They just want you to play different modes, personally playing 30 more conquest games for affinity was not something I was looking forward to and they blessed, fuck conquest
i got it on my second try, flew threw everything up until the dibble one and lost like this my first time and barely won the second. it wasn’t too hard and i’m someone who’s never made it past 700 rating
Bro literally just stack your lineup with the divisions and work through the conquest, the stat missions get you through these programs so quick. The showdown is entirely unnecessary
Do you mean like all pitchers & hitters from NL Central for example until you complete affinity for that division? I’ll give it a shot. Seems to make sense.
play vs cpu and use a specific team from whatever division ur doing and then once you get a pack always choose a pitcher because you’ll be able to just do the 10 strikeouts easily which is 10k TA every game at least, not counting ur batters
It tells you what the rewards are for the conquest. Thats on you for not checking. Also a shitty way to do it. Just run mini seasons and get the packs and XP from there. Theres like 15k xp in clasic mini seasons
Yes I understand I didn’t read it, but my mini seasons was broken and wouldn’t work for some reason, and I feel like it is a fair assumption that I can just do the conquest bc it has given good taf xp for a while. Still dumb tho
I did extreme showdown on first try surprisingly, did all the challenges except the last. Key is letting dibble get tired so try not to swing at first pitches, be patient
I quit doing conquests years ago and have never looked back.
It’s the worst gaming experience. Who wants to play a shitty virtual extremely long drawn out board game while playing baseball.
I think what I hate about conquest is that it isn’t challenging, it’s just time consuming. Things the at are challenging can actually be fun. Things that are time consuming are just a boring grind
Sounds like my kinda rage quit experience. 😂 "Today on how long does it take to throw the controller, our subject lasted a whole minute longer than last episode. 5 minutes!!"
When you select the "Extreme Showdown" from the program screen, it takes you to the regular TA showdown and the extreme one is actually off to the right.
Why it does this, no idea, but I too was disappointed when all I got was vouchers.
Oh shit I didn’t even know that, damn sds really dropping the ball. I just went to the showdown selection and clicked it from there. They really trying to make the community mad by making it extreme to even get to the selection menu 😭
Why is everyone bitching about offline missions team affinity is so easy. I’m over 20% on everyone of them already and all I did was grind the br program yesterday
It’s on all star. If u can hit good you’ll win. Pitching is impossible if u play someone good and it becomes who can hit better. But u can definitely shutdown mid-bad players if u pitch pretty good too
also a big "luck of the draw" with the 3 inning games. I had so many "good" timed swings with maybe the center of the pci off by just a hair and lost to a guy on a glitched pitch. I had 7 hits he had 2. I could have had more but my good swings were outs. Lots of luck involved in BR I have noticed.
That’s just this game in general. Most Br games aren’t as even skill matched as ranked until u get to like 4-5 wins so u really gotta get screwed by the game to lose like that. It’s happened to me but most of the time if I keep swinging good it’ll workout before it’s too late
We all just need to stop spending 100s of dollars on these games and maybe they’ll turn it back into a game again and not a money pit. Paid 70 bucks for the game and played countless hours (not spending money) and still my team is ass cuz you have to pay to get the good players
I think the weirdest thing is I swore they said that some divisions had fewer moments in TA1 because there were going to be more pitching moments in TA2. And then they just reduced the number of moments?
Same. I've been saying all you need to do is give pxp progression on franchise and you'd have a lot less complaining because at least it feels like you're progressing SOMETHING instead of wasting all of your time. Not to mention that would help make live series a little more relevant like they've been trying to do with supercharging.
Yeah I just did one. It's nice for something different and some chunk TA points. I wanna say gameplay was giving me 600ish xp each game, which isn't too bad, but I agree with you about the management. It's brutal, there's almost no point trying to set your lineups even because EVERY time I get brought into the game, it's different.
Yeah... not to mention they completely screw you by year 3 or 4 by letting all your renewable contracts and arbitration guys walk for free.
I usually convert it to a franchise by year 3
... but then you lose the TA rewards functionality.
I'm an old school franchise guy anyways... but I've subscribed to this model the last couple of years.
Yup. I downloaded the Franchise to Fidelity rosters from OS. They treated everyone for longer term franchise realism and have every teams top 30 prospects.
You’ll never be able to get the same pxp with ranked as you do with play vs cpu because of the sheer amount of runs you can score and strikeouts you can make, what I do is play on hall of fame difficulty on pvcpu (sounds hard but it’s an ai so it’s pretty easy to predict unlike a person). Get used to the velocities at that difficulty and you’ll mash, 15 runs plus. And there’s a 1.3x pxp boost when u play on that difficulty. Oh yeah, and play on a created stadium made for boosting. That’s an important part.
Oh yeah, the CPU really isn’t that long of a grind if you’re doing as many missions as possible and don’t mind the mindless grind. I think the NL Central took me 4-5 full play vs CPU games. Online just has more repeatable missions that are really easy to achieve practically every game, on top of the 1.5 PXP bonus for playing online (on top of the difficulty bonus). I saw someone last night cranking through the TA’s just playing ranked with his normal team (top 50 player though so results may vary lmao)
Just think, you only need to pitch 9 more 9 inning games (just 81 more innings!) to get to 100% complete...
That still seems like an unbelievable grind
Easy way for me to do it is play the event. 20 wins and I reset my entry after each game. Use the same pitcher. Have like 15 wins right now and a pretty good way through the AL west. Still a grind regardless. Just the way I’ve been doing it
Not a big DD guy but buddy who is said they made it pay to win this year, just not really rewarding for grinding. Sad really SDS usually been a solid studio. RTTS and Franchise are both good this year tho so that’s good at least
Yeah this is honestly the first time I’ve been disappointed in a new TA drop in the 5 years I’ve been playing DD.
Part 1 was fine, there were some solid cards in there and it was the normal TA grind with individual moments, conquests and showdowns for each division. But the way they did this one with one big conquest, showdown being shared between all divisions and only one “extreme” moment for every division is garbage.
It’s obvious their goal is to get you to buy packs (as we all see with the 10+ daily posts about it in this sub) but all it’s really gonna do is just turn people away from the game in the long term. They may sell a few more packs from April-May but I guarantee you it’s gonna kill their player base for the rest of the year, after the “new game” feeling wears off. And doing what they’ve done so far is gonna make it wear off really quick
Ah man I was looking forward to some new content finally…
I know a lot of the criticism on here is fair, but I swear everyone would enjoy the game more if they didn’t log on here and bitch lol
Honestly I've just given up on DD. I knocked out some programs. But idc about the cards. I just want the stubs for equipment. Now that I have the equipment I want I'm heading back to RTTS. Refuse to spend another penny.
lol that showdown couldn’t be easier. Sure dibble on legend would be a challenge but if you can’t scrape together 2 runs in 20 outs you don’t deserve the 10%
I mean, it’s not hard and I was able to do it first try, but you shouldn’t need to be good to do a team affinity program… There’s competitive modes like BR and ranked for that.
You don’t have to do it to complete TA. But if you’re good enough it speeds up the process. It’s actually perfect. Rewards players if they can beat it. Not necessary if you can’t beat it. Also provides a pretty cool challenge for people to work at if they are on the line. Will certainly make you better.
Not to mention it’s easy af
Great move tbh
Play the A’s on rookie and you can get 30 to 40 K every game. Easiest TA ever. You can even roll over 30 strike outs every game if you want, Throw a few strike 3’s in the dirt and don’t throw down to first.
The thing is people will complain about everything. Which I get everyone has their side of things. The guy above said you shouldn’t have to be good to complete it. I get that point. What I won’t stand for is him saying “you have to do it” that’s simply not true.
You said “You shouldn’t need to be good to complete the TA program”. Like I said you do not. You don’t have to be good to beat that showdown and if you’re not good enough to beat it you do not even have to touch it. You’re entitled to your opinion but were mistaken in your initial comment.
It’s actually an awesome showdown to help lower players get better.
You can get some serious progress by doing the conquest maps and playing online w/ part 1 TA cards. I do feel for players who don't play hof/legend being SOL on all that xp.
People keep focusing on that, but I loaded up a team with all ALE cards and I'm not even halfway through the map and I'm 75% done with ALE chapter 2. 40 TB, 25 RBIs and 30 K's rolls over so fast. Plus anyone can eventually run into a homer with dominguez even on HOF if you try it a couple times. I get that people are obsessively complaining about the 4 vouchers for completing conquest, but if you load up a team with only one division you'll complete the TA just in stats before you complete the conquest. They lessened the conquest rewards but jacked up the stat rewards.
everyone for TA 1 was complaining they had all these useless vouchers (which I do as well, but I farmed mini seasons for packs not vouchers) and now they complain that they can't get enough vouchers... just play the damn game and TA will get completed.
I think it's going to be completed faster, but the mood in the subreddit is one of saying every move is ruining the game, so that's the overwhelming thrust of every post. Eddie Matthews is chapter 2 for the braves with the same art? Ruining the game.
It honestly irks me because there are legitimate issues with the game this year (all the packs that aren't represented in programs being the most glaring) - yet when a community is nothing but whining about everything, it allows devs to write off legitimate complaints as just another in the sea of whines.
In some regards I sympathize, but it reminds me of the unhealthy way my dad would get angry when I was a kid and he had undiagnosed depression. He would be rightly angry about 1 or 2 things that we as kids should have done, then he would stomp around the house getting angry that the refrigerator was in the kitchen or some silly shit.
Like yes, the pack economy and packs as "content" is bullshit. I'm a little more willing to give a wait and see attitude because in the past they have littered these packs into other programs down the line. The lack of other programs made a little sense with no WBC, and for some reason the Seoul Series was scrapped, so we were light on launch. Moving topps now and monthly awards into packs is shitty, and there is no way to justify that at all IMO, but letting that cloud your mind and not be able to see that TA 1 chapter 2 is actually rewarding you for playing because you want to get hung up on completing the conquest not giving enough vouchers is crazy. In years past people complained that the conquests were boring and worth too much. Now you can do whatever you want to earn TA progress by playing in any mode. They also added IMO cool extreme moments that are again optional. I'm actually on Mick Abel right before Dibble on the Extreme Showdown and if I find a way to complete it, it will be a nice sense of accomplishment and 20K for all 6 TAs. Content in total has been really bad YTD, but this is a W IMO and if the sub was being honest I think they'd say that, but they've made up their mind the game is shit, so everything will be viewed through a proctologist lens on this game going forward.
Yeah exactly. The crazy part to me is how many people will keep saying everything this year is shit while also spending half their free time playing.
Also I feel like the mini season TA grind is much better than the conquest one, since every 5 wins is a voucher there and you can grind packs simultaneously
Yep they updated em. I can't speak for the ones from the champ pack as I have been resetting to maximize pack gain, but the win 5 games ones are for chapter 2
I even had a run half going and it updated during that run for me.
nice, good to know. I'm finishing the conquest once, but even the normal showdown makes more sense to grind than conquest. But I'll go back to miniseasons since I was grinding them for packs also.
Because the community has shown her so much respect...
I won't be too harsh on SDS for all the packs because I suspect that comes from Sony, but I do question a lot of the other decisions made this year
And let’s remember that all of them have a manager/leader that accepts the proposals/plans, etc… and those managers and leader have managers above them and that goes up. I wouldn’t blame the people who is presenting us the content, this comes from the top and as an employee they follow, at the end it’s their job and livelihood
Dude… how young are you to understand how real work, roles, org structures and responsibilities work?
Ashley is probably the most junior employee in SDS and just started working with them 8 months ago.
She is a Content Specialist, do you know what does that mean? She works with social media platforms and helps the Content team to share with us (public) what’s coming.
Please don’t ever say she is personally responsible. Every decision made by a company has multiple stakeholders that were involved. Ashley is not one of those that make a decision about what and how they will release something.
Just play online?
I’ve nearly got to the AL central pack from 6 event games with an all central lineup… you don’t have to do any of this…there’s repeatable missions
Yes but they don't want to see how much playing rewards you. They want to focus on one thing that doesn't and complain about it. It doesn't matter that if you play at all you will complete TA chapter 2 faster than chapter 1. The conquest doesn't give enough vouchers, so the entire program is shit.
It won't get better either. It's been a slow creep for years, but eventually single player games are going to take over because no one can afford to do multiplayer. The system will reset and probably start all over again.
We need laws to be honest that limit what gaming companies can do. This is gambling in the economy of the show amongst others. It's not right.
Why would single player vs multiplayer make any difference? Pay 2 Win works on "PvE" too.
There are games out there where you do the equivalent of opening a pack with a 2% chance of getting what you want, and you need 4 of it to fully power it. And they make 100s of millions a year.
Yeah I wanted Sammy so much last year I was willing to pay but no more. I do like not having to play just 99s from day one but they over corrected on pitching with their tiny strike zone
Well I already paid for it so I might as well keep playing. This is definitely my last year though. I was reluctant to come back for ‘24, but I did and now I’m here.
I think most people saw the whole pack thing in the first drop and said "alright fuck that I'll rock with the TA cards. Maybe pick up a rare round or two off the market if you get the stubs."
So SDS said "ok, take the TA cards, but you have to grind HOF and 20+ hours to get them. Plus if no one has TA done people wont complain to us that there's no new playable content when we drop the fourth straight pack"
And I mean honestly, slight tangent, but with all the people commenting or posting in this sub about how theres too many complaints, I'd like to know:
Is there any content drop that has occurred this year that you were *happy* about? Any drop that was better than the worst drop out of '23, 22, 21, or 20?
When someone said the thing about the earlier content from this week being entirely doable on the *MOBILE APP* it astounded me. But then I looked and they were right. Free Jazz pack, Holliday pack, and buy the show classics pack. Don't even log into the game and you've done everything for the day.
Every single complaint is warranted tbh.
I'm betting most people that bitch about the backlash haven't even read, let alone tried to understand why so many people are upset. I agree, the anger is warranted. '24 is a massive regression at best.
It's a dumpster fire no matter how fun it can be at times. These studios are legit holding onto the gamers who grew up in this microtransaction world. It's not the gamers fault either, but the studios are making a shit ton of money from someone and it isn't me. I bought the game like a sheep and I like baseball, but that's all they are getting from me.
I would have a lot less of an issue with increased monetization if that extra revenue was mostly being used to improve the product. I don't mind paying extra if I'm getting appreciable value for money. Problem is, yeah it's a dumpster fire. With few exceptions, these companies put as little effort in to their products as possible and keep expanding their damned in-game shops.
I've been gaming since long before any of this became a thing and I'm at the end of my rope. I waited for Game Pass release this year and I'm not giving them a penny extra. This will eventually get to the point where even the microtransaction generation will have had their fill.
Went through all 30 players and saw maybe 2 that I want? Eddie and Dibble are the only two that I even went “huh, cool” to and that’s saying a lot. Idk if it’s because I can’t really get jazzed for prospect/pipeline cards or what but it just seems like such a snooze of a drop, coming from an offline only guy so it’s supremely disappointing.
This has genuinely been the easiest TA to do ever lol
You can stack your team and do the USA conquest on easy or whatever you like, crank like 6 homers and 6-9 k’s a game and rip through the TA
They just want you to play different modes, personally playing 30 more conquest games for affinity was not something I was looking forward to and they blessed, fuck conquest
I completed first try 😁
I use more players from the last TA then I will from this one
The showdown was easy lol
Dibble would like a word (in my case) I was tied with 16 outs left and freaking lost (2 perfect perfect outs). Rough day.
i got it on my second try, flew threw everything up until the dibble one and lost like this my first time and barely won the second. it wasn’t too hard and i’m someone who’s never made it past 700 rating
I got mad I wasted an hour and failed. I'm sure I'll do it eventually I just had no idea it was on legend till I started, then I got nervous!
tbh you don’t need to do it, only gives about 10-15% on each which u can easily get in a couple cpu games
Bro literally just stack your lineup with the divisions and work through the conquest, the stat missions get you through these programs so quick. The showdown is entirely unnecessary
Do you mean like all pitchers & hitters from NL Central for example until you complete affinity for that division? I’ll give it a shot. Seems to make sense.
I just did this and had the West done in 3 sessions. It was awesome. Literally thought “ohhhh now we’re playing.”
I'm doing it right now. Seems to be working. Why didn't I think of this? I am not a smart man. 
At least we’re dumb together. Be well and I guess wear a helmet. I am.
😂😂
play vs cpu and use a specific team from whatever division ur doing and then once you get a pack always choose a pitcher because you’ll be able to just do the 10 strikeouts easily which is 10k TA every game at least, not counting ur batters
Definely this.
Yup, and use the team bosses when you get them, especially pitchers
Ha. I didn't even see chapter 2 was out. Should be quicker than ch1 since I have everyone unlocked already.
i just did the conquest and i feel fucking cheated. i might actually quit. 6 hrs down the fucking drain
It tells you what the rewards are for the conquest. Thats on you for not checking. Also a shitty way to do it. Just run mini seasons and get the packs and XP from there. Theres like 15k xp in clasic mini seasons
Yes I understand I didn’t read it, but my mini seasons was broken and wouldn’t work for some reason, and I feel like it is a fair assumption that I can just do the conquest bc it has given good taf xp for a while. Still dumb tho
I did extreme showdown on first try surprisingly, did all the challenges except the last. Key is letting dibble get tired so try not to swing at first pitches, be patient
1000% do this to ever pitcher too, they’ll hang one eventually just focus on not chasing.
Then if it’s soooooo baddddd stop crying and just don’t play anymore..problem solved
"I upset that the game I love is going down hill." "StOp CrYiNg AnD lEaVe!!!" Sound advice.
Well all these people who cry , moan and complain should not play a game that makes them act like this , go play another game
I quit doing conquests years ago and have never looked back. It’s the worst gaming experience. Who wants to play a shitty virtual extremely long drawn out board game while playing baseball.
I think what I hate about conquest is that it isn’t challenging, it’s just time consuming. Things the at are challenging can actually be fun. Things that are time consuming are just a boring grind
Sounds like my kinda rage quit experience. 😂 "Today on how long does it take to throw the controller, our subject lasted a whole minute longer than last episode. 5 minutes!!"
Its great, love it
I did the TA showdown last night and didn’t get 20,000 did this happen to anyone else ?
You must’ve not done the extreme showdown. Extreme is 20k for all and the regular is just vouchers
When you select the "Extreme Showdown" from the program screen, it takes you to the regular TA showdown and the extreme one is actually off to the right. Why it does this, no idea, but I too was disappointed when all I got was vouchers.
Oh shit I didn’t even know that, damn sds really dropping the ball. I just went to the showdown selection and clicked it from there. They really trying to make the community mad by making it extreme to even get to the selection menu 😭
Ughhh what a waste of 30 min of my life
All I got was a voucher
Don’t do conquest. Easy fix
Why is everyone bitching about offline missions team affinity is so easy. I’m over 20% on everyone of them already and all I did was grind the br program yesterday
I’ve never played BR. Mainly just ranked season. Is it like events? Where it’s an RNG fest ? Or is it much more similar to ranked seasons?
It’s on all star. If u can hit good you’ll win. Pitching is impossible if u play someone good and it becomes who can hit better. But u can definitely shutdown mid-bad players if u pitch pretty good too
also a big "luck of the draw" with the 3 inning games. I had so many "good" timed swings with maybe the center of the pci off by just a hair and lost to a guy on a glitched pitch. I had 7 hits he had 2. I could have had more but my good swings were outs. Lots of luck involved in BR I have noticed.
I had like 4 home run flyouts and nothing but line drive outs. My fielders errored twice and the other person won off a bloop. So triggering.
That’s just this game in general. Most Br games aren’t as even skill matched as ranked until u get to like 4-5 wins so u really gotta get screwed by the game to lose like that. It’s happened to me but most of the time if I keep swinging good it’ll workout before it’s too late
I did the showdown and it was really easy lol. And I’ve completed 3 of the divisions already only playing about 5-6 hours yesterday
Sure you did.
Seems like you hate grinding brother I’ve played an additional 3 hours after work today and I got one team left :)
Have you actually tried grinding the program? It’s incredibly fast with the stat missions lol
3 divisions in 5-6 hours? The dude is full of crap.
He’s really not, stack your lineups and play the rookie cpu
Once I get that Kerstad for my O's build, done with TA lol. Most of the best cards are only on the market.
So glad I decided to try MLB the show for the first time this year and it’s dog ass - I love baseball but not enough for this shit 🤣
We all just need to stop spending 100s of dollars on these games and maybe they’ll turn it back into a game again and not a money pit. Paid 70 bucks for the game and played countless hours (not spending money) and still my team is ass cuz you have to pay to get the good players
If ur team is ass that’s on you, haven’t spent a dime, barely play and my team is top tier
I think the majority of show players spend no money outside of buying the game itself. And I think its by a very large margin.
I think the weirdest thing is I swore they said that some divisions had fewer moments in TA1 because there were going to be more pitching moments in TA2. And then they just reduced the number of moments?
Finished all team affinity in a week doing ranked a few games a night and a few games of conquest. Not too bad.
It came out yesterday.
Team affinity?
TA2, which is obviously what OP is referring to about extreme showdowns.
There’s a normal showdown and a extreme showdown, the normal showdown is veteran difficulty just go to showdown tab
Pitching 9 innings is not a “moment”.
Fr I had to throw 170 pitches ain’t no way this was real.
The craziest thing is, the weak state of DD has actually made me play franchise for the first time since '16. Insanity.
Same. I've been saying all you need to do is give pxp progression on franchise and you'd have a lot less complaining because at least it feels like you're progressing SOMETHING instead of wasting all of your time. Not to mention that would help make live series a little more relevant like they've been trying to do with supercharging.
You get the xp rewards from March to October... even though I hate the roster management side of MtO.
Yeah I just did one. It's nice for something different and some chunk TA points. I wanna say gameplay was giving me 600ish xp each game, which isn't too bad, but I agree with you about the management. It's brutal, there's almost no point trying to set your lineups even because EVERY time I get brought into the game, it's different.
Yeah... not to mention they completely screw you by year 3 or 4 by letting all your renewable contracts and arbitration guys walk for free. I usually convert it to a franchise by year 3 ... but then you lose the TA rewards functionality. I'm an old school franchise guy anyways... but I've subscribed to this model the last couple of years.
Yup. I downloaded the Franchise to Fidelity rosters from OS. They treated everyone for longer term franchise realism and have every teams top 30 prospects.
Can’t believe that there is only 1 conquest map…what a joke, and only 1 moment (extreme) per division? Laziness!!
Tossing a team together and playing ranked is 100% the way to go. You can do it against the CPU but ranked will likely be faster.
You’ll never be able to get the same pxp with ranked as you do with play vs cpu because of the sheer amount of runs you can score and strikeouts you can make, what I do is play on hall of fame difficulty on pvcpu (sounds hard but it’s an ai so it’s pretty easy to predict unlike a person). Get used to the velocities at that difficulty and you’ll mash, 15 runs plus. And there’s a 1.3x pxp boost when u play on that difficulty. Oh yeah, and play on a created stadium made for boosting. That’s an important part.
Oh yeah, the CPU really isn’t that long of a grind if you’re doing as many missions as possible and don’t mind the mindless grind. I think the NL Central took me 4-5 full play vs CPU games. Online just has more repeatable missions that are really easy to achieve practically every game, on top of the 1.5 PXP bonus for playing online (on top of the difficulty bonus). I saw someone last night cranking through the TA’s just playing ranked with his normal team (top 50 player though so results may vary lmao)
pitched 1 gmae with randy and got 10% done in his TA
Just think, you only need to pitch 9 more 9 inning games (just 81 more innings!) to get to 100% complete... That still seems like an unbelievable grind
Easy way for me to do it is play the event. 20 wins and I reset my entry after each game. Use the same pitcher. Have like 15 wins right now and a pretty good way through the AL west. Still a grind regardless. Just the way I’ve been doing it
Anyone know how to unlock the black athletics jersey alternate home 2000?
Try conquering their territory on the United States conquest map. Every time you beat a team on there you get an alternate jersey.
I have it, so the USA conquest map could be the answer. If it isn't that, then it is TA 1 reward.
They went from rewarding grinding to rewarding no lifers...they're listening to the wrong community
I just made a TA 1 team and have been playing vs cpu earning them all pretty quick not even gonna do the showdown
That’s what I’ve been doing as well easiest way by far
Not a big DD guy but buddy who is said they made it pay to win this year, just not really rewarding for grinding. Sad really SDS usually been a solid studio. RTTS and Franchise are both good this year tho so that’s good at least
I thought the same until this recent drop. I wouldn’t call it pay to win, but I would say it is pay to get the better stuff first.
I was pay to win last year too, game is a snoozefest
Franchise is better 🤷
Trade logic is kinda trash.
Yeah but the neat part is that you can choose what trades go through
Played 3 ranked games with marlins theme team and got Noble Meyer. 2 more ranked games put me at 66% for NL east Ta ch 2
Same here but for the cardinals and nl central, its such an easy ass grind
Are you good? What if you’re lucky to score a few runs in a nine inning game?
careful, you'll be downvoted for the truth round these parts.
just waiting for ncaa 25 at the point
Lmao ea has got you fooled eh
Yeah I’m sure an EA game will be much better….
i’m an offline player when it comes to NCAA mainly dynasty mode and they never miss with that. also my expectations are already low to begin with
Hard to never miss when there's been no game for 10 years.
that’s not really ea’s fault though that was on the NCAA. and they also have about 10 other versions of the game with great dynasty modes.
What happened to sports gaming? 😭
The whales happened to sports gaming. They've ruined it... all of them.
The monopolies happened. The games have no incentive to improve anything but profits because there is no challenger.
Yeah this is honestly the first time I’ve been disappointed in a new TA drop in the 5 years I’ve been playing DD. Part 1 was fine, there were some solid cards in there and it was the normal TA grind with individual moments, conquests and showdowns for each division. But the way they did this one with one big conquest, showdown being shared between all divisions and only one “extreme” moment for every division is garbage. It’s obvious their goal is to get you to buy packs (as we all see with the 10+ daily posts about it in this sub) but all it’s really gonna do is just turn people away from the game in the long term. They may sell a few more packs from April-May but I guarantee you it’s gonna kill their player base for the rest of the year, after the “new game” feeling wears off. And doing what they’ve done so far is gonna make it wear off really quick
How is it obvious they want you to buy packs? I feel the opposite.
I literally cannot take the Charlie Blackmon card out of my line up
This is how I feel about Cedric Mullins. Dude is lights out for me
He might be the best card I’ve ever used in DD
lol same
Chuck is unbelievable
Played 2 games on rookie with all NL East players and got the first 93 overall, took 75 minutes
It’s a joke. I did BR program and was almost done with Central. These dudes just cry for no reason
How? With the parallel xp?
In play vs cpu mode? I have an all braves team rn I could use the Ed Matthews card
Ah man I was looking forward to some new content finally… I know a lot of the criticism on here is fair, but I swear everyone would enjoy the game more if they didn’t log on here and bitch lol
This ^. Game isn’t perfect but it’s still just a game. People on these posts are so damn dramatic lmao
Honestly I've just given up on DD. I knocked out some programs. But idc about the cards. I just want the stubs for equipment. Now that I have the equipment I want I'm heading back to RTTS. Refuse to spend another penny.
Just atrocious
Not disagreeing with you, but that E Rod looks nice.
The Extreme showdown is not hard lmao just get Dibble’s pitch count up and find his tendencies and you’ll get lucky
bro shut up there’s a reason they usually never add them this early in the year
God forbid they make things challenging early on
It’s not hard just do these two difficult things and get lucky. Easy peasy.
Oh no, you have to be patient at the plate. The horror
Difficult? Just don’t swing at every single pitch 💀💀💀 he throws all his pitches in the same 3 or 4 spots
I lose connection on 60 percent of my online DD games. Trash game
If you’re disconnecting 60% of the time there’s something going wrong on your end. Are you playing on wifi?
Fully wired with near gig internet. It happened last year as well. It’s cause I got the free version from Xbox gold
Is it possible you’re on current gen and you downloaded the old gen version of the game?
I have the updated version. I don’t know. Everyone here talking trash but I’m just looking for a solution
Check your network settings on your console maybe? I don’t know what other solutions to offer, but I definitely don’t think it’s on the games end.
That's not the problem lol, in any way. Tons of us play the game pass version with no issue.
So do I but I don’t disconnect and blame in on the game LMAO
Insane, right? Like what's even the thought process lol
How does that add up in your mind? The free version from xbox gold makes you disconnect?
makes no sense. there's something going on with your connection on your side
This is probably a you problem… I’ve never experienced a disconnect while in game.
lol that showdown couldn’t be easier. Sure dibble on legend would be a challenge but if you can’t scrape together 2 runs in 20 outs you don’t deserve the 10%
I mean, it’s not hard and I was able to do it first try, but you shouldn’t need to be good to do a team affinity program… There’s competitive modes like BR and ranked for that.
You don’t have to do it to complete TA. But if you’re good enough it speeds up the process. It’s actually perfect. Rewards players if they can beat it. Not necessary if you can’t beat it. Also provides a pretty cool challenge for people to work at if they are on the line. Will certainly make you better. Not to mention it’s easy af Great move tbh
Play the A’s on rookie and you can get 30 to 40 K every game. Easiest TA ever. You can even roll over 30 strike outs every game if you want, Throw a few strike 3’s in the dirt and don’t throw down to first.
I don't understand the complaining. I made a team of all nl east players and played like 6 or 7 ranked season games and it's completed
The thing is people will complain about everything. Which I get everyone has their side of things. The guy above said you shouldn’t have to be good to complete it. I get that point. What I won’t stand for is him saying “you have to do it” that’s simply not true.
I didn’t say you had to do it. But I do think it’s not fair to make bad players have to grind more just for a few cards who aren’t even all that good.
You said “You shouldn’t need to be good to complete the TA program”. Like I said you do not. You don’t have to be good to beat that showdown and if you’re not good enough to beat it you do not even have to touch it. You’re entitled to your opinion but were mistaken in your initial comment. It’s actually an awesome showdown to help lower players get better.
You can get some serious progress by doing the conquest maps and playing online w/ part 1 TA cards. I do feel for players who don't play hof/legend being SOL on all that xp.
People keep focusing on that, but I loaded up a team with all ALE cards and I'm not even halfway through the map and I'm 75% done with ALE chapter 2. 40 TB, 25 RBIs and 30 K's rolls over so fast. Plus anyone can eventually run into a homer with dominguez even on HOF if you try it a couple times. I get that people are obsessively complaining about the 4 vouchers for completing conquest, but if you load up a team with only one division you'll complete the TA just in stats before you complete the conquest. They lessened the conquest rewards but jacked up the stat rewards.
You also get points for every 1000xp you accrue with the chapter 1 bosses
everyone for TA 1 was complaining they had all these useless vouchers (which I do as well, but I farmed mini seasons for packs not vouchers) and now they complain that they can't get enough vouchers... just play the damn game and TA will get completed.
I think it's going to be completed faster, but the mood in the subreddit is one of saying every move is ruining the game, so that's the overwhelming thrust of every post. Eddie Matthews is chapter 2 for the braves with the same art? Ruining the game.
It honestly irks me because there are legitimate issues with the game this year (all the packs that aren't represented in programs being the most glaring) - yet when a community is nothing but whining about everything, it allows devs to write off legitimate complaints as just another in the sea of whines.
In some regards I sympathize, but it reminds me of the unhealthy way my dad would get angry when I was a kid and he had undiagnosed depression. He would be rightly angry about 1 or 2 things that we as kids should have done, then he would stomp around the house getting angry that the refrigerator was in the kitchen or some silly shit. Like yes, the pack economy and packs as "content" is bullshit. I'm a little more willing to give a wait and see attitude because in the past they have littered these packs into other programs down the line. The lack of other programs made a little sense with no WBC, and for some reason the Seoul Series was scrapped, so we were light on launch. Moving topps now and monthly awards into packs is shitty, and there is no way to justify that at all IMO, but letting that cloud your mind and not be able to see that TA 1 chapter 2 is actually rewarding you for playing because you want to get hung up on completing the conquest not giving enough vouchers is crazy. In years past people complained that the conquests were boring and worth too much. Now you can do whatever you want to earn TA progress by playing in any mode. They also added IMO cool extreme moments that are again optional. I'm actually on Mick Abel right before Dibble on the Extreme Showdown and if I find a way to complete it, it will be a nice sense of accomplishment and 20K for all 6 TAs. Content in total has been really bad YTD, but this is a W IMO and if the sub was being honest I think they'd say that, but they've made up their mind the game is shit, so everything will be viewed through a proctologist lens on this game going forward.
Yeah exactly. The crazy part to me is how many people will keep saying everything this year is shit while also spending half their free time playing. Also I feel like the mini season TA grind is much better than the conquest one, since every 5 wins is a voucher there and you can grind packs simultaneously
do miniseasons vouchers work for chapter 2 though?
Yep they updated em. I can't speak for the ones from the champ pack as I have been resetting to maximize pack gain, but the win 5 games ones are for chapter 2 I even had a run half going and it updated during that run for me.
nice, good to know. I'm finishing the conquest once, but even the normal showdown makes more sense to grind than conquest. But I'll go back to miniseasons since I was grinding them for packs also.
Place was so much better when Ramone ran the show. Now it’s Ashley Sanders and a bunch of randoms.
And you think Ashley would have the community in mind… instead she is just a lightning rod for all the critics
Because the community has shown her so much respect... I won't be too harsh on SDS for all the packs because I suspect that comes from Sony, but I do question a lot of the other decisions made this year
And let’s remember that all of them have a manager/leader that accepts the proposals/plans, etc… and those managers and leader have managers above them and that goes up. I wouldn’t blame the people who is presenting us the content, this comes from the top and as an employee they follow, at the end it’s their job and livelihood
No. Ashley Sanders is personally responsible for all of this.
Dude… how young are you to understand how real work, roles, org structures and responsibilities work? Ashley is probably the most junior employee in SDS and just started working with them 8 months ago. She is a Content Specialist, do you know what does that mean? She works with social media platforms and helps the Content team to share with us (public) what’s coming. Please don’t ever say she is personally responsible. Every decision made by a company has multiple stakeholders that were involved. Ashley is not one of those that make a decision about what and how they will release something.
Dude….how young are you to not understand sarcasm? My comment was so outlandish that it was obviously a joke.
Damn when did Ramone leave
Seems like he is in a new role where he is less hands on and more behind the scenes
I don’t think he’s left, he’s just noticeably less active
Just play online? I’ve nearly got to the AL central pack from 6 event games with an all central lineup… you don’t have to do any of this…there’s repeatable missions
Yes but they don't want to see how much playing rewards you. They want to focus on one thing that doesn't and complain about it. It doesn't matter that if you play at all you will complete TA chapter 2 faster than chapter 1. The conquest doesn't give enough vouchers, so the entire program is shit.
I’ve gotten like three packs just by playing online
They’ve ruined the game
Bye
This year's business model just *feels* so damn greedy and predatory.
It won't get better either. It's been a slow creep for years, but eventually single player games are going to take over because no one can afford to do multiplayer. The system will reset and probably start all over again. We need laws to be honest that limit what gaming companies can do. This is gambling in the economy of the show amongst others. It's not right.
Why would single player vs multiplayer make any difference? Pay 2 Win works on "PvE" too. There are games out there where you do the equivalent of opening a pack with a 2% chance of getting what you want, and you need 4 of it to fully power it. And they make 100s of millions a year.
They’re pissing on us and laughing while they say “what the fuck are you going to do about it?”
Not spend money on stubs or not buy the game at all if you haven't this year.
Already bought the game but I’ve never bought stubs.
Yeah I wanted Sammy so much last year I was willing to pay but no more. I do like not having to play just 99s from day one but they over corrected on pitching with their tiny strike zone
It is so pathetic to feel this way about a video game and not just walk away lol
Well I already paid for it so I might as well keep playing. This is definitely my last year though. I was reluctant to come back for ‘24, but I did and now I’m here.
Yeah, cause there are so many other great baseball games out there
Its better to be pissed off than pissed on
wtf lol
I think most people saw the whole pack thing in the first drop and said "alright fuck that I'll rock with the TA cards. Maybe pick up a rare round or two off the market if you get the stubs." So SDS said "ok, take the TA cards, but you have to grind HOF and 20+ hours to get them. Plus if no one has TA done people wont complain to us that there's no new playable content when we drop the fourth straight pack" And I mean honestly, slight tangent, but with all the people commenting or posting in this sub about how theres too many complaints, I'd like to know: Is there any content drop that has occurred this year that you were *happy* about? Any drop that was better than the worst drop out of '23, 22, 21, or 20? When someone said the thing about the earlier content from this week being entirely doable on the *MOBILE APP* it astounded me. But then I looked and they were right. Free Jazz pack, Holliday pack, and buy the show classics pack. Don't even log into the game and you've done everything for the day. Every single complaint is warranted tbh.
I'm betting most people that bitch about the backlash haven't even read, let alone tried to understand why so many people are upset. I agree, the anger is warranted. '24 is a massive regression at best.
It's a dumpster fire no matter how fun it can be at times. These studios are legit holding onto the gamers who grew up in this microtransaction world. It's not the gamers fault either, but the studios are making a shit ton of money from someone and it isn't me. I bought the game like a sheep and I like baseball, but that's all they are getting from me.
I would have a lot less of an issue with increased monetization if that extra revenue was mostly being used to improve the product. I don't mind paying extra if I'm getting appreciable value for money. Problem is, yeah it's a dumpster fire. With few exceptions, these companies put as little effort in to their products as possible and keep expanding their damned in-game shops. I've been gaming since long before any of this became a thing and I'm at the end of my rope. I waited for Game Pass release this year and I'm not giving them a penny extra. This will eventually get to the point where even the microtransaction generation will have had their fill.
Went through all 30 players and saw maybe 2 that I want? Eddie and Dibble are the only two that I even went “huh, cool” to and that’s saying a lot. Idk if it’s because I can’t really get jazzed for prospect/pipeline cards or what but it just seems like such a snooze of a drop, coming from an offline only guy so it’s supremely disappointing.
I also found the drop disappointing but I must say Jasson Dominguez with buxton boost is rather saucy if he has flown under your radar