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@YnBreezy_PSN

Whats worse is i started playing back in 2018..i got into it because mlb the show was nothing like madden or fifa or nba2k

I fell in love with baseball again.
Grew up during the sosa/bonds era.

Became a fan of the orioles watch them growing.

Now 2026.

Mlb the show is worse than madden and fifa and nba2k combined.

From 2018-2022 you could play the game 1000000% for free literally no money spent.

I completed live series and other collections within the 1st month easy no money little effort, i just grinded moments, conquest maps(repeating ones) and got rewards for ranked seasons while improving my team.

From 2018-2022 we didn't have no sale cards. Anything and everything was saleable or flippable.

Cards wasn't capped at a set market value example 84s83s82s81s80s79s78s77s76s75s74s73s72s71s70s69s68s67s66s65s64s

All cards was directly affected by supply and demand it was easier to earn stubs. Yeah collectively the 2018-2022 collections was more expensive as a whole but our means to earn stubs from literally just playing the game was unlimited.

Programs didn't have soft or hard caps

Now Majority of collections now are locked behind limited packs..

5 live series cards are worth more than all other live series cards combined.

Packs are hard to come by via playing the game especially the packs that have other non live series cards.

So its best to sell those to get as much stubs as possible to complete the live series collections for the 99s which 1 or 2 of em will be viable by games end but by the time you can complete the collections now they'll have little to no value.

I left madden and nba for mlb the show.

2018-2022 was peak and we'll never get that again because the community let them nickle n dime us started in 2023 and has only gotten worse year by year.

@TheRupster12_XBL i played since 2018.

Its noticeable they amount of effort you have to put in has increased exponentially.

I have completed collections since 2018.

With ease little effort at all.

In 2026.

20 card limit.
No sale cards.
5 live series cards take up all of the value.
Too many packs that you have to spend money to obtain other collections.

Your baseing your ability to collect every soling on random generated numbers and entirely luck based.

From 2018-2022

I earned more stubs
Card flipping from 2018-2022 was a trillion times easier

Card flipping in 2026 most cards your lucky to flip for 200 stubs

All golds at 83 are set at a set value

Cards used to not have set values limited based on overall thats a fact.

From 2018-2022 we earned more packs from conquest and programs and rank.

The only time cards was gate kept was the event rewards and ranked world series was limiting to those that won/was good. Now its easier to get world series rewards.

But overall its harder to complete collections because of restrictions and limitations sds has put on the market.

You are literally defending a company robbing its player base.

I literally played madden from 2005-2017 and quit because mut was extremely monetization to the point you had to spend money or play 24/7 literally.

I went to mlb the show i enjoyed it because diamond dynasty was extremely easy to get cards and good ones very quickly and easy. Flipping cards was easy i could sell everything i average 1-2 million extra stub.

Literally go look at 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and notice what changes they have made to market, how cards are obtained, how many more cards are locked behind packs that are purchased(not everyone pulls the best card)

Its objectively a fact sds has literally made changes on how diamond dynasty functions whether how much stubs you can earn. Limitations on market or how things are obtain.

Go look.

Literally its too subtle year to year to notice

But from a person that has only play video games and does literally nothing else with their lives.

Im telling you sds is doing this on purpose.

They want more money from stubs sales.

And if they keep getting greedy stub sales will have a peak but eventually people will buy less stubs because of how little they get in return.