Baseball is a heck of a lot more than grinding for virtual trinkets!
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The problem SDS suffers from is domination by marketing people who know little to nothing about baseball. The appeal of playing baseball is that the game can be won even though most individual AB's are failures. Pitching and defense are where the game skews the other way, where even a rare mistake can result in losing the game.
The pressure of having to perform almost perfectly on the mound and in the field, combined with the accepted failure at the plate, is why the game has a unique appeal in real life. In this, the game reflects everyday life more than other sports can do.
SDS lost their way when they traded an intense focus on creating the best simulation of baseball with creating a video arcade game atmosphere, trying to turn the sport into a pinball machine game.
Along with this came a refusal to support something else about baseball -- that the game is intensely personal. Whether fan allegiance to one team, or the affinity for team identity in uniforms that have changed over the years, and a history that reaches back well over 100 years, the sport of baseball reflects a personal identity that transcends generations.
SDS had that part of the game nailed with Uniform Creator, Logo Editor, and Stadium Creator, but along with shortchanging RTTS and Franchise for DD arcade modes, plus an overemphasis of online competition games, the corporation traded what makes baseball special for making just another role playing shooter game with emphasis on post sale revenue streams.
Now, SDS is offending their DD players to a level I have never before seen.
Suddenly, the wholesale destruction of a once very vibrant community of stadium creators is not so trivial after all. When offending what is seen as a niche segment of your customer base suddenly morphs into offending most of your entire customer base, then the ailment suddenly becomes glaring.
You were warned by a great many good and principled people, SDS, and you chose to ignore them all. Your list of friends has grown quite thin!
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Well said!!!
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I created 3 stadiums this year. Lost interest, stop playing the game completely. I love baseball but I'm not gonna keep buying the same game every year.
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I only just uploaded my second stadium of the year a couple days ago. The desire just isn't there this year to create...especially since they nuked the vault so I can't even modify my old designs.
We NEED new field shapes in terms of foul ground, and better props to work with
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I only just uploaded my second stadium of the year a couple days ago. The desire just isn't there this year to create...especially since they nuked the vault so I can't even modify my old designs.
We NEED new field shapes in terms of foul ground, and better props to work with
This is precisely why I continue to design and release stadiums for MLB 25 and earlier releases. I just refuse to bring myself back to being artificially forced to design stadiums with the same boring and entirely unrealistic "jewel box" layout. That layout is properly suited for a football stadium -- not a baseball stadium, and that is reinforced more by my own research into actual ballparks from the turn of the 20th century onwards, in college, minor leagues and major leagues, and the truth remains I have never once found any real world baseball venue that used the layout SDS is forcing down our throats in Stadium Creator.
That SDS reflexive need to hyper control their paying customers is the sole reason why they cut the stadium vault off from MLB 26. You and I both equally know the truth about what SDS could have done to make everyone happy, and keep the online gaming entirely fair and devoid of true cheat stadiums -- and how SDS slapped you and I personally in the face with their actions during MLB 25 and their public statements that dishonestly avoided mention of their own role in allowing that cheat stadium to ruin online play in MLB 25.
