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@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.

@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.

@cusejuice315_PSN.

If we are getting "more packs"

More people would be pulling more diamonds not less.

Thats not how probability [censored] works.

Sds has literally made golds silver and bronzes worthless.

They made this change in 2022/2023.

99.9% market value has went into 1 or 2 cards.

Thats not normal.

Thats not okay

That favors whales and Sds pockets.

Thats artificially manipulating the market.

Back when trout was 500 k he wasnt worth more than the entire [censored] mlb league combined

Shoei and judge are worth more than the entire [censored] league combined

There is no supply and demand.

If golds silvers n bronze are worthless..

The value isnt based on actual supply and demand.

That are hard capped at a set value.

That doesn't favor the general public

Only sds n whales benefit from that.

Im not a selfish person id rather everyone eat before i eat.

Stop deep throating people blatantly robbing people.

@ApolloZ_99_MLBTS i played madden from 2005-2017.

I got in mlb the show because of how easy to get all cards from 2018-2022 was.
Sds has in fact objectively blatantly made subtle changes to how stubs are obtained, adding no sale cards(,can get duplicates) , limiting mass sales for mass flipping/ gambling on roster updates.

Cards used to not be set at a set value they changed it to where card 83 would by default have a set value.

Cards values used to be set by the players supply and demand.

Sds is manipulating the market with subtle changes over the past 5 years.

Like i don't have a life i only play video games.

I'm telling you from 2018-2022 completing collection and earning stubs was so easy.

It has gotten progressively harder over the last 5 years.

Sds has made changes to diamond dynasty and the market every year for the last several years.

Not a coincidence that they made those changes and it harder to earn stubs abd completing collections

I have done no money spent since 2018.
2018 millions of extra stubs
2019 millions of extra stubs
2020 millions of extra stubs
2021 millions of extra stubs
2022 millions of extra stubs

But 2023 less
2024 even less
2025 even less
2026 cant even break 100k stubs and im 2 million away from completing the live series collection (i own majority of the collection)

I once completed the live series in like 2 weeks because i got lucky and pulled both ohtani and judge.

Thats entirely luck and has nothing to do with how easy it is to flip cards or get stubs from playing the game or get rewards that i can sell.

I have more cards i cant sell than i do cards i can sell.

That wasn't the case 8 years ago

Which btw nms is just a way of coercion to get the masses to think its possible to do nonchalantly.

2021 they added no sale cards(low amount)

Each year since they've added more items that cant be sold which effects the market and things people can't sell to then use to buy orher stuff.

2022/2023 they made the change where sell now values and was restricted for overalls 84-64(the commons)

A 83 card no one has selling for the same as a 83 overall everyone has is not how supply and demand works. Thats blatant market manipulation by sds.

Sds has made 84-40 worthless.

And made high overall diamonds cards that are rarer to obtain means younhave to open even more packs then you used to 8 years ago because i could sell 4 83s for 5k each and then get a low end diamond

@cusejuice315_PSN

This is sds manipulating the market. This was done in 2022 and mad worse in 2023 and worse since.

This doesn't benefit the player base at all.

It's a hinder to true authentic supple and demand.

And then in 2023 they added a ton of no sale cards(which in previous years you could sell anything and everything if you didn't need it to go for other collections or things you wanted.

These 2 things literally hindering players from earning more stubs

Thats just a blatant fact.

I earned more stubs from 2018-2022.

I have no life i play nothing but video games

I am the no money spent.

Sds has gotten greedy since 2023.

Stop defending them take your ego out your [censored] and stand up for your fellow gamers and defend them from getting [censored] over by a greedy corporation.

This is exactly why i stopped playing madden and 2k.

Sds had it balanced.

You had 2 ways of doing things.

1 get every card by spending money.

Or get every card by just playing the game.

I have to play mlb show every day all day flip cards all day. Just to complete everything in a month maybe.

It used to not be like that.

I used to be able to complete the live series collections in a week or so.

@cusejuice315_PSN

Sds did this intentionally.

No sale cards and putting a hard cap on cards value does not benefit the gamers at all.

@ApolloZ_99_MLBTS from 2018-2022 you did. And it was healthy and everyone benefited.

I dont give a rats [censored] about the 100 people it benefits.

I want the game, the games economy.

To benefit everyone who logs into and plays mlb the show

@peelwonder_PSN its not just the 20 card limit on its own. People listen please.

Yall get off to only fans girls.

I get off to math we aint the same.

This is all simple math.

The 20 card limit(2026) ️ cards quick sell values capped(2022/2023) ️additions of no sale cards(2022/2023) = thr current market we have today

In early 2020s trout was 500k.

Ar 1st glance ooooo thats 200k less tha. Sheoi today.

Gues what.

In 2026 ALL GOLDS,SILVERS, AND BRONZES dont add up to 100k.

Youd have to collect the entire mlb rosters sell them roughly 15 times just to afford shoei.

When trout was 500k.

All golds silvers and bronzes added up to 1 million.

Meaning eve. If you pulled golds n silvers.

You could sell your duplicates and buy the 500k mike trout in roughly a weak of juat selling your duplicates.

Back in 2020. You had golds going for 4-7k eack

And some silvers going for 1k each

And bronzes going for 500 stubs.

I can buy an entire team today with like 1800 stubs. Because golds, silvers and bronzes are worth literally [censored] in todays game.

Allll of the market value has shifted to the top 5 cards making 99.8% of the other cards have no value.

So the only cards worth literally anything is the cards that have a 1% drop rate and everyone would have to open 10000 packs.

@cusejuice315_PSN you are missing the point of what im saying. Jesus [censored] christ i hate this [censored] planet there is no way the human population is this [censored] stupid

Nothing i have stated.

None of the evidence i have put forth

Has literally nothing

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Anything you are saying

You are not comprehending

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