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This game gets pegged as being hyper realistic, and I am just not seeing it at all. As a new player who is trying to get his bearings, I decided to play as just a manager, figured its easy enough. Took a job with the AA Bowie Baysox. Here are some fun things that have happened

- The computer GM is neurotic, several players get promoted and demoted nearly every single day, including several times I saw two players get swapped for each other and swapped RIGHT BACK for each other on the SAME DAY. Clearly the game doesnt have the options rules programmed in (must stay in the minors for at least 10 days), and the AI seems absolutely unplayably atrocious.

- At the end of the season, it gave me a rating saying I did a poor job of coaching, and then immediately afterwards it promotes me to AAA, talk about failing upwards.

-I am greeted to the Tides, a team that went 66-74, and am greeted with a message informing me that my goal is to "win multiple international league championships". So clearly the expectations are completely out of whack with the reality of the team offered to me, and i fully expect to be told i did a bad job when this season ends since I dont have a lot of faith that ill be making the playoffs.


I watched another player (pfholden) play on youtube and the game seems equally as completely nonsensical and poorly thought out in his game. His game featured:

-40 man rosters which are incorrect

-a minor league coach who is dead set on playing a pitcher at DH,

-the projection system listing Charlie Blackmon as the odds on favorite to win the MVP in 2020.

-he also mentions that the game's trading isnt very realistic and you need to set it to very hard and put maximum emphasis on prospects for it to trade properly in a rebuild (i got a feeling you gotta swap the settings to make it not rip itself off when youre in win now mode)

I cant imagine that the game is as bad as this in GM mode (the overall issues from the GM game i watched didnt seem as bad) but man, at first playthru it sure seems like a hyper realistic database with a really poorly thought out video game tacked onto the back end. I got a feeling that the AI GMs will be doing some very irregular ****.