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@AppleLemon560_MLBTS they dont pause their game to stop script when you bring in Darren O'Day

One of the most rewarding and addicting parts of DD is working on building your team. It's like working on the muscle car in the garage - every day you make it a little bit better, a little cooler and newer...you make gradual progress as you acquire new parts.

Unfortunately, that part of the game was pretty much blown to bits in July. Suddenly, your team was fully stocked with maxed-out players. Any change that you made to most positions felt like a lateral move, at best. Every once in a while, a "giant mega shiny toy" would come out (Chipper or someone) and you'd get that if you could swing it...but it's not the same reward as slowly working on improving the team.

Even though I adore all of the content that this game provides, this is the one aspect that I don't like. The abandonment of power creep plus "switch hitting meta" has made team building moot.

If they're going to go this route, we need a mode where we can build other teams. It misses the whole point if everything gets tricked out so quick - the fun part is building it at the beginning.

Something we can all agree on - stop giving individual show packs as rewards in the inning path. Those should be egg hunt or Jackie packs or something - one show pack is silly, thanks for the nickel grandma

The offline-only folks always talk about wanting good repeatable grinds. With that 20 pack, id day that conquest, DQ, and mini seasons are all very good grind options right now. Im not sure what else you'd want.

Yeah, seems like it was shut down as an attempt at damage control

You do have a new inning path. Would a random conquest map, or a DQ with two players you won't use, make you all that much happier?

If the complaint is about not having a good longterm TA grind - I completely agree

Online is so toxic right now - especially in events. Its Hader or its constant pausing and trying to quick pitch....like, I feel like its all 12-year olds. I usually win those games, but its awful. Getting a normal player who knows how to play the game feels like a miracle.

The new event program is again that you can play with any legends and flashbacks - cant we be more creative? Thats like half of the binder!

Whenever we talk about how it would be cool to have a theme team or salary cap mode...or a mode that makes you use different cards...a bunch of people are like "thats what Events is!" But Events never gives you interesting or fun restrictions - its always just like "you can use 60 percent of the cards you have!"

There's a whole lot of people going "I cant do this, its too hard or I dont like that mode" - would your 14-year old self have said this in 2005? Nah, youd have been delighted with daily stuff to do, and done whatever needed to do it.

Now, the servers? Yeah, cant help you there, lol

"let me play only the game modes I want...and only the difficulty I want....and only at the time and pace I want...and still be able to get all the same stuff as everyone else"

Thats the soft 2026 gamer right there. Its not just this game - its how they feel about all games.

My 10-year old self rented hard SNES games from the corner store, and tried to complete them in one weekend. When I failed, I rented them the next weekend. No complaining - I knew it must be possible, other people did it, so I'd find a way to do it. Where's that spirit anymore?

Hot take - SDS gave up on Team Affinity and the power creep to please casual players who have now left. We should just now be getting the 99s.

Ill agree wholeheartedly on the web gems - cpu is insane defensively. Defense is too easy in the game, in general - there should be more errors and bad plays, but then everyone would cry "rng made me lose!"

I will agree that Rookie is way harder in this game than any other sports game. But, the reason is that batting is very difficult - i feel like there are 1000 people in the world who know how to hit in this game (and Im not one of them).

Im so surprised to see folks like V-Mart, Jim Johnson, Bobby Doerr - hats off to them for throwing in these new legend surprises. Even had to learn who Rick Ferrell is.

I criticize a lot about this game, but this was really a nice touch

Man, Storylines needs more promoting - expand it to cover more baseball history too - such a cool mode

This thread is bonkers. There are reasons to dislike online play (lag, cheese, cheating, meta is OP, and it often feels like a slow slog) and there are reasons to get bored with offline play (the CPU isn't a great baseball mind - its an easily abused AI script and theres not much challenge).

You dont really need to get deeper than that. Both of the issues above could be improved to better both experiences.

Honestly, a no-sell Ohtani or Judge is the most level-headed idea that I've seen put out. Seems pretty fair to me.

And if it's not a cheater, its a weird bot player...then its two players who dashboard as soon as you hit a home run (without letting it land of course)...then its weird bunt dance and pause player....its just a mess of goofballs

The market is so goofy in this game...

Every time there's a flash sale: "Oh no, theyre selling packs! Fire sale - drop cost on everything"

One hour later: " never mind, we forgot all those packs stink, and nobody pulls anything. Jack the prices back up!"

I am SO tired of people yelling about King and Hader and even Grant. Every Tom and Joe puts it as Number One on their list of grievances to SDS.

Hader and King are super hittable these days - they're not feasible pitchers to use now, and anyone using them is probably a goofball. (Ps: because theyre a goofball, they will always throw you that two seamer away...and you should jack it to the moon).

Grant is a lesser glitch - and once you're used to it, its kinda the same as any pitcher.

These glitches have almost no impact on your daily player experience.

If you want to complain, there are SO many other things. I suggest you use "game is stale and boring"

I agree with the post. There's not much good reason to do stuff in the game right now. If you know how to turn on your Playstation and you don't choose to play NCAA, you can basically have a team of 99s. They badly need a Team Building or Salary Cap mode where you get rewarded for having collected all these other cards...so that you have a place to actually use the cards they give you. Also, yeah, why the heck would you just basically stop Team Affinity and end the rewards in that path at the all star game?