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That Isaac Paredes card is a tank. The pack cards dont strike me as super useful (except for Mason Miller).
Also - why does the 4000 pxp say its Repeatable - by the time you get 4000pxp, you have 100 points and all cards anyway.
Was the original thought that you could repeat to grind packs???
Content creators talk about how greedy and predatory it is...
Then you look at their stub balance and they have over 2 million stubs. So, they could just buy the stuff. Even if they didn't, their last video they posted is "make 200k stubs per day by flipping" (which aint that hard cause margins are huge). So, what's the big deal here? You've got the stubs, and even if you didn't, its easy to get them.
Then they proceed to say in their video that none of the cards are really that good anyway, and many other cards are just as good or better. So again, what's the point - you dont even really want the cards. You can probably skip a collection for Legends and Flashback, so you dont need it for that.
Nobody wants to do honest grinding anymore - they all just want to cheese to get stubs and get everything Day One. Then, post the content cause thats all important. But, what's the point if you dont even wanna play the game anyway? Nobody seems to enjoy doing anything in the game these days.
The second question is - what is even the value of these cards? How many of them do you actually really want?
A few of them are playable, but not better than 5 other options you already have.
Thats the part about this whole "card collecting" thing that I dont get. Where's the incentive?
I actually think the idea was kind of brilliant.
They know nobody saves diamond dupes. They know every Vault pack has a Tyler Glasnow. This is a way to make you collect live cards again.
Now, it doesnt really work cause lots of people have a million+ stubs...so they'll just buy the Live.
Can you imagine if you couldnt buy Live Series to do this - if you had to pack them? (Will never happen, I know). All the Day One people would lose their mind - the people who cant do a grind as intended, but must get all stuff Day One.
I swear - if SDS came out and announced they are disabling the ability to buy stubs for the rest of this game - people would still call them greedy.
They'd be like "Id rather pay 500 bucks to SDS than play another round of Diamond Quest!"
The most galling and inhumane request that SDS can make - according to most Show players - is that you ask them to actually keep playing The Show.
I dont think its a money move though - its a move designed to try to give you reason to keep playing the game.
If you play the game, you naturally get a ton of live series cards - which now have some use (not just quick sell for 3k).
All the people complaining are just mad that they cant hit a "Win Now" button and get every card. And they always say the same thing - SDS is greedy! SDS isnt "player friendly"!"
But I doubt many people are buying stubs for this - just play the game and you'll get it. Isn't encouraging players to play actually quite "player friendly"?
Ive seen a lot of talk about Finest, but every Tuesday always goes by without a single person mentioning the Headliner.
Everyone should be singing for the Papa.
@Dolenz_PSN a million people always cry when they realize they might have to do work to get the cards. Like, they might have to play the game...something they dread
The exchange at least gives you reason to be happy about drawing Live Seeies from Vault or Chase packs?
Its kind of a smart way to let Live Series have some value.
But these finest cards - meh, how many of them do you really care about anyway?
I have a theory - it's probably not new. I think CPU pitchers have a secret stat where they have "fear" of really good hitters. They are programmed to throw a lot of balls against these hitters until it gets to a 3-ball count. Then, they throw a few more strikes.
Its the same on rookie or legend - Ive had recent games (on legend) where every batter is getting a 3-0 or 3-1 count. I think the engine runs almost the same no matter what the difficulty is set at.
This doesnt seem to hold when the pitchers are facing lesser hitters - but of course, at this point, theyre all juiced 99s.
I dont think so many good players would be "tied to the meta" if the game made you play with varied teams - so your opponents cant "meta up" against you.
Maybe a few guys who are good enough to do "foot timing hitting" wouldn't like it (cause they only wanna play with guys they've memorized) - but thats a pretty small portion of players.
This is always my biggest complaint about The Show every year - what's the point when theres a million identical cards, all juiced to the hilt?
Ive heard a lot of people say they like this time, because they like being able to use anyone. They like having 25 choices at each position of players who are juiced 99s. It probably does increase lineup diversity a bit.
But, it makes forming teams feel trivial. It makes almost any reward that you get feel trivial.
It would be delightful if we were forced to use lots of different cards by the game - forced to build different teams. Forced to use captains and boosts in different ways. Like, it would be easy to give challenges where you have to build and compete with different teams - both online and offline.
Theres never been a real focus on collecting cards and using them all to build teams. That should be the fun part. Not using them to stick in your binder or sell.
Outside of Mackie and John Don, the negro leagues players never get super usable players.
Don't let the arm strength stop you though - you cannot throw people out with any consistency in this game. Defense at catcher means nothing (unless you really struggle to hit, so you need to win games with small ball...but thats not really how any decent player operates)
Corner outfield seems like the weakest spot to me. Theres not many options that combine elite speed and batting. Lots of sluggers who play mediocre outfield.
The right play was to hoard stubs and now buy chase cards...I didn't really do that properly, but that is clearly the play
I leave my console on a LOT and already have that many hours - I hope I get retroactive credit, lol
Oh, a thousand percent Chase card - its Friday, do you even need to ask???
@virusts_PSN lol, I also hope theres some use left for those packs - but so many people having those deluxe and premier packs probably means the cards will be worth dirt anyway
Lol, I don't blame the content team for giving you guys like Polanco as big rewards...like, the big rewards have to be the best guys and its silly to pretend that the switch-hitting meta guys are not the best guys. They are, we all know they are.
The solution is to change the game so it's not this way.
BTW, its so ridiculous that every card since July is a 99. Like, slow the power creep WAY down. This game plays worse with crazy-juiced players anyway.
BUT we all know they wont slow it down - cause they gotta shoot all their bullets before NCAA and Madden come out (gotta show the adhd kids the super shiny trinkets by July 4)
Vault packs would be okay if the collection cards held any value (like the upper tier cards in mural, cityscape, etc) - people have so many deluxe and premier packs that those cards have zero value right away. Its just like live series tanking after the glitch.
It leaves Chase and Headliners as the only valuable cards (and now really just Chase) - plus Judge and Shohei.