@Laaaaylay said in SDS PATCH SAYS ONE THING:

Some of you never took a business class in your life and it shows... SDS is in the business of making money. You think the devs are working for free and donating their salary? Every patch is always going to address what protects the money most because without money you have no product. If you’re unhappy with mlb the show over the money aspect you’re not gonna be happy with video games in general so you should take up a new hobby like bird watching. But buying equipment to bird watch might cost you money too so you might not like that. Madden, 2K, The show and pretty much every game with an online aspect are in the monetization phase of gaming. If you want the best product you need to pay for it. It’s sad but true. We’re no longer in the days of just buying a base game at drop gets you a lot of content. Nothing is free. Whether you spend your time or your money. So do yourself a favor. Take a deep breath and just play the game or don’t. Tedious posts about not coming back next year aren’t changing anyone’s mind lol there’s about a million on this site at this point. Whether you stop playing or 100 dudes do that post they will. There’s still 100 more that will play and buy stubs in your place and keep the game afloat.

Except the economy is tanking this year. The little disposable income left is going to go to the games that actually work in the future. The issue here is not the microtransaction model itself nor the content SDS is dropping. SDS doesn't seem to really care about quality control and goodwill which is the long game. How SDS still has the MLB and MLBPA licenses astonishes me when it comes to quality control. I'd love to see what that deal and the resulting cashflow looks like.

I'm not going to say I'll never give SDS any money ever again, but it's not looking good. Between the economy and this year's gameplay, it's probably not going to happen any time soon. I haven't played since '16, so I already know what taking a long break feels like (and it's better than playing '20 lol). I gave it a whirl this year because of all the good reviews of '19 and the free time I knew I would have on my hands when it dropped. Being a realist, I figured the servers would crash because everyone was staying home and playing. Ironically, that's been the least of my issues with this year's game.

I don't even really care about the XP "exploits" because I still have more diamond cards than i ever have because of all the free time I have now without them, period. I didn't even know how to do the steal cheese, and I don't count HDR as an exploit because it's simply smart to use your time efficiently, and if it's your goal to get so much XP in so much time and that's the amount of XP per HR the game dropped with, then have at it! I finished an MTO season before the points were doubled and thought the doubling of TA points with the patch was SDS responding to consumer feedback and throwing out a goodwill bone. Even if I was naive, taking away something that was given to the consumer, even inadvertently, is not going to earn you goodwill points. Call them SDS Affinity points. I can give SDS less rewards, too lol.

Here's my real issue with the new patch. I think even without any "exploits," people are simply grinding for XP more than usual because the current situation has a lot of people tightening their wallets and at home more (with no sports to watch), and it feels like SDS is just plain not liking that. They already have our money from the purchase of the game, so it just comes off as slimy that they're making this blatant money grab on the microtransactions now without fixing the core gameplay. THAT is why I will probably not spend another dime on this game.

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