Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch in 26?
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No other sports game focusing shortening the time of the game. In NBA games you play shorter quarters (not make the time tick faster). So in baseball you play less innings modes like Battle Royal, and events. They could make a ranked option where you can choose your desired amount of innings. But taking away the windup from pitchers is a lazy/uncreative approach to fixing the length of games. We shouldn't sacrifice realism or what makes players unique from each other to shave off 8 minutes off gameplay. Will not purchase until this gets changed.
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@cedarballs_PSN Those other sports are a lot different than baseball. They naturally set pace with a clock. I suppose baseball does that now to an extent, but it’s a much slower paced game that is not as conducive to online play. The best option would be a revamped matchmaking system that matches people based on their settings.
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@GoozeFn_PSN that is exactly my point
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@cedarballs_PSN said in Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch in 26?:
No other sports game focusing shortening the time of the game. In NBA games you play shorter quarters (not make the time tick faster). So in baseball you play less innings modes like Battle Royal, and events. They could make a ranked option where you can choose your desired amount of innings. But taking away the windup from pitchers is a lazy/uncreative approach to fixing the length of games. We shouldn't sacrifice realism or what makes players unique from each other to shave off 8 minutes off gameplay. Will not purchase until this gets changed.
Outstanding points. No logical much less fair way to refute them. SDS did this because they pander to DD players, and length of the games was something too many lodged complaints about. These are people who just want to rush through the grind to earn the virtual trinkets, and this latest SDS response proves once again where SDS's priority lies. As I have written before, current SDS leadership treats MLB The Show like another role playing shooter game, vice something that sharply matches real world baseball.
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@cedarballs_PSN And my point is that those other sports don’t have the downtime during the game that baseball does which is why those games don’t have to speed them up in that way. They naturally have a reasonable pace for online play.
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL Nobody wants something that resembles a real baseball 3 hour, 9 inning game.
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@GoozeFn_PSN In NBA 5 minutes with timeouts, fouls, still last 30 minutes or so. Regardless of pace, it's still the same amount of time 30 minutes or so. Which is a reasonable amount of time. I don't want to play a 15 minute 9 inning game. 30 minutes or so is fine.
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@cedarballs_PSN I agree that 30 minutes is fine, but I’d bet that games will still be 30 minutes with this change. Ranked games that go the distance are more like 40-45 minutes currently.
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I 100% agree with pitching from the stretch with runners on without having to hold an extra button but it better not be ALL pitching is from the stretch. I’d also like the option to NOT pitch from the stretch if I have 2 outs especially if there’s a runner in 2nd or 3rd or both. I’d rather not pitch out of the stretch in this scenario.
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@xSZETHx_XBL the way it’s been presented, SDS said that in all H2H DD modes, we’re forced to pitch from the stretch.
That’s going to mean every pitch of every game.
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If we are forced to pitch from the stretch to “speed up play”, but home run replays are still in online play someone needs to get fired at sds
