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@Bridge-Piece_XBL said:

Not everyone cares about GTA.

Everyone except for you I believe

@Dolenz_PSN said:

@rubicante23_PSN said:

And after all that - its still easy.

Who defines what is easy to accomplish in the game?

You, whose profile shows over 1000 hours played?
Capardo whose profile shows 352 hours played?
Me, whose profile shows 190 hours?

Is it defined by guys who have hundreds, if not thousand of pages of completed market transactions or the one with under 100 pages (or my 24 pages)? The person who spends all day on the app flipping or the one who only uses the market on the console?

Easy, like grind, is a relative term.

While some people definitely expect things to be handed too them for little or no effort, the flipside is also true in that we have hard core players and card flippers who want to act like their experience with the game should be the norm for everyone.

Is there a way to see 2025 time played in DD?

https://mlb26.theshow.com/universal_profiles/psn/ref479ode

My 25 link doesn't seem to work, I'd be curious how much more I played last year

As someone who gave up on the game prob at all star break.

I did not find it "easy" to keep up. Since 2020 I've always kept up, always completed live series, always played the full year.

I did the Ketel and Jram collections early on but kindve gave up on live series to do it. Then idk if it was bellinger at asg but you needed all these extra 60-80k stub cards to unlock him and they were all cards I don't think I would ever use. I didn't even do the miggy or vmart stuff for the same reason.

I was actually keeping up with spotlight more than past years assuming a nice collection card there.

Maybe the content was super redundant. Back in the day I would do the BR grind and earn alot of stubs that way.

Flipping was dumb this year cause you couldn't use the app and it seemed like the instant you placed a bid it was beat or whatever. I'm assuming bots which made it feel like not worth my time.

Diamond quest is terrible.

So it's like conquest and mini season homework on repeat and it's just not fun or motivating.

So it's not "hard" to mash mini seasons on rookie to farm packs but that just didn't bring me to my Playstation and the cheating and toxic behavior in online play makes that super hard to really get into. Constant dashboarding if you hit a hr.

I Def did not find the whole year "easy" to play on any capacity

Idk specifically about this but having to exchange only diamonds for like 120k stubs to get woods in November is predatory

I didn't do the exact math but its like 500k to get the 4 cards maybe?

SDS knew it would inflate the market and nobody would have any reason to hoard quick sell live series diamonds

Online is brutal, I deleted both fb and ig but sds had been shifting more to the predatory spectrum side compared to past years

@codeman8806_MLBTS said:

You're screwed sir. I as well have been banned for stub transferring. I only have one account and have never purchased stubs period. However they decided to ban my account. I've been trying to contact them since August and they don't investigate they don't talk to you they don't have a way to appeal, they just don't care about you or your patronage. And even though their banning protocol is wrong and incorrect they won't work on correcting it. You just got unlucky touching the wrong card at the wrong time apparently

File a better business bureau complaint

I hate max elevation, I think coors pays fine but they field last year with the red wall and short rf was terrible. I would just quit rather than play there

I had 3 vault packs and the 2nd and 3rd packs vjth had glasnow and Yamamoto

I honestly don't know what would bring me back to the show. I canceled my ps live and it'll be dead by the time the new game releases.

I really didn't like diamond quest ever.

Momwnts and conquests are fine so long as they didn't become laborious (past few years they have been). Mini seasons gets boring quick and I've never really loved that mode playing at the same few stadiums.

I could Def "grind" br and events and play for a number of hours but br died and events idk what happened. Ranked I gotta be in the mood far.

But online okay, if it's not cheating it's just humans being asses 80% of the time. I think the users have killed online mode more than SDS possibly could. It's just not fun with bunt dancing, excessive pause, dashboarding all hrs, quitting if you're down two, mix in terrible connections.

I couldn't even brainstorm what I think sds should do. I almost feel they would need to revamp think entirely out of the box and present something completely new.

@xRatedGProdigyx_PSN said:

what happens when two people cheat against each other?

I'd imagine it's like a freeze off, whoever gives up first

I think I've played the show 1 Friday in the last two months and I was bored to death and felt like I wasted a Friday.

So many things caused me not to play anymore including the cheating. I quit playing online before I quit playing all together. I actually canceled my live ps membership.

I found that because of all the cheating noise I ended up feeling like EVERYONE was cheating. Like if I lost or someone rattled off some consecutive at bats.... "this cheating is some bs".... I know everyone isn't cheating but you play online and now you almost by default feel like nothing is on the up and up. Then if you do play better than your opponent they just dashboard and quit. Either way it's such a terrible experience.

I don't really blame sds so much as that just humans suck. The one discord Kyle showed is like 30k paid subscribers to cheat at a game. Assuming there are more sources than the one discord.

Idk, seems like a lost cause at this point.

Maybe if they overhaul franchise or create a DD online franchise where I don't have to play other humans then I'll buy that but I don't see the motivation for the show 27 as it stands now and I've been pretty loyal die hard DD guy since 2020

I haven't played since the bellinger asg collection basically. No field of dreams or prospect stuff. Playoffs have me wanting to play (offline)

I used to be an online guy but just too toxic for me to enjoy and I struggled finding fun with offline and even tried a franchise but didn't hit and I went to hockey and rdr2.

Going to give it another go.

Ive started with moments. I've never really taken a break since 2020

@WolfgangMLB_XBL said:

Trout still extreme pull? Buxton?

Trout is just pull

Buxton I believe is extreme pull

Jram and Albies are extreme pull from one side I believe and balanced on other

Alonso, Seager are extreme pull

This occurred to me the other day. I was watching RAW and it's excessive ads.

Is there a chance that sds puts commercials in ranked games between innings? Unskippable. Would that be the nail in the coffin for you?

I only play rdr2 and NHL so I'm not too familiar with how other games monetize.

I don't see a scenario where I buy MLB 27 unless they completely change DD and I don't know how they could change it to get me excited outside of a online franchise type thing.

I was just thinking with all the collections the lack of fixing the game unless it impacts Financials.... Would in game ads be the logical next step for SDS.

Game is built on sinkers cutters and change ups
.. What else is he to throw?

Curveballs are almost useless online

I haven't done one since 2019 or so. Converted to DD but now it's just not really fun and I'm going to try and go back to franchise.

It's weird that hitters all have bad attributes by comparison.

I don't really have a favorite team and did a draft with legends but not sure if I like that team and I picked twins and their budget is like 500m over. I doubt I'll play into next season but kills trades and offseason I guess.

Use downloaded rosters?

Idk I'm just not really into this game anymore and trying to find something fun while still keeping my skills halfway decent. Looking for ideas.

Not really feeling a point to DD any longer.

You're an adult. You're responsible for your 10 year old kid.

You blamed him, then you blamed your wife.

Game is in the dumps this year in a large part because of all this cheating, buying discount stubs, etc. Everyone should have been banned months or years ago however long its been happening

No excuses for cheating on a video game

6/30 on beltran
9/24 on Victor
14/21 on miggy

Live series I could prob have everything but judge and ohtani at this point.

I decided early on to not go after live series and no life the game. First year since 2020 or so I didn't get live series done within the first 6 weeks or so.

It's kindve a bummer to not get Beltran but it is what it is. My god squad team is still super good and if I can't best someone then I likely wouldn't beat them with Beltran anyways. Andruw Jones is just about as good minus the switch hitting.

So not the big a deal but compounds to the lack of motivation to play this year.

Will not be getting Beltran... Hopefully I can hit with Andruw

I'm behind on allot of stuff in my normally behind on

Ranked Def feels better to me then the event. Felt a lot of lag in the event and I warmed up on hof.

Maybe it counts people who have used these cards in br... Maybe once you use someone once in br you have"acquired" them