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[OUSOONERS#1]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChaseB

Again, you start out this 2K choosing to play 2 or 3 high school games. That's a tutorial. Every 2K game starts you out more or less in this fashion as you build your initial dude and decide what you want to do to some extent. Then there's generally a rather gated story mode for your first year before it expands out further to just playing games. If you just head online, that's a separate thing now where you are stuck in Rookieville before being able to go to The City. I 100 percent understand the desire to immediately go to the money-grab thing, but this to some extent just has to do with trying to tie every mode together so peeps check out every mode. It's what 2K tries to do, it's what Madden tries to do now. They want people touching every part of the game as these these games continue to just get bigger and bigger -- and as much as maybe peeps want to do deny it, they do get more and more complex. Their reasons are more than just money going this route, albeit money obviously is delightful and nice.

They want everyone to have to go to DD because of the card system as they have pretty much messed every mode in this game trying get people hooked on there money making scheme !!! There is no defending them anymore as they have made it abundantly clear with this game that you will play and grind or pay money too speed it up ... If I wanted to pay money for cards I’d buy real ones !!!

[itsmb8]

Quote: Originally Posted by Beelzebot44

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.

Pretty much. In DD, they let you play the mode however you want to play it. You dont have to use your ballplayer in DD if you dont want to, there's nothing actively pushing you anywhere else. Yet in RttS, your ballplayer is tied to DD. Equipment and such, things used to progress your ability, is tied to DD. In MtO, your reward at the end of you win the World Series? DD content. DD was talked about in literally EVERY SINGLE STREAM of theirs.

They try to tie all of their modes to DD, and if they cant, they dont improve on those modes, make them lifeless, and then cut them because nobody is playing them. Like of course nobody is playing those modes, you dont make them worth playing!

These pay-to-win card modes have practically KILLED sports gaming.

[BigOscar]

I guess this is the end of people bringing up the telemetry data as an excuse for why they do what they do. They've deliberately crippled the most popular mode in an attempt to force people into dd. And as is becoming their mo, they've hidden the fact in pre-release to trick people who pre-ordered.

[sfpxgalaxy]

Not surprising.
Sport genre has become a card collection game.
I blame gamers as much as the publishers.
It sadly looks like the trend is not slowing down.
People keep paying every year. It will only get worse.

[Kenzojoe]

I'm both a DD and RTTS player and absolutely hating this. I just unlocked a perk pack. All cards are "increase this, but decrease this"
It's like I'm being penalized for advancing. That makes no sense.

I usually make a catcher. This system has it where my fielding through perks increase, but my hitting decreases.

If I pick slugger it makes my primary position a 1st Basemen. I get perks that increase my power but decrease my contact and reaction.

They absolutely butchered the feces out of RTTS this year.

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[Kenzojoe]

Okay..roughing out it out. It's get worse.

I'm lost with this mode now. I'm a catcher. Just got the final archetype perk from the missions and it makes my primary position out of the 3 "slick fielding" selections a SS, CF, and 3B with catcher being my second position. When I go to the Tatis Show Icon up in the right hand corner, and bring up my player card, it has me as a SP.

Whatever SDS is trying to implement here is a failure so far. I thought maybe if I got to the archetype perk selection it would make my RRTS better. It's not. You're being penalized for progressing.

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[WhiteBunny]

Quote: Originally Posted by BigOscar

I guess this is the end of people bringing up the telemetry data as an excuse for why they do what they do. They've deliberately crippled the most popular mode in an attempt to force people into dd. And as is becoming their mo, they've hidden the fact in pre-release to trick people who pre-ordered.

At this point it's just anti-consumer practice. Removing the option to have multiple players in RTTS it's one of the biggest offender i've ever seen in a sport videogame. For the love of baseball gods, we're up to the point we can't play offline modes without dealing with gambling and slot machines. It's a disgrace. Even on Reddit, which is really into DD, players can't believe what they've done.

[MetsFan16]

I’m going to make a franchise RTTS and not even bother with this. on PS5 the load times are decent enough where going in and out of the menus aren’t too much of a pain. (Though on PS4 that is definitely a bit of a struggle)

Does anyone have a good progression system?