My thoughts after 3 days playing only Diamond Dynasty:
- Love the smooth online experience. No hitches, no disconnects, fairplay opponents. I hope it doesn't implode on Tuesday when it launches officially.
- Love the smooth menu. No waiting 2 minutes when looking at inventory.
- Love the new souvenir, autograph cards. It's a nice change.
Dislikes:
- The programs are just too confusing and really tough to get around. Open each one, then flip R1/L1 between pages to see all requirements. Took me at least 2 hours the first day to organize everything, and I'm still disorganized :-)
- Overall tiers have been lowered. Gold, Silver and Diamond now all start 5 overall points lower. Meaning that now those guaranteed silvers in multipacks are basically better bronzes.
It just seems to me that I will be buying much fewer packs this year because of that. They've simply made it too tedious to see what I need to do.
But that just means that I'll spend more time (and less money) on RTTS and Franchise, modes I've neglected lately because of great DD mode.
I bought a $100 edition, gotten shit out of 30 packs. So maybe a bit peeved for going with that package, but I don't mind much.