

The message you probably wanted to send is the exact reason people block messages.

But man I feel bad for you guys who hit the ball on the nose every time and have never, ever benefitted from a bloop hit. In fact you're such good and upstanding players that I am sure you would just forfeit any game where you benefitted from a bloop single.

I still can't believe they accumulated all of the data in beta and probably spent months tweaking hitting and coming up with Perfect/Perfect and then decided to throw out all that work and tweak hitting only a few days after release.

Before Launch:
"We here at SDS worked hard all this offseason to come up with a new hitting dynamic. We even had a beta period to test it and receive feedback from players. We used that telemetry and feedback to make further tweaks in order to make things even better for our release"

2 days after official launch:
"We are going to take a few days worth of telemetry, when everyone is playing on the easiest difficulties, mix that in with some player complaints and abandon all the telemetry we gathered and work we did prior to launch."

Here is where I stand as an offline player as of last night

• Completed Starter Conquest
• Complete list 1st Inning Conquest
• Completed US Conquest
• Completed Starter Showdown
• Made Several failed attempts at the 1st inning Showdown
• Did all of the Welcome Moments
• Did all of the first inning Moments (Granderson and Woods)
• Did the Eckersly Evolution moments.
• Did a MTO run up to the World series(have not played the world series as it would be a waste of affinity points)
• Earned the FOTF from my favorite team.
• Played the nine inning CPU games against Cubs and Yankees. (Woods and Granderson)

I am sitting at 205 program points.

There are only a few options open to me to get the final 95 points. Showdown, which I have failed badly at in every attempt so far, and that costs 500 stubs each attempt. Collections, which also cost stubs, but in this case both collections together are more expensive than just buying the three bosses outright. Mindlessly grinding for another 30 hours or so in the last 9 days of the 1st Inning Program.

Basically the goal of 300 stars still seems so far away and the options to get there seem so unappealing (and just not fun) that it has killed a bit of my desire to keep playing.

Tried to play around 9:00 am my time and got a network error exiting a Conquest Game. Bounced me back to the main menu. I went back into DD and Conquest and tried to play a Stronghold game and got an error that would not even let me start.

I closed the game and walked away. I don't see much point in even trying the rest of today as I assume the server load will continue to get higher and higher as the day progresses.

Going through with a double XP weekend when the servers can't be trusted was just a bad idea. The servers will eventually get better and the bugs will be fixed but I still can't pretend that this is not disappointing.

My guess is that the person calling everyone "kid" is probably the younger than the majority of people he is referring to as kids. If not then that is just really sad.

The first ten years or so that I bought this game I did it to play RTTS 100% of the time. I enjoyed building an all 99 beast. Then they introduced carryover saves and I considered it the best feature that the game had released. Then came the ability to play an entire series without the need to go back to the RTTS menu between every game. Brilliant. Then a few years later things went south.

They introduced the stupid storylines. It was so scripted that it was not fun. Position player? Expect to be asked to swap positions. Starter? Expect to be put in the pen. Have a great game as a pitcher and be treated to the same cutscene visit from the pitching coach after every outing.

Oh, and that first year you could not even choose your own team at all.

Then came archetypes no longer could you build your 99 beast unless you were willing to visit the market and use those stubs on some diamond equipment.

Now they have removed the year to year saves. Hopefully it is just for one year but I wonder. You can now apparently bring your RTTS player over to DD so they don't want you to have a 99 beast on day one because you carried over from the previous season. Maybe they can program around that in future versions and re-add carryover saves.

RTTS without carry over saves is a non-starter for me. I don't want to play the first 4 to 5 seasons of my RTTS player every single year. I assume that the franchise players feel the same.

@skepple15 said in Showdown is a carnival game:

@mike_ph said in Showdown is a carnival game:

@skepple15 said in Showdown is a carnival game:

https://ibb.co/6vhK9Gy

Supes hard and rigged...

Like what is the point of this? Does everyone on here have to be a massive piece of [censored] person constantly? I also beat the NL east showdown, should I be a massive asshole towards people who havent too? [censored] dorks.

Every day

Showdown is rigged
Showdown is impossible
Showdown is the worst thing this franchise has ever done
Everything I hit in showdown is a line out
SDS doesn’t want me to get X player

There are better ways of dealing with other players frustrations than by simply throwing your successes in their face. That just makes the situation worse.

@bk2025_psn said in Is there a place on here:

just play offline if this is bothering you that much. Why so sensitive?

Because, it is against the rules, lacks imagination, lacks humor, is juvenile, and just shows all around bad taste and poor judgement. Or, they are simply doing it to get others upset enough to quit so that they can get free wins.

If you want an offensive team name and logo to play against your friends then by all means knock yourself out, but when you have no idea who you are going to be matched up against then it is just rude. I guarantee that the overwhelming majority of these jokers would not wear a shirt with the team logo and name in front of their parents but the are perfectly fine subjecting strangers to it.

@surfinsantacruz_xbl said in Angry Gamer:

@steelymacbeam said in Angry Gamer:

The feature is half-baked anyway. You can only play day games.

i thought they said they would fix that

They never gave a timeline. I always expected it to be next years version at the earliest.

Part of me wants to say they go with a Pitcher, maybe Buehler who was the NL Pitcher of the month. Ohtani already has multiple cards and I assume we will see a reprise of Votto's MVP card from last year at some point.

As long as we get a boosted Harrison Bader somewhere in the POTM program, hopefully higher tier, then I will be happy. Kyle Farmer needs to be included too. Those two won't be getting boosted diamond cards for any other reason, unlike many of the other candidates, so I really want them to get their due.

I don't know. I am not sure how they did it.

I assume he stayed within the rules the games set forth and then somehow created a roof or dome over his field so no sunlight would get in. It's one of those situations that SDS never contemplated.

I watched that earlier. Why anyone would pick that is beyond me.

Despite having an awful stadium Kevin beat the other player so the field did not even allow him to get a cheese win.

@jake93436_psn said in MO Collection card; listings not found:

so i go to collections, the RIVERA 42 then;

ALL star to redeem willie mays is not found...
ROOKIE' Todd Helton is not found, ROOKIE Albert Pujols not found

theres a decent amount in each category for the Rivera program to get his 600 card

Well, I know Pujols is the reward for finishing the large Conquest map. I assume the other two are reward cards as well, and thereby unsellable.

If I was a betting man I would guess that it is gone for good.
Same with year to year saves.

I see that Lester is endearing himself to Cardinals fans in his first start. 6 earned runs in his first 2 innings.

It's hard to get more attention though if you are banned,

@buddyhightower_xbl said in How do you report players with racist uniforms?:

Why not just block them on PlayStation or Xbox, and move on with your life?
Why give them any attention?

Because there is no reason that every other person they match up against should have to deal with that stuff.