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Thank you for listening SDS. I will be buying The Show 25 now.

Also, obviously, only online players like online specific rewards. Those rewards leave out at least half the player base. Not a good idea for SDS.

@Weshill627_PSN Sets and seasons being gone is a big win for this franchise. SDS lost most of its player base due to sets and seasons.

Not many players around to read these posts, they all hated sets and seasons. This is GREAT news for the vast majority of players. Sets and Seasons sucked. Good job SDS.

@sbchamps17 said in Why do the Season Award Program?:

Then why say anything about the program to begin with if you were just gonna do it anyway, if you don't like the way the game is this year then don't play and certainly don't complain about everything little thing on it

I consistently see this "then dont play" bs comment. The OP, while I may not agree with, is stating something that he wants SDS to read because he want to play the game, but he wants it to improve. SDS does not want anyone with a complaint to just play something else either. Stop with this BS response that seems logical only to the ignorant. I also do not like the way the game is this year. I am still going to play it and complain about whatever about it I do not like so that the game improves. Deal with it.

@Blind_Bleeder Your post is amusing. So because you don't buy stubs then no one does? lol Obviously, when no one has cards, those that buy stubs (especially whales) are going to buy most of their stubs at that time. Or, this year once again, at each of those times.

Going to be many disappointed people from this chat. I guess it is best to hope, but I think you have seen it all when it comes to new legends. They want to sell the game, not wait until people have decided to buy it or not and then later show a big legend. I would say your only hope for a new BIG legend not revealed yet will be tomorrow (Thursday).

To make matters worse, they didn't even use that money to update the game. Same graphics, same celebration animations, very few updates to franchise, etc. It seems they just pocketed the cash and gave us basically 2023 part 2.

@genopolanco SDS realized that they sell more stubs at the beginning of the year. Why not have 4 beginnings of the year? Competitive DD players who no longer have the best cards will pay. People who want their all-time favorite team will have to buy stubs or take the entire 3 months collecting their team all over again, just to have it once again taken away.

There is your explanation. More money for SDS and Sony.

It is quite obvious. SDS figured out that they sell more stubs at the beginning of the year, the season, than at any other time. So someone at SDS, who has since surely been promoted, decided why not have 4 starts of the year (seasons). No one will have cards again and we will see that green flow in 4 times instead of just once.

This primarily affects DD and people who want to play their favorite team. Competitive DD players will be throwing cash at the game at the beginning of each season when they no longer have the best cards. For me, how am I to make an all time Cubs team? By the time I have a Cubs team together I will have to start all over again. Sure those cards will be better, but by the time I have the new team together they too will be taken from me. Over and over again. Non-Core cards will be worth nothing except for collections. No one will have their favorite team put together for any significant period of time.

And why? So SDS and Sony can keep the cash flowing in at our expense (literally). Oh so you don't want to spend money at the beginning of each season? Good luck with that.

SDS goes the way of EA.

Neither have I. One issue is that you have to claim them on your Twitch drop page right away. They disappear after only a couple of days. In my case, I received the message that I got a drop Twitch pack but it never showed up on my drop page to claim. The message will tell you when the limited time to claim them ends. I have one that I should still be able to claim but it is still not there and it expires later today.

@Ericulous1_PSN said in Multiple card versions not showing up..:

@Vipersneak_MLBTS said in Multiple card versions not showing up..:

Multiple versions of a single players cards do not show up on the Lineup screen when I go to change a player. Only the version that I have already been using. When I get a better card of a player it doesn't show up until I remove the old version from the lineup. How the heck will I know every time that I have a better version once we have hundreds of cards?

I had the same issue. You have to take one out first and you can’t replace a player with another version of them. I.e. replace bronze Jeter with some random and then diamond Jeter will be there when you want to add him.

Yes. And 99% of the time that is fine, but what about if you do not know or do not remember acquiring "diamond Jeter"? What if while playing a game you finish a grind like 40 hits with a completely different player and that earned you "diamond Jeter" and you were not paying attention to every Program missions? You may not know that you even have "diamond Jeter" for a while. I guess every so often I will take out all of my players and put scrubs in just to make sure I didn't acquire a card that I was not expecting.

At the very least SDS could have told us about this. It freaked me out when I couldn't find a card that I knew I picked from a pack. This will happen to others.

Who was it that said the hit ball sounds are better than last year? Listen to it again. The ball, bat, or both sound hollow. unless the hit is perfect, then it sounds a better.

Multiple versions of a single players cards do not show up on the Lineup screen when I go to change a player. Only the version that I have already been using. When I get a better card of a player it doesn't show up until I remove the old version from the lineup. How the heck will I know every time that I have a better version once we have hundreds of cards?

@Myprecious_MLBTS said in So just making sure I’m understanding this right:

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS said in So just making sure I’m understanding this right:

I think it's also worth reminding the offline bros that you can use any card at any time of the year in Vs. CPU mode.

So just verifying, if you don't play online you don't have to worry about all the sets? What about core players and captains?

Offline will need to rotate as well for things like Conquest. Rotating sets sucks imo. I am definitely not spending stubs on Set 1 cards. If I get them fine, but people are spending 100's of thousands of stubs on cards that will rotate out. SDS obviously did this for more money, with keeping things fresh as a minor potential bonus. It feels like I am playing Magic the Gathering, Standard format. Wizards if the Coast does the same thing.

We need not ask for or need 95+ cards day one.

@YOSHI24_XBL said in Big changes to DD. More 99s on day one...:

@Vipersneak_MLBTS said in Big changes to DD. More 99s on day one...:

@bjd10048_MLBTS said in Big changes to DD. More 99s on day one...:

They want to make sure little billy, jonny and susie have a fair shot in ranked in season 3 so they reset all cards.

They probably saw ranked as too much of a punishment for people who get the game late in the cycle?

You guys are trolls. They are doing this for money. It is the reason for everything they do.

Doing it for earning money is imo a legit motivation. You do it, I do it. The fact that their product is a hobby for us does not change anything.

But: They gotta do a product, we like. If they are doing a bad job, fewer are going to buy.

If I look correctly about sales in the last few years. The numbers have gone up

You missed the point.

@bjd10048_MLBTS said in Big changes to DD. More 99s on day one...:

They want to make sure little billy, jonny and susie have a fair shot in ranked in season 3 so they reset all cards.

They probably saw ranked as too much of a punishment for people who get the game late in the cycle?

You guys are trolls. They are doing this for money. It is the reason for everything they do.

It is horse [censored] that we cannot use simulation mode for DD when not playing against another player. Why? It is fine against other players, but there was lots of other things to do in DD. Forget DD for me in '23. Just wish I had not pre-purchased the digital deluxe edition preparing for DD.

@txbizman_PSN said in Trevor Bauer Reinstated!:

@kovz88_MLBTS said in Trevor Bauer Reinstated!:

The guy is a piece of trash and has no remorse for what he did so it’s just a matter of time before he gets in trouble again. Any team would be stupid to give him any sort of multi year deal.

I am an Astros fan, who Trevor has talked a lot [censored] about, so I have never been a big fan of his. However, what does he need to be remorseful for?

He has videos and texts of this lady consenting to and wanting this. If he truly had something to be remorseful for, he would have been charged with a crime.

Just because someone accuses you of something, doesn't make it so.

So if a woman says it's ok to punch them in the face, you do it?

Are we getting a better 99 Willie Mays? It would be a crime if not.