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Packed an Ohtani during the flash sale waiting for my son’s high school game to start. Then he scored the walk off run in the 10th. I figured I ought to do something I never do and I bought a lottery ticket in the way home and hit $100 on a dollar scratch off, it’s one of those days.

Some of us have been playing the show longer than many of the younger crowd has been alive. Also, imagine a world where your phone was attached to the wall and you didn’t even know what the internet was and over the course of a summer you played over five hundred nine inning wiffle ball games and a full little league/all star season at the same time, and your parents never watched a single practice unless your dad was the coach. But on a rainy summer day you and your buddies played rbi baseball until your nes could heat up a cup of ramen. That was what us 40 year olds remember. That and chasing a ‘89 upper deck card card #1.

On my drive to work this morning I hit three red lights! The odds are that I shouldn’t hit more than 1. Fix this!

/end rant

The three of the same card is complete BS. SDS can easily fix this. Any jr high coding student could fix this. The lack of pulls in a 50 pack is disappointing but typical. But the 3x repeats is unacceptable. This happened to me a few times now on packs I purchased.

I love the people who show no empathy on here. I’m currently playing the show with one eye. I had Retina reattachment surgery and have an oil bubble in my one eye until at least August. It has made getting above WS nearly impossible for me, but I still enjoy the game. Some modes I don’t mess with because of the difficulty in hitting consistently with precision. I like the suggestion of making the cards sellable and repeatable for folks. It hasn’t locked the dq cards up or ruined the market in that mode. How much of an impact could doing the same thing to showdown have?

He is playing lagrasse.

I absolutely think the Show needs to continue the live series collection rewards. The argument that no other sports game does this is EXACTLY why they need to continue to do it. I play several other “Ultimate” team games and they are money grubbing modes. I’ve always enjoyed the balance that the Show has struck between content for NMS players and the whales. Last year I had the LS done after the first roster update NMS. Good luck having the meta that early in any other game NMS. Keep the Show different.

Apparently DQ was too profitable for the players. I’m sure the excuse will be “we received feedback from our players that it has become an online exploit” or some garbage like that. All this is is a thinly veiled attempt to nerf a known stub making method. Throw on top of this that I have completed stadium challenges five times on GOAT and received no rewards, not even a standard pack. When I emailed them a complaint I received the same copy and paste email stating that “they can’t do anything about it” and essentially to go pack sand. I don’t need to farm stubs this way, but it is discouraging to know players have lost a method that worked. But it’s their business to run.

I don’t buy the whales/grinders/no lifers. I can literally complete a single stadium run in under 20 minutes. I’m non of the aforementioned folks.

I highly recommend reading this on X. Hilarious to read through a few people on the streamer’s X feed. I’m assuming the older female is his mother. It’s worth a read.

@Ledfoot_19_PSN said in Lol with packs:

@YOSHI24_XBL said in Lol with packs:

No tinfoil, just statistics. You opened just 71 packs

…and expected what? 2 Ohtanis?

That's a ridiculous response but one expected from the fan boy section.

Why don’t you answer his question? That is how discussion occurs. I know our society is gearing towards just shouting down your opponent, but your slapping him (of all people on here) as a fan boy is both misinformed and lazy.

Got Wheeler and Ohtani, also a phone rip. Second phone rip Ohtani this year. I should post this in the “the app is evil” thread.

@JoeSelser_PSN They could make these parallel cards so much more fun and engaging. In the card collecting hobby there are 1/1s to 1/♾️s. Why not mix that in to the game in some way. Also, change the card art more than just the lower corner. Give us black border, blue border, cracked ice, etc. it’s a little thing in the grand scheme of things but many of us enjoy collecting as much as playing.

@Dolenz_PSN I get that many people hate DQ, but I can at least stomach it. I hate the showdowns. I’ve never been good at them (my problem), but locking cards that are needed for the collection rewards behind them and not allowing those cards to be sold on the market is a major pita. It took me much longer to complete Jon Don than it would have if that Spring Breakout wasn’t showdown locked.

Don’t blame people who wisely follow real life baseball and put their stubs into under-rated cards to make stubs off the updates. It takes very little time to read box scores and baseball reference twice a week and spot trends. Yes, I do this and have made 1.4 million off the first update. I have the LS collection finished and have for some time. I’ve spent a little bit of real money, but made 95% of my collection and stubs by being aware of the real life game and the inefficiencies in the early ratings.

I also think that you miss the flip side of this inflation after the updates, that of the sellers who get more stubs from what they have in their binders. Just be smart and be patient, the market will settle back in a week or so. In the meantime sell every duplicate you own on the market. EVERYTHING, even bronze and commons. Build a stub stack while the market is up.

Btw, I’ll already have 800k invested in the next update. Not hard work when you use the companion app.

Kuddos to you for playing the game that you enjoy. My son and I both have Xboxes in the house and both play the show religiously. We don’t even play against each other. We just enjoy the competition to grind stuff out and collect the cards. And for the teenagers in here I’ll be 43 on opening day. I see myself playing video games in my condo in Florida when I retire. I grew up with them, they have helped me stop drinking and living a healthier lifestyle and, besides golf, are a healthy outlet for my competitiveness that I filled with drinking after my college football days were over. You don’t have to be a teenager to enjoy these games.

The market should dip over the weekend as the weekend classic starts handing out rewards. Additionally, with season 3 starting, lots of xp reward path packs and higher rated cards will depress the market as well. It’s coming, just be patient.

I have the T-Mobile subscription as well. From my understanding the espn subscription is not needed after initial signup. But make sure you manually cancel so they don’t auto charge you. That is what ESPN is banking on with this. It’s a sneaky tactic and pisses me off.

That’s your percentile. If you are 93%, that means you are in the top 7% of all players in that category. Which is good, but 37th is not. You have to keep in mind your numbers can be greatly influenced by sample size.

@Dolenz_PSN

Jackson had a career ops of .960 according to baseball reference. In an era before the home run he had plenty of power. For perspective, a .960 would place him 7th in the league right now behind Corbin Carrol and ahead of Alex Bregman.