I understand the server issues that's causing problems from doing next/old gen plus the millions that got added just from gamepass!!
But these canned responses is what has people pissed off, myself included!! I know from a business standpoint they can't tell us everything, but a little more communication would go a long way in alot people minds!! Just my 2 cents!!

Make bunting like hitting!! You have to move the PCI to get a good bunt down.

@A_PerfectGame said in Mariano might be useless.:

Mariano is far and away my favorite player of all time. And obviously the best closer of all-time. But the games meta in years past does not really fit him well. Most players hit the FB well. An in and out cutter might be a ok pitch depending on the movement. But how fast will fast be? And how much movement exactly we have to see.

I hope he’s usable. I’ll take him on a gamble day 1 since I’m getting two diamond variety packs.

From what SDS said in one of there streams pitchers with a dominant pitch will have a quirk. I think its called outliner
Makes fastball faster, cutters cut more etc. So I think he'll be fine.

It's amazing how people's first response is it was the least played mode!! Of course it was when none of it worked properly. If DD played as bad as OF then it would be played less to!!
OF was never updated, multiple seasons wasn't right (played the exact schedule every season), gms would always go to que and sometimes not count, Playoffs wouldn't start sometimes, took forever to start a lg sometimes a day to multiple hours etc. I could go on!!
With all that being said me and a couple of my friends ran a lg of 24 dedicated user's for 5 yrs. We worked around all the problems the gm had cause we wanted to play OF.
So before everyone bashes OF know the circumstances of why it was the least played. I do like DD but at the end of the day I'd like a realistic team to play with friends and not have to deal with the bunt dancing, holding R2, etc of DD!! IJS

Blame it on the guys that were using only a 3 man rotation and always bringing starters in for relief!! Did they come up with the best solution, maybe not. But I'll rather have this then what we had before. IMO

It's going to get to a point where people are going to back out of a gm cause they are not the home team!!

If life happens and I'm losing I'll just quit unless I'm up then I'll ask for a fq. My daughters, woman, etc is more important then the video gm I'm playing.
It shouldn't give you more time every half inning. 2 minutes should be the max IMO. I take care of all unforeseen business before I search for a gm, I hate sitting there staring at the pause timer.
I know if I want to pinch hit, change pitchers etc before the start of an inning and what hitter/pitcher I'm going to. It's not rocket science.

Pitching has been one of the biggest problems with this gm since day one!! Hopefully we get at least one more patch dedicated to pitching.
I think that would help balance the gm out. IMO

Can't believe how hard people defend bunting in this game!! I've lost on a suicide squeeze before and I went to bunt defense and he bunted directly to my 3rd baseman who did this awful animation and the winning run scored. So what did I do wrong? Game gave him win.
Example #2 guy suicides early in gm ok no prob caught me off guard. I'm up 1 run in the middle innings guy on 3rd 1 out go to bunt defense bunts it and my 3rd baseman does that bs where they whiff on a slow grounder guy ties gm up. Again gm animations bails him out.
Bunting is NO SKILL REQUIRED!! IJS

Me and a couple buddies ran successful lgs for 6 yrs... We started at I think 12 and finished up at 24 teams!!
We found people by getting on the headset and actually talking to prospective players and was able to weed out people.
To run a successful lg you and the people you appoint have to be invested in running said lg. I can post more but it'll be even longer.
We had to do work arounds every yr for online franchise, it has never gotten SDS full attention. Maybe just maybe that's why it wasn't played more.
My point is if SDS actually put a real effort into lgs there are alot of people that would play them.

@collin_sds_psn said in The Official Twitch Drops Thread:

Twitch Drops are back. We are investigating why claimed packs aren't showing up.

Things to know:

You need to create an MLB The Show account. Link your platform account (PlayStation, Xbox, Switch) and then link your Twitch account.

You can earn 1 pack by watching 60 mins of a Drops Enabled stream. You can check your progress on the Twitch Inventory page. There are five Drops to earn all weekend. Note: We are aware that the Twitch mobile app is saying unlimited and this is a bug on Twitch's side.

You will need to click "Claim" on your Twitch Inventory screen or when it shows up in chat. At this point you then need to boot the game.

Troubleshooting

It appears there could be an issue with the link to Twitch if you have changed your Twitch password recently. We are checking with Twitch, but we have heard from fans saying that simply just relinking your Twitch account will resolve the issue.

Well I relinked my account twice already and still nothing!! Once Friday and once Saturday.

Clamied 2 during stream and 5 in Twitch streams. Go onto inventory and Twitch packs not there. This was on Friday

5 for the whole week!! Not many packs in game like years past. Then again 5 makes sense SDS wants you to buy stubs/packs.

TA was way to easy last year!! Exchange, exchange exchange get all cards in 2 hours!!
If you really look at what they're doing it's to make you actually have to play the game. Example: World Series reward path not by wins but innings!! Seen alot of complaining about people quitting so they changed it. Play game get rewards!! IJS

I'm so used to Xbox people saying they got the game for free!! So in going with that theory you're only paying for the standard version!! IJS

You would think with next gen theyll have more space to put in OF. And actually make it playable. Not the horrible OF they hsd on PS4. IJS

@boogiewithstu2 said in MLB THE SHOW 21 LATEST PATCH ISSUES:

@chi-town-wonder said in MLB THE SHOW 21 LATEST PATCH ISSUES:

I've had like 8 freeze offs since patch. Before that I had 1 maybe 2.

Is this playing online or is it freezing offline as well ?

Online

Would think it'll be a easy fix. They have our psn look at the card people have duplicates of and just take the extra off and give you correct card.

@jcassaro44_psn said in Really Wish We Could Do Something About BUNT DANCERS:

They could always make it so if you hit bunt three times in a row you’re now locked into bunting

That has been my solution for bunt dancers for yrs!! Lol

Until SDS switches to dedicated servers instead of peer to peer timing windows will be different every gm. This is why some gms you'll have no problem turning on 102 then next gm your late every swing.