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Anybody else hate it when your team’s affinity card is a pitcher? Makes me lose interest.

The program cards are gonna be frauds most of the year. Look at the cards from the Jackie Robinson program. They juiced stats like bunting. The hitting stats are mediocre.

The XP cap has been a thing for years, but the 15k per day is new and is a problem. Having the reverse effect on me; making me not want to play as much.

I’m basically just doing team builds and throwing in bosses as I earn them, especially the pitchers. Just gonna do it against the CPU. I took about a week off until TA dropped. Finding it hard to get motivated to play. That being said, the TA cards are not that great and I’m just playing to add to seasonal collections. As typical this year, the pack drops have more desirable players. I truly wish I had waited this year to spend money finishing the live series collection. If I had to do it all over, I would’ve played the game on Game Pass and just playing a team build, adding some legends along the way, and perhaps franchise. Looks like it will continue to be a disappointing year if the pack thing and XP thing continues into other season.

They definitely missed the mark, but I’m not even sure if the developers watch enough baseball to know that it was the 50th Anniversary or that there was a big ceremony in Atlanta. That being said, there were players last night in several games that probably could’ve also been supercharged but haven’t been. I’m a Braves fan, but Nimmo pretty much single-handedly beat the Braves last night.

I just wish Rube could somehow serve as captain for the better players that I bought off the market the first day of the game. He only works with the storyline cards.

I’ve seen a couple smaller streamers affected, but none of the bigger streamers in the limited time I watched said a word about. They were all playing too.

Unfortunately GamePass and Crossplay with the linked Show account changed the course of this game.

Just curious. Does anybody remember pulling a diamond player in a pack with a jelly bean in it? The jelly bean card shows as a diamond too. I can’t remember if I did in any of my packs, but I know usually when I pull diamond equipment in a box pack, I know I’m likely not getting a diamond player the rest of the way.

@BLAISEBLAISE I’ve been connected for many years, but it usually shows everything connected. Twitch drops are always hit or miss, but this year The Show side is definitely messed up. MLB is the only game I ever have issues receiving things from Twitch.

I know we currently have the account reset "glitch" thing going on, but I noticed something about Twitch drops while on my account on TheShow website. Twitch says all of my accounts are connected and that I claimed pack drops a week or 2 ago. My account on TheShow says that my Twitch account is not connected for some reason. There doesn't appear to be any way to change that on Twitch or The Show even by logging out and logging back in.

I spent real money on way to Ruth, too much. If I had it to do all over again, I would’ve waited. My OCD makes decisions for me too quickly sometimes. The game just isn’t in a good place and I’m not sure how long I’ll stick around this year. I think last year I got bored around August but came back later in the year. Injured my arm and took a break from all gaming for a few months. We’ll see about 24, but it may just end up being a TA and Franchise thing for me most of the year.

Making just about every reward card nonsellable isn’t helping any argument for anything they are doing to slow progression. If they are nonsellable, it shouldn’t matter how fast we progress. It’s not just about slowing the power creep. By the time we get the bosses, it will nearly be time for the new season, and by then there will be quite a few comparably powered cards available in packs. It will also limit how many times we get a chance to spin the wheel for random rewards after getting all 3 bosses.

Love it or hate it, I really think SDS is using this year as a test of the tolerance of the player base. It’s a bit of a titration of what people will pay to play the game and at what point the player base declines. I’m curious if it was a one-person decision at SDS. I’ve played for quite a few years, paying a lot of money because I have OCD tendencies, but the only thing positive I can really say about the game this year is that servers seem more stable. Other than the first few hours of early release, I haven’t noticed many hiccups. Unfortunately that’s my only positive so far. The low XP cap, little content, expensive packs with low odds, no sell rewards, continued seasonal sets that will require you to pay to get all 3 reward cards, etc are all just very disappointing. I hope it changes but I’m not sure that the whole year hasn’t already been predetermined and locked in. We may be down to zero major sports games that aren’t using this model. It needs to be give and take and not take take.

Did the Moments, bought the cheaper Topps Now card, and 3 CPU games is all it took to finish the new program. I already own the Live Series Trout and Ohtani, so the program meant nothing really. I don’t care for where this trend is headed this season. I have to say, it’s sad to see the Show’s run of years ending like this. I stopped playing Madden and 2K a while ago because of the pack stuff and company attitudes. Hate it will be that way for MLB too. I was on the fence this year about buying the game but the talk started about there at least being some animation changes for 24. It’s the same game, less content, but now more expensive to play. I’ve spent literally thousands of dollars over the years on The Show, but this will be the end of the line this year for me. If I play after 24, it will be strictly Game Pass with no money spent. I think they’ve chosen this path now, and it isn’t likely to change this year. This is apparently the test year to see what the boundaries the players will accept. One year is all it takes to ruin good faith.

I fear this is just gonna be a problem the rest of the year. It’s the year of the Pack. They don’t want you grinding for good rewards this year. Bottomline.

@sbchamps17 I kinda wish they were evolution cards in some way so they could continue to be relevant as the power creeps up, but by later on, I guess it will be irrelevant.

@K9_21owl You do it in exchanges. It’s not packs.

@K9_21owl You can’t. That’s what people are telling you. One at a time.

@K9_21owl Think about what everybody is telling you. You can collect them one at a time for Set 1 collection, but you have to exchange for one at a time.