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I’ve only recently played one season of mini seasons, but I’ve never had such a hard time getting xp playing offline. I’m at around 340k and have basically finished getting all xp from the offline programs. I wish I had just played mini seasons from the start but I was mostly just doing programs and CPU games like I usually do. MLB 26 has already just become so boring and tedious and we are only a month in. Getting 3-4K xp with double XP for playing a nine inning game with a lot of runs and hits and pitching perfect games is just ridiculous. I remember 3-4 years ago playing cpu games on double xp weekends and getting 10-15k per game. I’m at a point where it’s making me just not care. I have too many other things going on in my life to play this this game 5-10 hours per day. Frankly, it’s also just the same graphics and gameplay that it’s been for nearly a decade. I have all 99 teams for every year leading up to this one. Why bother grinding from the start again to just play offline for the same cards I already own? WBC made me want to get this year’s edition again but those cards are already kinda done and will be obsolete soon. Live Series is too expensive again and not worth completing again. Packs are also largely just bad and seemingly even worse than previous years (where they were already bad). MLB used to be a highlight of the year, but it’s just become a huge disappointment every year.

I got the final 16 of my packs and the Beltran today. I didn’t put in a ticket about it until 3-4 days ago, so they are indeed handling the rollout of them to the folks that earned them.

Something marketed towards the new game earned from the old game should’ve been an automatic addition to the preorder rewards available from the first time you sign into the game. But then again, it only took them a few years to let moments return to the applicable program when you complete one. Maybe 5 years from now the Now and Later packs will be fixed too. Everything has become so “cut and paste” with the MLB the Show franchise that it seems like they don’t actually know how to insert or change code when alterations are needed.

The whole point of the Beltran program in 25 was for players to have him at start of 26. Nope.

I’m getting more walks on Rookie so the pitchers are a bit wilder this season so far. Once I started waiting for better pitches, I started getting a lot of hits and runs. Also advise turning wind off against CPU in the settings, which is apparently a thing this year for offline play. I’ve never noticed that setting in previous years.

I’d settle for them actually giving all of us the Now & Later packs and Beltran cards they promised to give us. I’ve received 10 of the 26.

No way is that card worth locking in 142 cards that you won’t be using in a month. You can only skip a handful of cards in the collection. Imagine the overall cost when you factor in what all the pack cards will cost. MLB 26 is not getting off to a great start with more of the same SDS stuff of low pack odds and having to lock in so many cards for a card like that. This is also once again shaping up to be a year with a way too high market for the best of the Live Series cards because so few will be available. They aren’t gonna sell enough boxes of LS and the odds of the high ones is silly low. Their inclusion of low diamond pack cards also just diminishes the chance you’ll get one of the higher LS cards even more. Community morale will be in the dumper within a couple months again. Slow menus and servers, low odds, poor communication all over again. I’ve always loved MLB games, but it’s just time for another game. Nothing is really gonna change anytime soon with this game.

10 of the 26 just showed up in my pack inventory. Still no Beltran. I don’t quite understand why they can’t just give us all the packs we earned at one time. It just seems like another odd choice or limitation, which makes it seem shady. SDS should really try to build community moral better at launch, by being more forthcoming and vocal and also perhaps providing something early with better odds, not just a pack drop on real launch day with a 1:40 shot at a slightly better Trout.

Hopefully, they’re coming to our inventory today. Haven’t gotten the 26 packs or the Beltran yet. Been playing since early access.

The delivery is very rushed and choppy. Another year of playing the game in silence with other non-game background noise playing instead.

The inclusion of non-player diamonds and non-live series player diamonds in the regular packs definitely diminish the published pack odds. Just looking at what the top 10 or so live series diamonds are going for once again so far this year already tells me that I’m NOT buying packs this year and likely not completing live series for a second year in a row.

I love the stories and the cards, but they need to make them more usable in the game. Surely there’s a way they could count for more in programs and progression in other areas of the game. Gameplay XP alone has become miniscule the last 3-4 years.

So many of the good Finest cards are left-handed. May represent finest of the real season but not the video game season. I was really looking forward to the Finest cards until I tried to put together a team of them. Glad I’m done with the programs so I can go back to using the other players. Don’t get me wrong, the cards are good; it’s just difficult to use a full team of them.

After the direction the game developers have gone the last couple years, I’m putting together my forever team (Aaron, Chipper, Honus, etc). I’m not going back to 85s and starting all over again for another year. The way Chase packs and packs and packs were handled this season, I just can’t do it any more. I also typically complete collections by the second month and I still don’t have Judge or Witt. I only have Shohei because I splurged after a stubs sale. The pack cards were always better than any program or collection until this month’s 99 “fantasy” cards. I mostly play offline anyway. No sense in me starting over. I have so many other games in my backlog that it will feel good to not have to play MLB 2-3 hours per day to keep up. My wallet will also be happy. I always say I’m not gonna spend money but I always do because I can’t play many hours every single day. Gameplay also hasn’t been as rewarding any way (especially with nerfed exit velocities and gained xp per game) and midway through an Inning XP season the earned cards were worthless because of the packs. No huge regrets after playing for many years. I can still get my fix offline wit cards I actually want to play with.

It took me about 15 tries. My problem was that the batter kept fouling pitches off or getting hits. People calling for them to buff his speed are just wrong. It’s a complete anomaly that Soto has over 30 stolen bases. He’s slow. In real life he’s also just difficult to watch. The shuffle is annoying and he complains about every call even if the strikes are 2-3 inches inside the zone. He’s definitely a talented hitter with a good eye, but most of his offense happens at unproductive times.

I think Showdown cards should be sellable. Frankly, I don’t like playing it either.

Every year they seem to give up on the smaller series (Breakout, etc). Seems like it’s a no-brainer to have cards like that along the path middle cards in these player programs later in the year. So hard to finish some of those series to get vouchers.

@TheDaveyG_NSW They’ve been posted (hours ago).

Yeah, really surprised that series hasn’t returned this year.

Or you’ll get him in a chase pack for 500k at end of year.