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This is an L actually. They created a grind and then destroyed it two months later. 50K would have been fine. 150K for 500 pxp on a card they claim will take under an hour to get is just them surrendering the grind they created to no difficulty. i'll have all the finest vouchers in the next week and half now.

I usually go through and sell dupes every couple of weeks. I hadn't done it in a while before yesterday and I was happy to find that when you are on a live series team page and go list dupes in the store for a card that when you are done, the screen returns you to the card you were on rather than the top of the page. Small changes can be huge for the player. Thank you SDS.

@dbub_PSN Yep. It's great for casual people and I'm happy for them. But I've just wasted two months playing this game in a way that maximizes my TA grind when apparently I didn't need to care at all.

The state of hitting offline will not keep any new players trying the game for the first time and it will lose players that have always played the game. The CPU pitching is ridiculously bad at low levels. It's hard to understand the logic in breaking things so badly.

@Teak2112_MLBTS I actually really liked how TA was set up this year til they just handed us half the TA points to get to the Finest card. But I get that for most players, the original TA grind set up was just waaaaayyyy too much.

@Weshill627_PSN You don't play conquest. It is the most played offline mode though. But it won't be for long because there is no replay value to any conquest anymore. I find diamond quest extremely boring and the rewards are not worth the time put in. At least not at this point.

@Ledfoot_19_PSN Why not play DQ even if you are skipping all the mini missions and just playing the stadium challenges? At least you get a pack every win. I was apprehensive of spamming DQ but once I got into it, it is a great way to do TA and get packs to help complete the live series. If you play the mini missions on your way to one stadium, you will also get another reward now and then even with a lower than 30% chance. The only downside to this at this point is that there are less than 10 stadium challenges which means same teams over and over again.

@Adar-Kane_XBL If you honestly think there is an argument for Pete rose being the greatest baseball player, I question how much you know about baseball.

@TreSomm_XBL Jose Fernandez killed himself and others while operating a boat drunk and on cocaine. No thank you.

@TripleH-4481_PSN And can we talk about the CPU fielding? It's like they are all diamond fielders. The number of diving catches and double plays/catches is absolutely ludicrous.

@iBonafideScrub__PSN I'm happy for the folks who don't have the time to grind. Just would have been nice if they had told us they would make it really easy to attain the Finest voucher eventually so the people taking part in the grind they created could have played with the lineups they wanted, not the ones benefitting their TA grind.

@NotesOfJohn_MLBTS Especially when it's like...Get X hits with player under five feet tall or from this country but there is no filter for those things.

After thinking about this for a bit I think everyone might be misunderstanding what is happening, including myself. Last year the TA path was longer but it was set in stone at the start of the season. There were no cards in the path outside the vouchers after the initial drop. We got the cards from the Color Store and Neon Programs. I have a feeling it will end up being very similar to last year in that regard. We are going to get other player programs where each team has 1 or 2 cards to acquire in the program but they won't be added to the TA Path. Maybe I am wrong but I hope I am right and it would make sense. I think we will get traditional programs for All Star cards and Finest cards as well rather than the earned vouchers we had to get last year.

@TheBigPapa55_PSN the time it takes to go from one tab to the next makes me think of the days of watching web pages load with a dial up modem connection. This should absolutely embarrass SDS. There is zero excuse for putting out a product that is that slow in 2026.

@kingdutch_PSN it is embarrassing how bad they are with stats all around in a baseball game of all things. Baseball IS statistics and the statistics seem to just be lazy assed into the game.

@BLAISEBLAISE_PSN I prefer playing actual games in the sports games I play. Never been a fan of showdown and diamond quest is full of Showdown missions. For me it's a big "meh".

@mietha_PSN I'm starting to feel the same, especially with the much lower strikes thrown rate by CPU pitchers. Playing conquest was my favorite...played 1000s of games each of the last 4 years...because it is quick and requires low concentration. But now the cpu throws like 50/50 balls strikes so I can't just chill and play while I stream a movie or show.

I find diamond quest to be an absolute borefest and getting a bunch of 1 card bronze packs isn't "rewards"

@BiigD008_XBL yes. For some reason sds felt making cpu throw balls 50% of the time was a good idea. Absolutely not even attempting to make strike/ball ratio be anywhere close to realistic. It's a joke

This new diamond dynasty content fixed the bug where I couldn't pull an Ohtani. Thank you jumbo pack!

@yankblan_PSN I had every card in 2022 at the end of season...never played online...never purchased a stub