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Does anyone here actually enjoy baseball? There’s only a starting 9, find yours. No need to buy packs just play a theme team, buy the 9 or earn the starting 9 you want. Play the [censored] game

I am not a fan of the SDS business model. I abhor it. They haven't tested a [censored] thing for years and just keep rolling it out year after year.

HAVING SAID THAT

For craps sake we are playing baseball. The 40k packs suck but it's not like you need every player in the pack. Who gives a darn. I have been waiting for something to buy, to fit to my team. I do not need every single player.

If you play competitive, good for you, you have a team that looks exactly as the team you are playing. BUXTON BOOST, etc. You guys are expletive.

Stop freaking whining. You sound like Me.

When making a lineup do test this: put all of your tall players together, short, etc.

For instance, group Elly, Judge, O’Neil Cruz together, then put your shrimps together say, Altuve Wong, types. Don’t stagger them.

The strike zone differential distracts yourself if you stagger them in the lineup. So if I know I have 3 tall sluggers in a row, it is easier on the eyes to have them in a bunch and know the strike zone for the players.

@Ericulous1_XBL

It plays the same as it did in 2020 or prior. It irritates me to no end that they don’t add more base hits to the game or anything as far as physics, no really new animation. The AI is dumb as [censored], any difficultly(offline) just throw fastball up and in fastball up and in, low offspeed and get an out. While I don’t mind the ease of that in a grind it’s just not baseball unless you play online.

They have to give high contact/low power guys power above their normal attributes to play within their physics.

All defenders play way too fast.

[censored] list goes on forever as far as gameplay. Instead of making studs like Carew Gwynn etc get on base it’s constant lineouts.

The gameplay is [censored], and needs a complete overhaul.

Content is fine. Never had a complaint with that, I’ve always said you can only play with 9 players so you don’t need 60 99 players.

Just make ones that aren’t 125/125 viable.

Pitcher confidence is dumb [censored] hell.

I could go indeed go on and on.

They don’t fix ANYTHING there have been no gameplay adjustments, for years. Patches only fix exploits and adding programs and uniforms that aren’t in collection. I seriously have no idea what they do all day.

They use the same baseball cards over and over, I myself could design baseball cards better than them with stats that made more sense. I’m not convinced they do much at SDS on a day to day basis. Must be like 2 people working there.

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS

Laziness is the word. They’ve made 0 changes since forever. Just put a new shell on players.

They aren’t designing a game for gameplay they just print digital baseball cards for Topps.

We could all sit around and design baseball cards all day. All they do is slap new card images on the same players that play in an old [censored] engine. The stats don’t mean [censored] really, other than like power and contact, speed and reaction maybe on defense. You’re sold baseball cards that only have like 4 stats that mean anything.

It’s funny some people are like but yeah when you hit that threshold of 82 on power it really shows an effect. No it doesn’t. I feel the stats mean something per 20 points. Anything between is useless. So that’s dumb. May as well have stats of 1-5 on all players.

They make it seem like it means something but it absolutely doesn’t.

There’s 4 stats maybe that mean anything. The rest is just window dressing.

@Teak2112_MLBTS

Walker played famously for the Montreal Expos which are defunct, and became the Washington Nationals in a move.

Same franchise.

@trfatboy22_MLBTS

Agreed. Tragic

Fishin is a habit

@jaychvz_XBL said in anyone losing interest?:

Welcome to gaming , who plays the same game forever without atleast taking a break for a little bit from your favorite game .
It happens to all games , i use to play COD everyday, couldn't get enough . I haven't play it in over a year. Baseball is my constant though. Ill stop playing for a few weaks , but then pick it back up.

It’s this. It’s baseball, every game is the same. If you’re bored of baseball then stop playing it and go do other things. The “grind” mentality of players feeling like having to get cards the day they come out is what’s the problem, and that’s on the player. Quit for a week or two and you’ve got new content. Why do so many people think they have to have the best cards the day they are released?

I think where SDS has dropped the ball is on Captains - other years there were many more captains and options of creating theme teams and this year they’ve shelved that.

I only have interest in Cardinals players or former players, but due to the enormous amount of TA I’ve had a blast making other theme teams but they’re all team limited.

Wish there were more captains available to screw around with more players I’d never normally play with. I’m bored in that aspect but otherwise it’s just baseball.

I know what you mean. Whether it be moments or diamond quest I hate being penalized for winning with singles if the goal is hit one XBH for example. It kind of goes against what baseball is about, which is scoring runs. It sucks for instance to score 6 runs on singles and doubles in DQ when the mission is to hit a HR, on top of dealing with pitchers who don’t throw strikes.

They have to find some way to make those things better. They did change it from HR to XBH from past years, hell I remember the worst was a Jackie Robinson multi game thing that you needed X triples in 5 games. It was dumb because it didn’t award you for hits so they did tone it down by going with #bases sort of thing in future iterations

@Teak2112_MLBTS

I hear you and the points are valid - it’s just those collections are not meant to be completed on day one. Typically if you want the new collection day one then yes, you have to buy the packs or players.

In a month from now however they’re easily attainable and cheap.

@Dolenz_PSN

I get that but it’s not hidden, it’s an option to do. We accumulate stubs spend stubs on those players if you want them, or don’t if you don’t. We collect packs every week and every once in awhile you get lucky and get a player you want or a player to sell to buy the players we want.

It’s up to the individual to decide how bad they want a card. It’s their entire business model and always has been. Nothing is hidden.

@dap1234567890_PSN

You shut your mouth.

You see all the empty seats in Busch this season? If they trade Arenado there’d be even more. Us Cards revere our D.

Chaim clam bing bong boom bloom will finally get to go to work once Mozeliak is out. It better happen this season at deadline or there will be crickets at Busch.

Dude they don’t fix things that have been around for 5 years. Only thing they’d fix in a matter of days is if people got a good card in a pack.

There have been exactly 0 gameplay fixes this year. Expect the same next year.

@Ditka06_MLBTS

Offline does not play better, whatsoever.

Miniseasons maybe with high caliber cards the teams have. Even then it’s a farce of a game the opponents (even if all bronze)play like diamonds there’s really no difference between any of them. High fb high fb low outside, win the game.

So to get any baseball out of the game you have to play online where your pitches matter, and you can’t do that ad nauseum.

There’s no fun whatsoever to offline grinding. It’s pure garbage where you only hit homeruns, and the rest of game you want the fastest pitcher to the plate to get out of it faster to go back to hitting and bitching about perfect perfects.

Online you actually play baseball and are not facing auto outs most of the time.

@LHUBison58_XBL

I swing at every ball that will hit me just to stave it off.

Saved by the animation so many times.

@LHUBison58_XBL

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