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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.

I will tell you imo this is the worst version of this game I’ve ever played. The game is just bad in so many ways. The game play is atrocious. You guys really need to step your game up. This game is stale and bad and just regurgitated trash. Here are some of the terrible game play problems

1. The hitting is inconsistent and makes no sense. Exit velocities are just the beginning. The pci placed perfect with good timing sometimes is a swing through? Why. Why should that ever be the case? One player can continuously line out hard while the other player can late weak tap [censored] in play on 0-2 counts and it’s ALWAYS when they need it most. Go figure.

2. The defense is so bad. Ketel marte suddenly gets a small meter all the way right on a routine ground ball because there is a runner on 3rd? Why? Why do players that are diamond defenders have so much trouble getting off a routine play when the opposing team NEEDS a mistake? Ok Soto get[censored] in the face with a pop fly. Fine. Could happen. But why is it after 2 late weak hits when my opponent has struck out 17 times already?

3. The pitching is garbage too. Perfect meters perfect releases just meatballs down the middle for no reason. Or scherzer the other day just cannnot through strikes no matter how you execute the input.

Inputs in this game literally have the least impact on the game that I’ve ever seen. You might as well pick a team and put no inputs in and let the AI play the game out and see what happens….because that’s not far from what is already happening

This game sucks. Honestly. It’s so disgustingly bad in comparison to other versions of this game including even 18 which wasn’t good. This is worse.

I been playing quite a bit. I feel like this years game is def the best version gameplay wise I’ve seen. Connection issues and server issues are a problem but I coulda called that going into cross play...

I mean let’s give these dudes some credit. We’ve all been complaining a lot but I’m seeing constant improvements and they are working hard at fixing everything as it comes in so they deserve to be recognized for that. I’ve even noticed slight gameplay improvements over the last 2 days... not sure if this has to do with server improvements but gameplay just seems more of where the beta was to me as of yesterday but actually even better then the beta...so. Kudos

Nice try Ramone

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.

Seriously. It’s old. It’s obviously improving and it’s been way worse in past years you guys are not veterans if you think this is the worst launch. The game just added millions of people I honestly expected way worse. At least when they stabilize we have a dope game to play...and they will stabilize over time. Be patient. Play March to October. Relax. It’s not that big of a deal. I have a ton of server connection losses who TF cares? If you are good in the gameplay you will over come it.

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.

Please don’t dump any money into this trash can of a game. This game is a slap in the face to the players. They literally bamboozled us into buying this garbage by telling us skill is going to matter ADMITTING that skill hasn’t mattered in a few years past. And then reverted back to skill not mattering once they made their sales. The devs at SDS are unprofessional liars. I’m reporting them to the bbb.

@Leddbedder said in Can the devs explain something:

They need to do better. Come in with a 99 closer when up 2-0. Get to 2 outs. Walk with pitches no where near pci, throwing error, walk with pitches nowhere near pci, grand slam with pitch nowhere near pci. Game over loss

But oh there’s more....

The game imo is scripted. I’ve gotten personal hate mail in my inbox from people who work at SDS for even suggesting this in the past.

But it’s true. The game has decisive outcomes.

If they completely removed that — this game would improve tremendously.

But they won’t. Know why? Because a lot of people would suck. The skill gap would widen and they might even lose a little revenue.

But who cares? In the end they will win because the core fan base would grow. If this game played correctly id prob easily drop 1000 a year. But it plays like junk.

No thanks this isn’t madden

I find it hysterical that people defend check swinging because they realize their gameplay is going to take a huge hit.

Let’s face it. Check swings have given a lot of people success they didn’t deserve. It’s that game breaking.

I think putting politics into a video game by celebrating anything based on identity is pretty lame. I think we should progress as a society and start thinking and looking at everyone as human beings and not what group they identify with...

@MrGamebred said in Yeah I'm done:

I want to love this game. But then I play online and just feel lied to.

Exactly I feel lied to and they did lie.