Just lost to a guy who swung at every pitch
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For me, I grounded into I think 4 perfect perfect double plays.
You didnt ground into any perfect perfect double plays, because there wasn't a single out made on a perfect perfect in your game.
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This game is catered to casuals. Every year it gets worse. That’s why there’s such an imbalance with good inputs resulting in outs and bad inputs resulting in success, or at least, not outs. Explains why there’s an excessive amount of foul balls as well.
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So I have no idea how good you are at the game, but the reality is that probably 85-90% of the player base for this game are "casuals", so it makes total sense to build a game that will keep the "casuals" playing more.
I play Madden far more at at a much higher level than I do MLB, and the same mindset exists there. The "non-casuals" make up a FAR greater percentage of the player base. EA and SDS are, or are owned by for-profit corporations that could care less about "competitive" players. Madden's true competitive program peaked a few years ago, and has gotten worse each year since. I feel like it will be phased out entirely in the next few years. The Show has no real "competitive" culture now. There are too many bots and cheats in this game to be a legitimate "competitive" platform.
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Catered to casuals? This game is the hardest sports game to pick up and play - you need a lot of experience just to be okay at batting. Even on low difficulty.
Ill agree that online is a mess of bots and cheaters and boosters - such that I totally understand someone not wanting to play.
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When I say "catered to casuals" I mean casuals vs. those that think of themselves as "competition players". I agree that the moving parts are far harder to pick up than Madden or 2K. There is a a VERY small group of players that play this game at a level that I would consider to be "competitive", and the reality is that competitive means a lot of different things. There are people that are in the 600 and 700's that consider themselves to be competitive players. They aren't. They may be competitive in their respective divisions, but they aren't winning the end of season tournament. In those tournament players eyes, even those 600-800 level players are "casuals".
So, I stand by my estimate, which might even be low, that 85-90% of the player base are casuals, and the gaming companies need those people to keep buying the game and doing micro transactions, so they will always cater to those players, and rightfully so.
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@genopolanco_PSN brother most of every sports game is for the casual fans. But it’s also why there are different divisions. It’s also a baseball game.
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Ok? I don’t understand why you even replied that.
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@genopolanco_PSN oh mister tough guy lol. Two people replied to you yet you only say something to one. Doesn’t change the fact that sports games are for casual players and not everyone is good enough to a be a pro.
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What have I said implied that I’m trying to be tough? The other guys just stated their opinions on my comment. I don’t really have anything to add or contradict to what they said.
I don’t expect games to make everyone be “pro level” to even play them. But the game has drifted significantly more towards the casual side over the last few years to where you can’t really take this game seriously at all. They have leveled the playing field so much with RNG and bailouts that there will never be a competitive scene with this game and people shouldn’t be surprised when they lose to people who swing at every pitch while they are having good ABs and plate discipline. That’s why I made the comment I made.
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@Nate_7_Dog_PSN he clearly wasn’t cheating then it’s just beginners luck… if he had a cheat of some kind on he wouldn’t swing at balls but this is a lot more realistic than people think on allstar especially.
