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@Apolloz_99_MLBTS Thats just not completely true. They were 85's. Team affinity's were all 88's and obtainable pretty fast . There were WBC that were 87, 89 and 90's.
I mean, make them 88's too...at least they'd be worth while. And make the first collection a 90 or 91. And one of the main reason people dont use them is that they dont contribute towards a team affifity.
And the goal is to educate people about these players. If You want an 88 or 89 on Day one, I bet you'd watch the storyline
Agree. For as great of a job as Bob and Ramone do on presenting the history of these players, the content team absolultly has fumbled, every year, how these cards are delievered.
First, on initial release, these card should be amongst the best in the game, and in my opinion, becuase of this, you should not be allowed to "skip" the segments educating you on each player. Instead, we are given low rated diamonds that no one uses. Making them the best cards in the game on release would incourage all to get these cards, and creating a team affinity with other previous NL players would drive there use through the roof.
Also, the NL player have no sory of "Team Affinity" giving you another reason not to use them.
Then, on top of al of that, there 99's come out so late in the season, and there are already better cards, that these dont get used either.
Take a look at the cards that are out there now. Other that some of the players who played in MLB, The highest rated true negro card is a 91 John Donaldson and 90 Josh Gibson, which likely havent been used in Months.The other cards have likely never been used, along with the storylines.
I dont get it. These players are among the best who ever did it, but the content team does zero to make you want to earn them and listen to their stories.
These players and the Negro leagues deserve SO much better.
Almost every card I was bidding on yesterday had bots adding to it within milliseconds every bid. Even old cards from WBC! I just do not know why you are wasting time on this anymore. PLEASE disable bidding on the app and online and limit buying and selling to console only until you figure our a long term solution to this. PLEASE!
Man, kudos to SDS on this one, not only an hour after it happened, but making him easy to Obtain! Well done!
@sbchamps17_NSW Now that is pretty cool
Joshua Baez about to be expensive collection!!!
THeir is an easy solution for now.....just turn off ALL in app purchases and only allow console purchases
App purchases should be disabled until they can correct this.
@TripleH-4481_PSN This is likely the best answer right now. Ban all non-console transactions.
I know the app is much easier for people, but these bots have got to go.
Just wow! Not sure anyone except Dolenz would have picked Walker to win it, but it was EPIC! I had Schwarber on most of my accounts...oh well! Congrats Jordan and Cards fans! enjoy that 200K card!!!! LOL!
Yay for Dolenz!! Another Expensive Cardinal in a pack!!!!
@Bridge-Piece_XBL Yeah, I would have likely stopped their too, but if its true that 150K have Acuna, and 500k have Carlton, that just an enormous difference of 350,000 players. I'll need to look when I get home how many got Britton.
@JenkinMeyer_PSN Thanks a pretty big difference. Makes me think that offline players counts are much higher than I even thought they were, as I doubt most online players would skip the chance to get those cards free and also 75K in stubs and 90k XP.
@JenkinMeyer_PSN I would think all of the new All-Star cards coming in a few weeks will be captains
Caprado, yes I agree with that. That was a great quality of life change. They also speeded up Conquest Map processing in 22, which was great. In regards to the games, I though '22 and '23 were ok (although I think '23 lost TA), but as a whole, the game as been slowly getting worse year by year, and I'd bet that their usage stats prove that. up until '23, i played the game all the way through launch date the following year.
Blame the bots for this one. SDS seems like they certainly trying to fix this, but its not easy (speaking from experience). I'm tellin ya, the only real way to stop this would be to disable the online marketplace until they can find a permanent solution to the bots, without trouble shooting with a game thats been in General release for over 4 months now.
SInce I am on my soap box.....Been playing the The Show since 2016. This team really needs to go back to the start here from a dev standpoint. Like literally go back to The Show 21 (the last good game in my opinion) and start over. Dump the Nintendo switch integration (i think a big part of their issues), and bring in some more voices (Online and Offline) who can help direct how this game should really be developed.
This game could be so much better online and offline, but every year, seems like they just keep doing bolt on's, which end up breaking more and more.
Also, Live Content.....infrequent attribute updates, cut and paste programs year after year (except this past week when they completely alienated half of their customer base), killing investing with purchase limits, timed programs that force you to play modes you have no interest in.. Its been so bad. And dont even get me started on franchise mode, which has been a complete disaster since 2021 when they stopped Year over Year saves, dumped sounds of the shows, ruined playing RTTS when they disallowed using the created player anywhere in DD (I get not using them online I guess, but offline too?).
THe only really great additions in my opinion have been 1) The Parallel system, 2) the boost system implement this yea (which could be made to be so much better) and 3) The Negro Leagues addition (this too, which incredible, could be made SO much better but introducing a Team Affinity and more longer term usuable cards from the initial launch of the game). And for goodness sakes, why cant we make Live Series cards relevant for the entire MLB season, with higher escalting ratings that can compete with flashback and legends and consider the idea of the very best LS Cards ultimatly "morphing" into the Finest Cards, which would even make the more valuable.
If the franchise is going to survive long term, the team at SDS need to go back to the drawboard, bring on some trusted community voices to help lead the future direction of the franchise. Its either that, or MLB should allow coemption back into the Baseball Game Market, really forcing a higher level of innovation by all.
Wow! That's medium??? What could the hard ones be? No thanks to all of that.
10-4. I've always advocated that playing online should entitle you to more rewards, I just think this took it too far.
I choose not to pay for PS+ to play the only game I play online, because
So, I guess if I had known that offline players would be required to play online as well to complete programs when buying the game, maybe i'd feel differently. But lets be honest. This game has been going down the tubes since MLBtheShow 23 (the last decent games), and I've always given SDS and the LC team the benefit of the doubt. After this kick in the teeth, no more.
Completely ridiculous that the Live Content Team shut out offline player completely from this program! I mean, make the programs harder, add a collection, do something other than making the content sellable.
I've been avid offline show player since 2015, and it feels like they just dont care about ANY of the offline stuff anymore.
This feels like the dumb egg hunt program all over again, except worse, beucase we cant even get past Phase 1!
Be better SDS and Live Content Team.