Well, the fact I sold the game back two weeks ago, I guess you could say I’ve stopped for the season.
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Re: has anyone stopped playing?
I have. Tried it out on the PS5 and loved it but with CP 2077 coming out and with Covid the season didnt seem legit to me and my interest in sports this year has diminished immensely. Am looking forward to see what is in store for next years version and the PS5PSN: ckarlic
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Re: has anyone stopped playing?
I think I hit that point. Been a while since I fired up as I've been on the Series X messing around and Cyberpunk drops tonight. I fully intend on spending as much time as possible in this game including multiple playthroughs with the different archetypes.
I waited weeks for my 99 Chipper buy-order to go through and played exactly one RS game with him. The Events aren't attractive as the rewards are whatever, can't be Prestiged and overall I've just run out of real reasons to play. Even making WS doesn't hold much interest in my eyes as none of the rewards would make my endgame team and I don't need stubs so selling them wouldn't do anything worth my time. I'm not committed to not playing again until 21, but I definitely don't have a lot of ambition to at the moment.
If all cards were Prestigable or had levels to Prestige/Evolution, that might be something that kept my interest. Including if it was available offline, too. But with how bad gameplay is (even after I said **** it and just got used to it) it's not a rewarding experience and hasn't been all year. I was even looking into possibly grabbing a PS5 if I could just to see how the game ran and to hedge my bets in case 21 doesn't go to Xbox next year, but even that desire was fleeting.
Normally I'd want to boot up Franchise and emulate all the off-season moves and start a new season for the 2021 season and simulate/use as a building block to hold my time. But obviously Franchise hasn't been improved basically in a decade so even that is out.
I love baseball. Part of me wants to boot this up every day and at least grind out a couple games. But I still continually find myself discouraged because I know the gameplay is lacking and there just isn't enough rewarding feelings if I do. When I was playing basically everyday after Finest I was enjoying the process, but once I got the Finest card for each team there was nothing left. And with nothing tangible left to grind towards, that's when the gameplay sort of comes front and center and rears its ugly head again.
Conflicting year, for sure. Went from being turned off by 19 as a first year player, to pre-ordering after the pre-release streams, to feeling legitimately taken advantage of when they patched the game 2 days after release and made it a different game. To frustrated and quitting for 3 months before coming back and grinding a ton and finally (reluctantly) just accepting that the gameplay is terrible and trying to play around it.
When I did that, there was an enjoyable experience to be had. But it simply didn't last due to the above mentioned, especially only certain cards being Prestigable and online only. Add to that that I would have to grind through AS hell just to get to HoF where I WANT to play RS and their odd design decisions have cornered me into being uninterested.Read my OS articles: https://www.operationsports.com/author/corydell/Comment
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Re: has anyone stopped playing?
I think I hit that point. Been a while since I fired up as I've been on the Series X messing around and Cyberpunk drops tonight. I fully intend on spending as much time as possible in this game including multiple playthroughs with the different archetypes.
I waited weeks for my 99 Chipper buy-order to go through and played exactly one RS game with him. The Events aren't attractive as the rewards are whatever, can't be Prestiged and overall I've just run out of real reasons to play. Even making WS doesn't hold much interest in my eyes as none of the rewards would make my endgame team and I don't need stubs so selling them wouldn't do anything worth my time. I'm not committed to not playing again until 21, but I definitely don't have a lot of ambition to at the moment.
If all cards were Prestigable or had levels to Prestige/Evolution, that might be something that kept my interest. Including if it was available offline, too. But with how bad gameplay is (even after I said **** it and just got used to it) it's not a rewarding experience and hasn't been all year. I was even looking into possibly grabbing a PS5 if I could just to see how the game ran and to hedge my bets in case 21 doesn't go to Xbox next year, but even that desire was fleeting.
Normally I'd want to boot up Franchise and emulate all the off-season moves and start a new season for the 2021 season and simulate/use as a building block to hold my time. But obviously Franchise hasn't been improved basically in a decade so even that is out.
I love baseball. Part of me wants to boot this up every day and at least grind out a couple games. But I still continually find myself discouraged because I know the gameplay is lacking and there just isn't enough rewarding feelings if I do. When I was playing basically everyday after Finest I was enjoying the process, but once I got the Finest card for each team there was nothing left. And with nothing tangible left to grind towards, that's when the gameplay sort of comes front and center and rears its ugly head again.
Conflicting year, for sure. Went from being turned off by 19 as a first year player, to pre-ordering after the pre-release streams, to feeling legitimately taken advantage of when they patched the game 2 days after release and made it a different game. To frustrated and quitting for 3 months before coming back and grinding a ton and finally (reluctantly) just accepting that the gameplay is terrible and trying to play around it.
When I did that, there was an enjoyable experience to be had. But it simply didn't last due to the above mentioned, especially only certain cards being Prestigable and online only. Add to that that I would have to grind through AS hell just to get to HoF where I WANT to play RS and their odd design decisions have cornered me into being uninterested.
I can totally get your gripes on DD but I'd like to make a suggestion if you want to try something totally different with franchise (understanding you'll likely be taken away with CP 2077 for a while - but you'll get the itch for baseball again at some point).
Download Bacon's fictional roster (he has a couple of versions - I prefer the earliest, but the latest one is interesting too) and I'd like to recommend my sliders/approach (I would use Dynamic Difficulty and lock-in on All Star+ - which is what I've done).
From a gameplay perspective, it takes the things that are good about this game (ratings impact) and embraces them. You're not "fighting RNG" but rather using it to your benefit and the adjustments I've made fix a lot of the "randomness" issues that you and I totally agree are prevalent on default All Star. The clean screen approach gets you more immersed into the game vs constantly feeling like "I'm just playing a video game" and classic pitching is incredible with the ability to add/subtract from pitch speeds - effectively giving you a slew of options I don't think you really get with the other pitching settings. It's a dramatically different mindset and experience that you might find refreshing. Frankly speaking, MLBTS is not designed "competitive" play, it's a baseball RPG through and through if you really let it be one.
From a roster perspective, it's sheer brilliance IMO. Bacon did a fantastic job in giving these guys personality. You will start off "blind", not knowing the league. You'll need to really scout out players (and dig much deeper than just OVRs). Plus, the roster's overall balance is much more 'franchise friendly' and mitigates a ton of 'franchise mode issues' folks see with the majority of custom rosters.
Just a suggestion...this might not scratch the itch for you, but I would highly recommend giving it a whirl at least.Play the games you love, not the games you want to love.Comment
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Re: has anyone stopped playing?
I'm going to go off-topic here, because I hate to see a baseball fan not enjoy this game.
I can totally get your gripes on DD but I'd like to make a suggestion if you want to try something totally different with franchise (understanding you'll likely be taken away with CP 2077 for a while - but you'll get the itch for baseball again at some point).
Download Bacon's fictional roster (he has a couple of versions - I prefer the earliest, but the latest one is interesting too) and I'd like to recommend my sliders/approach (I would use Dynamic Difficulty and lock-in on All Star+ - which is what I've done).
From a gameplay perspective, it takes the things that are good about this game (ratings impact) and embraces them. You're not "fighting RNG" but rather using it to your benefit and the adjustments I've made fix a lot of the "randomness" issues that you and I totally agree are prevalent on default All Star. The clean screen approach gets you more immersed into the game vs constantly feeling like "I'm just playing a video game" and classic pitching is incredible with the ability to add/subtract from pitch speeds - effectively giving you a slew of options I don't think you really get with the other pitching settings. It's a dramatically different mindset and experience that you might find refreshing. Frankly speaking, MLBTS is not designed "competitive" play, it's a baseball RPG through and through if you really let it be one.
From a roster perspective, it's sheer brilliance IMO. Bacon did a fantastic job in giving these guys personality. You will start off "blind", not knowing the league. You'll need to really scout out players (and dig much deeper than just OVRs). Plus, the roster's overall balance is much more 'franchise friendly' and mitigates a ton of 'franchise mode issues' folks see with the majority of custom rosters.
Just a suggestion...this might not scratch the itch for you, but I would highly recommend giving it a whirl at least.
But I'm more of a "realistic base" franchise player. Meaning, I wanna start with rosters that are 100% identical to real rosters the second I start and then move forward creating my "parallel universe" and playing that way. And honestly, from messing around with franchise a little last year it doesn't feel that different to the last time I played in 2008. There's obvious tweaks and everything but it's still amazingly disappointing that a franchise mode in an MLB game in 2020 doesn't even come close to the depth of a game that came out in 2005.
After being turned off by franchise last year, that's when I really decided to hop into DD and probably won't turn back. The "relocation" stuff they added this year, with no offense to anyone who enjoyed, was super lame to me and such a half-measure. You can change uniforms and team names but you still end up playing in fictional MiLB stadiums or pre-existing MLB stadiums and have to pretend you don't see the signage and representation of the real MLB team you stole the stadium from. After playing through NBA 2K's Expansion mode, there's no way I can play anything MLB offers unless it's on a similar level.
It just comes down to the gameplay for me, honestly. It's not rewarding enough or fun enough to keep me invested past the point of no new content dropping. And sticking to offline stuff "just" to play a baseball game when there's so much in my backlog just doesn't sound too appealing.
I had asked if anyone was into the idea of an "OS League" and didn't seem to generate much interest. That was honestly something that might have kept me playing a bit and if we came up with interesting iterations to use different rosters it would have been fun. But, honestly, I do WANT to just grind RS as much as possible. It's just unfortunate that the way they design the mode discourages me from playing it between forced difficulties and the ranking system that I don't like.
I'm going to hope for the best with 21, though. And given the year and how difficult it made stuff for everyone, it won't even be fair to really hold anything against SDS next year. But there's a lot they could do that would result in me being invested into the winter months. It just isn't the case right now.
(Cyberpunk is amazing btw and even if I was hardcore into grinding The Show I would have to take time off to play this)Read my OS articles: https://www.operationsports.com/author/corydell/Comment
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Re: has anyone stopped playing?
I'm back playing it heavy again. I really think because of Covid, I burned myself out the first go around. For some odd reason, taking a break and coming back has reignited my willingness to grind. I only came back for the Phillies and Indians TA, but now I'm also trying to collect vouchers to unlock Trout, grinded Lou Gehrig's PP, and Babe Ruth's PP.
I can tell it's definitely been patched. Some of my major gripes, (out side of the throw to the cutoff man, and pitch location on pulse) have been addressed.
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