Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch in 26?
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@GoozeFn_PSN I understand where you’re coming from and appreciate the responses. But long windups have always been in the game…and only now it’s “toxic”?
Look, I agree that long windups can be annoying. I literally would intentionally walk the first batter in some offline modes so I could get to the stretch with certain pitchers. I do think that being able to now choose stretch only in those scenarios is a great QOL addition.
But you have to consider: what about pitchers who actually have a good, smooth, efficient windup animation? We don’t get to choose to pitch from the windup in H2H mode even for non-toxic players? Why? To shave off a few minutes of play time?
I just don’t agree with that part of forcing us to pitch from the stretch
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@GoozeFn_PSN I misunderstood i thought they shut them off all across the game.
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN I don’t think it’s inherently toxic. I’m saying that there are toxic players that intentionally use them to be toxic. Let’s be honest, there’s a lot of toxic people in this community. In a perfect world, you would just make the pitchers who have a long windup pitch out of the stretch. SDS is lazy, so they just do it for everyone. I just don’t agree that windups are a necessary component for online play. Sure, most games you’re just shaving off a couple minutes. If you’re playing a 9 inning game against Detmers, CC, Paige or any of these guys with really slow deliveries, it’s more than a couple minutes. Even a couple minutes a game adds up.
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@LIONED-33_XBL I’m not even sure it’s confirmed that online is. I heard them say it’s the default. I have not seen any confirmation it’s the only way online. I hope it is. You can definitely still pitch from the stretch offline.
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@GoozeFn_PSN agree.
I believe this is just going to lead to more toxicity when you have a ton of people slide stepping and quick pitching.
Don’t agree with the move. Let your players choose.
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN They said there’s a pause between pitches, so quick pitching won’t be a thing either.
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@GoozeFn_PSN said in Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch Next Year?:
@LIONED-33_XBL I’m not even sure it’s confirmed that online is. I heard them say it’s the default. I have not seen any confirmation it’s the only way online. I hope it is. You can definitely still pitch from the stretch offline.
It’s been confirmed that all H2H modes in DD, we are forced to pitch from the stretch
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN Where was this confirmed?
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Also, this decision, pretty big middle finger to players out there who simply don’t prefer pitching from the stretch
Not very “play your way” of SDS
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN Thank you for that.
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN Play your way ends when you’re playing with other people. I could make the same argument that I don’t get to play my way if you force windups. I wish we could matchup based on settings, but again SDS is lazy. We can’t even get meaningful updates every year. I’d bet the vast majority of online players would prefer to play without windups.
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@GoozeFn_PSN good points
I can see the arguments for it but I don’t agree with it
I hope they simply give the player the option to choose in H2H modes
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If something postively impacts 99% of players but makes 1% of players upset its probably a good change.
Yes I pulled those percents out of my [censored] but I have to imagine the amount of people upset by this change is extremely small.
Personally I would like the option to have the first pitch of each inning (or first pitch thrown by the pitcher) be the windup
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN said in Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch Next Year?:
@GoozeFn_PSN good points
I can see the arguments for it but I don’t agree with it
I hope they simply give the player the option to choose in H2H modes
If they do this they have to make it either on or off the whole game and allow the opponent to friendly quit in the first inning quit without your approval if you want to be inconsiderate with long windup pitchers
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN The best way would be default no windup, but if both players have windups on in their settings, windups are on. I’m not a coder. I don’t know how feasible that is.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch Next Year?:
@doobiebross66-72_PSN said in Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch Next Year?:
@GoozeFn_PSN good points
I can see the arguments for it but I don’t agree with it
I hope they simply give the player the option to choose in H2H modes
If they do this they have to make it either on or off the whole game and allow the opponent to friendly quit in the first inning quit without your approval if you want to be inconsiderate with long windup pitchers
Agree that it should be set for the whole game
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@GoozeFn_PSN this would be best…if they can implement it
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@Teak2112_MLBTS It’s probably not 99%, but I’d bet it’s a strong majority. Probably a bigger majority than some of things they’ve changed on a whim in years past. The reality is, streamers have a louder voice than the community at large.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS That causes bigger problems because people will be friendly quitting if they aren’t the home team, not at a park they like etc.
