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Batting and Performance are completely unbalanced
Overall is a very well thought up game. Love the lower league starting point and having to work your way up. What I don’t get is how can I go 3 for 4 in batting (2 doubles, 1 single, and a fly out) and get a -3 overall for batting. That’s an outstanding day for any MLB batter we were winning every game too. Then after multiple at bats with that kind of play I get put down into the lower league to finish out the season. Why? Because I wasn’t hitting 4 HRs a game? Do I seriously have to hit a HR every game just to have the manager be happy with me? Just for reference I was in the 90s with all three relationships in the B league.Show lessrifter81
Fun game but very glitchy and control issues.
It’s a fun game but there’s often a lot of glitches, such as the interview components. You will fail everyone except for the initial tutorial one. I screen recorded after I repeatedly failed on the first phrase despite knowing 100% it was the initial phrase.
Batting is pretty simple in game but skills training is next to impossible as there’s no mechanics to direct the ball really so you can be spot on but fail the Batting Skills trainings. Catching mechanics are similar in that the ball will sometimes miss the glove despite being directly where it was supposed to be (experienced this with a boost which shows where the ball will go)
Overall i give it 3 stars because it is fun, but needs some fixes to make it an even better game.Show lessThatguy1496
Fun, but Adjust slow time when batting to make it extremely slow when at maximum level
Even when we reach the batting skill the time is still not slow enough for us to handle when batting. It would be better when the time when batting is even slower than it is now, if the batting skill is at maximum 100. So we want the at 100% slow time when batting to be even slower than it is now. That will be better! Make the time very, very, very extremely slower! remember: the more the batting skill the slower the time.Show lessdomodara
Good game but……more of a pay to play operation.
It would be my go to game (I really really like it) but coins are really hard to come by and energy gets more expensive as you go (Why?). BTW, it uses energy to upgrade your player too so it’s Gotcha on both ends. And upgrading is a very slow process. So if you want to casually play, you might get 2 games (maybe) in before you run out of everything. Then you either continue the game as a benched player (your team will lose every game your not in) or you pay to play. Leaving and coming back in 24 hours is also an option to get in a couple more games. (Eye roll). Such a shame for such a well developed game.Show lessJeff457425783567
Microtransaction city
For context, I love "Retro Bowl", another game by this developer, so I immediately paid $3.99 for the ad-free version of this game to support them. Unfortunately, the rest of the game is set up to keep making you shell out cash, which made me quit pretty quick. Bad job, devs!
Here's how it works: To participate in games you need "energy" which you get by purchasing energy drinks. When you start, you get paid around $20 - $25 per game, and an energy drink costs $20. So you'll make about $5 profit per game if you're doing well. You can just barely compete in the minors with basic equipment, but to compete in higher leagues, you need to upgrade your equipment.
Upgrading your equipment costs several hundred dollars, and all the upgrades are temporary and only work for 10-25 games. I hated this mechanic, but figured I'd be able to afford the better stuff once I had won some games and was making more money. I won a few games, renegotiated my contract, and was suddenly making $60 a game. That's when I noticed that energy drinks now cost $50.
So you are purposely prevented from making meaningful progress in-game without spending real money. To upgrade from your most basic equipment to the next tier would require playing dozens of games, and then those upgrades would only last for 30 games or so. Or you can just spend $5 to get a few thousand bucks in-game!
Bad job guys. I won't be supporting this studio anymore.Show lessBowshk
Love it
I love it, good graphics. Gameplay is challenging but not extremely hard. Also, your performance affects most of the gameplay, not necessarily your teammates, which I love because your player really makes or breaks the game so you have to improve and strategize. great download for me i can hardly put it down! also 3 save slots so you can start new games. if you chose to pitch and bag you can toggle it on off. the only dislike is the seasons are super long i believe 30 games is a season, personally 15-20 would’ve been better imo and 20 is almost too much lol.Show lessJimmyia21
Why just why
It’s a great game don’t get me wrong, the animation is good, the details look pristine for a simple mobile game, the gameplay is amazing even if sometimes it may register late or early. It’s a really good game but why is the tutorial 20 years long, why do I need to be taught every single thing 20 times and after have to do them again. I can’t even access the settings to turn down the music volume, I can’t do anything without finishing a game, buying something I don’t even need but they make me buy and then have to play another game even if I don’t want too. I love this game but omg how annoying it is.Show lesszasdgjbxdgb
Money pit
This is the worst game I’ve ever played. Impossible to achieve anything without spending a bunch of money. You can’t even get into the starting lineup without maximizing your nrg, which costs as much as your salary. Hit a home run and a double and your performance rating could still be merely 4.5/10. Upgrades have an expiration, the basic gear is a joke which the announcers drag you for using. You’ve taken $20 off of me and I’m riding the pine in the bottom division. Oh and the dialog is obviously created on google translate, for example the hitter steps up to the ‘stand.’ It’s a shame because I got this due to its association with the excellent retro bowl and retro goal games. Fraudulent.Show lessjaye um ghee
Almost perfect
Everything is great…. Except the batting. It just seems glitched. I don’t mean the hitting. I mean the rating at the end of the game. I’m in the ultimate league and my rating stays consistently low. I actually do pretty good at batting but it’s depressing when you go 2-4 with a double and a home run and still get a negative 1.4 batter rating. I can’t wrap my head around that at all. Similarly, another game I went 4-4 with two doubles and two singles and received a batter rating close to zero. At least it wasn’t negative right? You’ll have games where you hit the game winning grand slam but you don’t extra credit for that. Still a low rating. You get no credit for singles period. That part just seems unrealistic by baseball standards. I know it’s a game but putting up MVP stats for a 7.5 average rating over the course of the season isn’t appealing. Everything else is great though.Show lessjrjones103
Fun game with some annoying flaws
Overall this is a pretty fun game, though there are some rather annoying aspects.
- everything you do costs energy, you refill your energy by purchasing energy drinks. The annoying thing is that the cost for one of those drinks is not fixed, but becomes more and more expensive as you level up
- the running system is awful, a few times I haven’t even been able to make it one base because I’m given such a small amount of time to run
- your performance in game has ZERO impact on your skill ratings. It does impact your relationships with your manager, teammates, and fans, but your skill ratings can ONLY be improved by playing the mini games in between games.
Decent game but probably won’t keep playing, there are better baseball optionsShow lessscrubsrules
