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You are assuming most people can beat a showdown on hall of fame difficulty when many complain about the ones on veteran being too difficult?
Just saying it’s not as easy as you think even if people push themselves. The other side of this is that a lot of players don’t play to be challenged we play to unwind as we have demanding lives outside the game.
In the end we all pay the same price for the game.
Pretty sure none of us said this. Obviously it struck a nerve with you to make that statement though. We were simply stating a player program not attached to a no sell showdown would be the way to go.
If SDS can make money off it they probably will but Gatekeeping cards for elite players is never a good idea. It excludes the majority in favor of the minority.
As Dolenz stated, if you are great at the game you already have a massive advantage over the average player and will get cards quicker and make more stubs. Not sure why you need the card to be unobtainable for other players on top of all that.
Nope that’s par for the course. If matchmaking was better and the game played online like it does offline a lot more players would give it a go.
100% agree. Gatekeeping cards is the most ridiculous thing ever. Anybody in favor of it needs to find something besides a video game to build up their ego.
Major glitching and desync made a few games miserable. I don’t play online often so games like this not to mention feeling like swinging the bat underwater don’t help convince me otherwise. I play just enough to get the xp.
You can but you can’t lock it into collections. I bought it weeks ago and once I earn the no sell one I will sell the original.
I was just gonna say that the CPU throws WAY too many balls. Then the strikes they do throw are absolute dots. Every count goes to 3-2. It’s beyond ridiculous and extremely tedious to play.
Yeah, he has been called out as a failed minor league player so maybe the ball looked like it actually was shrinking to him while hitting. 
Sounds about right but I think 7 might be generous. I’m thinking it might be about 5 total.
Yeah that’s puzzling for sure. My guess is Yankees generate more stub sales and that is the only priority at this point. It’s either that or just pure randomness that makes no sense.
Sometimes you just have to shake your head and wonder how many people actually work at SDS? If departments actually communicate at all with each other? I know Sony makes the ultimate call and clearly there are some major problems.
Yep packs are a complete joke. At the very least vault and chase packs should guarantee something far better than a low level live series diamond.
Exactly my point. They aren’t even trying to hide that every chase card is a power hitting switch hitter with speed.
I agree that guys like McGee should be released before Griffey but we are also taking about September at this point. A good chunk of players have already moved on and those of us that are left many more will leave as soon as the regular season is finished and then again after the playoffs conclude. Bottom line is there are a ton of top tier old legends that still need to be released and they are running out of time.
Bots plus the game being released for free on PlayStation. Lots of new players are earning tons of free packs flooding the market. Then bots are locking down every card and killing all margins because the recent ban wave plus new players trying to get ahead are flocking to purchase cheap 3rd party stubs. The market is a complete dumpster fire at this point.
No one will care if Griffey comes out in December. Waiting 9 months into the game cycle to release him would be absolutely insane.
With all due respect who cares about November. I’m a year round player and so are you. However I’d guess 95% of the player base is gone as soon as baseball ends in early November. We still don’t have elite cards of nearly all the old school legends including Griffey. It’s past time those start getting sprinkled in.
Yes they do. Did you see the new Chili Davis chase card. 83 speed as a Yankee? By that point he was strictly a DH. But in fantasy land we need a switch hitter with speed to drive stub sales. What percentage of chase cards have been switch hitters this year? And what percentage have been switch hitters with power and speed? I’m sure someone can answer this. Seems like the vast majority.
For sure. But they are clearly afraid to lose out on the free marketing.
If anything banning the players that bought 3rd party stubs has made the market even worse. The banned players are all starting alt accounts and buying cheap stubs from the 3rd party sites to get things quickly built back up. The 3rd party sites are likely seeing a huge spike in business from all these banned players now buying up stubs. So bots are now in overdrive on almost every card. Without IP bans for all guilty parties and shutting down the app and internet transactions permanently to halt bot activity this cycle will never end and only get worse. Pretty sad state of affairs they find themselves in. Complacency always has its reckoning.
Weekend Classic All-Star card