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Unacceptable.

-Extreme lack of post launch content, and this "program" did little
-A pack for what was always free in the past
-No ways to earn said packs offline

Topps Now you'll have to buy the Pack of the Month

I think SDS has too heavily favored online play this year and its starting to really impact my enjoyment.

Its the combination of less content in general along with most xp being in online programs.

TA part 2 drop had 80K xp added to online programs. There was a negligible amount of xp in the TA tracks, which I wouldn't even classify as offline anyway, and then 4k in the Season Awards. Since then I think weve gotten another 8.2k between Jackie and Season Awards. So 12.2k vs 80k.

Quite frankly the offline gameplay modes are stale right now, which doesnt help things either. Conquest is ok, and mini games are a good idea with a mediocre implementation that hasnt been iterated on at all.

SDS needs to balance better between offline exclusive modes and online exclusive modes, with programs being neutral as they are able to be done in both online and offline environments

Offline modes should offer the same xp, and the same amount of cards (ideally identical cards) as online play, even if its tweaked to be a bigger grind

At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this forum is now dumber for having read it.

Found one of the weirdos who uses Trump logos in a sports game

@Weshill627_PSN said in Diamond Quest:

@jaychvz_XBL Fine, keep them in. THEY SHOULDNT LOCK REWARDS BEHIND THEM. only way to get Sasaki is by playing Conquest. Conquest is brutal & i have no idea why anyone enjoys it.

Theyve locked rewards behind Event, Ranked, and BR for years. A lot of people hate those modes more than you hate conquest.

@Stiebfan37 said in And this is where SDS has crossed the line in my view:

The unapologetic disgusting greed this company is showing this year is ludicrous.

Increased greed plus SIGNIFICANTLY decreased content is a bad formula.

I could live with one or the other, but not both

I rest my case

Couldn't disagree more with conquest. Its absolutely great for getting pxp for these silver guys.

Diamond Quest right now has the big flaw of only the stadiums counting for program/pxp progress. I guess the zone sweeper too but Im not rocking up for a legend game with silvers. I will say the mini Showdown stages are a big improvement over showdown mode itself because at least I can use my own cards and if I fail I get a detriment but not have my progress erased because I hit into 3 double plays and had 2 HRs robbed.

@doobiebross66-72 said in SDS: Pushing me towards online play is pushing me away from the game:

If online isn’t your thing, and if you’re feeling like you want to dip your toes into H2H play, I highly suggest events

Free entries, no downside to losing since you’re not pushing for flawless rewards, and it’s a good way to get practice playing H2H

I don't enjoy playing online, that's the issue.

The walking on egg shells you need to do while pitching just isnt fun for me. My poor pitch recognition and high latency put me at a severe disadvantage for hitting. The only online mode I don't dislike is ranked because the matchmaking is better and I can bring a Mets team into it.

I would say Event has by far the biggest downside to losing: you have completely wasted your time and have nothing to show for it. BR and Ranked you can at least make program progress without winning

@NOWLTZKI_MLBTS said in Whats with the packs???:

This place is a F ing joke I spent over 1500$ real money on packs and I have completed all the conquest maps and I haven’t pulled sht I am so done with this game. But SDS gives all those clown on YouTube all the players for free and the game and I paid all this money and I haven’t pulled no Ohtani or Judge or Trout or Mookie or Jose Ramirez nit even Freddy freeman I am so done!!! I am calling my bank and I am disputing the 1500$ I spent on these packs and getting my money back!!

Not sure I would be so open about intent to commit chargeback fraud on the forum of the company you intend to commit it against

I personally love it. It celebrates something that happened in baseball, isnt in a pack or part of a collection, and is SDS trying something different.

I would have at least thrown a Kerry Wood in there too, but the spotlight packs are very nice so its not just Sosa

I never would have ever suspected that 'Fat Juggz' would use an inappropriate logo

@trfatboy22_MLBTS said in Repeatable Conquest!:

@sbchamps17_NSW Definitely I hope It has even just some repeatable standard pack rewards and its probably worth it.

3 games (cover star teams) for 5 packs is the repeatable. Tough to complain about that.

I can't stress enough how big of a W this conquest map is

This is not quite at the level DQ grind is for highly skilled players, but its the meaningful repeatable content we have lacked since MS repeatable rewards were nerfed and its fantastic.

I love being able to grind for packs vs grind for the stubs to buy the cards.

I don't expect this to happen with every current pack, but once packs are old enough why not do this sort of thing more? For example, April spotlight conquest with the teams of all the lightning players in it with a repeatable as your choice of weekly pack.

Maybe a NT/Pipeline/Egg Hunt mini season?

I expect i will put more time into the game this week than I have in a while, this has gotten me over my disappointment over lack of new TA content

I'm sorry, was this supposed to be funny? SDS's idea of content may be funny, but this is just sad.

Review bombers are the gaming equivalent of Karens

@bostondirtdog21 said in Ban:

My seven-year-old almost got banned for naming his team the Boston Bear Cubs. I was livid at SDS until I realized it wasn't the team name it was the Abbreviation

And just what does SDS have against the British Broadcasting Corporation?

Offline play was in a bad spot in season 1, especially combined with any non TA content being low effort to complete.

Obviously no new modes are to going to be created, so conquest and mini seasons need to do the heavy lifting

1. Go back to 3 conquest maps per TA cycle
2. Refresh the teams in TA mini season each TA cycle upon restarting the season. Also reset xp missions
3. Have a new mini season each TA cycle. First is the TA one, second and third parts get something fresh (special bonus to allow s1 cards like a Topps Now/Season Awards one earlier than last year)
4. These MS should have card drops that are sellable and take multiple runs to collect all similar to last years model
5. On the 3rd week of each TA cycle (event refresh week) drop a 30 team conquest similar to nation map. Have the first full clear award team captain packs so we have a reliable, steady stream
6. Bring back henchman TA missions for optional program path extensions, similar to the tracks from 100 to 150 in Ranked and BR

The trick is to make the content feel optional, and legends mini season and nation of baseball do feel optional while also being rewarding. Same thing with the ranked/BR track extensions

This will be overkill for a lot of people, but it's better to have two much optional feeling content than the season 1 situation

It started out fine with the return of conquests, mini season resets, and the notice of two upcoming programs and conquests.

However, the programs gave a total of 4 cards and 1 pack and now the upcoming content scheduled is barren. Season 2 has no 'juice' to it. And ive gone from playing multiple hours every day to struggling to play for more than a game or two because I have no desire to use the limited amount of season 2 cards available, I dont have desire to go back to core/live series, and there is nothing on the schedule to look forward to

The game has taken a monumental nosedive since one year ago. Last year's pre all star break content was fantastic. The biggest program all year, which was released on day 1, would have been the smallest at this point last year.

Also, people that play offline aren't necessarily doing it for 'no challenge'. Some grind CPU vs rookie because the game is setup for that to be the most efficient progress, but not everyone does that. I spend 95% of my time on All Star personally where I will at least lose some of the time. the game does a terrible job at encouraging higher difficulties though.

Here are some other reasons people dont play online:
-Need to be able to walk away from the game at a moments notice
-Unreliable internet connection
-Live in other parts of the world
-Matchmaking in 2 of the 3 online modes is [censored]
-The mode with decent matchmaking is still fairly rare to get a good 9 inning game in
-Clown ballparks
-Clown team names/logos
-Clown people (bunt dancers/r2/etc)

Even if the initial intent was to make DD online, a smart company adapts to their playerbase

I feel this year they are instead trying to push people to online more and its thankfully backfiring.