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[GruffyMcGuiness]

So I didn’t pre order this year because it’s coming out on Game Pass and I’m an Xbox guy first. If I’m reading things correctly, you get no XP if you make changes to the sliders in RTTS? Embarrassingly enough, I always adjust the sliders so I become a god on the diamond. I enjoy putting on my music, relaxing, and mindlessly crushing dingers every other at bat. Does this incorporation with DD (that I have zero interest in ever playing) mean that I have to play RTTS the way SDS wants me to play it?

[loungefly85]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChaseB

I mean it's like two games of you being a two-way player and then you can just decide what position you want to be. It's a weird hang up with something as trivial as a a built-in tutorial to the mode so everyone can start from the same spot. If people want to be mad about only having "one" ballplayer rather than multiple saves etc. I get that, but this two-way thing is mostly a non-issue after the tutorial ends. It seems like it's being wrapped up in the other beefs people have with the RTTS changes, but I wouldn't even really point to it as a symptom of a larger problem, it's just a pretty standard tutorial-style intro like we basically get in most career modes. Every 2K career mode starts with an intro and so on before you can branch out a bit more etc.

Yeah. I think by now people have figured out the forced 2 way beginning of RTTS. I’m sure most us of have beaned enough batters to prove we don’t want to pitch.

I think our problem is they decided to include their little card game in game modes that people play without any intention of playing their little casino game of stubs.

TLDR: We’re tired of card games and stubs interfering in our game modes.

It has literally come to the point where it is killing everything else.

[ChaseB]

Quote: Originally Posted by dalger21

Here is my issue with this: I buy TS ever year for one mode - RttS. I have zero interest in DD, BR, and all of the other modes. If I am going to drop my coin on their product, I want to play the game my way as I have done in the past 12 iterations of TS. I don’t care about all of the other modes. Let me have my own fun without feeling like I am being pushed to play DD or whatever.

And I wouldn't disagree with you, I'm just pointing out a general trend.

[Dolenz]

Quote: Originally Posted by GruffyMcGuiness

So I didn’t pre order this year because it’s coming out on Game Pass and I’m an Xbox guy first. If I’m reading things correctly, you get no XP if you make changes to the sliders in RTTS? Embarrassingly enough, I always adjust the sliders so I become a god on the diamond. I enjoy putting on my music, relaxing, and mindlessly crushing dingers every other at bat. Does this incorporation with DD (that I have zero interest in ever playing) mean that I have to play RTTS the way SDS wants me to play it?

Pretty much.

Hell, I will admit that I gave up on the mode mostly when they added archetypes. It was a fun casual mode for me. If I played enough and earned enough training points I'd raise all my stats to 99 and become a baseball god.

Hey remember a few years ago when everybody praised SDS for taking the ability to buy training points with stubs out of the game (ignoring the fact that they simply replaced it with equipment). Now you are absolutely required to spend stubs on equipment and perk cards if you want to be the best.

[loungefly85]

RTTS is ruined because of the online nonsense. End of story.

[aj102404]

Quote: Originally Posted by GruffyMcGuiness

So I didn’t pre order this year because it’s coming out on Game Pass and I’m an Xbox guy first. If I’m reading things correctly, you get no XP if you make changes to the sliders in RTTS? Embarrassingly enough, I always adjust the sliders so I become a god on the diamond. I enjoy putting on my music, relaxing, and mindlessly crushing dingers every other at bat. Does this incorporation with DD (that I have zero interest in ever playing) mean that I have to play RTTS the way SDS wants me to play it?

Couldn’t have said it better myself. When I play I don’t want to be Crash Davis banging around the minors for years, I want to be Babe Ruth circa 1927 or Barry Bonds circa 02.

And yup,

[Exile04]

Damn I was just about to order the Jackie edition so I didn't have to wait 3 more days, but thank God I read this. Man I wanted to play with that stadium creator no I'm going to wait until it's patched or goes on sale. Boo SDS Boo.

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[Beelzebot44]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChaseB

They want people touching every part of the game

No they don't. They want non-DD players to touch DD. There's nothing pushing DD players to play franchise, for example. They don't remove core DD functionality in order to make DD players try RTTS. The pushing is all in one direction, the one that makes them money.