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I'm trying to play a Ranked Seasons game and it immediately tells me "No opponents found" when it starts to search for an opponent. This is after the recent update.

@dcordash1 said in Food for thought:

Here is a thought. More conspiratorial than fact-based, but quite plausible. Surely would fit into a marketing strategy by a gaming company.

I believe every year SDS chooses a random set of userId's to "relax" the AI on. Perhaps set most of their online experience to "Veteran" difficulty or whatever. Those are your consistent 800 folks. And, believe me, that would easy-cheesy for the programmers to integrate into the game. A simple coded switch.

By doing this SDS has created a "point of reference" that the fan-boys can recite to argue the game-play is based on player skill not AI. Really isn't another valid argument I've ever heard than this. Don't know how many times I've seen some one type "It has to be real or so-and-so wouldn't always be 800+". Well, my response is "you have to be gullible" to believe that's any sort of quantifiable metric. Marketing...pure and simple.

Have you taken time to actually watch some of these "chosen" guys play? Their PCI placement is robot-like. So, baseball being baseball, the law of averages ends up in their favor due to many more well-placed swings than the average user.

There is no behind the scenes shenanigans going on. We are all playing the same game, good or bad.

When I started playing DD in 2017, I sucked. Bad. But I grinded and grinded and improved my gameplay until I made World Series division near the end of the year and then continued to consistently make it in 2018 and 2019. I was not "chosen", I earned it. And that's the problem many of you have, you're not willing to do what it takes to actually get better and just admit that, at best, you're average at this game. Not saying that you couldn't be better, but as long as you think the game has it out for you you'll just constantly be mediocre at best.

@Oblivion1117 said in I don’t know how you did it.:

This is an honest question. To me, is it easier hitting higher difficulties against the CPU then lower difficulties in DD. I practice on legend and I always face either Cole or Buehler. I want to experience pitchers with high heat. After a while I am able to really see the pitches come in. When playing online, I have difficulties seeing anything. Just wondering if anyone else feels the same.

Absolutely, and that's one of the most frustrating parts of this game every year. Each game mode feels different to play. If I can hit the CPU on Hall of Fame, then why do I face issues in Ranked Seasons on Hall of Fame?

The constant switching between difficulty levels, behind the scenes tweaks and slider adjustments makes each mode feel like a completely different game.

Ranked Seasons hitting right now is not in a good place.