Boycotting next year's game.
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People say they are boycotting next years release at this stage of the game every year. Most don't follow through with it. More power to you if you can stick to your guns and not buy it.
They'll throw around some buzzwords and promises in next years streams, show some cool new feature and drag most naysayers back into the fold.
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Haven't bought Madden since 2017 and haven't missed it, even though I'm a big football fan but not even close to that with The Show. I know they have their issues and they brutalized Road to the Show, please fix that SDS, but still best sports game by far.
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I will pre-ordering the first day I can, because despite the issues, I still enjoy playing the game, so they are doing enough right for me to continue pre-ordering
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@raylewissb47_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
We hear this stuff on the forum all the time and 9 times out of 10, they are right back here complaining about the next version of the game.
Speaking of that, when can I preorder? And when's the Beta? I'm ready.
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The last Madden I purchased for console was 2004 and I bought a used PSP that had 2008 with it.
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KOTOR. One game that will get me to set aside MLBtS. Can't wait for a reboot.
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See you all in April
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@eatyum_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
I will pre-ordering the first day I can, because despite the issues, I still enjoy playing the game, so they are doing enough right for me to continue pre-ordering
yeah absolutely
nothing like a good baseball game after a long day of work
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I’m preordering and probably dropping an additional $200 on stubs to get Trout day 1 and then NMS the rest of the collection.
They need to get a move on though!! We don’t even know who the cover athlete is.
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I have been not buying games that I would buy every year 2k being the first I lost interest in and Madden will likely be next. I think if I ever get to a point where I don't get excited for the new The Show game will probably be when I just retire from playing video games.
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If sounds of the show isn’t back on next gen. I will sit it out and just play this one for another year. I only play once or twice a week. This was the first mlb the show I’ve purchased/played since 2011 or somewhere in there. I’m more of a football fan but I loved this year. I suck so bugs and things like that probably only helped me to be honest.
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@thongypu_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
I stuck to it for Madden this year. I didn't but it for the first time since the early 90s. I'm sure the people who are truly upset will. I still greatly enjoyed this year's game and hope they improve the online gameplay issues.
I didn’t and now their servers are worst than ever and they aren’t fixing them. They’ve openly admitted the issue. So I will never preorder a madden again. It’s too bad this great man is associated with a [censored] company. I’ll preorder the Show 22 without hesitation. I’ve always liked the show. I played RTTS until this year which was my first dive into DD and I’ve loved every second of it. Sure there have been some issues but nothing to make the game unplayable. Freeze offs suck but they don’t happen often, and a lot of time that has to do with internet more than the servers. The RNG can be annoying but for every one that hasn’t gone in your favor you’ve probably gotten one back. Pitches on the corner same thing. The most annoying thing to me is sending a runner on an XBH and they don’t stop.
Are there flaws sure, but unplayable? No
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I still think this game plays amazing when not playing H2H. As mentioned before it all goes back to how this game plays online. Sure all the cards are nice, the little new editions like uniforms and create stadiums are always nice. But what are all these things good for if you cannot have fun playing other people H2H? There isnt enough vs CPU content designed to be near as enjoyable. If they arent gonna fix the network infrastructure of this game at least give us game modes vs CPU that are similar to events, BR and RS.
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Buying 1st day spend your time doing productive things boycotts are for morons w touch time on their hands
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I've actually not had one glitch/crash with this year's version of The Show. (Disconnects, yes; they need to be sure we are not penalized with losses in single-player.)
Overall experience (outside of the terrible teammate AI baserunning and need for overrides) has been great, and this is easily the best sports videogame I've ever encountered. (Timeline? First sports game was "International Soccer" for Commodore 64.) But...
...I'm not getting next years because of how the collections were handled. In the 11th inning, now is the time to release a bunch of conquest maps with Awards cards both in the hidden packs and as final objectives. Ernie Banks price should have fallen, as he is obtainable by progress. For the bosses, you should be able to pick one, and buy the other choices. The price should fall on all three boss cards per inning, progress-earned from 11th inning choice packs. This is true for several cards. But Banks price tripled. It got a lukewarm reception when it dropped, and now it's at a premium? I can't get Chis Sale when the time comes because of the rampant price gauging. I'm obliged to pick Banks because of the price fixers. I have no intention of using him, and Sale would have finished my enhanced Red Sox team.
The Scouting Report awards were a step in the right direction, but I never got mine (even having provided screenshot proof I had enrolled.) MLB support, after doing a great job on the "42" duplicate card scenario, are ignoring my emails on this. Getting a choice of a free Joe Morgan or especially Vlad G. Sr. could be the difference in actually getting the maxed Ken Griffey. Jr.
They need to smash down the price fixers and faux moguls by examining the choke points and obstacles, then releasing free/earnable items. Some people only play the game single-player. They need to be sure that audience has some chance of getting the last collection, even if it wasn't starting in April. That audience can never directly earn any of the collection-submissable players entombed as multi-player prizes.
A great voyage since getting the game (with my PS5) in mid-September. But the ending is...suboptimal. I have no intention of going through all this again. They need to be sure all prior cards are in circulation, that all cards needed for evolution programs or collections are in-market or are prizes in the last active Conquest maps. They need to smash the price fixing. There is no reason they couldn't release a paid DLC awards choice pack. Especially since they keep shoving the All-Star/Home Run Derby packs in our faces.
The 11th inning finishes with 5 packs containing Finest Bryce Harper. What a complete waste. No impact whatsoever on the current Awards Harper price...
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@tmriddle_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
I've actually not had one glitch/crash with this year's version of The Show. (Disconnects, yes; they need to be sure we are not penalized with losses in single-player.)
Overall experience (outside of the terrible teammate AI baserunning and need for overrides) has been great, and this is easily the best sports videogame I've ever encountered. (Timeline? First sports game was "International Soccer" for Commodore 64.) But...
...I'm not getting next years because of how the collections were handled. In the 11th inning, now is the time to release a bunch of conquest maps with Awards cards both in the hidden packs and as final objectives. Ernie Banks price should have fallen, as he is obtainable by progress. For the bosses, you should be able to pick one, and buy the other choices. The price should fall on all three boss cards per inning, progress-earned from 11th inning choice packs. This is true for several cards. But Banks price tripled. It got a lukewarm reception when it dropped, and now it's at a premium? I can't get Chis Sale when the time comes because of the rampant price gauging. I'm obliged to pick Banks because of the price fixers. I have no intention of using him, and Sale would have finished my enhanced Red Sox team.
The Scouting Report awards were a step in the right direction, but I never got mine (even having provided screenshot proof I had enrolled.) MLB support, after doing a great job on the "42" duplicate card scenario, are ignoring my emails on this. Getting a choice of a free Joe Morgan or especially Vlad G. Sr. could be the difference in actually getting the maxed Ken Griffey. Jr.
They need to smash down the price fixers and faux moguls by examining the choke points and obstacles, then releasing free/earnable items. Some people only play the game single-player. They need to be sure that audience has some chance of getting the last collection, even if it wasn't starting in April. That audience can never directly earn any of the collection-submissable players entombed as multi-player prizes.
A great voyage since getting the game (with my PS5) in mid-September. But the ending is...suboptimal. I have no intention of going through all this again. They need to be sure all prior cards are in circulation, that all cards needed for evolution programs or collections are in-market or are prizes in the last active Conquest maps. They need to smash the price fixing. There is no reason they couldn't release a paid DLC awards choice pack. Especially since they keep shoving the All-Star/Home Run Derby packs in our faces.
The 11th inning finishes with 5 packs containing Finest Bryce Harper. What a complete waste. No impact whatsoever on the current Awards Harper price...
That's a lot of paragraphs to say you don't understand markets, pricing fixing, that gave me a good laugh
Ernie Banks price hasn't fallen because he is at 690k XP, I would bet basically no one is there yet. Just because he was rereleased doesn't mean people have gotten to him.
Also he is at a high price now BECAUSE he had a lukewarm reception, there aren't many in circulation because he wasn't picked as much.
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@guccigangchuck said in Boycotting next year's game.:
@raesone_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
@guccigangchuck said in Boycotting next year's game.:
@raesone_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
I'm not gonna lie to you, myself or anyone else. Sh*t probably won't get fixed. They'll probably add some minor things to the currently existing formula and slap 22 on it. And then I'll most likely still buy it. Because I love baseball and because this game's biggest strength to this day is still that you don't have to buy a single stub to get all the cards you desire. Even with iffy gameplay, that will always be a W. Once that changes, I'll reconsider. If I end up disliking the game, I'll just stop playing it like I do every year.
i hate that argument, the "you dont have to spend money to build a good team" yeah thats cool but you're using that team in modes where the game isnt working properly, ive actually switched over to MUT on madden and yeah i spent some money but its well worth it, becasue im actually enjoying playing madden, mlb i have pretty much every card, but almost every other time i log on to play a game will freeze or the connection isnt there, im wired connection to. Idk just my opinion.
Yeah the networking infrastructure is a major problem in this game. But the argument that you don't have to spend money to create a god squad is definitely true and always has been true when it comes to MLB The Show, regardless of how you feel about other fantasy sports games. To me and to many others, that will always be a W.
bulding a god squad < having the game work properly so you can use that god squad and not go crazy lol
Not everyone plays online. Lots and lots play strictly offline where there is no game play issues or freeze offs. There isnt asshats trying to cause freeze offs. I've never had a freeze off happen but I only played about 100-150 online games not 1000s
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@schwizzle_nizzle said in Boycotting next year's game.:
I'm 100% out next year. I'm tired of this game. It's boring. Same stupid cr@p. Same bugs. Same bad programming, etc etc. Screw this game and SDS.
Yet here you are posting
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@tmriddle_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
I've actually not had one glitch/crash with this year's version of The Show. (Disconnects, yes; they need to be sure we are not penalized with losses in single-player.)
Overall experience (outside of the terrible teammate AI baserunning and need for overrides) has been great, and this is easily the best sports videogame I've ever encountered. (Timeline? First sports game was "International Soccer" for Commodore 64.) But...
...I'm not getting next years because of how the collections were handled. In the 11th inning, now is the time to release a bunch of conquest maps with Awards cards both in the hidden packs and as final objectives. Ernie Banks price should have fallen, as he is obtainable by progress. For the bosses, you should be able to pick one, and buy the other choices. The price should fall on all three boss cards per inning, progress-earned from 11th inning choice packs. This is true for several cards. But Banks price tripled. It got a lukewarm reception when it dropped, and now it's at a premium? I can't get Chis Sale when the time comes because of the rampant price gauging. I'm obliged to pick Banks because of the price fixers. I have no intention of using him, and Sale would have finished my enhanced Red Sox team.
The Scouting Report awards were a step in the right direction, but I never got mine (even having provided screenshot proof I had enrolled.) MLB support, after doing a great job on the "42" duplicate card scenario, are ignoring my emails on this. Getting a choice of a free Joe Morgan or especially Vlad G. Sr. could be the difference in actually getting the maxed Ken Griffey. Jr.
They need to smash down the price fixers and faux moguls by examining the choke points and obstacles, then releasing free/earnable items. Some people only play the game single-player. They need to be sure that audience has some chance of getting the last collection, even if it wasn't starting in April. That audience can never directly earn any of the collection-submissable players entombed as multi-player prizes.
A great voyage since getting the game (with my PS5) in mid-September. But the ending is...suboptimal. I have no intention of going through all this again. They need to be sure all prior cards are in circulation, that all cards needed for evolution programs or collections are in-market or are prizes in the last active Conquest maps. They need to smash the price fixing. There is no reason they couldn't release a paid DLC awards choice pack. Especially since they keep shoving the All-Star/Home Run Derby packs in our faces.
The 11th inning finishes with 5 packs containing Finest Bryce Harper. What a complete waste. No impact whatsoever on the current Awards Harper price...
Not for nothing, but this late in the game cycle stubs are EVERYWHERE…you could flip for an hour and have enough to buy any player you want
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@jonblaze2424_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
@tmriddle_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
I've actually not had one glitch/crash with this year's version of The Show. (Disconnects, yes; they need to be sure we are not penalized with losses in single-player.)
Overall experience (outside of the terrible teammate AI baserunning and need for overrides) has been great, and this is easily the best sports videogame I've ever encountered. (Timeline? First sports game was "International Soccer" for Commodore 64.) But...
...I'm not getting next years because of how the collections were handled. In the 11th inning, now is the time to release a bunch of conquest maps with Awards cards both in the hidden packs and as final objectives. Ernie Banks price should have fallen, as he is obtainable by progress. For the bosses, you should be able to pick one, and buy the other choices. The price should fall on all three boss cards per inning, progress-earned from 11th inning choice packs. This is true for several cards. But Banks price tripled. It got a lukewarm reception when it dropped, and now it's at a premium? I can't get Chis Sale when the time comes because of the rampant price gauging. I'm obliged to pick Banks because of the price fixers. I have no intention of using him, and Sale would have finished my enhanced Red Sox team.
The Scouting Report awards were a step in the right direction, but I never got mine (even having provided screenshot proof I had enrolled.) MLB support, after doing a great job on the "42" duplicate card scenario, are ignoring my emails on this. Getting a choice of a free Joe Morgan or especially Vlad G. Sr. could be the difference in actually getting the maxed Ken Griffey. Jr.
They need to smash down the price fixers and faux moguls by examining the choke points and obstacles, then releasing free/earnable items. Some people only play the game single-player. They need to be sure that audience has some chance of getting the last collection, even if it wasn't starting in April. That audience can never directly earn any of the collection-submissable players entombed as multi-player prizes.
A great voyage since getting the game (with my PS5) in mid-September. But the ending is...suboptimal. I have no intention of going through all this again. They need to be sure all prior cards are in circulation, that all cards needed for evolution programs or collections are in-market or are prizes in the last active Conquest maps. They need to smash the price fixing. There is no reason they couldn't release a paid DLC awards choice pack. Especially since they keep shoving the All-Star/Home Run Derby packs in our faces.
The 11th inning finishes with 5 packs containing Finest Bryce Harper. What a complete waste. No impact whatsoever on the current Awards Harper price...
Not for nothing, but this late in the game cycle stubs are EVERYWHERE…you could flip for an hour and have enough to buy any player you want
You're not lying. Play RIB a few times and you have 100K. Flip some Finest or Live series diamonds on the app and you can turn that 100k into 1M in a few hours while watching the football playoffs.
Yesterday I made 115k just from exchanging bronze to silver to gold. If only stubs were real money and the real stock market was as predictable and consistently lucrative as The Shows. This game bleeds stubs.
