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@rubicante23_PSN said:

Just like always, there ain't much incentive to use most lesser cards in the game - that's the biggest problem

Preach. Now imagine if they made gameplay awesome and we all stop chasing carrots.

The incentive to play a game shouldn’t be a reward carrot.

It should be because the game is fun - and I find that most of us just want rewards and shiny [censored], when they could bankroll by improving their gameplay and menus. Then focus on on the carrot

People complain about bloops it’s dumb - we need more bloops more singles, more physics on the ball.

As it stands now you bunt for a single, or slam a HR no doubter: There’s no “ in between” at all. It’s HR or single typically and it’s just so dumb and fixable

I just call it “F the AL”

Sony can’t fix MLB scheduling and it’s going to be until end of May that the Cardinals play the Cubs. The hells going on here? Way too much interleague play

Seeing AL teams is meant for playoffs and such, not for everyday games.

MLB needs to start scheduling division games, not games against whoever

Part of the majesty and allure of NL/AL is you never got to see what they had until the World Series

You could speculate, read baseball cards. Chase box scores but in the World Series they met for the first time

I loved in the stream how they were like:

“Yes. a cardinals Bruce Sutter” as if his best seasons were not in a cardinal uniform

Embarassing

Their stats don’t make much sense, their attributes don’t make sense, and the stream team doesn’t know baseball.

Welcome to the Show

Wow! Split finger primary! Yeah because he made it relevant, the split is HIS pitch.

Split finger is Sutter’s invention sort of and now they just throw it in any pitchers arsenal

Not to mention they’re advertising the Mural thing as longevity with a team and they’re like yes, a Cardinals Sutter folks

Almost as if the stream team never knew he played for them

@Dolenz_PSN said:

@JenkinMeyer_PSN said:

Maybe have Dolenz or someone do a search on “least used players” then eliminate all thousand of those. Start from the bottom

There is no easy way to do this. The only way I could think of is to look at the worst players on every team and see if there is any that have not gotten to at least parallel 1.

More have probably been used than many think. I used multiple live series Cardinals on my theme team early on

Sure. Same, but the data would show who’s used in theme teams or used at all

May not be something you can do I’d be curious to see the bottom of the used cards

Was just a thought

In my imagination there’s say, 1,300 cards that aren’t used much. Just throwing out a number

Then just eliminate 1,000 of them zap gone. Useless

Unless they’re tied to Franchise but just focus Diamond Dynasty

If they’d start trimming fat here and there they wouldn’t have this spaghetti rubber band ball of useless [censored] in their game

@Beaterrr_XBL

Hug your wife and kids, spend more time with them. Don’t let FOMO get you down, there’s not really much to lose out on up in here until they make some changes

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

They’ve got to figure out how to make Live Series cards more worthwhile. No one uses them. Thousands of cards just sitting in binders

Do they? Supercharged exists. BR exists. Certain events exist.

The main purposes of live series are for the collection and for conquest opponents. And filler early in the year. They server their purpose and then some.

Right on. Maybe since I don’t BR I never realized….

How boring it is to draft a live series card in BR. Yay. A crappy card

You actually draft AROUND those cards to get to the good cards. Live series stinks, just admit it

Maybe have Dolenz or someone do a search on “least used players” then eliminate all thousand of those. Start from the bottom

Maybe if they eliminate all the useless garbage and make everything in the game useful it’ll make a difference

Now I’m curious - how many cards have never been used?

I think at the end of the day it’s important for anyone to know what stats are being used

It shouldn’t take Dolenz or fans or message board posters to play Clue when they could just be transparent and not have Dolenz doing their job for them

Off topic - but about their repeated use of the same old legends and flashbacks:

I could send an email tomorrow to all ex- MLB players “can we use your likeness” and I’d imagine they’d say yes.

Barry Bonds or whoever maybe not but they or whoever decided that they can only have so many legends due to rights or greed or whatever is just pure BS.

Maybe I’m wrong, maybe Willie McGee charged them 1,000,000 but haha, no way

They’re just lazy. If the union is a factor I get that- there’s so many players outside of union that would love to be in a video game free or charge

@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN said:

@samguenther1987_PSN said:

@rubicante23_PSN said:

@samguenther1987_PSN it may drop live series - Bobby Witt did

It already has, Ramirez is now going for 95k, he was 130k to start the day, Ramirez is ny next target, it was going to be Witt

Of course. AFTER I bought him the other day.

Hehe I just bought Jose Ramirez during that flash sale (got lucky and packed Judge) and I hated buying him at 130k

Now there’s a new version. Eh if this is the worst thing to happen to us today, it’s going to be a good day

(Rendering the Live Series Ramirez useless)

They’ve got to figure out how to make Live Series cards more worthwhile. No one uses them. Thousands of cards just sitting in binders

@Dolenz_PSN

Well there you have it. They should display those stats if they’re still in use in my opinion - I ain’t as competitive as some of these others but don’t just remove the ability to see “Discipline” on card and still be using it.

More laziness from SDS I surmise, just remove the visual and see if anyone notices. Then maybe fix it 7 years later. If people complain enough, otherwise fix it in 9 years

@DeleteyourTTVBTW_MLBTS said:

You can call me crazy but I swear I can feel the discipline. All year I’ve thought in my head there is no way check swings feel the same for everyone. I don’t think I’ve got a single check swing call with Ohtani. If his was high I would be pretty baffled. If Bobby Witts was low I’d feel the same.

Absolutely agree - it’s there in the background somewhere. May not show on a card but it’s there

So they just removed the discipline stat from your card but they definitely are still using it

I thought maybe they rolled it into Vision but I’ve noticed some vision guys can’t check much either. Maybe they put it in conjunction with high power guys. No clue

@Graeves-_PSN said:

I've said for years Sony doesn't need 2 different ratings between online and offline.
We don't need anyone to have 125 Contact , Power, baserunning ability or whatever attribute you choose. 99 is more than good enough IMO.

Having a player with 125 Speed is akin to Nigel Tufnel with speakers ''These go to 11.''

If they’d make their ratings actually matter it would be cool - the problem is that it feels like

0-90 =-90 meaningless
99 = sweet spot.

Why even have ratings between 0-90 if they don’t actually affect gameplay. I’ve never understood why Ricky Henderson (a true 99 speed) gets the same treatment as some Topps now guy who stole 20 bases in 2 years.

They’ve got to make their attributes mean something

And this season they just changed their menus to reflect a bunch of bar graphs and meaningless BS to distract from the fact that their attributes don’t really mean much. There’s like maybe 4 stats that matter the rest is eye candy

@cusejuice315_PSN said:

Discipline and Durability have no affect on DD overall..victor from SDS responded directly to nutzypoo about it. They are legacy attributes that only affect offline franchise and the OG Ruairi dev from SDS refuses to let them go. Overalls were "overhauled" from 25 to 26 but durability and discipline have no affect on overall rating in online DD

That or they’re hidden and just not shown. They may still be using those criteria in the background

No offense to those particular people but they work for SDS so I wouldn’t expect them to be truthful about much

@On_a_Power_Trip_PSN said:

@GoozeFn_PSN I’m not buying that the formula doesn’t have those ratings at all either, to be honest with you, but if they are to be believed (the explanation was that the dev who does the attributes wanted to keep doing those ratings to maintain routine cause they’ve apparently been at it for a few years now), the ratings manipulation in question is more incompetent than shady. Which is kinda believable to me.

“Incompetent” is the key word here. They’ve been so neglectful, it’s not that they’re idiots they’re all smart. Just stop being incompetent.

They’ve allowed broken things to exist for so long which leads one to believe they’re being purposefully stupid or just outright incompetence which I can’t wrap my head around, with Sony money

@Onix_Savage22_PSN said:

@On_a_Power_Trip_PSN if u think the next al leiter card is gonna be anywhere but a chasepack or collection reward ur in for a rude awakening…

Probably - but man imagine a Mets Leiter with Mets Mike Hampton in his heyday. Do they have rights to Hampton? Whatever year that was the Mets pitching staff was bonkers good and they murdered us in the playoffs

Gimme

@JACKIE-TREEH0RN3_PSN said:

Seriously they can go F themselves. From the marketplace bs to the connection problems. I’ve sent them many complaints and have never received anything back.

You pour a mean Caucasian, Jackie

@SDS_JoeK_PSN said:

Best thing to do in these situations is report in-game where you can.

I mentioned it in a post below but I bet you can thwart it all by forcing the run rule in any inning, including top of inning. Could be a very simple solution

It’s at 10 runs now but you could set whatever threshold

@DoIHearBossMusic_PSN said:

@Dolenz_PSN Three Cardinals in one set? Whats gotten into SDS???

Wish there were 7, wish we had some bullpen or starters worth a salt but we traditionally don’t pitch too well.

I’ll be quite happy with what they gave us

@GoozeFn_PSN said:

@JenkinMeyer_PSN Same cards every year.

Then they need to start doing more good versions of current players if they don’t have the money to pay for new legends

@Onix_Savage22_PSN said:

Did Gibson dirty those reverse splits sheesh

I’ll never understand why the guy with arguably the best season ever as a pitcher, so much that they lowered the mound due to his dominance- is always given lack of control or some other weird stat to keep him in line. Seeing those stats against lefties I also had to do a double take

The switch hitter thing is annoying for sure, but I just wish they’d spread out the cards to other teams a bit more.

Tired of seeing the same old same old cards as well.