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@PokeyPongo7_PSN you can get all of these playing the final mini season (either directly or through ultra choice packs).

If we are forced to pitch from the stretch to “speed up play”, but home run replays are still in online play someone needs to get fired at sds

@GoozeFn_PSN why? 9 innings vs cpu would be torture. The only chance of ever losing against the cpu is in a 3 inning game making it 9 would just be extremely boring and something people would only suffer through once.

Showdown should never be required for anything (and I am very good at them). The problems with this mode (over any others mentioned) are:

1. it isn’t even remotely playing baseball (and at that not even with your team) in an ultimate team mode
2. the mode generates no stats for missions (in a DD that has an obscene amount of missions always active)
3. the mode is all or nothing with (potentially) a huge time commitment (especially important for people that don’t live on the app)

I don’t think they need to ditch the mode, but there should never be anything that requires you to play it (ie the spring breakout or NL showdowns last year)

If the mode follows the actual WBC, winning the championship will only take a total of 7 games. If these are 3 innings, it might be a decent play.

The WBC mini season awards (only 9 packs) implies that either a) mini seasons are way shorter or the packs in this WBC one are better (ie maybe the WBC packs.

@GoozeFn_PSN yes it does to both. The excitement of new card series is diminished because everyone just sells the high round (if they get it) to fund LS (when those high rounds should be the best current cards in the game) AND the 99s (plus the 6 division series mid diamonds, plus all the LS diamonds themselves) absolutely ruin the power curve. I get it, you like having a huge advantage over your opponents, but you should also be able to recognize that it isn’t good for the overall game (again, if it was every other ultimate team game would be doing it).

@GoozeFn_PSN it is ONLY because you can get 99s and skip power creep. If it didn’t exist at launch then the actual content would actually be exciting (like it is in every other game) instead of simply insta sold for collection stubs like it is now. The LS collection does way more harm to the model than good.

In all honesty, they should drop the live series collection entirely (or at least at launch). There is a reason no other ultimate team game has 99s you can get at launch (ie it kills excitement about other card series that are within the power creep (pipeline, new threads, etc). When everyone’s advice is “sell everything and get LS done asap (which is the correct advice btw), it just kills your content for the first 3 months of the cycle. Just to be clear, I am someone who has had LS within 3 weeks of launch for the last 5 years and I can still see how it is bad for the overall game (setting aside the obvious balance issues (ie power creep for you, not me).

Won’t get them early access, which is another bone head move by a company whose mission statement seems to be “let’s make bone head moves”. It’s no wonder why digital deluxe sales are down (as seen by the 10% discount).

Why not just go to 2 outs per inning. That would greatly speed up games and is about a baseball accurate as getting rid of the windup. I sometimes think some people on these boards (and at SDS) just cosplay as actual baseball fans.

200 hits seems like an acknowledgment of people boosting and an encouragement for those that don’t boost to do so. It’s not really an achievable mission without either a) living in H2H formats or b) boosting.

You’d sell the cards you get to fund cal, but if you look at the programs page, you should be able to grind out a ton of other missions while doing the draft map so you will get even more stubs/packs. Make sure you do the draft, ASG, and HRD programs.

Yes, easily. Just grind through the draft conquest map a few more times.

@SaveFarris_PSN well we haven’t had one in forever and again if it’s like color storm and takes over an hour each team, it won’t really solve the problem.

@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN again, I’m not worried, nor should SDs be worried about no lifers (and as someone with 500 hours in on my main I am one) about other people getting caught up.

@Dolenz_PSN no it doesn’t. It’s a video game. Nothing is “invalidated” by allowing late starters to catch up. Did it take away me having those cards/packs/etc for months? And those color storms take at least an hour each to get (for a good player in 9 inning games at Costco, much longer for someone new or not spamming vs cpu).

@theBlindRhino_PSN you’ve played over 800 hours of DD this year, do you honestly think SDS can (or should) keep content “fresh” over that much time.

@whiplash0013_PSN let me explain the problem in time terms. You say you are only halfway through TA, but you’ve played over 100 hours of the game (for a comparison, it takes about 100 hours to beat BG3). No one can really defend that amount of time sink at this point in the year for new players to earn cards that are already behind the curve and get further behind every every content drop).

@Teak2112_MLBTS and they were correct, but again, it’s a really easy fix that doesn’t hurt those that played all year.