I stopped doing any market work a month ago and nor do I try to complete programs anymore.

My partner and I would usually quit playing by end of June/early July as life and summer projects take over but this year we said we wanted to try and make it to August. We may not make it to the end of May lol

This is my last year giving these incompetent idiots my money. Burning it would be more enjoyable than giving it to a company that puts out a game like they have while allowing an untold amount of game and market manipulation to occur.

The absolutely ONLY positive thing they have done this year is actually making balls on the black all called strikes now. Big win there but not nearly enough to retain me.

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

The main thing is its really a continuation of last years model:

I agree. When this year started, I thought... "OK. We're going to get the same basic overall model as 2025. So long as they beef up TA and fix the things that are broken, I'll be OK."

Well...

1. They didn't fix the things that were broken (I'm looking you square in the eye, mini season stats. BTW, I'm in the 20th game of my CityScapes 9-inning mini season, and my guys have all played 177 games. Are they moonlighting? I didn't put that in their contract).

2. They broke things that didn't need fixing (User interface/menus).

3. They keep making the online program worse. I do enjoy online play from time to time, but smooshing (?) together online modes into a single multiplayer last year wasn't a great decision IMO. Then, to limit Events to "part time" this year? Yuck.

I'm still playing, but my hours are down from last year. I used to play every night before bed. Now, I'm watching "Love is Blind - Paris" with my wife. God help me.

@go4stros25_PSN said:

Im running out of motivation ad well. Did I see that we wont get any new content until the 28th!? This is a 3 day weekend, surely there will be somthing. For almost 2 weeks we get 1 Topps now program that take 2 hours.

Also I checked my inning progress, and again from 300k xp to around 400k xp you earn like 3 packs. Not special store packs, just regular packs. Lame.

I found myself bored and grinding the number one fan TA. Just aimlessly playing the game with players I dont care to play with until I accumulate an ungodly amount of pxp and stats just for the hopes if getting a good pull from a pack.

Thats what this game is. Grind going grind then open up a ton of packs and get peanuts. Maybe if online play wasnt terrible it wouldnt be so bad, but it is.

You forgot about the conquest map......

It's one of the most important long weekends in the US this weekend

Here's a idea thats put out a conquest map.

Yah! The fans will love that. Should we include a program?

Nah the conquest map will be enough.

Genius

Signed SDS

@go4stros25_PSN said:

Im running out of motivation ad well. Did I see that we wont get any new content until the 28th!? This is a 3 day weekend, surely there will be somthing. For almost 2 weeks we get 1 Topps now program that take 2 hours.

Also I checked my inning progress, and again from 300k xp to around 400k xp you earn like 3 packs. Not special store packs, just regular packs. Lame.

I found myself bored and grinding the number one fan TA. Just aimlessly playing the game with players I dont care to play with until I accumulate an ungodly amount of pxp and stats just for the hopes if getting a good pull from a pack.

Thats what this game is. Grind going grind then open up a ton of packs and get peanuts. Maybe if online play wasnt terrible it wouldnt be so bad, but it is.

Also don't expect much from the 85 overall pack, I got a Kurtz

Btw thats exactly what I have been doing, load up a team and play mini season trying to get to the 5/10/15 packs + ballin is a gold and see if I can pull Judge or Ohtani but it's getting old really fast this year.

Also I checked my inning progress, and again from 300k xp to around 400k xp you earn like 3 packs. Not special store packs, just regular packs. Lame.

I found myself bored and grinding the number one fan TA. Just aimlessly playing the game with players I dont care to play with until I accumulate an ungodly amount of pxp and stats just for the hopes if getting a good pull from a pack.

Thats what this game is. Grind going grind then open up a ton of packs and get peanuts. Maybe if online play wasnt terrible it wouldnt be so bad, but it is.

@Einarr44_PSN said:

For everyone who says this game is "cut and paste", this year's menu lag proves otherwise.
At least previous versions would have this issue fixed by now.

Quite right, this years version is worse. I got the game late this year (near the end of April) because I was already on the fence and like others have said i'm already pretty board with it. I have all of the AL TA at 70/80 % but i'm finding little motivation to even start the NL

@On_a_Power_Trip_PSN said:

Pitcher confidence is everything in this game, some underlying system. If your pitcher confidence is low it makes your players play worse.

Take note of that in any game you play, CPU or Human. It’s the stat the drives the game

Ridiculous. Thanks for making sure to mention this.

That’s what aggravates me is that the stats in the card mean zilch, they’re just bar graphs or numbers. It’s why people get annoyed at showdowns, diamond quest, anything and everything seems to be tied to pitcher confidence

Your 99 shortstop will start making errors, just weird stuff

Pitcher confidence is everything in this game, some underlying system. If your pitcher confidence is low it makes your players play worse.

Take note of that in any game you play, CPU or Human. It’s the stat the drives the game

Ridiculous. Thanks for making sure to mention this.

@Dolenz_PSN said:

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

Yet no attempt made to make the CPU more competent at hitting

Shh, that is the main reason I can still be competitive at veteran and sometimes all-star

You can win at goat the same way

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

Yet no attempt made to make the CPU more competent at hitting

Shh, that is the main reason I can still be competitive at veteran and sometimes all-star

@TripleH-4481_PSN said:

@JenkinMeyer_PSN

Kinda feels that way. Like a last push for money and not afraid to alienate the player base because it’s shutting down anyway. I really wouldn’t be shocked at all if Sony pulls the plug anytime now and maybe already has notified them that this year is it.

Otherwise the terrible effort put out this year along with condescending communication on SDS part is almost inexcusable. The mobile game is doubling down to squeeze that last bit of juice out of the orange before it’s trashed.

Yessir

And also, Topps has always made the worst baseball cards their design always has. So Sony doubled down to pair with terrible graphic design.

Fleer, Donruss, Upper Deck - why would they sign an exclusive thing with Topps

Topps who makes horizontal cards to begin with. A bright shining bulb At Topps decided to make baseball cards lay the other way - and not only that most of the images they choose are stupid, and you also can’t read the players’ name

Kinda feels that way. Like a last push for money and not afraid to alienate the player base because it’s shutting down anyway. I really wouldn’t be shocked at all if Sony pulls the plug anytime now and maybe already has notified them that this year is it.

Otherwise the terrible effort put out this year along with condescending communication on SDS part is almost inexcusable. The mobile game is doubling down to squeeze that last bit of juice out of the orange before it’s trashed.

All of it just reeks. It sucks because there’s good gameplay here in the Show, they need to just fix it or rebuild from ground up.

At this point it’s like a last ditch effort to make as much money as possible before the studio closes

I blame Sony

Pitcher confidence is everything in this game, some underlying system. If your pitcher confidence is low it makes your players play worse.

Take note of that in any game you play, CPU or Human. It’s the stat the drives the game

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

CPU inconsistency: commons and bronzes with pinpoint control and huge break, all the diving catches, etc. Yet no attempt made to make the CPU more competent at hitting

This probably annoys me the most TBH. I hate watching common defenders make highlight reel catches 5 or 6 times a game...especially when it's outfielders with sub-40 speed running things down like they're prime Juan Pierre

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

removal of TA

I'm not sure why they thought this was a good idea at all, honestly

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

Inning paths are terrible, least exciting battle pass I have ever seen in games

100% agreed. It's boring...and frankly extremely lacklustre.

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

Incoming mobile game (not even a port)

This is the crux of it all. They decided to do a mobile game that nobody asked for, let alone wanted. I've got the sneakiest suspicion that the reason this year's obsolescence was built in on purpose to try and shuttle people towards the mobile game.

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

No attempt to improve DQ

Don't even get me started on just how badly they've bungled that mode.

If they’d have fixed bugs they’ve plagued the game forever as they occurred, it wouldn’t be so glaring. Release a complete game for once

Yet we love baseball and continue to play it. If the AI/CPU were worth a [censored] I’d play franchise but it’s not fun knowing all you have to do, is pitch up in up in, low outside

So the offline modes all suck

Online is rife with bunt dancers and [censored] and just trolls. Guys so good they can smoke you with a 50 overall team and flaunt it, not because they’re good at baseball but because they are good at exploiting game mechanics that SDS never addresses. List will go on forever

Only thing that makes sense to me is that ALL resources: coding, planning, etc. has gone for the mobile game.

This has been, by far, for me the most “interesting/challenging “ year for The Show