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Hey SDS. What do you want us to do with dupe uniforms that YOU MAKE US PICK from TA packs? What is the point?? At least make it quick sellable and reward the user for grinding. Absolutely unreal.

Btw- yall patched a glitch yesterday that was live for 8 hours on the app regarding people making 800 stubs from quick selling dupes after purchasing one from the shop. Yet you’ve allowed/neglected to ban market bots… make it make sense.

Am I mad I can’t do it anymore? No.. does this make me mad because it adds onto the gross amount of neglect SDS has shown this year? YEAH

Got my TA voucher. Anyone plan on doing all the teams? Anyone see a need?

I’d hate to stop and 2 months later SDS drop something that requires all of them.

Wait they still haven’t fixed this from last night? Took me 2 and a half minutes from progress to TA to Rockies. No shot it’s still broken, right?!

@datnickdogg351_PSN said:

Im speculating, but it must be the least played mode in the game hence why they removed it. Even with it counting for XP progress towards TA
in previous years. It wasnt worth the time consumption it took to complete a March to October. Therefore many didnt play to help in DD.. Those who play franchise dont really play it as it is a way less emersive experience than playing franchise that they are already playing. So what is the point for those players. The 2 most popular player bases in Franchise/ DD that play the game arent playing it. Then casuals arent going to spend the time either in that mode. So probably not worth the time for SDS to code another mode that isnt played by many players. Hence the removal. Just my thoughts..

“Even with it counting for XP progress towards TA
in previous years. It wasnt worth the time consumption it took to complete a March to October”

It was about the fact you didn’t have to play DD when grinding TA. You got to experience the entire team doing it this way. TODAY, you’re right, it wouldn’t be worth because it’s no longer broken up by divisions. But still, the fact they took away the TA progress first, then silently removed it this year is extremely frustrating. I am a big DD player and I stopped playing when they did it last year. I usually play until October but I stopped in may last year.

It simply comes down to $$$ they didn’t want to spend the money to maintain the mode they didn’t profit off of. Which sucks for the smaller chunk of the fanbase that actually really enjoyed the division-by-division grind of TA they used to have.

@aaronjw76_PSN said:

I'd really love to know how releasing a simple program that is all stats based, not even frigging moments, can cause this kind of lag?

Can we move all programing and QA to Claude? Can't be worse than this mess of an organization

The issue probably isn’t just “a simple stats program.” It’s the amount of live backend syncing tied to it. I finished a game with Jeter at P3, 104/104, then during the entire next game I watched it keep updating in real time to 104/107, 104/109, 104/114 (over 3 plate appearances). That tells me the game is constantly processing and refreshing progression data while an online game is already being played, instead of just logging it cleanly after the game.

That means the infrastructure is not only handling the actual ranked game traffic, matchmaking, and whatever netcode overhead already exists, but also constant stat writes, progression checks, mission tracking, PxP updates, UI refreshes, and who knows how many other live-service calls in parallel.

And that’s the bigger point: I very much doubt these companies have the backend capacity (or they NEGLECT to upgrade servers accordingly) to handle their real concurrent player load as well as people think they do. A million players constantly generating those updates is not nothing.

This wasn’t a huge issue last year. But between this, the disconnects, the market bots (huge f’kn problem), and the god awful release state of this game, it may be take the cake as the worst release ever. Which sucks bc I have fun with the game, but maybe it’s my ego saying I don’t want to play because of SDS’s incompetence.

@Rubbaneck34_XBL said:

It’s worse today because today is launch day! Im sure it will get better.

Thanks for your words of encouragement…

@Sarge1387_PSN said:

They patched it, it was good for a couple hours and has gone right back to being laggy AF.

Yea idk what patch you’re talking about but it’s still laggy af

@STEvO651779652_XBL said:

Is it just my internet or are other people having long load times between menus? It’s making the game unplayable when you have to wait 30 seconds between each menu or squad edit.

Nah. Took me 130 seconds to view TA progress after hitting the TA box

Guys come on. They’re a small Indie company. Of course they don’t have a QA department!!!

Took me legitimately 130 seconds from Progress > Team Affinity > Rockies, to check my missions

@Wolfski0412_PSN said:

By doing nothing, SDS is saying using a bot is OK and there will be no consequences. I guess if you want to compete and be able to use the market, use a bot.

!!!!! this^^^^

Thank you for posting. It’s blatantly obvious there are bots. Today was really bad. Just imagine what it’ll be like when everyone else gets their hands on the game. It ruins flipping for everyone. Proof? Just look up StubBot on google. WHY ARE WE ALLOWING THIS? It takes 10 minutes of research for a dev to look it up and say “yeah, this is an issue”. The incompetence is almost becoming equal to madden and 2k. Something as easy as MFA or Captcha can solve this but by all means, ignore it.