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@binkz420_xbl said in Did I seriously waste $70!?:

I don't know how to contact the developers I've been searching it's not on the website so I'm assuming it's here. Just wanted to send an email to them but obviously that's not going to happen so hopefully they read this.

Did I seriously just waste $70!?

As a consumer, there's almost a certain amount of expectancy when you purchase a product. You want that product to work, you want that product to be advantageable, and you want that product to be durable with longevity. That being said, I've been waiting for this game to show me anything or any sign of good. I feel that I wasted $70 on a product that wasn't yet finished and quite frankly is almost unplayable. No matter what I do, my stats constantly go up down all around never where they're supposed to be, my equipment and appearance never ever stays the same like it's supposed to, and the amount of frustration that I've gone through with this game in my opinion wasn't worth the $70 when all I do is get angry. I've waited for years for the show to come out on Xbox and it finally does and this is what I'm left with disappointment and utter dismay?! I mean don't get me wrong it is fun, but the constant going back and forth fixing everything after every single game and sometimes it doesn't even fix I have to shut down the whole Xbox, is not enjoyable. A game, especially baseball, it's supposed to be enjoyable and fun and you're supposed to have a good time with it. I'm sorry the show, but I have yet to have fun with your product or even find it enjoyable in any means. Is there any chance I can get a refund or compensation or something!? Cuz right now it feels like I've been [censored] ripped off and I'm pissed.

Thanks for your time,
Zach

Devs, feel free to email me back if it's not congesting up your busy schedule thanks

theturk420@hotmail.com

Amen to that... You and thousands of others feel the exact same way. I wasted 100 dollars and lost all of my deluxe bonus content when their sh***ty servers crashed. Submitted over 4 help tickets and haven't received one response from anyone over at SDS in over a month. They're Top Notch

@jake98833_psn said in Wasnt the last patch supposed to fix the vault issue....:

@victor_sds_psn said in Wasnt the last patch supposed to fix the vault issue....:

We've got a server maintenance at 4 AM PT tomorrow, it should help alleviate some of the recent vault issues.

Will performance issues be addressed on last gen in a future update/patch

Hopefully, because this game is UNPLAYABLE

@missingweblink_psn said in How to get Support? Important and Wrong!:

I contacted them 3 weeks ago to let them know that I paid over $40K on an Adley Rutchsman Prospect card. I got to use it for ONE day and it, along with other completed orders, disappeared from my account after more of their server issues. That was almost 3 weeks ago and I haven't heard anything from them. Not even a "we're looking into it." Since then, I've responded to the original ticket 5 times, opened 4 more tickets, tried to reach out on Twitter 3 times and even contacted PlayStation support twice about it. No one can get them to contact me about it. PlayStation said they have no number, which I find kind of illegal or atleast immoral to be honest. Does anyone know how to get a hold of them other than the form that they won't answer? This may be the worst support I've ever gotten. Sadly, after over 20 years on PlayStation and atleast 5 faithfully with the Show, even with ALL of their server issues, I'm probably done with both after this. It isn't even about the card anymore. It's about being ignored so long. Any help would be appreciated.

I wish I could help dude, but I literally lost all bonus packs & cards myself. And SDS hasn't responded to any of my tickets either. Their sh** servers went down when I was opening all my deluxe content and I literally lost everything except some equipment cards for some reason. So ALL that extra DLC I paid 100$ for is just GONE.

SDS is TERRIBLE for handling this the way they have. I won't play this game until they fix it and reimburse me for all my lost stuff. I don't care if I have to put in 100 tickets, someone is going to get back to me about this non-sense & this broken a** game.

@t00muchham_xbl said in Heads up to those who are thinking about buying this game!!:

@eaglesfan_1974_psn said in Heads up to those who are thinking about buying this game!!:

Don’t do it!! Save your money!! Worst designed game I have ever paid for!! Too many bugs to list!! Spend more time reading error messages than I do actually playing!! Save your money, don’t buy it!!!

This message is made valid by laying claim without evidence. "Too many bugs to list." Is code for this game makes me feel a certain way but I am not good at expressing my emotions. I am also concerned with the OPs reading level, the error message do not take that long to read and they make only have 10 words max.

I'd say there is more than a plethora of "evidence" that this game is a [censored] show. Just read through the forums & reddit of all the issues this game has. What has me concerned is that you've played the game and NOT noticed all the bugs & broken features.

Are you sure you're playing the right year of the game? lol

@sean_87__psn said in Dear SDS:

They are definitely going to lose RTTS customers after what they decided to do.

ABSOLUTELY, just based around my personal experience with my friends, I would say they are losing a lot of customers/potential customers. I play baseball on my school team & I have about 10 friends who used to play this game all the time. This year, a couple of us bought it, a couple of us tried it out on Gamepass. We all LOVE RTTS & Franchise mode, a couple of us rock some DD, but not much. We all played it the first week it came out & none of us have touched it since. We've literally been making jokes about NOT playing the game because of how much they wrecked the single player modes & game in general with "online integration".

A couple of us have gone back to MLB 20 and the rest of my friends just won't play it. SDS shot themselves in the foot by releasing on Gamepass, most of my friends downloaded it & saw the mess with RTTS & Franchise & haven't touched the game since. I bought my copy, but ended up returning it. I'll check gamepass for updates but SDS really dropped the ball or just gave a giant middle finger to all of their longtime MLB The Show customers & supporters.

@tarne67_psn said in Dear SDS:

First off, I want to say thank you for the 16 years I have enjoyed playing The Show, except maybe the start of 2018 when we couldn’t choose our starting team in RTTS. There have been some ups and downs but I have always enjoyed it.

However, I think this might be my last year. Not threatening or anything, it just appears I’m getting to old for the game being almost a 6o yr. old gamer. I could never use the pci. My mind only has enough time to figure out timing and whether it’s a strike or not and sometimes not even enough time for that. I have never been able to use it. So, I can never do the online missions or mission difficulty beyond all-star because the pci shrinks so much. I am not much of a DD player being mostly a rtts player but I do like to do a lot of the missions, conquest, and event stuff but too much of it involves playing online and I can’t do it. I just get creamed by everyone and can never advance. I do get addicted to opening packs lol, probably nostalgia from doing it so much when I was a kid. I would never ask for a game to be dumbed down and I am not. Just pointing out my own personal reasons.

But, on to the main issue.

I love RTTS. Every year I would create 3-4 players. All with different looks, names, personalities etc. I always did a power guy, a contact speedster, a starting pitcher, and sometimes a closer. I enjoyed developing them through their career and establishing them as the top in their position. But you have taken all this away. I can’t even make one with a different name or change how they look or anything due to your push towards making everyone play DD. As a RTTS player I still bought stubbs because I wanted the gear for them and like I said, I get addicted to opening packs. There was no need for this push. And speaking of pushing, I wish the game would stop asking me if I wanted to be a two position player. Leave me alone and let me play the game I want to play. Sorry, little rant there. I just get frustrated when I ask myself, Is anyone at SDS a true gamer or have they all forgotten what it’s like to be a gamer and enjoy playing, creating your character, and developing them? You have taken all this away from me and made it all very generic and because of that I do not think I can continue. I will just go back a few years and play that one over and over again.

I really doubt this will fall upon any ears or if any would agree with me, but it’s my 2 cents.

In addition, just some side notes..
You need a way to be able to call your agent instead of waiting for his yearly one call.

I do not understand this double stat thing and see no purpose for it. Why are they 30-50 but then on my card everything goes to 100 and there seems to be no correlation. 40 speed might be 93 speed but 40 contact might only be 75 contact. It makes zero sense.

Check swings, annoying. I mash the button and get nothing but a check swing, usually only on curveballs and change ups. Add in feature to disable them. I like the realism but when it’s not working its needs to be able to be shut off.

Thank you,

I agree with everything you said. Unfortunately, SDS no longer cares about RTTS & Franchise players. They just want to find ways to force people to spend more & more $$$$ on their game. Looks like they've been taking some notes from EA & 2K on how to be underhanded, money grubbing, corporate A holes.

I returned my copy to Best Buy, that's how disappointed I was with the game. I'll be checking on Gamepass to see if it ever gets an update & if they fix some of this absolute garbage, but I'm sticking with my copy of MLB 20 on PS5 and my copy of MLB 17.

If this is the direction MLB The Show is going in, I'm done with this game too. I'll stick with my old copies of the MLB The Show & Super Mega Baseball 3. No way I will continue to support SDS with all these anti-consumer practices they are attempting to implement.

This game feels like a big F U to all the long time RTTS & Franchise players & supporters of this game. Not to mention it's basically half broken.

@joshjays44_psn said in Heads up to those who are thinking about buying this game!!:

@spitfirex007_psn said in Heads up to those who are thinking about buying this game!!:

@flaw7420_xbl said in Heads up to those who are thinking about buying this game!!:

@spitfirex007_psn said in Heads up to those who are thinking about buying this game!!:

@doppelganger39 said in Heads up to those who are thinking about buying this game!!:

Want my advice.......no, to bad here it is.

If you play an offline mode buy it, its great, if you play an online mode wait 3 weeks til the servers fixed then buy.

What is great about the offline mode? RTTS is ruined and Franchise has not been touched? Unless you like spending extra money on stubs, don't waste your time.

• They ruined conquest mode. The only part of DD single player people like.

*They ruined RTTS with this stupid perk system and needing to buy gear to make your player better. Always had that option, but never felt you had to buy it. But it's all about stubs and them being greedy.

• Ruined checked swings because the online community cried about it. I might get 1 check swing called in my favor for every 10 attempts.

*Servers are getting better, but still broken. Not a online player. But over the years, the few games I did play. Always lagging.

*Tons of glitches.

• Fielding this year is horrible. They ruined that. Hitting seems to be worse. I can put the ball almost dead center, get good contact and still line out routine grounders half the [censored] time.

I could go on and on. For anyone who's been supporting the series and not hardcore online. The game is such a massive step back.

I disagree about Conquest being the only mode single player DD players like. I only play single player DD modes, and Conquest isn’t even my favorite.

lol what other single player modes are there? You can't count moments because you aren't even using your DD team. You have vs CPU and extra innings.

Franchise mode you console noob, what's the matter with you?....are you so consumed with you DD card collecting that you failed to realize that the most important mode for actual baseball fans is Franchise mode, where you actually play 162 games of baseball like in RL. Incredible casualness shown with this poster.

Yep... Franchise & RTTS... RTTS is completely ruined right now, unplayable.

@rickyh24_xbl said in absolute joke with the servers again tonight on a friday:

Game is trash. Worst launch I’ve ever participated in. They should be handing out mass refunds.

AGREED. This product is barely functional as it is right now. It's probably going to take them months to fix all these issues. I had high hopes for this one, but it's clearly going to be a couple months before this game gets its proverbial "head on straight".

@kovz88_psn said in Let the usual daily four hour maintenance begin...:

Have you ever seen the meme of the dog holding a ball but not letting the human take it to throw it and it says "no take, only throw"? That's what I think of when I see these posts. People want them to fix the game without actually working on it

I think his point is that Beta testing should've been done by now. We are NOT their Beta testers, we are their actual customers. Servers in a game that has Online/Server integration with almost every game mode are kind of important part of the game. And something the development team should've had squared away before launch.

@doppelganger39 said in Heads up to those who are thinking about buying this game!!:

Want my advice.......no, to bad here it is.

If you play an offline mode buy it, its great, if you play an online mode wait 3 weeks til the servers fixed then buy.

It doesn't even work in offline mode! RTTS Progression is broken, equipment doesn't work, XP & Stubs are not working accurately. Literally, every mode in this game is broken or being broken by the junk servers.

Yep. WE ARE NOT YOUR BETA TESTERS SDS! We are your ACTUAL customers. This a sub-par product that is NOT ready for release. If you guys can't deliver on a yearly basis maybe you need a two year development cycle with a yearly patch update for the in between years because this is UNACCEPTABLE.

This is why integrating every aspect of the game with online servers was a TERRIBLE idea. This game is unplayable & single player is just a nightmare. RTTS is completely broken, progression & equipment is completely broken. There's almost no reason to play this game right now. Even you can get connected to the servers, they crash & you lose everything you did. I think I'd rather spend my time with Nier: Replicant or Returnal or even MLB 20.

But as far as MLB 21 goes, this game is half baked, WE ARE NOT YOUR BETA TESTERS, WE ARE YOUR ACTUAL CUSTOMERS! If I pay a 100 dollars, I expect a finished product. If you guys over at SDS can't deliver a product on a yearly basis maybe you guys need to switch to bi-yearly development with yearly update patches in between years. Because this is a sub-par product that is not ready for release in it's current state.

@savefarris_psn said in SDS HAS RUINED THE SINGLE PLAYER EXPERIENCE:

Uh ... YOU can't go back to 20.

Got a PS5 bud.

MLB 20 runs great on the PS5 BTW for anyone who hasn't played it on PS5. I highly recommend.

@el-fiama-bianca_xbl said in We get it:

@mistergraavy_psn said in We get it:

@locutusofburg said in We get it:

@mistergraavy_psn said in We get it:

Are things really this bad? Maybe I'm a lucky one but I've had little to no issue playing this year

You’re a liar. Which SDS employee are you?

Oof. I'm not lying I was just asking if it's at all possible some of this is a touch overblown as luckily I've had a relatively smooth time. Not trying to be toxic.

Don't apologize for thinking you're being toxic. This forum is full of little zit faced kids who never played a minute of baseball in their livee. They are the epitome of toxic. If a seagull was the wrong shade of off white these squids would make 43 threads calling for class action lawsuits.

I play this game in the morning - mid afternoon and then again after 10pm. The only issues I have had have been a handful of days where I couldn't connect to the server and a couple times my game randomly froze while playing seasons.

Says that he's only had a "handful" of days where he couldn't connect to the servers or the game froze while playing, when the game itself has only been out for a week. If this isn't the definition of fanboying, I don't know what is.

Besides the FACT that RTTS is unplayable with progression being broken, equipment not working, various bugs causing people to lose progression, stubs & xp. Integrating the single player modes with Online & DD has RUINED the game for me. They're trying to force players to play modes to spend more money on the game & it seems they attempted to slow RTTS progression to a snail's pace in an attempt to get people to buy more stubs or equipment, but in that attempt it seems they've broken progression completely. lol.

The game is such a mess right now, I can't play it. I'm back MLB 20 & I'm not returning this garbage unless this stuff gets fixed..

I'm NOT playing DD SDS! Not now, not ever. I feel like this was a big FU to all of the single player customers out there. There's a lot of us who just RTTS or Franchise or both. You've successfully ruined the game for us, thanks SDS! Guess I'll only be playing older versions from now on.

AGREED. I literally went to Best Buy and bought a copy of MLB 20. I knew I shouldn't have gotten rid of my copy! But I was duped by SDS again with this pile of hot garbage. SDS YOU GUYS JUST LOST A 15 YEAR CUSTOMER. MLB 20 is now my official baseball game. I'm returning my copy of MLB 21 & I'm not playing again until RTTS/DD integration & Online integration/Single Player integration is gone. I will not support your products if this how you guys treat your long time customers. I know, I'm one drop in a pond, probably doesn't matter that much to you guys, but I hope SDS starts losing customers because of this B.S. & they start ACTUALLY listening to the fans

@mistergraavy_psn said in We get it:

Are things really this bad? Maybe I'm a lucky one but I've had little to no issue playing this year

There's no way this a REAL person who has played this game.

@the_bad_seed85 said in No Customer support, No communication, No excuse:

@azoth-solar_xbl said in No Customer support, No communication, No excuse:

THIS GAME IS TRASH... RTTS/INTEGRATION & ONLINE/SINGLE PLAYER INTEGRATION ARE RUINING THIS GAME.
I refuse to play another SDS game unless they fix this, otherwise looks like I'll be playing MLB 20 until a better baseball game shows up. lol.

Yeah you go teach them a lesson by... playing... another one of... there... games.

The old games don't have these features.. you obviously missed the point. Not supporting them anymore on this product or future products... PERIOD

I literally went to Best Buy and bought a copy of MLB 20. I knew I shouldn't have gotten rid of my copy! But I was duped by SDS again with this pile of hot garbage. SDS YOU GUYS JUST LOST A 15 YEAR CUSTOMER. MLB 20 is now my official baseball game. I'm returning my copy of MLB 21 & I'm not playing again until RTTS/DD integration & Online integration/Single Player integration is gone. I will not support your products if this how you guys treat your long time customers. I know, I'm one drop in a pond, probably doesn't matter that much to you guys, but I hope SDS starts losing customers because of this B.S. & they start ACTUALLY listening to the fans

THIS GAME IS TRASH... RTTS/INTEGRATION & ONLINE/SINGLE PLAYER INTEGRATION ARE RUINING THIS GAME.
I refuse to play another SDS game unless they fix this, otherwise looks like I'll be playing MLB 20 until a better baseball game shows up. lol.