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by Bowshk

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.

by NelsonMandelbrot

The good: the concept is good; hitting is kind of fun but too easy.

The bad: some of the mini games are frustrating and most are not all that fun.

The strange: it doesn’t feel like a game made by people who are baseball fans. The stats certainly aren’t baseball-like; the player profile should show stats like you’d find on baseball reference of on a baseball card, not just total numbers.

In game, I’ve seen the phrase, “hanging off first, looking to make ground,” which seems like a google translate version of maybe “taking a big lead-off, looking for extra bases?” I’m not sure, but it’s nonsensical. The entire game feels like this — a google translate version of actual baseball.

None of the mini games (batting, pitching, running, or fielding) really feel like baseball. They superficially look like baseball, but don’t contain any of the elements that make baseball fun. Strategic decisions that make good baseball decisions have nothing to do with how this game is played.

The weirdness and lack of ever feeling like anything close to baseball kills any fun.

by Rifter81

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.