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They claim that cards like the Corbin Burnes is actually a “Boss” card that everybody “earns” in the reward path without having to select it. That’s what Ashley said during the SDS stream Friday.

@rubicante23_PSN I’ll pass 500 stolen bases tonight. I know to steal bases. I also want the shark unis. My team name is Sharks.

@Teak2112_MLBTS It’s a video game. It’s not a real game of baseball. It’s not a fun experience to play 30 minutes and win 3-0.

It just kinda stinks that you can score over 20 runs in a game against the CPU and still earn less than 3k XP. I used to have games where I’d get 8K in a single CPU rookie game, 15k+ when it was double XP. That being said, there are also times like since the 3rd inning started for me that it seems like the sliders for exit velocities and hitting in general have been nerfed. When I do it perfects, it mostly gets caught by the superhuman CPU. I’m grinding stolen bases right now, so at least I’m staying out of double plays for the most part.

@GoozeFn_PSN That’s still just 90k or so. Seems fishy to get 400k in less than 2 days. The ways things were a couple years ago, I understand large amounts of xp quickly but not this year.

Can someone explain how people are already finishing the entire XP path? I played for a couple hours last night and maybe got 10k XP. I saved a couple programs for Inning 3 to get the chunks of XP and I’m sitting at around 90k.

It’s also silly that a 90+ speed player gets thrown out at the plate with a single and can’t score from second base or gets thrown out on a sac fly. Triples are nearly impossible this year unless you just take a chance and they have a bad throw.

They already have. They punted the regular game to get the mobile game ready this year.

To me it’s feels different today. I was scoring 15-20 runs per game and now all of a sudden I scored 1 runs against the Rookie CPU after the rollover in content today.

These cards being mostly 90s is an L …

It’s amazing how our opinions of the game shifts a little bit when our pack pulls improve and we feel like our time is being rewarded no matter what mode we choose to play. I also did the survey and it was not very favorable. However, last night after playing some CPU games, I opened up 16 show packs and 6 ballin’ packs. I got pretty much nothing in the show packs, but in one of my last ballin’ packs I hit 2 diamonds in the same pack. It was Skubal and Corbin Carroll. I got a couple more packs collecting some cards soon after and pulled Cal Raleigh, who I sold. My pack pulls have been downright terrible the last 3 years and the game has just been tedious with all the store packs and nerfs to XP. For the first time in many months I walked away from MLB with a good feeling. SDS, as well as the other sports game developers, need to understand that sometimes your player engagement goes up more when you are rewarding players for their time. Morale goes down, and you lose your player base, if you are constantly monetizing your game and nerfing everything else to force players into playing modes they don’t want to and spending money they don’t have or shouldn’t be spending. Take note SDS. I spent way more money on this game when I was be rewarded more for just playing. I also played for more months in those years.

Unless they add some big xp chunks in some programs or extend double xp for a week, there’s no way I’ll get to 500k. I’ve played quite a bit and am sitting at 215k. Only got to 350k last inning. I’m an offline-only player. Over the years, I typically finished xp paths and got wheel spins. I know they are trying to force more people to play online, but they are also gonna push a huge chunk of people away from an unrewarding tedious game. It’s silly that I can play a cpu 9 inning game getting 30 hits and 20 runs and receive less than 3000 xp for the gameplay, sometimes way less.

I was thankful, but for 15 minutes of our time, it should’ve been a little better than what it was; maybe a gold pack.

XP is nearly impossible to complete for the average gamer that has maybe a couple hours to play the game. Everything they do now seems to be geared towards spending stubs or money to complete collections and paths. Can we please have another major MLB licensed game to compete with this one so some real improvements can be made? The direction of this game turned to very negative way about 3 years ago. I went against my first thoughts and bought the game again, but I absolutely won’t waste another dime on stub purchases ever again. I’ve spent so much money on this game over the years. I used to always complete the Live series within the first 2-4 weeks. Ain’t falling in that money trap again for a game that cares less and less about its player base. It’s disappointing. Someone in the lead of this game series has made some detrimental decisions the last 3 years.

XP grind offline is terrible. Just not enough Xp awarded for playing CPU games. I wish we could at least get some more XP for repeating mini-seasons. It’s crazy that we can play 3 full 9-inning CPU games scoring a bunch of runs, getting lots of hits, and pitching perfect games and get less than 8-10k XP for all that time. I ended up with around 350k in Inning One, and I’m not sure I’m gonna get to 500k this time either unless they double XP for longer and give more XP in programs. It’s ultimately just gonna make me want to stop playing. I’ve never had this hard of a time completing innings in previous years.

I typically get to wheel spins every season in the XP path just by playing CPU games and finishing most programs. Just not happening this year. I only got to 350k season one and I’m only at 150K this season after playing a lot. The game is awarding way too little XP for games, even the games that I’m scoring 20+ runs and 25+ hits. The last 2 weeks of a season need to be double XP. It’s just making the game not very fun, especially with low diamond pull rates.

Ain’t gonna lie, kinda bad look to monetize Jackie Robinson Day.

Yeah, the problem isn’t the direction they are headed. The problem is that the game seemingly isn’t headed in ANY direction. The only thing that they’ve really changed the last few years is the increased emphasis on more and more packs. Programs are always accompanied by packs that have better cards in them. The way they handle packs has also led to an inflated amount and difficulty needed to complete live series collections. The odds are low, but they are probably what they state. The problem is that they include low-level diamonds from the other series which lessens the likelihood of receiving live series diamonds. I’ve played this game for many years and I’ve completed live series quite a few times; the last 3 years I’ve pulled fewer and fewer live series diamonds. They are creating a situation where the game is getting very tedious and not rewarding enough. I’m sitting at 350k or so season XP after playing what seems like a whole lot relative to other seasons in other years. Not enough XP for playing games and I have very few live series diamonds after opening a lot of packs.

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.