So get a run and pause the game for an infinite amount of time and an automatic win? How does self inflicted freeze offs make any sense?

This is the only game I’ve ever played that gives you minutes as opposed to seconds before you are kicked for inactivity. It’s actually ridiculous people get 5-10 minutes a game to pause and waste time.

@go4stros25_psn said in Ohtani is a 95+ diamond SDS:

@doihearbossmusic said in Ohtani is a 95+ diamond SDS:

@go4stros25_psn said in Ohtani is a 95+ diamond SDS:

He is a diamond, it's just that hitting attributes don't effect the overall of his live serie. For his live series to be a high diamond he would have to start pitching like degrom.

I think they have it right. Hes a high gold pitcher with a diamond bat.

Yes but that combination for the MORE than complete player he is needs to be a 90+ diamond

As a hitter alone his can hit for power, steal a bag and has a cannon arm.

Yes but being a great hitter doesn't justify an increase to his pitching attributes. what youre missing is that he is a diamond, his overall rating just doesn't reflect it. If hitting attributes effected pitchers overalls then every pitcher in the game would be silver, except ohtani, who would be diamond.

I don't know how else to explain it.

Of course you don’t know how to explain it, you’re comparing him to other baseball players and using the attributes in this game to do so.

He is NOT a starting pitcher.
He is NOT and outfielder.
He is BOTH.
He’s a pitcher that’s entering the HRD on merit, not as a gag for marketing, but as a league leader in the same category players like Bonds and McGuire dominated.

No, that doesn’t make him a better pitcher, it makes him a better BASEBALL player, so his Overall BASEBALL rating…shouldn’t be held back by the fact nobody else can do what this guy is doing.

It’s fairly obvious his card should be interchangeable, you should be able to start him in the OF or on the Mound, and his overall should be a representation of what he does in both positions, not what he does 20% of the time he’s on the field.

I would rather take you seriously but it’s actually not possible anymore.

@therainmaker29_xbl said in LOL @ SDS their last hurrah to keep players:

@the_dragon1912 said in LOL @ SDS their last hurrah to keep players:

When next week rolls around and madden drops you won't post anymore right? This is just sad at this point

There’s no limit to the amount of posts I’ll make. This is a bad game and I’m providing a public service. If it keeps one person who is on the fence from playing this POS I’ve done my job.

Nobody on the fence is going to take a post like yours seriously. Not even if you try again 15 minutes late and add more emojis

The Stros stole the pitch
Altuve hit a bomb
Don’t rip his shirt
He has guess pitch turned on

I’m pretty good and bringing in relievers that are “ready and waiting” once the bases have been cleared.

I believe this comes down to FPS. Unless you are actually standing in front of it you will never get a true feel for how fast it actually is, the cameras are playing tricks on you even more so than your confidence level.

Sure sending a “nice hit” message after every K or “nice pitch” during a HR replay would be hilarious but this isn’t rocket league. Just send them a message. “Most” gets thrown around a lot on this forum of about 45 total people. “Most” people don’t have messages off the same way “most” don’t bunt dance or replay homeruns.

I’ve played like 100 games, received no messages, never got BMed by anyone. One HR replay which was a no doubter by Johnny Cueto in the moonshot event so it’s all g. It’s blown out of proportion.

The servers aren’t as bad as Demise says the same way online gameplay isn’t as toxic as dudes with messages turned OFF say it is. It’s in there heads, they need an excuse for why they can’t win but others can. Blaming others comes first, blaming the devs second, blaming the opponents ethnicity third, internet provider fourth, and somewhere way down in about 14th place is them checking there hitting feedback and seeing the “dead center” swing was actually a 9 and late.

Why even wait? Rodney is like the best 7000 stub reliever ever

I still think people are extremely under estimating Xbox users. They’ve picked the superior gaming console for years. They are gamers. They are coming equipped with gaming monitors, sweat rags, and aftermarket controllers that can adjust the sensitivity and dead zone of their PCI.

@spin_doctor01_psn said in Blue meter beside each Pitch Choice:

@jacky-chan1_xbl said in Blue meter beside each Pitch Choice:

Never throw the same pitch the same place consecutively.

I'll throw something slow like a change up down and in, to the same spot in the zone if I'm trying to get a double play. I want the batter to hit it. It's basically like throwing out bait. You just have to be very aware of who you're pitching to.

Saying things like “know who your pitching too” and “find out what a guy will chase” might sound slick, but in reality your just throwing against a AI that doesn’t remember your pitch sequence from last inning or the bait pitch you through 4 pitches ago.

Confidence means almost everything when you pitch to someone with a functioning brain. They see your ABC fastball up and In, slider away, change up low sequence from a mile away.

@dolenz_psn said in The Show series is nothing more than repetitive.:

@charterbus_psn said in The Show series is nothing more than repetitive.:

I wonder if the Brewers connect jersey program will be 8 moments on rookie, 3 exchanges, and 5 PXP missions again.

#shoutoutothecopyandpastedepartment

Maybe so, but if they changed it up then someone would also complain.

"That city connect was so much harder than the other city connect programs. SDS hates the brewers."

I really couldn’t care less what people complain about. I don’t enter every complaint thread defending SDS like I’m on salary. Move on bro live your life, go put up 37 runs on the Rockies again I’m sure that’s suuuuuuuper fun and exciting….but then again two games in over week kinda says otherwise.

#Shoutouttotheplaystheforummorethanthegamedepartment

@easy_duhz_it__mlbts said in Waste of money:

There is no "next gen". Its current gen and last gen. Maybe you should get a current gen console and then when you get wrecked on that, you can find some other excuse.

The difference between PS4 and PS5 or the XBox versions is minimal. But some people need every excuse under the sun to justify their losses.

The game was advertised and sold as 60hz not 120hz. Anyone on old gen has a legit complaint but if you really need to feel superior go right ahead. Simple math says it’s 2x better which isn’t minimal, it’s multiple.

@the-harvest_xbl said in Why is Trout so expensive?:

Sorry if this is obvious, but why is Trout so expensive. He’s not a top rated player and I only see him required for one set.

Am I missing something?

He WAS the highest rated card to start the year like every year so his price reflects that because he was the most rare even though he isn’t now...or could be only SDS knows.

But on top of that the LS collection unlocks 3 99 overall cards months before other 99s come out so he is always priced up. Once you get him it’s usually pretty easy to finish but this year a lot of guys are quite close in value to him. As just a player he isn’t worth it, as the key to the 99s he is, but even that’s close.

@workfarternotsmarter_mlbts said in The Show series is nothing more than repetitive.:

@charterbus_psn said in The Show series is nothing more than repetitive.:

I wonder if the Brewers connect jersey program will be 8 moments on rookie, 3 exchanges, and 5 PXP missions again.

#shoutoutothecopyandpastedepartment

cant wait to grind that program! Gonna love an 85 Dan Pleasac that gets shelled in anywhere that isnt rookie vs the cpu.

No worries, 85% of all required content is on rookie vs the CPU inside Dolenz safe space.

I wonder if the Brewers connect jersey program will be 8 moments on rookie, 3 exchanges, and 5 PXP missions again.

#shoutoutothecopyandpastedepartment

@mungula_mlbts said in CRASHING:

@theblindrhino said in CRASHING:

@mungula_mlbts said in CRASHING:

@theblindrhino said in CRASHING:

@mungula_mlbts said in CRASHING:

I love making progress on multiple things just for it to crash my game to the Xbox home screen and not save any of my progress!!!! Nice work guys!!!!

Next time buy a decent console. PS5 works fine.

So the Xbox Series X runs everything perfectly but MLBTS conquest and showdown? You think that's a console problem? Sure buddy. Get back on Twitter and go to war for Sony some more.

This issue is isolated to XBox.

Look at you go brainiac

He just aimlessly rambles all day I wouldn’t worry about him much. The problem is the Devs and the bad servers.

If you continue to struggle and need to use directional I would aim for guys like Lofton and Boggs and others with really high contact and vision. You are somewhere accurate with the online play. It becomes much more based on real life and the attributes of the players. A slider away is really tough to hit in real life, so it translates to the game, but contact and vision will help with that.

Also if you struggle online don’t worry, everyone does at first. I played on rookie with maxed sliders (steroids) for years, now I’m alright. But more importantly SDS gives a lot of ways to earn most things offline, so you can still enjoy the game even if you can’t enjoy being super competitive.

You competed at the highest level known to man, you are excused if you lose in MLB the show online.

There is also a final option and that would be an “online league” against others who may not be able to play at a high level like yourself but have fun playing amongst each other. It isn’t super popular but you only need a few guys to enjoy it.

@eatyum_psn said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

@charterbus_psn said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

@eatyum_psn said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

@charterbus_psn said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

@broken_toy1_psn said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

@thehungryhole said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

@samguenther1987 said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

@balsamicarrow88 said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

This game is atrocious. How in the world do you manage to have offline modes lag just as bad as online and the pitchers in moments will dot corners on rookie or flat out walk you. SDS should surrender the MLB license and do the right thing. They are not capable nor do they have the skills to make a good baseball game.

Still better then EA

is it though mate?

you can download FIFA 2022 for free, play with your friends, $0 need to be spent to play all of the teams - several of the modes are solid

look at SDS 2022 - the game is falling apart trying to appease all types of system users

This may come off sounding condescending. I don't mean it to. I apologize if it does.

It's soccer for an American audience. No thank you.

They screwed up the first football game that resonated with fans and gamers. I'm both and loved the game from Madden 92 on my genesis until 19 or 20 when I was so fed up with pay to win I couldn't do it anymore. Add that to a customer service team that was known to call you a liar and hang up on you for not getting stuff you grinded or paid for.

I have always been a football and baseball fan. I want to play the sports I love without the headaches from the company I loathe. From everything I've seen from 2K, EA, and SDS, I'll take SDS every time. I actually see the changes that people ask for in this forum. EA's answer is to have you tickle their sack while they do what they want, then be happy that you have to spend $300 a week to stay competitive. There are two types of EA players: Those that hate them and people that just started playing.

If you love your sport, there's a good chance EA will change your opinion of it. I never missed a game during the NFL season. Sundays I'd wake up at 9 am for kickoff at 9:30. Watch three full games on Sunday and one on Monday. Even started watching on Thursday when that started. I can't even watch it anymore. I hear 2K is supposed to be coming out with an arcade style Football game. I'll get it. I hope it brings back my want of the game.

This year, I got MLB.TV for the first time and I watched every game I could find last year. I haven't done that in a decade. The MLB is exciting again. SDS did that. I tried NBA 2K and basketball just isn't my sport. Basketball and Soccer, to me, is just running around for an hour. I was thinking about getting PES a few years ago, but thought better of it. Considering it's not around anymore, I made the right choice.

Just out of curiosity, how far into FIFA season is it? Pure speculation is that it's almost over. Probably trying get some more victims before the new one comes out. It's marketing, so I don't begrudge them that.

Looked it up. End of September. So a little later than I thought. Four months. If they are anything like Madden, it's only one month of real content. Then something similar to the 10th/11th inning program for the next two months.

This is why I agree with the statement. "Still better than EA."

Lol I know it sounds crazy, but believe it or not it’s changed a bit in the last 12 years. I’m sure on some other forum misinformed EA fans say “I played Diamond Dynasty on MLB 12 and it was all made up players” sounds kinda dumb.

Curious on your response on this, because I don't necessarily disagree with the statement on people confusing a good game with liking baseball, because I'm sure that's true for some people.

What is to stop that from being applied to FIFA or Madden? Why can't I just dismiss people liking those games and by extension thinking they are good by saying that?

You’re kind of arguing my other comment but quoting this one but either way I’m simply talking about the “pay to win” stuff that gets thrown around a lot by people that haven’t played any of the EA games in a decade. I played Fifa 12 UT which was the second year existed. I’ve actually played every sports UT for over a decade.

Back then, there were no rewards, no missions, no Ranked Season, No FUT champs, no Icon swaps, no squad battles, no anything. You got about 1,000 coins a game and that’s it. If you play UT now, you earn about 300,000 a week plus all the packs and free players it gives. They have insane packs you can earn that are not even available for purchase in the store just like MLB. It’s very different, the same way this is VERY different than Diamond Dynasties origin.

But yeah I would argue both games are pretty bad gameplay wise. I like sports so I play them for fun, yet neither is very competitive, Fifa pros talk about how none of them “enjoy” the game. It doesn’t mean you need to spend $2,000 on Fifa points. My 99 Pele was free. Same with my Cruyff Maradona Maldini Vieira Gerrard Ronald the other Ronaldo, Messi, Mbappe the list goes on and on. NickRunTheMarket has 200,000,000 coins because he trades. The coins/packs/players are there the UTs just work in different ways.

Thank you for the detailed answer, as I have never actually played FIFA, and never played UT in Madden.

No problem man, you’re constantly one of the more level headed people on so I appreciate you even asking. And I also think it’s worth mentioning what I said in another thread. Ea have there name on Formula 1, it’s developed by codemasters, but you still get the EA logo when it loads.

The game has zero micro transactions apart from the “podium pass” which is just different outfits and car liveries. Nothing to help you win or go faster or turn better. EA does a lot of things, micro transactions are one of them, but they do still make some really good games that don’t have them.

As a result EA have become so successful, they just told FIFA they had to move out and every major soccer league in the world chose EA over FIFA. A gaming company….over the international federation of football. As “bad” or “corrupt” as they seem, they are no where near Fifa who were paid off to host the World Cup in Qatar where thousands of people have died building the stadiums in putrid conditions.

I actually think it’s pretty awesome they risked it all and came out on top. “Ea FC” coming soon.

@eatyum_psn said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

@charterbus_psn said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

@broken_toy1_psn said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

@thehungryhole said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

@samguenther1987 said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

@balsamicarrow88 said in This game is the worst in franchise history.:

This game is atrocious. How in the world do you manage to have offline modes lag just as bad as online and the pitchers in moments will dot corners on rookie or flat out walk you. SDS should surrender the MLB license and do the right thing. They are not capable nor do they have the skills to make a good baseball game.

Still better then EA

is it though mate?

you can download FIFA 2022 for free, play with your friends, $0 need to be spent to play all of the teams - several of the modes are solid

look at SDS 2022 - the game is falling apart trying to appease all types of system users

This may come off sounding condescending. I don't mean it to. I apologize if it does.

It's soccer for an American audience. No thank you.

They screwed up the first football game that resonated with fans and gamers. I'm both and loved the game from Madden 92 on my genesis until 19 or 20 when I was so fed up with pay to win I couldn't do it anymore. Add that to a customer service team that was known to call you a liar and hang up on you for not getting stuff you grinded or paid for.

I have always been a football and baseball fan. I want to play the sports I love without the headaches from the company I loathe. From everything I've seen from 2K, EA, and SDS, I'll take SDS every time. I actually see the changes that people ask for in this forum. EA's answer is to have you tickle their sack while they do what they want, then be happy that you have to spend $300 a week to stay competitive. There are two types of EA players: Those that hate them and people that just started playing.

If you love your sport, there's a good chance EA will change your opinion of it. I never missed a game during the NFL season. Sundays I'd wake up at 9 am for kickoff at 9:30. Watch three full games on Sunday and one on Monday. Even started watching on Thursday when that started. I can't even watch it anymore. I hear 2K is supposed to be coming out with an arcade style Football game. I'll get it. I hope it brings back my want of the game.

This year, I got MLB.TV for the first time and I watched every game I could find last year. I haven't done that in a decade. The MLB is exciting again. SDS did that. I tried NBA 2K and basketball just isn't my sport. Basketball and Soccer, to me, is just running around for an hour. I was thinking about getting PES a few years ago, but thought better of it. Considering it's not around anymore, I made the right choice.

Just out of curiosity, how far into FIFA season is it? Pure speculation is that it's almost over. Probably trying get some more victims before the new one comes out. It's marketing, so I don't begrudge them that.

Looked it up. End of September. So a little later than I thought. Four months. If they are anything like Madden, it's only one month of real content. Then something similar to the 10th/11th inning program for the next two months.

This is why I agree with the statement. "Still better than EA."

Lol I know it sounds crazy, but believe it or not it’s changed a bit in the last 12 years. I’m sure on some other forum misinformed EA fans say “I played Diamond Dynasty on MLB 12 and it was all made up players” sounds kinda dumb.

Curious on your response on this, because I don't necessarily disagree with the statement on people confusing a good game with liking baseball, because I'm sure that's true for some people.

What is to stop that from being applied to FIFA or Madden? Why can't I just dismiss people liking those games and by extension thinking they are good by saying that?

You’re kind of arguing my other comment but quoting this one but either way I’m simply talking about the “pay to win” stuff that gets thrown around a lot by people that haven’t played any of the EA games in a decade. I played Fifa 12 UT which was the second year existed. I’ve actually played every sports UT for over a decade.

Back then, there were no rewards, no missions, no Ranked Season, No FUT champs, no Icon swaps, no squad battles, no anything. You got about 1,000 coins a game and that’s it. If you play UT now, you earn about 300,000 a week plus all the packs and free players it gives. They have insane packs you can earn that are not even available for purchase in the store just like MLB. It’s very different, the same way this is VERY different than Diamond Dynasties origin.

But yeah I would argue both games are pretty bad gameplay wise. I like sports so I play them for fun, yet neither is very competitive, Fifa pros talk about how none of them “enjoy” the game. It doesn’t mean you need to spend $2,000 on Fifa points. My 99 Pele was free. Same with my Cruyff Maradona Maldini Vieira Gerrard Ronald the other Ronaldo, Messi, Mbappe the list goes on and on. NickRunTheMarket has 200,000,000 coins because he trades. The coins/packs/players are there the UTs just work in different ways.