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@Dookie-Possum_XBL

The no life people can just get a life, play another game, or touch grass. Punishing people that have busy lives outside the game just to slow down the no lifers is not the right move. That’s an example of catering to the minority at the expense of the majority.

@dbub_PSN

Yeah, I pulled judge, trout, skenes, acuna and marte in roughly the first 4 weeks the game was out.

Since then, about 6 weeks and hundreds of packs later, I haven’t pulled anything of significance. That’s not simply a dry spell that’s a fundamental shift in pack odds due to a ton of new low diamonds diluting the pack pool.

It almost feels like PSA pop controlling 10s of high dollar cards to keep the prices artificially inflated. There is no way the 4 cards I’m still missing should total between 1.2-1.4 million stubs without the high end cards being made extremely scarce by design to keep supply low and demand high. Seems a lot like market manipulation but of course can never be proven.

@dbub_PSN

This is what makes me scratch my head. Being constantly screwed over and disappointed with packs makes me want to buy stubs far less than if I was actually rewarded at some point.

Maybe desperation works on others but I feel for most people they just say to heck with this. I’ve opened hundreds of earned packs with zero success in multiple stretches this year. I’ve completed the entire color storm program and pulled zero high diamonds over 85 with all the free packs.

That is a ton of packs given the progress on the XP reward path combined with the color storm itself. It really feels like a giant slap in the face. Needing 4 cards to finish live series but it costing 1.3 million stubs, over $800, is extremely discouraging.

@Ledfoot_19_PSN

Balance is the key word and there is none of it. The 2% diamond pull rate is blatantly misleading, that’s for all diamond items with most being in the 1K-3K range, as the higher tier diamonds are way, way worse. It’s not 1 in 50 packs it’s 1 in 12,500 packs for the big cards which is comically awful.

That doesn’t equate to millions of dollars from the lotto per yoshi’s comparison but I guess he was trying to make a point to justify the horrendous odds. I lack 4 big cards for Live series which would cost me 1.2 million stubs, so $800 in real money. That’s pretty discouraging after 2.5 months of grinding to say the least. That doesn’t even include the Santana collection where I’m not even close.

Line drive off the pitcher, fielded by catcher and thrown out at first?

@randy.sorensen_MLBTS

I hope you are right because if not I have no words.

Yep that sounds about right. I can’t even remember the last time I pulled a diamond over 85 in a standard or ballin pack. They nerfed packs as much as possible while not being illegal, by padding the overall odds with low diamonds and non diamond players. It’s a joke and everybody knows it.

@GoozeFn_PSN

I get what you are saying. It’s just sad to see this game regress so much because if they increased pack odds, toned down CPU pitching and fielding, and buffed hitting the game would actually be a lot of fun.

Instead they have nerfed everything and made the grind as tedious as possible to entice people to spend money. If they made a rewarding game people would still spend money because they wanted to, not because they felt they needed to just to make progress.

@GoozeFn_PSN

I get enjoying the game for the game of baseball alone. However, acknowledging the game isn’t rewarding and largely a time sink, especially compared to previous versions of the game is kind of dismissing a subpar effort by SDS. Players deserve better, SDS can do better, but the company simply doesn’t care as long as money is being made.

@GoozeFn_PSN

So what exactly are you saying? You enjoy a less rewarding experience where you don’t really progress in DD? Unless you just have time to burn that just makes no sense at all.

Collect 5 cards for 50 stubs and 10 cards for 50 stubs. Wow, are they actually getting even cheaper with stub rewards? This blows my mind.

@TheBigPapa55_PSN

100%. As long as the whales stay they don’t care if the player base drops by 90%.

@Teak2112_MLBTS

Exactly. I said the same in other posts. They would rather have 10 players that spend $1000 than 100 players that simply buy the game for $100.

@Barfy-Bad-Gas_XBL

People absolutely do spend thousands every year. Most are streamers or you tubers but a few others do it because it gives them a huge boost early in the game cycle.

All by design to prolong the grind and make people break down and buy stubs.

Yep they are all painfully bad this year. The game looks great but plays very subpar.

They actually have to increase the supply for prices to drop and they are so rare this year that unless they flood the market the prices aren’t budging much for the foreseeable future.

@meaning_code8_PSN

It was even better in 20, 21 and 22. It’s been in a steady decline over the past 5 years with huge negative momentum the past 2-3 years.

Packs are pure trash this year. Better yet is a chase pack gold.

@Dolenz_PSN

Totally agree. How anyone can say this year’s game is geared towards casuals even with the color storm boost is crazy.

If you spend lots of money and/or are elite at the game you have a huge leg up on the casual average player.