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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.

1. Cards set at a set value(84,83,82,81,80 79,78,77 etc) and not based on supply and demand.

2. 20 card limit on market.

3. Having cards you cant sell more often
   aka no sale cards(more prominently this year)

4.Most collections are behind limited packs(in years past most collections was program based, event based, gamemodes based, ranked based)

The game has been monetized/ microtransaction to hell and back 20 times over.

No sale cards,

Restrictions on market value for each level of card example diamonds gold silvers and bronzes set at a set price regardless of supply and demand.

Most if not all cards are locked behind packs including most collections are behind packs.

And now a market limit of 20 cards per card so you cant even gamble on roster updates.

Look back 5 or 6 years ago.

No no sale cards,
Most collections was from live series or event or gamemodes or programs.

No market limits
A gold card could be worth more than a diamond or a bronze worth more than a gold all cards had individual value not all 83s or not all 85s or not all 74s was at the same value.

In 2026 i genuinely think to have all cards you'll need 40 million stubs by years end.

Mlb the show peaked between 2018-2022 its gone down hill since.

And now we have bots in ranked games hitting a homeruns nearly every pitch.

Lol market bots is your concern when we have a pandemic of nearly perfect every hit is a homerun no matter where you pitch it from people with sub 400 batting averages.

I faced a guy with 27 hits who scored 21 runs. He had goose eggs for the 1st 3 innings and from 4th inning on he was batting nearly 100 if it wasn't for lucky straight to field cheese hed probably still be in the 5th inning hitting homeruns now