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Anyone started playing yet? Have it but because of work haven't got to play. Any differences? Or just same game with new players.
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I believe It comes out Wednesday or Thursday
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Refuse to buy it. Has a Yankee on the cover.
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Altuve should have gotten the cover.

I'll probably pick it up.
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Its the same game basically. Little bit better graphics and a few neat little trinkets still no ****ing Astrodome though WTF.

One thing that is pretty cool is the all legends teams. Nolan Ryan pitching against Babe Ruth was pretty cool
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I got it. I preordered from Gamestop and got a diamond Josh Donaldson in one of my preorder packs. I'm currently debating if I should sell him or not.
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Bobby Jimbo said:

I got it. I preordered from Gamestop and got a diamond Josh Donaldson in one of my preorder packs. I'm currently debating if I should sell him or not.
I'd sell him. There's a good chance SDS drops him to gold at some point this season, and lower diamonds are way overvalued shortly after the game is released.
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Dirty Mike and the Boys said:

Bobby Jimbo said:

I got it. I preordered from Gamestop and got a diamond Josh Donaldson in one of my preorder packs. I'm currently debating if I should sell him or not.
I'd sell him. There's a good chance SDS drops him to gold at some point this season, and lower diamonds are way overvalued shortly after the game is released.
Good point. He was going for around 70k stubs when I checked last night. Bregman is going for about 5000 now I think, and there is a possibility of him going diamond. I'd rather have him too anyway.

Another reason why I didn't sell is because some people at Operation Sports were saying that they were losing stubs. I didn't want to risk selling a diamond card only to lose all my stubs because of the game glitching.
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Can someone explain to me the stubs/diamon/gold stuff?
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AstroAggie15 said:

Can someone explain to me the stubs/diamon/gold stuff?
Stubs are the currency that is used to buy cards and other items in Diamond Dynasty mode.

The cards have different tier levels - common, bronze, silver, gold, and diamond. Diamond players are the best, ranging from players like Josh Donaldson to Babe Ruth. Gold players are below diamond, and so forth.
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And what do the cards do?
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AstroAggie15 said:

And what do the cards do?
In regards to the player cards, you can add them to your team to play with, which you can either take online and play against other players or play against the computer in conquest mode (similar to the board game Risk).

You can get player cards by opening card packs, buying them in the marketplace, or completing missions. You can also get cards by just playing the game, so you probably already have some cards already.

Here is a video showing this year's version of Diamond Dynasty:
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Yeah, once I pick up the game I'll start hoarding Bregmans. He's a good bet to jump to diamond at some point this year.
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Well this sounds alot more complicated than All-Star Baseball on Gamecube
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Downloaded the game last night... graphics and animation are improved.
Road to the show is a little different. Your player has max abilities depending on your selected player type. Also it automatically adds/takes away ratings based on at-bats (instead of being able to add skill points yourself).

I dont do all of the diamond dynasty stuff. I like doing road to the show and the basic franchise mode.
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I don't do diamond dynasty either. Road to show and franchise guy here. Would you say that RTTS has improved with this change?
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I like the changes to RTTS this year, but a lot of people don't. I like the idea that your player is a specialist in certain areas, and can't be 99 for every attribute. I also like that you earn (or lose) attribute points for having success (or failure) for those specific attributes, rather than assigning points to attributes. It's a much more realistic experience in my opinion.
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Should I go buy an xbox or playstation so I can play this game
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MLB the Show is PlayStation only
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If you plan on playing Diamond Dynasty, then yes absolutely. There's so much content involved with that portion of the game that you likely won't be able to finish it all before the next year's iteration comes out. The learning curve is pretty steep playing against other people, but I still found it super fun even when I was frequently getting my ass handed to me in the beginning. The servers historically are super overloaded for the first month or so prior to release, so I would wait a couple weeks before pulling the trigger....or don't write the game off during that period if you don't.
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I Like Turtles said:

I don't do diamond dynasty either. Road to show and franchise guy here. Would you say that RTTS has improved with this change?
I'd say RTTS is a lot more realistic. More cut scenes, and little differences. Unfortunately you still can't choose which team you get drafted by or make your guy older than 18. One difference is the camera angles after you hit the ball is different... more zoomed out and that's an improvement. You get a lot more customizable options with batting stance, animations, and appearance.

Haven't tried franchise mode yet, the game took about 3 hours to download last night so I only did a few road to the show games.
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Also one AWESOME change.... you can wear the Astros "2002" uniforms. Aka the pinstripes and gray/brick unis with black cap from a few years ago
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tjholley17 said:

Also one AWESOME change.... you can wear the Astros "2002" uniforms. Aka the pinstripes and gray/brick unis with black cap from a few years ago
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Do they have the mid to late 90's with the blue, gray, and open gold star?
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tjholley17 said:

Unfortunately you still can't choose which team you get drafted by

I didn't play last year's game, but you could pick your team in previous versions.
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How does this compare against Jalisco Bases Loaded?
tjack16
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Unfortunately no
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Gramercy Riffs said:

tjholley17 said:

Unfortunately you still can't choose which team you get drafted by

I didn't play last year's game, but you could pick your team in previous versions.


2016 was the last year you could pick your team. 17 didn't allow it
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Wish I could play this on PC or xbone
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xbone
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This needs to be made for Xbox one. Still pissed it's not.
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tjholley17 said:

Gramercy Riffs said:

tjholley17 said:

Unfortunately you still can't choose which team you get drafted by

I didn't play last year's game, but you could pick your team in previous versions.


2016 was the last year you could pick your team. 17 didn't allow it


I feel like you always get traded anyway.
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Aggie1205 said:

tjholley17 said:

Gramercy Riffs said:

tjholley17 said:

Unfortunately you still can't choose which team you get drafted by

I didn't play last year's game, but you could pick your team in previous versions.


2016 was the last year you could pick your team. 17 didn't allow it


I feel like you always get traded anyway.
traded at the worst possible time ... and then it autosaves.
I started a road to the show, got drafted by the Angels as a second basemen and was on the fast track to getting called up. Then traded to the Red Sox and have spent a season in triple A where I hit .520 with 45 HR and 115 RBI in 90 games without getting called up because I'm behind Pedroia
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tjholley17 said:

Aggie1205 said:

tjholley17 said:

Gramercy Riffs said:

tjholley17 said:

Unfortunately you still can't choose which team you get drafted by

I didn't play last year's game, but you could pick your team in previous versions.


2016 was the last year you could pick your team. 17 didn't allow it


I feel like you always get traded anyway.
traded at the worst possible time ... and then it autosaves.
I started a road to the show, got drafted by the Angels as a second basemen and was on the fast track to getting called up. Then traded to the Red Sox and have spent a season in triple A where I hit .520 with 45 HR and 115 RBI in 90 games without getting called up because I'm behind Pedroia


Sounds like you need to play on higher difficulty.
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Seems to take much longer to advance your skill level than it did with the training points. Is there any way to advance like how you use to could redeem tokens for training points?
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