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@TripleH-4481 said in BR Season 10 - now they're just messing with us:

It required buying a lot of set 1 cards to complete that collection. Afterwards they became progressively easier to complete. This year was 1 big experiment. I hope they learn and adjust for 24. Lots of mistakes were made this year making long time players question the future direction of the franchise.

Yep. I found this year to be terrible. Haven't played in a long time and don't have the game downloaded anymore. Can't justify getting next year if they do nothing with franchise because DD has completely jumped the shark for me...

This game...

Come on the forums every now and then just to see what's up, but haven't touched DD in like 2 months or more. Horrible year, despicable grinds, and more pay-to-win than it's ever been. TA grind and programs overflowing with cards with low ratings after raining 99's on opening day -- killed the game for me.

Terrible year. Just terrible.

Get off the wheel, hamster! I did over a month ago, and life has been much better. "Live service" games are designed to keep you coming back for your hit, whatever the drug is. No thanks -- not anymore.

It's so good to be off the hamster wheel. Haven't touched DD in over a month, maybe longer.

If you don't play online, can't see what these programs offer you. If you do, fair enough.

I'll probably pass. I literally cannot bring myself to fire the game up again. DD is SO played out for me. I went hard for 2 years -- really hard. Then I bailed hard at the start of Season 3 this year.

DD is a CHORE if you don't love online h2h. You can love the chore, but it's still a chore.

Content drip disgusts me at this point. Persistent monetization. I think I'll stick with Zelda, RDR2, Mass Effect, games that are complete and don't seek to string you along. Semi-excited about the Cyberpunk reboot. Wish I had an xbox for Starfield.

Yes. If a prospect is tanking and young, send down a level.

@jonblaze2424_PSN said in Who was in the meeting when season 4 was discussed.:

It’s the same exact (literally) longgggggg, painful grind using trash cards you really don’t want to. They could’ve mixed it up a little. It just feels like rinse and repeat. I hope it changes come playoff time

This EXACTLY. I have zero motivation to play DD anymore. I was using Murakami and Trout and great 99's, but then have to grind for 95's that nobody wants.

DD has become, literally, a CHORE. I bailed on last season early and won't even start this one...!

@arvcpa_MLBTS said in Season 4 prediction thread:

@Ericulous1_PSN said in Season 4 prediction thread:

my guess

Lol, it's been pain all year. Feels good to be off the hamster wheel. DD is so stale.

Sports games have become "free to play" mobile games, basically. Dripping you "content" that you "need" to keep you grinding, knowing that even if you don't give in and get out the credit card, enough people in the base will. They can all suck it.

Somebody out there needs to remaster the old, pre-card collecting titles like NCAA, MVP, Madden, from when they had excellent dynasty/franchise modes.

It's just franchise for me from now on. Maybe off to SMBB 4...

QoL in this game??!!

Lol.

Nope.

Instead, you get a huge dumpster collection screen that won't even bring you back to the card you're on if you return to the main screen.

FFS, NCAA had a trophy case and binders back in the day. On ps2.

SDS has dumpsters. Big, user-unfriendly dumpsters so you can scroll and scroll and try to avoid epileptic seizures...

Yep. I did a little grinding when Season 3 dropped, but have been in franchise since then. I deplore DD this year. Season 1 was great, but only because it was launch.

This year's change is the perfect example of trying to please everybody and it backfiring. It is SO fricking stupid to drop 99's like candy on day one and then have "other programs" that "reward" you with 90-95 OVR versions of players who already have 97-99 cards. Then when Season 3 drops you have to retire 99 Trout and get the 97 version? Mmmmmm, okay.

When you have multiple versions of guys with attributes all over the place, it just highlights that they're making [censored] up as they go along. And then you have clutch as a real attribute that enables them to inflate or deflate OVR's artificially...again, no thanks.

No desire to get back on the DD hamster wheel until launch next year, but maybe not even then, and if so probably not for long. I think going forward DD for me will probably be completing the LS collection, then I'm out.

I've seen two in dozens of franchises. I usually sim a year or two just to see how things shake out and have 1-2 long-term franchises.

In my current Rangers chise I got a 2B who was 19 years old, 81 overall, and dropped to me at 9 (or wherever Texas picks that first year). Contact in the 70's, power in the 60's, everything else average.

There was another who was also a 2B who was an 84 overall, but I deleted that franchise.

Just curious about what others have seen.

Actually enjoying franchise this year, playing with quick counts on (helps with walks), catcher far camera for batting, and quick simming pitching most of the time.

I make a lineup for TA3 with all valid players, then poof! random ineligible players are on my team. I correct it again, then more of the same.

SDS, my god, fix your [censored]. It should work where the pool you get to choose from contains ONLY eligible players.

What a cluster [censored]. Pathetic.

This game is a lineout simulator with frequent home runs and occasional bloop hits.

I wouldn't trust "stick skills reign supreme" for a second, unless you're someone like LittleMan who can slow down time...

@TEXAS10PT_PSN said in Your Season 3 Boss pack choices:

@SuntLacrimae50_MLBTS said in Your Season 3 Boss pack choices:

@TEXAS10PT_PSN said in Your Season 3 Boss pack choices:

Joc is a rehashed Season 1 player. Good bat with Bronze fielding. Never see the field and only good for DH. Buck O'Neill was one of the coolest cats ever. He might be the only card worthy of a grind. The rest are all Meh.

Couldn't disagree more. But only because SDS is going to put some fantasy cartoon numbers on these guys' attributes.

Wouldn't be surprised if Joc gets gold fielding, or Gallen gets outlier...lol...

Grind away my friend. I'm done with the mindless grinding on short fence high elevated fields on Rookie. I would rather watch paint dry.

I'll do a little, but not much. I'm agreeing with you, mainly.

Because he's the best contact hitter in the game.

And then average to below average in literally everything else.

@TEXAS10PT_PSN said in Your Season 3 Boss pack choices:

Joc is a rehashed Season 1 player. Good bat with Bronze fielding. Never see the field and only good for DH. Buck O'Neill was one of the coolest cats ever. He might be the only card worthy of a grind. The rest are all Meh.

Couldn't disagree more. But only because SDS is going to put some fantasy cartoon numbers on these guys' attributes.

Wouldn't be surprised if Joc gets gold fielding, or Gallen gets outlier...lol...

@Skarmaen_PSN said in Huge mistake SDS. Just cancel the plan now.:

Set/Season 2 was indeed awful. There were large gaps in any content released (no, packs are not content and never will be) and when they did release a program it was the exact same snorefest the previous programs were, just with a different name. The only exception this year has been POTM, which appears immune to the virus (Grind 97, Buy 99) infecting the rest of the game.

I've probably said this ad nauseam, but I just cannot understand people defending the expiring cards. For instance, 99 Trea Turner was in the game from day one (though not obtainable immediately since it required ~100 cards to collect). Today that card is phased out unless it's someone's wildcard and is being replaced with a 97 ASG card. 3 1/2 months in and being replaced by a lower overall card. They've not only stopped any sense of progression, they're making it feel like we're going backwards.

How does that make sense?

It's actually like a new release day. There HAVE to be real 99's to get early on, and I assume there will be.

But what few are talking about is that there will be so many reissues of set 1 cards that are expiring. There have to be. Let me grind for another 99 Trout...no thanks.

I doubt that anything in Season 3 will pull me back in after the trainwreck that was season 2.

And if Incognito and Kaiju are still around, f that. I'm done. What stupid, cringe ideas...

Bwa-ha, just like I thought -- here come the reissues of Season 1 GOAT cards. Joc was a go-to for so many early in the year. Trout will be back, Devers, etc....here they come.

TBH, content looks good. But Season 2 was atrocious, and I'll probably abandon the grind early in Season 3, if I even do any...

Looks like Season 3 will be strong. Too bad Season 2 completely soured me on DD. What a dumpster fire of a season, Jesus. My will to grind is gone.