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@Shauwn said in XP Grind:

This fk'ed up greedy scummy shyte was perfectly planned out in hopes that the average person would run to the store and buy stubs to either gamble or buy their team.

Much more likely the average person just stops playing the game at that point.

I think there's potential for a pretty big player exodus after season 1. The xp is at a snail's pace and even getting one s1 collection pack is going to require buying cards that are only available in packs. Then you factor in having to do the same xp slog all over again. Could get ugly IMO.

@Stiebfan37 F'ing bonkers. They may be trying to push people away from the game at this point.

The content structure is god awful and they aren't pivoting. 3 tweets touting 'what's new in the shop!' this past Friday was particularly shameless.

It's kind of amazing that SDS has created a live service game with sparse content while the monetization aspect is horribly done. Most of the packs for sale have been absolute garbage. Even if they were better the cards in those packs are outdated in a couple weeks with an accelerated power creep.

None of it makes sense to me, not least of all the SDS Truthers who think everything is fine and dandy.

Good - That drop looks very promising
Bad - The 4-5 weeks preceding the AS content has been horrible. By choice.

A free mp3 of Ramone insulting the community?

@CDNMoneyMaker93 It was done this way to sell more packs. It's kind of a theme this year.

@DoIHearBossMusic_PSN Kyle Higashioka doesn't do it for you?

22 other programs on the year and 11 of them are Season Awards.

This is the laziest game I've ever seen.

Both the blog and image say moments of glory now.

To those balking at doing that program, you can. It might test your patience at times but you can do it. I flew through most of it and then hit a brick wall with the Percival moment and didn't think I'd ever get that one done but I did. I'm 53 and my eyesight is pretty poor and if my old man reflexes/eyes can do it then most anyone should be able to.

Sharing a lot of those feelings you all expressed. I was low-key looking forward to TA3 but after seeing the offline missions I'm not going to bother. They made it worse than even last year's insanity, all for cards that expire 4 weeks from today.

You will do this exact same program for the....12th time this year and you'll like it!

@JDHalfrack said in Account Reset? 4/4/24:

This is such a bad take…

Why do people have to take a frustrating situation for both users and SDS and make it worse with such ridiculous commentary?

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I know, right? Poor old SDS..all these things just keep happening to them while they are doing their darndest to put out a quality product that is in no way, shape or form worse than previous years.

Like last week they released a patch that broke everything, but as people here rightly pointed out it was OUR fault for demanding they fix things. Stupid, stupid us.

As they continue on their path of totally not nickel and diming everything in this fine product, they accidentally unlinked most everyone's account making it appear that all progress was gone. I'm sure some stalwart SDS defenders will point out how it was something we did to cause this.

We really need to do better.

Packs/pack cards are not content. They are stub sinks. You can't earn them. You buy them.

In years past you earned all the available cards in the Topps Now/MA programs. Now you cannot do that since to get all the cards you have buy some (it's too early to tell what % of the cards will be pack only. More than half in Drop 1 but that doesn't mean anything conclusive....yet).

Oh, and the most important point - Stop comparing SDS to EA or 2K. Compare the Show to prior versions of the Show. Madden, FIFA, NHL, 2K have no bearing on these discussions. Ever.

@CDNMoneyMaker93 1 earnable card with however many have been in packs this week is balance?

It's the lying that kills me. A big point of emphasis of the content stream pre-launch was "making TA less of a grind" and to be fair TA1 and TA2 were considerably better than last year's TA programs. But that all went out the window with these changes to TA3.

They apparently made these changes because the "community requested this" according to one of the people on stream Friday (I forget which of them said it). I can't speak to the online missions since I've never looked at those, but there's no way anyone who primarily plays offline asked for anything like this. Doubling (at least) the grind for cards that I can't use in a month? How does that make sense to anyone?

I've had more than my fill of grinding out programs just for collection fodder. It's even worse now since those collections won't be completed for over 2 months, leaving little time to use the rewards.

So when I saw the hard to believe it's so terrible TA program, that killed any enthusiasm I had for s2 (and the game in general).

Topps Now used to be supplemental content. We'd get a program on Friday (and often on Tuesday as well) and then you'd also have the TN for that week.

Now, SA is all we get on most Fridays, and a neutered version at that.

Blows my mind that people say the game is fine when SDS has largely punted on content. There's very little to do offline unless you like grinding MS for packs.

@Ericulous1_PSN said in Pay to Win:

TA 2.2 just got pushed back a week

I'm kind of fascinated by this. How on earth could they be behind schedule? It's not like they're spending any time on content.

@TheGoaler_MLBTS said in Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?:

I've heard of off years, but this is one for the ages

Probably going to be what future games look like too. Light on content and monetized at every turn.

Greed ruins everything.

He's in the pack you get in the new MS at 10 and 15 wins.

Sets/seasons were a major complaint last year and were brought back, and I'm pretty confident that absolutely no one asked for a more pack driven model so I don't know how much value a survey has.