We’re all just unpaid employees at this point

So by same theory if you come across someone with say 0-55 and a batting average of 0.00 you could easily sus them out / eliminate them - that’s a bot

Or quickly search by their game history did they win 54-0 in a game one time and bat 0.100 the rest of the time?

I mean I’m not a rocket surgeon but I’m pretty sure SDS does have the technology and capability to find [censored] out if they’d look

@GoozeFn_PSN said:

@DeleteyourTTVBTW_MLBTS It can show improper records sometimes when you look at other people’s profiles.

Record shouldn’t matter whatsoever unless there’s reward to be gained for it.

Go to Batting Average and ERA for any player and THAT is the indicator of talent/skill/etc

Wins and losses can be accrued by fake quitting or rage quitting or connection loss etc

Batting averages show what the person is and isn’t capable of

@jackmo709_PSN said:

.buy packs if you're bored...never know might hit a big one

This is precisely what EA got in legal trouble over a few years ago, I think (please correct me if I'm wrong).

@GoozeFn_PSN said:

They are doing this as inning missions intentionally, so people can’t save xp.

Unfortunately, you're right.

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

I can understand miniseasons to a lesser extent since teams have to be made.

Those teams are randomly generated from people's actual DD teams, aren't they?

Mini seasons over and over to get packs and play pack slot machine.

Or 2) go online and deal with lag, random gameplay, cheaters, disconnects or all of the above.

I’m choosing door #3 which is staying off the game. It’s wasted enough of my time. Sadly.

@bjd10048_MLBTS said:

@TripleH-4481_PSN I was hesitant on getting this years game after playing the previous 6 years. I ended up caving just due to boredom during the time this game drops in March.

These threads have been popping up lately, I felt the same way for a couple weeks.

This is the first year I’ve lost interest and stopped playing as early as April.

Mid April I got burnt out playing mini seasons over and over.

Weekend Classic was mostly the final straw. I was placed in the wrong division and started my leaderboard with a negative score.

My final straw was the Miggy Collection and how pointless the endless grind for collections is.

Last years game was fun because it had new modes:

1. ⁠DQ was a blast to grind and fun way to achieve collections.
2. ⁠collection rewards (Roger, Beltran) and new legends (manny, Ted) were fire
3. ⁠weekend classic brought good rewards to ranked.

This year:

1. ⁠DQ has been castrated
2. ⁠collection rewards are MID at best, and a waste of stubs at worst.
3. ⁠weekend classic is still broken and unplayable with this years pitching.

The show ‘26 has 0 redeemable qualities. The only slight positive is parallels mods but even those can’t fix the gameplay.

What they did to DQ should be a punishable crime(hyperbole) but still… I’ve found very little reason to play this year. And that is a first for me tbh

Huh? Oh yeah, you’re that keyboard warrior that thinks looking at profiles tells you everything you need to know. I play plenty online, going all the way back to 2017. Yes, I still crush Hader fairly easily, especially with everyone thinking he’s a glitch. Niekro? Not sure since he hasn’t been in the game for a while but was fairly easy to hit since a lot of people thought he was a glitch too and didn’t know how to use him.

Keep thinking you know all, it’ll continue to smooth out that brain of yours.

Is it a matter of mindset? You want to play online but you’re afraid so you just pretend you do? Still CRUSHING Hader online like you did Neikro?

Here’s a question, if you somehow could go back and not learn there’s supposedly a bunch of cheaters, would you still be enjoying your gameplay? It’s a matter of mindset. Once you suspect and get some confirmation (although there’s some bias involved), you start “seeing” it everywhere. I’m not saying there isn’t cheating going on, but I don’t think people come across it as frequently as they suspect. You now know it’s in the game and look for it as much as possible.

@mubby_33_PSN said:

I also wonder if the studio is cutting jobs to save money. Maybe they cant push more content because there is not enough of them.

I cant imagine its very difficult to put out conquest maps.

I can understand miniseasons to a lesser extent since teams have to be made.

But this is the sort of stuff they should be using AI for.

BTW, it occurred to me that if I'd have saved a lot of xp from last inning, I probably could've picked up Randy when he was selling for 250k.