Why do you not play online?
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Well, if you really want a concise answer, I choose to avoid online coop play chiefly because it brings out the worst of people, who have no motivation to play fair, but due to the anonymity of the setup, have every encouragement to cheat, disrupt, and ruin the fun of the thing for as many as they can.
You can see them in most all the online forums devoted to MLB The Show. They are the ones that recycle the same complaints, centered on demands that SDS focus on their desires and whims to the exclusion of all else -- as if they alone are the center of the effort, the sole benefactor of the effort.
But worse, you see them in threads devoted to showing how they employ cheap tricks to trade sportsmanship for empty wins. It only takes a brief review of the threads to see this.
I want nothing to do with such people.
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@GoozeFn_PSN said in Why do you not play online?:
I do play online, mostly just to get what I want from those programs. I would play more if so many people didn’t play like children. I just don’t understand why people are constantly pausing.
Ok I'm just being fair to those people and giving benefit of the doubt here cause I pause sometimes because my kids are waking up and crying. Usually I can get them back to sleep within 2 minutes. I try to be quick and it's definitely not trolling. I don't get mad about pausing any more because I look at why I pause the game.
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Funny you mention everquest. Just got back into Eq, eq2, wow phase i call it. Last for like a month or two then good for cpl years lol. Yes im old
I legit might play wow again since my best friends are begging me to join their guild. It's tempting but time consuming to raid
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@AdeptOfMemory_PSN I’m not really talking about a prolonged pause once a game for something like that, or pausing for substitutions. I’m talking about the people who are constantly pausing. Sometimes after every few pitches. Usually short pauses.
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@GoozeFn_PSN said in Why do you not play online?:
@AdeptOfMemory_PSN I’m not really talking about a prolonged pause once a game for something like that, or pausing for substitutions. I’m talking about the people who are constantly pausing. Sometimes after every few pitches. Usually short pauses.
I assume it's people that are working from how....and supposed to be working but they're playing a video game instead
The other thing when people go into a game then immediately when it starts they pause for 2 minutes....it's like why didn't you take care of whatever it was before getting into a game?
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I use the game mostly as therapeutic mindless stress relief to unwind from my job (and hide from my kids and wife). Don’t really have a firm schedule to get the games in and don’t really feel like paying for a ps subscription.
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@GoozeFn_PSN said in Why do you not play online?:
@AdeptOfMemory_PSN I’m not really talking about a prolonged pause once a game for something like that, or pausing for substitutions. I’m talking about the people who are constantly pausing. Sometimes after every few pitches. Usually short pauses.
Dont know if it's true. But I've 'heard' that if you pause and unpause (quick menu) feal fast; it makes your opponent's PCI shrink.
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@ref479ode_PSN It’s obnoxious. I think they should cut down on the amount of times you can pause.
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Great responses everyone. I would just like to see more people engage with online more so the player pool would even out and not have such of a large skill gap. I'm constantly coming across superior players even in the lower levels that have crazy averages and high counting stats. When you see these players with their .408 BA/47 HR/121 RBI stat lines it's discouraging. You shouldn't be playing me! lol
I believe there needs to be some sort of skill based matchmaking but the goons in this game wouldn't want that, they prefer beating up on the lesser skilled not realizing they are just making the pool of players smaller with their skill and toxic shenanigans.
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I haven’t played online very much this year. In previous years I would have at least played 100 ranked games or more by now, I’m currently at 36. This thread inspired me to played some tonight though
For me, the rewards in online modes have felt lackluster, and most end up being 30k stubs cards anyway, so I’ve just grind offline, rip packs, flip cards and buy who I want.
I’ll see how it goes tonight.
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@BJDUBBYAH_PSN said in Why do you not play online?:
I haven’t played online very much this year. In previous years I would have at least played 100 ranked games or more by now, I’m currently at 36. This thread inspired me to played some tonight though
For me, the rewards in online modes have felt lackluster, and most end up being 30k stubs cards anyway, so I’ve just grind offline, rip packs, flip cards and buy who I want.
I’ll see how it goes tonight.
I did the same. Right after I made the post before yours I decided to play a game. And exactly what I was talking about happened. This guy had live series Betts with a 400 avg 39 hr and I forget how many rbi, and a few other high stat players. He had a bunch of the new program players in his lineup too getting xp. I lose 3-1, my pitching is clearly better than my hitting. The end of game recap, this guy was ranked at 467 and I was 422 I think. His hitting stats on most of his players dwarfed mine and it clearly showed we shouldn't be matching up with each other regardless if he was just getting started on his new ranked season. I've lost 3 or 4 games in a row now after I started my new season off at 450. There needs to be a better way to separate the skill levels of players online. I understand why so many people don't like to play online because they either run into a goon right off the bat or the next game and get obliterated probably, now they hate online and never return.
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@ArGenTin32_XBL my experience tonight was: getting smoked in my first game, I’ll be honest I quit after 5 innings. Playing a toxic troll that intentionally walked the bases loaded to dashboard on my inevitable grand slam. And the third went 4 innings before they quit. I couldn’t tell if I had a good time or not.
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@jake98833_PSN it’s actually rng you’re referring to
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@Dolenz_PSN My wife and son are into RPGs. My wife plays Lord of the Rings. She paid the "forever" fee years ago and she's gotten her money's worth.
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@beatlesnews_PSN said in Why do you not play online?:
@Dolenz_PSN My wife and son are into RPGs. My wife plays Lord of the Rings. She paid the "forever" fee years ago and she's gotten her money's worth.
I used to play or try all of them
Everquest 1 and 2, LOTR Online, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot and probably a few others that I am forgetting.
Strangely World of Warcraft is not among them. I was an Everquest guy and EQ2 and WOW released within a few weeks of each other.
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@jake98833_PSN thanks. Good example just now in Battle Royale. Grinding for the cards, but 1-0 up in the 3rd. 7 batters up, 7 down. Home run to tie it with the 8 hitter. Home run to walk it off with the 9 hole hitter.
What’s the point?!?!
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Oh yeah, I think max elevation stadiums are miserable as well. In the event if I get shield woods I just go ahead and quit out
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i want to play online but my stupid t-mobile internet wont work with the show so ... yea im kinda stuck
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I play online co-op but i mostly play offline. I get distracted easily by text messages or whatever....sometimes i'll get up in the middle of the game and go get lunch, come home and start watching tv while i eat and 2 hours later i'll be like "Oh [censored]...i forgot i was in the 4th inning...". Can't really do that online.
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@ArGenTin32_XBL said in Why do you not play online?:
@BJDUBBYAH_PSN said in Why do you not play online?:
I haven’t played online very much this year. In previous years I would have at least played 100 ranked games or more by now, I’m currently at 36. This thread inspired me to played some tonight though
For me, the rewards in online modes have felt lackluster, and most end up being 30k stubs cards anyway, so I’ve just grind offline, rip packs, flip cards and buy who I want.
I’ll see how it goes tonight.
I did the same. Right after I made the post before yours I decided to play a game. And exactly what I was talking about happened. This guy had live series Betts with a 400 avg 39 hr and I forget how many rbi, and a few other high stat players. He had a bunch of the new program players in his lineup too getting xp. I lose 3-1, my pitching is clearly better than my hitting. The end of game recap, this guy was ranked at 467 and I was 422 I think. His hitting stats on most of his players dwarfed mine and it clearly showed we shouldn't be matching up with each other regardless if he was just getting started on his new ranked season. I've lost 3 or 4 games in a row now after I started my new season off at 450. There needs to be a better way to separate the skill levels of players online. I understand why so many people don't like to play online because they either run into a goon right off the bat or the next game and get obliterated probably, now they hate online and never return.
Make
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AgainTo be fair, that guy could have inflated his stats in moonshot or vs bots. He only scored 3 runs
I feel the best way to improve online is to remove most of the rewards behind it. You still earn pxp and mission progress and regular xp, and could be a track for cosmetics like the pencil bat people love for some reason, but if you take away the cards and heavy xp boosts you are left with the people playing it because its their preferred style of play
