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@BLAISEBLAISE_PSN to each his own. I dont blame the flippers for flipping - theyre not doing anything wrong. Heck, they're acquiring stubs way more efficiently than the poor saps grinding mini-seasons.
And, I have no issue at all with people investing wisely. Buying low, selling high, not buying stupid packs, acquiring cards that will be in demand later, etc. Everyone should be encouraged to do that.
Hey look, I just get cranky at all the people who come on the boards a month into the game going "look at how sweet I am, I have a million stubs!" And they dont really actually play the game. And they cause inflation for people who do play.
Id much rather those stubs go into the account of someone whos pretty good but not great - maybe he struggled up to 800, got his rewards and sold them high, did all the offline content. He's grinding out the legit no-money-spent experience - not selling and reselling bat skins according to an algorithm.
I dont blame the people who flip. I do a little too, and its not hard.
But, it really shouldn't exist. Its an insult to players who play and grind the game as intended (get good and get rewards, do all the content, etc.).
That Honus Wagner is an absolute monster. Of all the complaints you can make, you cant say they dont give you good cards for free.
Ive gotten lots of mural, vintage, and cityscapes - all completely useless
@mike_ph_PSN agreed. Most headliners are pretty valuable though, cause noone ever draws those things
When this first came out, the 99 yesavage cityscape and the 99 basallo and 99 wetherholt all shot up up to 100k value.
Do these goofy gooses buying the cards not realize you can use ANY wetherholt or yesavage or basallo to do the program? The market is so silly lately.
Sold a Yesavage for 100k, bought it back for 55k, sold it again for 85k. Goofy gooses.
Alright, someone explain to me how theres cards with Buy Nows at 30k and Sell Nows at 17k....and they sell in about an hour. So, thats just easy 10k profit for no work at all, right.
I hate flipping, but Im sure as shootin' gonna do it if thems the stakes.
It feels stupidly broken.
@WolfgangMLB_XBL right on. Nothing but junk rewards the last month. Not even sure what Im hoping to get.
All of these cards are pretty useless, except for maybe a few bullpen arms.
But if they give us awesome cards, isnt that worse? Like, do you want these cards to just be better than the cards you worked forever to get in your lineup? Just given to everyone for free?
Here's what would be cool...if I had to work to get some new Guardians cards because I needed to build a full Guardians theme team....and then play online with that team for other rewards.
All these rewards could have value...they could be important to get and use.
But, the game doesnt ask you to do any of that. After about June, theres no goal anymore - nothing to build, nothing to work on.
@BLAISEBLAISE_PSN youre right, margins are stupidly large all over - this seems to be the obvious answer.
I dont understand why flipping is allowed, honestly - it seems like a cheesy backdoor method to honest grinding. Which just causes inflation and harder times for honest grinders. All the people who were so mad at the 20 card limit at first were clearly just people angry that their cheesy stub-accumulation method was taken away.
And, why is every card going through the roof in price? Where are people getting all this cheddar? The game is dead as a doorbell and ways to earn money are very limited.
Cause when you think great playoff performances, you cant help but think...Jhonkensy Noel. He's the new Bob Hamelin.
Gee, I wonder who is missing....that sure is strange...lol
@DrBear100_PSN I wont fight you there.
But, anytime SDS tries something interesting where you have to jump through a lot of hoops and challenges to get to a reward - a million people yell and they take it back.
@Bridge-Piece_XBL it claims to matchmake every round, but I dont think it works until you get to win 8 or so. I can get to 8 wins in any event, then magically I start playing 1000-plus guys every game
There are lots of reasons you could put on a list like this. I think we all agree with #1. Your other reasons wouldn't be anywhere on my list, but whatever, its your list.
The only issue I disagree with is saying this game is a "mind-numbing grind." They've taken almost every grind out of this game. No team affinity, programs are short, innings and multiplayer paths are short and quickly done, etc. This community has a problem where it complains about any grind - or maybe its the young people in general who always yell "just let me play the game the way I want!". On top of sports games, Im an old school rpg player - grinding is kinda the point of games.
If you rephrased the complaint as - "offline modes should be more entertaining for all types of players" - then I'd agree.
Its almost like they need to make the parks bigger for Diamond Dynasty mode only - because everyone is playing with really good players, and not some random silver or bronze player.
I'd start with making the throwing meter more complex - akin to the difficulty of getting your pci correct. A bad input wouldn't guarantee an error, but make it a lot more likely.
Maybe only enable the mode on certain difficulties, so newer players can avoid it, if they want.
OK, imagine if there way less foul balls in this game and way less homeruns. Instead of homeruns, they are doubles and triples...and instead of fouls, they are weakly-hit balls. So, theres a lot more balls in play
Now, imagine if fielding was as hard as batting - if the inputs you had to make to properly field and throw a ball were as tricky as the inputs for batting.
Every ball in play would be way more exciting.
Firlding has never been respected in a baseball game, like ever. But, theres no reason it cant be as input-intensive as batting.