That gives the game a lot of hope. The general consensus is this patch made this the worst version of mlb the show to date which is unfortunate because just a week ago we were playing possibly the BEST version of mlb the show ever made. (Minus a few bugs and a few misc fixes)

Why they chose to scale the game back to a broken random dumpster fire is really beyond my understanding. I can’t even imagine the casual players would have any sort of fun playing this game in its current state.

That being said that makes me think positive about the eventual outcome.

1. They need people that are actually good in this game testing it. We’ve watched the dev streams let’s be honest...none of you are very good at your own game which in turn makes you think other people can possibly be good at the game. To be honest all of you would be about 500-600 range or less in the grand scheme of things. So maybe get some very high skilled players down there to test the game?

2. Accept that ppl want to have fun. Forget micro managing telemetry and data. If the scores are 10-8 they are 10-8. It got harder as you moved up...and it’s a lot more fun then 1-1 or 2-1 with 15 lineouts on great inputs by both teams.

3. Respect the community and stay true to your word. You sold this game on SKILL WOULD MATTER. And INPUTS WOULD MATTER. They don’t. Period. Inputs mean literally nothing.

So every year there is a progression of cards and their worth. I think leagues with DD will help the market value of cards. For example. A random 85 diamond card that loses its value as the higher cards become available now holds value in leagues will overall team caps. I think the DD Leagues are a great addition to the game. I think the tournament possibilities and overall competitive possibilities of the game are going to be endless. The market is also going to be booming with cards of all levels.

@Rambo_11k said in Update 1.06:

“We are continuing to monitor it”.....they are so out of touch with how the majority of the players feel.

This is what I mean. They are too focused on telemetry and data that they will sacrifice gameplay if it means statistics are where they want them to be which is stupid. Their approach to this game is a bad one.

This is how they think. They don’t change things based on testing they change things based on the data that comes from our gameplay. So if averages are 250-350 and eras are 2-5.00 in their minds the games playing great. That’s false. This is why this game plays like such garbage.

I truly believe that mlb 21 has the potential to be the greatest baseball game of all time. I know a lot of people are quite skeptical because of lasts years pull back on inputs. However, it seems like they are really listening to the community like never before. Literally every issue I personally thought should be addressed was addressed in the game. The exception being I really believe foul tips are a problem, HOWEVER I don’t feel like it’s game breaking.

Stepping into the new generation of consoles and introducing our new Xbox new comers welcome to the community. Some or many people actually — really don’t like me. sometimes I’m harsh and others think I “whine” about gameplay, and I do complain about gameplay but I promise it’s not because I can’t handle a learning curve.

Furthermore I don’t mean it to attack any of you personally and I want everyone to have fun I honestly do. So let’s start fresh. I’m going to try to have a more positive outlook and constructive response to some of my ranting.

Good-luck to everyone this year. Excited to get to the next year.

And something someone said to me resonated — being toxic to ppl just because they aren’t good is kind of douchey.

But I didn’t mean it that way. It was more so feeling like I had to defend my position with credibility.

Can we not talk about the corona virus on these threads. It’s already a way over abused topic everywhere. We get it there’s a a new virus. Everything closing is absurd. They didn’t do this for SARS, Ebola, H1n1 or any of the other MORE DEADLY virus’ they didn’t have medicine for. This is a concern but it’s blown way out of proportion because of an incompetent media and unintelligent masses.

Until I just went back to it. God this game is atrocious. It’s by far the most mind boggling version of mlb ever. I hated 18 but I must say I think 19 is worse. It’s just a random series of outcomes especially on Allstar and below.

Mitch is a very very good player. I made a few middle mistakes that he made me pay for badly with two no doubters. (Not game induced mistakes - user mistakes which is Baseball.)

I enjoyed playing against him. He’s def one of the best players I ever faced. I knew he was very good going in. And Id like to continue to play ppl at that level and improve my game play to get to that next level. Which I think eventually I can.

Thanks for the friendly. Hope to have more in the future. Touché

I praised the game first week. Game was great. Now the game is bad period. I’m losing to way lesser players and having much better inputs. Getting mistakes on perfect meters with perfect perfect and squared good outs sometimes with the bases loaded making it a complete random game of chance. I win games like this too. Doesn’t matter the game is bad. This game play that you promised us would not occur is horrible. No one in their right mind would enjoy this unless they were trying to compete and couldn’t period.

The game had some issues that needed fixing but overall it was very good —but now with this update...I’m getting mistakes down the middle. And the hitting is back to 19s hunk of random junk. Why? Stop looking at your telemetry and data and adjusting gameplay. You ruin the game like this every year .

@daelon11 said in Fastballs are too quick.:

I'm just over .500 in ranked seasons so its not a high difficulty. Does mlb the show monitor this do maybe they will fix it?

If they lower the pitch speeds they can’t reward the hitting like they seem to be trying to do that unbalances the game. In order to reward pci placement and timing they have to make it hard to do. Or at least challenging even for the best players.

That’s a skill gap. Lowering the pitch speeds just caters to poor gameplay.

I got robbed of 2 Homeruns and a perfect line out in one sequence lol. Like literally jumping catches at the wall robbed. The key to showdown...is to not play it.

It’s alittle better then 20. But it’s not the best mlb game ive played.

@kingd234443_xbl said in Has anyone else not received their Stubs back from the cancelled Buy Orders issue?:

Missing 200k told sds. Guy emailed me back saying check my inventory to see if my items have showed up. Not sure how my inventory would have stubs in there. Who is running this support team a 16 year old. This is embarrassing. Legal action should be taken on a company that takes your money and doesn’t give what you paid for. Complete joke.

Stubs don’t just disappear. You’d have to put in some sort of buy order. He’s telling you to check your inventory to see if the item you purchased appeared. If you are saying stubs just disappeared they will check your account activity to see if 1. You purchased stubs. And 2. Where you spent them.

@bear0571_psn said in Custom sliders disables XP and Stubbs earnings:

My money, my game, I want to play it MY WAY. Understand game devs? Forcing certain play styles is complete and utter BS! Fix this B. S., OR ARE YOU RACIST AGAINST CERTAIN PLAY STYLES...

The word you are looking for is bias.

Adjusting sliders is like farming. You shouldn’t be able to farm xp because it effects online play. So yes your money your game but there are certain rules that everyone must abide by.

@halfbutt_psn said in Check swings are back:

How do you really feel, Perfect?

Lol. I mean mostly the game plays fine. But why is this feature back.

You guys lied you’re pathetic

All of them...

@asocial_grace said in Are Cobb, Hornsby, and Ted Williams really not in the game this year?:

@allmustfall16 said in Are Cobb, Hornsby, and Ted Williams really not in the game this year?:

@msk5031_psn said in Are Cobb, Hornsby, and Ted Williams really not in the game this year?:

Won't know for sure for some time. May find a gold, silver or bronze of them at launch though.

Reddit is saying they are not in the game. Guess we will know soon. Being a Tigers fan, not having Cobb really makes me less interested in this game.

At least I can still play 2020 if this is true.

You’re going to leverage your entire participation in a next-gen baseball video game solely on the omission of one player from 100 years ago?

People find whatever they can to be triggered lol

@charterbus_psn said in Question regarding parallels:

I don’t understand why it would change? Every player card in the game has parallels they said. Bronzes will have parallels. If they get downgraded they will keep the progress you’ve earned with them?

I was under the impression that all diamonds were pretigable not all cards. So that makes sense then

A lot of players you don’t see get added throughout the year.