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@LuvMyXBOX_XBL said in anyone losing interest?:

@mietha_MLBTS said in anyone losing interest?:

@ref479ode_PSN said in anyone losing interest?:

Id really like a 9 inning offline franchise dynasty mode where you can keep updating and adjusting your team along with the power creep.

I have been asking for this in UT modes for 13 years now. I want a full season mode within a UT mode. No, it doesn't make sense. No, I don't care. If NHL or MLB ever actually does this, I very well might never play another game ever again.

FIFA back on XB360/PS4 had season mode offline for FUT. This was the only mode ever in videogames where I actually spent real money to buy coins to earn players. But EA got rid of it for some reason and it's been gone for a decade.

I too always wanted THE SHOW to do this. I guess Mini-Seasons is like it but it would be great if we had a longer season.

3 inning games a just too short.

I can play the CPU on legend and it would be challenging but in a 3 inning game it's like if I'm down I feel like game is done. A 9 inning game where you get a chance to look at the starter for a while...even though you're playing the CPU and not really picking up tendencies online you can def starting picking up the baseball, pitch speed differentials, release point, etc better as the game goes.

I'm not sure how much I would play online if there was a 9 inning mode

I really don't like normal franchise where I'm using the same roster over and over again and after a while the rosters all become outdated.

@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Successful steals despite pitch outs:

99% of the time I pitchout against a live opponent they try to run back to first base.

I don't know if I've ever seen that in an actual game so I wonder why its even an option.

Sometimes if you get a bad jump and try to return your runner right away... The guy doesn't start to come back until he's 2/3 down the way to 2nd

I unlocked Beltran and shortly after that I spent all my stubs on vlad and seager.

Then they dropped Ted Williams and I'm nowhere close and pretty much went to playing nhl 24 lol.

I skipped last weekend classic and it's starting to feel like homework again. I got stubs for seager and vlad from unlocking color storm cards on rookie level pretty much.

I generally try to build a team for online play and I haven't played online in 3 or 4 weeks.

I have 13 color storm cards and then I started a all star mini season run for altuve with cards I like and that was kind've fun but just started to feel like homework.

Id really like a 9 inning offline franchise dynasty mode where you can keep updating and adjusting your team along with the power creep. I gotta be in the mood to play online with the cheesy stuff, lag, bad stadiums, etc. I'm not always in the mood for that.

So yeah, I assume all star content will regenerate interest

I bought the 20th and legends pack for 5k since those cards are going for more than 5k

Finished off rolen collection

Now I still need a million Topps now and spotlight cards if I skip all star for Williams

@dbub_PSN said in No Content Today?:

@GoozeFn_PSN said in No Content Today?:

@dbub_PSN Flash Sale today.

Oh. Do you think that would help bring All Star card prices down or push them up?

probably should go down but will depend on what packs they put in the store...lots of all star cards are chase cards

maybe they'll put a headliners pack in there and there is likely a few all star cards in that (assuming)

I have like 11 collections

Just got Beltran, seager and vlad tho. Could get rolen now but waiting for prices to drop.

I've had good luck with diamond quest doing the whole thing on all star and I think atlewst like 80% of the time I've gotten all 4 cards by doing the whole map and the two stadiums on all star

Its never a 100% chance, prob in the 70s. It takes me a little over an hour. Then it doesn't really feel like 12-15k is worth that.

Its not bad to me but not something I want to do regularly.

I saw a college lefty video saying if you do conquest 4x a day on goat (bunting thru) you'll get like 1.5m stubs in 20 days. I can't play this game for 4 hrs 7 days a week lol. Then more time to keep up with spotlight and everything else.

I think most of us feel we need to complete EVERYTHING (myself included)....where maybe the content should be presented more like "pick your path"...i don't know.

I recently finished live series and had over 200k stubs after alot of the color storm stuff...I was really saving for weeks to get Castro then Seager came out and I felt like for the same price I could essentially get Vlad/Seager/Pearson or Willi Castro and I spent all my stubs on vlad/seager/pearson...now I'm poor again

As of now, williams, santana, bryce aren't really an option for me. I've pretty much just accepted I'm going to skip retro monthly...and if I need those to get williams then maybe I'm accepting no williams. It's too much of a stub sink.

So idk, maybe the mindset should be to just pick your path and target one general card or collection vs worrying about the whole thing

I bought the 95 vlad instead of kyle to get seager and I went 0-15 in the weekend classic with him....although, one pitch I sat on low and away, ambushed, and hit a perfect perfect but it was a fly out to the warning track. I feel like I've hit better with vlad than the 0-15 would say

Lightining corbin carrol i have p5 and he's like 120 avg online or something silly but still like 5 ab per hr. He only hits HR's. Offline I hit like 500 with him and online its out everytime, especially anything low and away.

Meanwhile live series mike trout I'm over 400 with online, albies card I think I'm over 500 with. Evidently attributes really don't matter as much as the swing

Honestly this just seems like home field advantage....I always play at coors, shippett, or the minor league american park with the brick building in left. I feel like it rewards my power and I try to stack power hitters and don't worry a ton about speed.

Others use those parks with super low elevation who can't hit well but can pitch fine and they want to keep the ball in the park.

If you play polo ground I would take your LF and shift him to left center and your RF and shift him to right center....You're giving up the lines but since the wall is so short they're likely singles anyway. By aligning your defense this way you're rarely going to give up a inside the park HR or triple regardless of if you have yordan and stanton in your corners.

@MRAD2010_XBL said in willi castro or seager:

I think Seager is better at third base. Castro has really good hitting stats but defense is a little lackluster. I haven’t tried Jeter yet this year but he might be a pretty good free option.

I used seager in the weekend classic and he got to basic stuff...just the [censored] up the middle that elly gets to seager doesn't even get close to. But seager got good reactions and was serviceable considering he's super slow.

Seager because you get Pearson and potentially vlad for not much more stubs

My 2nd game I had 19 good contacts to my opponents 10.

My batting avg like 200 and his was over 800

Locked in vlad and seager so prob going to take the stubs

I can't hit ryan but I also don't feel confident pitching with him

@Dookie-Possum_XBL said in I HATE WEEKEND CLASSIC:

I also don’t have Beltran, Clemens, Donaldson, Randy, Rolen all the nolife cards so I stand ZERO chance.

Donaldson is close to free. The negro league program takes no time, Paige is like maybe 10k,dihigo I think is like 4k now and Gibson was super cheap last time I looked and I dont think you even need all 3

@MRAD2010_XBL said in Should I buy Santana?:

I’m debating whether or I should buy Spotlight Flashback Santana and maybe Jacob Wilson or save for the upcoming collection? I finished live series and Rolen collection a week or two ago? Thoughts?

Depends on what you need

I will use seager at ss over elly/Witt
I will likely save to buy vlad instead of schwarber to use at 3rd for a bit over jram
I already bought Pearson and will use him

I'm using grandal at C and don't think Santana will really be better.

Buxton I don't think is worth buying bichette or candellario to get since I have Beltran anyway

Just depends on your team. I'm using yellich/judge platoon at dh

I got Beltran 10 days and basically just been slowly doing color storm (10 done) since and did the giolito showdown today.

I really don't know what path to take now.

I don't want to spend 200k to lock in scwarber for seager plus the other lock ins.

I don't want to spend 110k for bichette or jeimer for buxton

To get rolen I still need to buy 4 20th anniversary cards (55k ish), 3 contributor cards (16k), 3 2nd half heros (15k ish)

Then the programs I'm like why am I doing pipeline past if I can't get seager.

I'm not really trying to COMPLAIN tho it sounds that way im just not even clear of what direction to go in the game now that live series is done

@creeder21_MLBTS said in Who is this content for?:

They have moved so slow with the power creep, and because they consistently put out better and higher overall chase pack cards, these content drops are rather pointless. Hear me out here, ok.

If someone doesn’t have live series done, I imagine they are mostly no money spent,they should be absolutely selling everything, and I mean everything to be getting it done. Let’s say you don’t want to sell off cards (I didn’t either) you still shouldn’t be out spending your stubs on these pack cards. Getting those end game 99s is awesome and totally worth it.

Now let’s look at guys like me, A NMS grinder. I have the vast majority of the best cards in the game and I’m a little under 400k stubs. Seager and Schwarbs are both great cards to have, but I already have P5 93 Willie Castro at short. I love Seager’s swing, but I don’t think I would replace a P5 93 switch hitter for a 93 lefty. My DH is P5 92 Santana and my catcher is P5 92 Posada. I would never put 92 Schwarbs in the outfield, so again, not moving the needle for me. 95 Vlad looks great, but I have P5 99 Rolen at third and P5 99 Hodges at first. Sure he could be my DH, but is he that much of an upgrade from Santana? I really don’t think so. We have a big collection coming up, along with the new retro lightning card, wouldn’t I just be better served to wait, save up some more stubs so I can be as close as possible to completing those as I can?

Again, if you are an all money spend player, your team probably already looks like mine. Would any of this content move the needle for them or would they just wait to purchase more stubs when the collection comes out?

They are putting the best cards behind chase packs and quickly ticking up the chase pack overall, but keeping other pack and program card’s lower. With this model, they have basically made other pack cards and programs irrelevant. Just finish live series and buy the chase cards! You’ll always have the best team.

I would love to see what data they are looking at because from the outside looking in, their content model doesn’t seem to make sense at all.

I finished live series like 10 days ago and haven't really touched much since doing that. I've gotten like 10 storm cards playing cpu on rookie/veteran but haven't played online in at least 10 days. I'm prob not going to do weekend classic altho I liked the previous two times.

I'm so tired of these collections and having to buy cards I don't want for like 150k. I'm not paying a fortune for schwarber to get seager....I didn't do buxton because I don't wanna buy bichette or jeimer for 130k who I likely won't use any of the three

I haven't gotten rolen even tho I could by now because I have p5 jram and has inside edge a lot and I think I platoon him with someone online....

I don't even know honestly.

The storm cards, nobody made my team...even the bullpen guys I feel good about my current bullpen so I just haven't been that motivated. I've been just saving stubs for prob buying willi castro or i might just hold them till something fun comes along

But overall the constant collections + chase cards are not engaging me. I don't have a single chase card and I don't have one card to go towards carlos santana.

I just completed the degrom egg hunt today lol.

I didn't even touch santana, I don't want to by bichette or candellario for buxton (don't particularly want buxton). I saved the whole year and just unlocked beltran last week. I've built back up to 200k-ish stubs. I assume I could prob unlock rolen if I want to.

The bad thing about these collections is I'm having to lock in sooooooo many stubs for cards I don't want. I do want Seager, but I'm never going to use schwarber and I'm always terrible with Vlad.

With buxton I'd have to buy a DH in bichette....by the time I get seager they prob will have dropped a better jeter/rollins/lindor/etc

I'm all for making it difficult but the stubs that it takes for me to lock in for these cards I don't want is rough

so you can just do a showdown instead of having to buy vlad? How does that work?