Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?
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Back in 2020, SDS dropped a program called "The All-Timers" program, consisted of playing in moments/games with your DD team to earn rewards each week the included the like of 99 Babe Ruth, 99 Tom Seaver and more (if I remember correctly). To this day, its probably my favorite offline program they ever did, and they never did it again. There was also a long program in 2019 called "Signature teams" that occurred over a 4 week period that was also playing moments/game with your DD team that featuured Jason Kendall, Adrian Gonzalez, and culminated with 99 Vlad Sr. Never did it again. It was awesome and so much fun.
I wish they'd bring something like these back. If you want to check it out a little, here is a very young GomesDaLegend taking about iAll Timers a little, Check out all of the other individual player programs they used to have on the screen. I so miss that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUplUWLBlnI - All Timers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Slcl-Jjh5s - Signature Teams
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@Skarmaen_MLBTS said in Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?:
@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?:
Never has a game fallen so fast in just one year
'23 wasn't great either. There were a lot more programs but the bulk of those were pxp slogs.
I do, however, have a newfound respect for quality AND quantity. '23 definitely had the quantity aspect covered and I appreciate that more now than I did last year.
'24 has neither.
As someone who doesnt care about god squads and prefers offline, 23 was great. I always had new things to play with and things to work towards offline. I get why some people did not like it, and I think the big problem was the collection rewards. If not for the collection rewards people could have better ignored the content they didnt want to do.
But I agree with your thoughts on quantity and quality. They should have kept the quantity but improved the quality. Instead they did neither.
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@Dolenz64_XBL I would actually prefer players from my team in the packs simply because those are the better cards. I get where you are coming from, but I’d rather them be better than free. I am stub rich though.
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@Dolenz64_XBL same, hit with an Ohtani out of a Show pack and sold him, now thinking about selling the Judge I just pulled from a BIAH pack
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October 25th , just have to play this aggravating trash until oct 25th , and im done with this game , its all about COD from here on
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@hoo_pharted_PSN said in Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?:
October 25th , just have to play this aggravating trash until oct 25th , and im done with this game , its all about COD from here on
Play 21, 22, or 23.
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@hoo_pharted_PSN said in Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?:
October 25th , just have to play this aggravating trash until oct 25th , and im done with this game , its all about COD from here on
I mean, I think this years version of Diamond Dynasty is a disgrace but the fact that people would go to an EA game or CoD as their escape is exactly why have headed this way.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?:
@hoo_pharted_PSN said in Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?:
October 25th , just have to play this aggravating trash until oct 25th , and im done with this game , its all about COD from here on
I mean, I think this years version of Diamond Dynasty is a disgrace but the fact that people would go to an EA game or CoD as their escape is exactly why have headed this way.
I wonder how many will leave in 3 weeks with ncaa out
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@nymets1987_PSN said in Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?:
I wonder how many will leave in 3 weeks with ncaa out
Probably about 1/10th of what people are acting like.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?:
@nymets1987_PSN said in Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?:
I wonder how many will leave in 3 weeks with ncaa out
Probably about 1/10th of what people are acting like.
Of course, a lot of people have already left.I will be playing madden ncaa and mlb as I always do and finishing all the programs as an offline player just don’t have the interest as in previous years
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I play offline, and still haven't finished the Retro AS Program!! That says it all.
I'm off Fridays, but instead of running to the attributes update, and this game, I spent the day manually putting CD's into my new phone music player. I deleted one, thinking my music would remain. Not! Only a few in internal storage remained! I do not recommend that at all, as its very time consuming. I then played NHL instead. Saturday,I played F1 first, then 2 9-inning games for the RAS pitching missions. After that, I had my fill.
The fire has left. The thrill is gone. I've heard of off years, but this is one for the ages. All we get now are Season Awards programs. Bring back Kaiju at this point. Implement Cricket somehow, lol. We need content!! -
@TheGoaler_MLBTS said in Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?:
I've heard of off years, but this is one for the ages
Probably going to be what future games look like too. Light on content and monetized at every turn.
Greed ruins everything.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS ive played this game since 06 ,i think i still have hard copies stored away to prove it from before PS started retro'ing past versions on new consoles as long as you bought from them , i owe this game nothing
COD is not without its own faults , BUT ITS STILL FUN, its been raining all day and i sat here watching Parks and recreation reruns instead of playing this game , i started playing an hour ago and im already disgusted , 3 perfect perfect cracks of the bat that die before the warning tracks , palmero a 95 boosted to a 97 cant get a ball out of the infield , harper good timed swings twice in 3 pitches yet whiffs all 3 for a 3 pitch out , AT LEAST HALF his at bats
i didnt spend $100 bucks to get aggravated , i did so to have fun , this , is not that , im sitting here with a paused screen because i hit a fly ball , my runner on first stops mid way to second , it was clear it was going to fall so i send him so he doesnt get thrown out at second , for some reason he rounds second on goes to 3rd where the 3rd baseman is sitting there waiting on him
im still hitting square pitch and its still throwing X every now and again , it will do so a couple pitches , i know this because i stop , reset the pitcher , very deliberately hit square and the X pitch loads again
i have a mini season seasons that i played up to 22 games and refuse to go in again im sick of the server kicking me , i lose my stats and i get nut slapped with a loss , a true waste of time , before someone says its my connection , it is not , i can complete a entire US map of conquest 3 or 4 times and never have it happen , i had 5 by game 22 in mini seasons
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i truley believe i could look past a lot of the issues that we have with the game , IF IT WAS FUN like it use to be , its been years since i had a player hit the cycle , 3 or 4 HR's in a game , 2 triples in the game
TATIS is suppose to be a base stealer , he gets thrown out almost every time i send him , if he takes so much as a half a step more than a normal lead hes caught off guard , good times
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Their live content team all needs to be fired and hopefully none of them ever work in the video game industry again.
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@Dankmaymays_MLBTS said in Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?:
Their live content team all needs to be fired and hopefully none of them ever work in the video game industry again.
I'd never go that far without knowing all of the details of who is actually responsible. In the end the live team is simply employees who have supervisors, who have their own bosses. If the directives come from above then their hands may be tied.
Both Cbrev and Ashley were MLB The Show Streamers before they joined SDS and became part of the live team. I find it hard to believe that they both suddenly have fallen so out of touch with the community that they don't see the issues. But, even if they hate the direction, as employees they may not have any real influence in the final decisions.
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And in the end SDS itself is an employee of Sony.
There is a story we don't know, that's for sure.
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Actually went back to playing MLBtheShow21 for a while and created a new account from scratch. There actually seem to be quite a few peope playing it, as the market is still fairly active. Amazing that for an offline player (outside of mini seasons) the game and especially the content were just SO much better back in '21, from tons of great player programs, a team affinity with actual valuable players, monthly awards that mattered daily moments, great collections and collection rewards, the innings model with power creep (over now, but you can see how good it was in the forever program), evolution programs that were super cool, etc. If SDS just repeated the MLBthe Show 21 model with the new game, it would be incredible. Ain't rocket science.
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@ebbets1957_XBL said in Hey SDS.... How about a little incentive to actually play your game?:
2021 is too moment heavy and no mini seasons so 2023 for me.
I wish I could see what the innings looked like as they were happening, the 11th inning is extremely weak compared to 2023's forever season and forever wonders.
I cant do 2022, between dropping TA and the cringey packs like 'juicy' and 'always intense'...no thanks. They did seem to have cool TA themes that year though
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This is why so many of us loved 21 and have been so vocal in our dislike of 24 and the direction the game is headed in general.
