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@Onix_Savage22_PSN

Now imagine being frustrated with the gameplay plus the lack of offline content plus the lack of pack luck and you will start to understand where myself and many others are losing patience with this game big time.

Like I said I’m not knocking you as I don’t care what people do with their time or money as long as it doesn’t force my hand on my time or money. Hopefully you are able to stay ahead of the curve in the game once things get busy with the improving weather.

I plan on being behind most of the year and may not complete live series for the first time ever since I started playing DD in 2020. Time will tell but right now it’s ugly.

@Player99_MLBTS

In record time. After the whale splurge at launch the stub sales are drying up so gotta hook some new players.

Game is feeling more like a gambling simulator than a baseball game at this point. Would love to either have a baseball game back or at least make cards more attainable in game grinding vs purchasing.

At the end of the day all these virtual cards are worthless in less than a year. Make them more attainable and the player base will actually grow.

@JenkinMeyer_PSN

Agree. It’s ridiculous that Ohtani and Judge are that much compared to the rest of live series. By design they are artificially scarce to drive up prices and casting sales. Most live series cards are already outclassed by other content and soon they all will be.

No way live series should be anywhere near this expensive even with the collection rewards. If all live series were capped at 50-100K stubs the game would be radically different. Imagine being able to actually pull live series diamonds that weren’t 85s on a regular basis.

@urbanphilosophy_XBL

Completely understand. The game is officially not for most of us casual gamers anymore. They have moved into the niche market for people who live on the game or spend tons of money. The game on clearance shows that stub sales have clearly dried up as people are seeing it for what it has become.

The reigns will be loosened as the year goes on but they have been way too tight since launch. Even compared to the past couple years it feels extreme.

@Onix_Savage22_PSN

Yeah and congrats to you but given you have had really good pulls and have lived on the game since launch you are clearly in the top 0.5% of players going into this collection.

It’s not a knock on you as you do what you want with your time. I know you said you were off because of weather for construction but a lot of us work full time jobs, with families, and can’t be on the game 10 hrs a day. Plus the pulls just haven’t been there for many of us, myself included.

Bottom line I’m happy for you but you are in the extreme minority so not all that relatable to the remaining 99.5% of us that feel frustrated at this point in the game cycle.

@urbanphilosophy_XBL

I mentioned that, given the aggressive monetization and shift towards the hardcore players that live on the game, play competitive online, or spend thousands of dollars. The casual gamer is being left behind and it wasn’t this way just a few years ago.

Slower progress is one thing but no progress and prices out of reach with no chance unless you pull Ohtani and/or Judge is ridiculous. People will just walk away without a major adjustment and a lot already have. That’s why the game is already on clearance just over a month in.

After the money at launch from all the whales I’m guessing money has stopped coming in drastically as people have done the mental math and made the decision to either step back or outright walk away.

Not asking for easy but needs to be doable or it’s game over.

Hopefully everyone fills this out. Whether or not SDS changes anything who knows. I did let them know a lot of what’s not good in this game.

Lately I’ve logged on and 5 minutes later logged off. This Friday I will boot up the game, finish the new stuff in an hour, realize I’m nowhere close to the collection rewards, see that I’m only at 150K xp, and shut it down again.

When there is nothing to do but play online, costs of cards are thru the roof, pack pulls are a joke, motivation to continue grinding is nonexistent. Feel like I’m really close to being done if this is all there is until the all star break.

@palmerjones_PSN

Seems to be a trend.

@Ditka06_MLBTS

99.9% sure this happened after 2022

@MetalDoc17_XBL

Agree with all of this. For as bad as 2022 was 2023 was the first year where aggressive monetization began. I believe this was the year people in charge came from the other sports franchises and realized they could ramp up cards in packs to make more money.

Ultimately they don’t care if they lose players in droves as long as those that stay spend more money. It’s clear SDS would rather have a hundred players that spend thousands vs a thousand players that spend a hundred. It’s become a niche game that’s a shell of its former self.

Shocker…..packs are a rip off. No way. If they were guaranteed 90+ or actually bring prices down on live series and we can’t have that.

@ChiTownWhat27_PSN

Yeah over the past 3 weeks and hundreds of earned packs I’ve pulled trea turner. Feels really weird and the same exact thing happened to me last year. It’s made me back away because earning 10 packs of nothing for grinding mini seasons seems like a huge waste of my time.

@ChiTownWhat27_PSN

The last few years I swear diamond pulls. At least on high diamonds, are decreased shortly after launch, then increased again later in the game cycle when they are no longer relevant. Would be impossible to prove but truly feels that way, especially given that prices continue to spike for months. Just feels scummy and like something ain’t quite right.

@NWOStunna_PSN

Sounds very familiar and I’ve taken that break myself. The itch to play the game has not returned and it stinks.

@ANF_GOLD99_PSN

This is exactly it. The game is no longer for casuals. You need to live on the game, be an elite online player, and/or spend a ton of money for stubs to have a chance at collections.

Live series is a joke much like packs in general. Super discouraging it’s come to this but that seems to be the way all microtransaction based games have gone.

@Teak2112_MLBTS

That’s just it. By short changing offline players we don’t jump to play online we just walk away.

Yep, having played ever MLBTS since 2006 and DD since 2020 it really feels like they are mailing it in. Doing everything they can to patch together a broken gameplay engine. Monetizing live series and packs as much as possible with horrendous scummy odds to get every last bit of profit out of the current player base before they bail this year, maybe for good.

@thrillho709_PSN

Lots of Ls this year.

@DrBear100_PSN

100% agree with this opinion.