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It just feels like there's nothing meaningful to do and everything is designed specifically to prevent progress. I guess they think this is going to make people spend money. It's really just going to make them go do something else. I've been playing for nine years. I've never had less interest in playing than I do right now. I'm sorry, but this year DD is just poorly designed, even more so than last year.

This is the most pathetic excuse for a "program" SDS has ever done.

@Bearsfan217 Replaying a mode that is meant to be replayed is not "exploiting" or "cheating". Good gravy. It was not meant to be repeatable. It was. People noticed and did it. Even without the bonus XP, MS is probably still the best XP method (certainly if you don't have +, GP, or NSO), so it's not like they were doing an activity that they wouldn't have been doing anyway. There SHOULD be a repeatable XP mission somewhere. Most people are not going to do everything, which SDS apparently thinks is how people play. Online people hate offline and vice versa. This has always been true. This is absolutely the least "play how you want" the game has been in years. Probably since '18.

I have put up with a LOT since I started playing in 2016. This is the first thing they've ever done that makes me want to refund the game and never give them another dime or moment of my time again. This is the single most braindead move I have ever seen a developer make. Literally anyone could have told them exactly how this would be received. That means so are so out of touch they honestly didn't understand that or they simple don't care. I'm not sure which is worse.

@ericulous1_psn said in Is anyone actually able to play mini seasons?:

What difficulty is mini seasons on?

You choose. From Rookie up.

I would LOVE some clarification on the following section:

"But while most of the game will follow the new gradual climb in OVRs each season, there is one outlier: The Live Series Collection reward. We know our fans love earning that sweet 99 Core reward once the collection is completed, so of course it’s still a thing in ‘24. This reward will take a considerable amount of time and skill, so be prepared to level up not only your squad, but also your prowess on the sticks if you want to earn it.

A saying that our development team has coined is “that it feels good to be bad, and then git gud.” We hope that our players will share that sentiment and Play to 99 with us as every season unfolds this year! "

That doesn't sound like a COLLECTION at all...

Encouraging people to NOT play your game does not seem like a winning strategy. Just sayin'...

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Feels like nothing for as much as I've played.

@Teak2112 It is 1000% daily. Otherwise, you would see people with XP cooldown timers with days remaining. The highest I think I've seen is 10 hours. And the XP track is all there is. The programs were done during early access. TA was finished days ago. And I've played so little I've not even hit the XP cap yet. I get to collect innings in Ranked (stats have been done) and get XP. That's it. I couldn't care less about PXP on cards that I won't be using in three weeks anyway. And the "wildly" different experiences is due to what else they were doing. It's only gameplay XP. Depends on what other XP you acquire during the time period as to how much XP you get before you hit the cap.

Simply put, if they had announced this cap before the game released, I would not have bought it. If it is still in place at the end of the year, I will not be buying the next one or any future ones. Restricting how much people can play a game they paid for is complete BS. This is FTP garbage thinking. The cap was originally to prevent exploits. Now it is literally and admittedly to keep people from playing.

It's not "like" 15k, it is 15k. And I've been wondering if it's a global reset time or individual as well.

For those that have issues, are you playing in 4k with HDR? Because there's no problem at all for me. There's been issues in the past where devs only tested the games in that scenario which led to issues (there was a Forza game where on non-HDR TVs a tunnel was just completely black). I'm thinking that might be what's happening here, because the contrast between the ball and the backdrop is no issue at all on mine.

No, but it really is one of those things they should actually tell people, since the program literally becomes unable to be completed once they go away.

@biscodisco This is where I am. Literally no way of playing the game seems like a worthwhile return on investment for the time required. You can't even finish the ranked program with just innings anymore. They took out the three team conquest map that's been in the last two years. The daily XP cap is less than the gap between rewards, and MANY of the rewards are utterly pointless (gee, I really want to spend two days grinding for an icon or a banner; thanks guys). I (mostly) enjoy playing the game, but the motivation to do so simply isn't there.

@RomanDude2427 No, it's this one. If you beat it early on, you got an unhandled server exception and no reward. Guessing they fixed it, at some point, but didn't do anything for those that had already completed it.

I think you're high on copium. There is no grand plan. It's a lazy and stupid idea ripped off of EA and 2K, implemented even worse. I honestly don't know if I will ever touch the game again, and my playtime over the last 8 years could literally be measured in months. This shows exactly how little they care about, well, honestly, anything, anymore. Say what you will about EA, but the people making NHL at least CARE. They fail (a lot), but they DO try. SDS hasn't tried to do anything in two years other than make money and they aren't even any good at that.