This game isn't bad. There are many little things they could do to make it better, but there is one big thing they could do to make it better.
We can fill up this thread with all the little (and inexpensive) things they could do to make it better, but we already have a separate thread where we have done that.
We can fill up this thread with expensive things they could do to improve the game, but we know they're not going to lower the price of the game for the loyal owners that stick around and they are not going to spend a lot of money on advertising.
There is one big thing that they could do to immediately improve the game. However, they won't do it and the reason they won't do it is NEARLY just as much our fault as it is their fault. We, as a Hardball Dynasty community, cannot agree on what that one big thing is that can be done to improve the game.
Ive been banging the drum for more than 4 years now that injury recovery in this game is the SINGLE MOST BROKEN THING IN THIS GAME! Until it is fixed, I will continue to bang that drum. I'm not going to get into how it's broken because that's been done in many other forum threads.
Our problem is both an Admin problem and a community problem. If we can't agree as a community what the most most broken things are so they can be fixed, then how does Admin know??? They don't play HBD like they play Gridirion. The Gridiron game has a bi-weekly pod cast where sometimes Admin will show up as a guest and they'll discuss recent updates to the game, how fun the game is, how the game used to be played vs. how its played now and how coaches have had to adapt etc.
So, now that I've written all of the above, I can likely predict what will happen next. 1. People will chime in writing that "we should not have to have a community podcast to get them to update the game into 2024; 2. Injury recovery isn't the most pressing thing wrong with HBD, X (insert any random thing that could be implemented to improve the game) is the most pressing thing wrong with hbd.
If the customer service person (Jordan) plays Gridiron and occasionally shows up to Gridiron podcasts, he's naturally going to be more tuned in to the community and improving the game. That's why that game has had more improvements and looks a lot more close to the current iteration of college football in real life. If we, as a community, cannot even agree on what the biggest issues or problems are and we don't have a separate conduit to communicate those grievances (podcast), I don't think it is fair to compare the non-existant updates being made to hbd to the frequent updates that Gridirion is getting.
The curent situation is that Admin has a game that they don't play enough to understand the nuances and culture and we, as an hbd community, cannot come to a consensus. I have tried, on a separate thread, to gather enough momentum to get Admin to fix injury recovery. You know how many people joined in? We got about twenty people that got behind it. That's not even enough people to fill one HBD World. Maybe if we actually got 50+ people to agree that one thing needs to be fixed, we could start some tailwinds, but we won't. We'll just have the same tired 20 or 30 people that come to the forums to complain about still having a DH in the NL or not having individual base running settings or AAAA players asking for $4 million contracts. We'll never get to a point where we choose one thing that is the most important thing that needs to be updated and then present that to Admin. Now, if we did get 50 people to agree that one thing needs to be updated and presented that to Admin and they still didn't make the update after months, then I'd get off my soapbox, but when we, as a community, cannot come to a consensus on the one most important thing, how can Admin prioritize???