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How is playing USA conquest map over and over better/different than playing a mini seasons over and over again? I get it, the return isn’t as “good” (per se), but the games are much easier. If you play the WBC mini season 5 times (35 games, so roughly the same as the 30-game USA map), you end up getting something like 50 standard packs, 10 BiaH packs (exchange those champ banners!), plus whatever packs I’m forgetting regarding the repeatable missions.

You’re not gonna get 30k worth of sellable cards each run through, but if you actually sell all the stuff off, you’ll be a lot closer than you think. It’s also a heck of a lot faster to run WBC five times than it is to do the USA map once.

The game is still the same: repeatable, monotonous grinding. It’s just a different format.

So… here’s a weird take:

I 100% agree that off-line content is a little “eh” this year. However… I have actually found myself playing the game a lot more this year at this point than I had already by this point last year. I don’t know why. ‍️

Just putting it out there as an observation.

@rubicante23_PSN not only do you keep it, you can actually earn PXP on cards you don’t even own yet if you play with them in online modes where you can draft them or utilize other users’ cards.

@markemark_NSW way more. I know others probably put up 20 runs a game in 9 innings vs the CPU. Not me. lol

My goal was always try to get one run per inning against the CPU. I can’t do that very often this year. But against the WBC teams, I can put up 16 to 20 runs a game.

I don’t know… I put up 16+ runs/game almost every time I play the WBC mini season (9 inn). I’ve been plowing through TA with that setup.

Here’s the weird thing for me: I haven’t had one in like 4 days. I thought maybe they had fixed it. Guess not. I do think starting a session from rest mode increases the chances of it happening. So, I close the game down when I’m done playing for a day.

@SiberiaTigerCub_PSN said:

@Rhyno1986_XBL Thanks, I know how statistics work. I have a masters degree in engineering and maths were of course a major component of my program. Sure, in one sample of 50 pack pulls, indeed, a diamond may not be pulled. However, when we are looking at 50,000 packs, statistically, there should be between 950 and 1050 diamond cards pulled from that sample size, in order for it to fall within a generous 5% margin distribution.

But no one posting “the odds can’t be right?!?!?!” or “SDS needs to be audited!!!!!” has opened 50,000 packs. I would be VERY surprised, based off of previous lawsuits, if SDS was lying about the odds. They do other sneaky [censored] that’s totally within the law, that they don’t need to lie about the pack odds.

Also, as others have said, no one comes on here bragging about the amount of diamonds they get when it’s against the odds. To be honest, I feel like I’ve had amazing pack luck this year compared to last year. And last year I had terrible pack luck compared to the year before that.

Blue egg - complete egg conquest
Yellow egg - capture all strongholds in egg map

What specifically is worse now regarding this issue? Pretty sure all the same info is there…

@xero4019_XBL said:

But I was told marketplace health has never been better.

Not a market health thing. Odd comment.

@Beacho_A_PSN said:

Such an intelligent response there my guy. I would love to say more but I will be on my best behavior because I don't won't to risk my legitimate complaint getting deleting or ignored because of your comment.

It’s already being ignored. You can get a refund through Sony. Just know, you will not be able to play the game thus year. Which sounds like that’s what your wanting anyway. So, win-win?

@Beacho_A_PSN said:

But yes there are plenty of other games/things I can be doing like playing Pokopia with my daughter, Marvel Rivals or Crimson Desert when that comes.

Then do that.

@Good-Talk-Bud_XBL said:

@JDHalfrack_PSN considering there’s groups with thousands of people and this is the most commented on post as well as it’s the number 1 complaint on both Reddit and twitter im gonna say yes there’s a extremely large audience that plays it that’s mad with the change. If they swap it to 100 everyone from every side would be happy

Vocal minority does equal the majority.

Not to mention that many of the comments on this forum are people stating that it’s dumb that people are complaining about it. Or it’s people complaining about SDS in general because when someone complains about one thing, the same 18 people jump in and complain about 25 other things.

I’m not buying it that THAT many people buy this game just to play the stock market the way it’s being made to seem by some of the posters here. My hunch is that a vast, vast, vast majority of the players playing this game have never had more than 20 of a single card in their inventory purposely in their entire time playing this game.

Like, I get what you’re saying… but literally every moment in DD is based on those other things. The Jeter Storyline was cool, but… like… neat… more Yankees [censored].

I’d much rather they make the cards you get from the Negro league storylines mean something in DD.

@LIONED-33_XBL said:

I also get to chase around my wife from time to time before bed. It’s not hard.

I suffer from that too.

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

WBC miniseason is the best repeatable launch content we've gotten, hope they iron out the bugs

This is why I’ve been hesitant to even comment on this mode. 7 games for 10 packs, 1 BIAH pack and after every five run throughs as you get another BIAH bundle? Not to mention the repeatable awards that you can continue to get. Yes please. I’ll take my random loss (haven’t had any yet ) with those results!

@PriorFir4383355_XBL said:

Limiting the number of cards one player can acquire is limiting the supply that can be put on the community market. And to anticipate another phony argument you may offer, yes one player could only piecemeal the cards placed on the market at any one time, but that only matters if one player if limited. By limiting all players, SDS is in reality limiting the supply in the community market.

You think the people buying/hoarding more than 20 of a single card are putting them back on the market?

The best is that the same outfielder who will drop a routine pop fly will also gun a guy out at second on a should-have-been-a-double down the line.

So I was reading another post, which I will not link here, but I’m sure others have seen.

In it, an actual verified member of SDS literally states that “the letter of the law states one thing, but clearly everyone understands the spirit of the law” when it comes to the terms of service (or something similar).

In the direct context of the conversation, I agree on the surface as it pertained to that particular issue. However, am I not right in that TOS should NOT have “spirit of the law” in mind? They are literally meant to be letter of the law. Especially since the particular issue at hand has been used to ban users.

This seems like a major oversight here by SDS and needs to be cleaned up.

I get it… unfortunately most users don’t actually read the TOS, but for those that do, and then follow the letter of the law, they should not be getting banned, spirit of the law or not.

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