Boycotting next year's game.
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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.
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I can accurately predict the OP's future posts here :
2023 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2024 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2025 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2026 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2027 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2028 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2029 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2030 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game. -
@surfinsantacruz_xbl said in Boycotting next year's game.:
I can accurately predict the OP's future posts here :
2023 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2024 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2025 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2026 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2027 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2028 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2029 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.
2030 : I'm done with this years game. I am boycotting next years game.Where in my original post does it say that I'm definitely boycotting 22?
It stated that people, me included, usually post about leaving but always come back and buy the next game.
I asked that I'd everyone that actually said they weren't going to buy it DIDNT BUY IT if it would open up SDS's eyes.
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Bit late to this post, but I’d be willing to bet that anyone who has replied to this post will be purchasing MLB 22 for sure. If people really are serious about boycotting the next game, they probably aren’t spending their time on the Community Forums for a game that was released nine months ago. The people that are seriously done with MLBTS never saw this post.
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I started on this game in December 2016. My son had been a big MLBTS fanatic for several years prior to. Each year since I have picked up the new version of the game at least several months after release. The past few years since 2018, I have been acquiring my own version after my son got his own PS4. In Oct 2019, the game was a free download (free game of the month for Playstation Online that month). I got the standard version for $10 from Best Buy on Black Friday in 2020 and got it for $30 on Playstation Online Dec 1 2021. You can get this (and other games) for dirt cheap if you are not in a hurry.
That all said: they need to fix the hitting and pitching in this game. Is the new pinpoint pitching worth keeping ? With the preponderance of 102MPH outliers that pitch 100+ almost continuously, I think NO. Are they rewarding 'perfect' timing too much to the detriment of good and just late, to make hitting too difficult? Yes in my opinion. Also why do I come up against players with a World Series banner when I am in the 500s in ranked seasons? Once someone gets to World Series (900+), their ranking should never go below 700 (or maybe 650) going forward. -
@wk680_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
I started on this game in December 2016. My son had been a big MLBTS fanatic for several years prior to. Each year since I have picked up the new version of the game at least several months after release. The past few years since 2018, I have been acquiring my own version after my son got his own PS4. In Oct 2019, the game was a free download (free game of the month for Playstation Online that month). I got the standard version for $10 from Best Buy on Black Friday in 2020 and got it for $30 on Playstation Online Dec 1 2021. You can get this (and other games) for dirt cheap if you are not in a hurry.
That all said: they need to fix the hitting and pitching in this game. Is the new pinpoint pitching worth keeping ? With the preponderance of 102MPH outliers that pitch 100+ almost continuously, I think NO. Are they rewarding 'perfect' timing too much to the detriment of good and just late, to make hitting too difficult? Yes in my opinion. Also why do I come up against players with a World Series banner when I am in the 500s in ranked seasons? Once someone gets to World Series (900+), their ranking should never go below 700 (or maybe 650) going forward.World Series players now tank so they can take on easier competition and get to 30 wins quicker.
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@raylewissb47_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
@wk680_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
I started on this game in December 2016. My son had been a big MLBTS fanatic for several years prior to. Each year since I have picked up the new version of the game at least several months after release. The past few years since 2018, I have been acquiring my own version after my son got his own PS4. In Oct 2019, the game was a free download (free game of the month for Playstation Online that month). I got the standard version for $10 from Best Buy on Black Friday in 2020 and got it for $30 on Playstation Online Dec 1 2021. You can get this (and other games) for dirt cheap if you are not in a hurry.
That all said: they need to fix the hitting and pitching in this game. Is the new pinpoint pitching worth keeping ? With the preponderance of 102MPH outliers that pitch 100+ almost continuously, I think NO. Are they rewarding 'perfect' timing too much to the detriment of good and just late, to make hitting too difficult? Yes in my opinion. Also why do I come up against players with a World Series banner when I am in the 500s in ranked seasons? Once someone gets to World Series (900+), their ranking should never go below 700 (or maybe 650) going forward.World Series players now tank so they can take on easier competition and get to 30 wins quicker.
that is exactly what has happened this year - i just sat in the low 500's and cruised my way no stress to the FishMan
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@ustoopid2_mlbts said in Boycotting next year's game.:
@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
not everyone plays offline and plays the cpu on rookie, it goes both ways, people that like to compete online against other humans deserve a better online exp
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@jtownelite_x814x_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
Oh, don't get me wrong. I will most likely preorder. (Wondering if they'll have a version that has the PS4 and PS5 version together like they did this year as I'm getting a PS5 in June.)
This and Madden, until they release the KOTOR reboot on PS5 and I get one, are the only two games I play. So I'll buy 22.
I'm just wondering how much longer people will buy this title if the glaring bugs aren't eventually fixed.
Do they even test the game before they release it?
They beta test it for a month before release (at least that's what they did going from 20 to 21). Obviously that's not enough. Just sad.
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@xxchaosmnkyxx_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
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.
My last Madden was '19. I just gave up, lol
With no competing baseball game, no way they hold their breath in protest that long
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@raylewissb47_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
@wk680_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
I started on this game in December 2016. My son had been a big MLBTS fanatic for several years prior to. Each year since I have picked up the new version of the game at least several months after release. The past few years since 2018, I have been acquiring my own version after my son got his own PS4. In Oct 2019, the game was a free download (free game of the month for Playstation Online that month). I got the standard version for $10 from Best Buy on Black Friday in 2020 and got it for $30 on Playstation Online Dec 1 2021. You can get this (and other games) for dirt cheap if you are not in a hurry.
That all said: they need to fix the hitting and pitching in this game. Is the new pinpoint pitching worth keeping ? With the preponderance of 102MPH outliers that pitch 100+ almost continuously, I think NO. Are they rewarding 'perfect' timing too much to the detriment of good and just late, to make hitting too difficult? Yes in my opinion. Also why do I come up against players with a World Series banner when I am in the 500s in ranked seasons? Once someone gets to World Series (900+), their ranking should never go below 700 (or maybe 650) going forward.World Series players now tank so they can take on easier competition and get to 30 wins quicker.
My guess is that if they keep in the cumulative wins that this becomes against the terms of service and bannable. With the right queries of their database it should not be hard to pull back profiles with a specific number of consecutive losses with < one inning played.
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@dolenz_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
@raylewissb47_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
@wk680_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
I started on this game in December 2016. My son had been a big MLBTS fanatic for several years prior to. Each year since I have picked up the new version of the game at least several months after release. The past few years since 2018, I have been acquiring my own version after my son got his own PS4. In Oct 2019, the game was a free download (free game of the month for Playstation Online that month). I got the standard version for $10 from Best Buy on Black Friday in 2020 and got it for $30 on Playstation Online Dec 1 2021. You can get this (and other games) for dirt cheap if you are not in a hurry.
That all said: they need to fix the hitting and pitching in this game. Is the new pinpoint pitching worth keeping ? With the preponderance of 102MPH outliers that pitch 100+ almost continuously, I think NO. Are they rewarding 'perfect' timing too much to the detriment of good and just late, to make hitting too difficult? Yes in my opinion. Also why do I come up against players with a World Series banner when I am in the 500s in ranked seasons? Once someone gets to World Series (900+), their ranking should never go below 700 (or maybe 650) going forward.World Series players now tank so they can take on easier competition and get to 30 wins quicker.
My guess is that if they keep in the cumulative wins that this becomes against the terms of service and bannable. With the right queries of their database it should not be hard to pull back profiles with a specific number of consecutive losses with < one inning played.
I don't understand why they would do this. Is getting that elite player card really so worth it? I got trout for winning 30 games (even though I am not a good player) and he wasn't hitting for me, so I sold him. The same thing happened in The Show 20 (he sucked for me on that one too). But I imagine anyone who is a World Series level player at this stage has more stubs than they know what to do with anyways.
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@xxchaosmnkyxx_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
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.
Think the last madden I got was 19 and only because I got it for $10 in January or February I forget which
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I really feel like 2017 was the sweet spot. I try to play daily but all it takes is one event game and I shut it off for the day. 2022 will be the first year I don’t preorder or play at midnight. I will buy 2022 but I will not be in a hurry to buy it and will play at my own pace.
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@oachs83_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:
I really feel like 2017 was the sweet spot. I try to play daily but all it takes is one event game and I shut it off for the day. 2022 will be the first year I don’t preorder or play at midnight. I will buy 2022 but I will not be in a hurry to buy it and will play at my own pace.
You gotta wait for the 14 updates that are inevitable because SDS can't program or make a playable game without it freezing, or having no stamina drain on their pitchers, or bad check swing animations, 405 mph outliers on every pitcher. Yawn. This game is trash.
