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@the_dragon1912 said in Account Banned:

@cryptopowell90_psn said in Account Banned:

@the_dragon1912 said in Account Banned:

@cryptopowell90_psn said in Account Banned:

@grizzbear55_psn said in Account Banned:

@justinlarson_psn said in Account Banned:

I went ahead and submitted a ticket with a screen shot of the pack I pulled Trout from dated 4/18/22.... so now I guess waiting is all I can do.

This is probabally the way to go if you did nothing wrong, they investigate and solve it. But people who knew they were scamming probabally won't submit ticket b/c it will be evidence against them.

Due to how much the market was affected they prolly just banned all accts that had activity with open mind to those who did nothing wrong. But they had to do something because of how big of an impact it had, until they get to the source.

I'm not sure all factors in this are but if you are innocent the truth will out.

Sorry but you are absolutely dead wrong. They should NOT be banning accounts that had "activity" related to the impacted cards. If it made such a huge impact then why is Mike Trout more expensive right now than a week ago? It wasn't a huge deal in the scheme of things and the problem originated because they chose to put the game on the stupid Switch and somebody found a way to get free unlimited stubs and bought up all the cards.

People having 3-4 times the amount of stubs they should have absolutely has an impact. On the surface there is no way to tell if its accidental or if the guy with infinite stubs gave people a heads up first. Don't get me wrong, there were probably quite a few otherwise innocent people that got hit with bans, but a true innocent person partaking in this fiasco would be mostly coincidence. Like they pulled the card in that time frame or just happened to look at the price then. It's not like the prices were like that all day. It was several 10 minute windows throughout the day. The vast majority of participants knew what they were getting into.

SDS left a glitch out there and it got exploited. It boils down to their responsibility and banning people that bought cards cheaper than usual on the market fair and square is such a joke and illegal. It is NOT our responsibility to know the EXACT market value of cards that SDS puts in their game and on their localized market.

If you got caught in the crossfire then send a ticket with proof of buy/sells/pack pulls etc. some innocent people did get banned, I won't argue with you on that. I've just seen a lot of comments and posts in this community that thought they didn't do anything wrong but bought stubs 3rd party. They should be able to tell the innocent from the guilty pretty easily. It's easier to ban everyone involved and fix it later than potentially miss the worst offenders

Are you listening to yourself? Its better to BAN innocent parties than doing a legitimate investigation and banning those responsible for the actual glitch? Why do you hate the community so much? I didn't get caught up in this and have never bought stubs because I have time wfh to flip cards. You simping to SDS about banning innocent people is so nuts.

@dart_wuffy_psn said in Account Banned:

If you sell anything for 100% profit in stubs you deserve the punishment.

What in the world is wrong with you? If I buy a uniform for 1000 stubs and sell it for 2200 then you think I deserve to be banned?

@the_dragon1912 said in Account Banned:

@cryptopowell90_psn said in Account Banned:

@grizzbear55_psn said in Account Banned:

@justinlarson_psn said in Account Banned:

I went ahead and submitted a ticket with a screen shot of the pack I pulled Trout from dated 4/18/22.... so now I guess waiting is all I can do.

This is probabally the way to go if you did nothing wrong, they investigate and solve it. But people who knew they were scamming probabally won't submit ticket b/c it will be evidence against them.

Due to how much the market was affected they prolly just banned all accts that had activity with open mind to those who did nothing wrong. But they had to do something because of how big of an impact it had, until they get to the source.

I'm not sure all factors in this are but if you are innocent the truth will out.

Sorry but you are absolutely dead wrong. They should NOT be banning accounts that had "activity" related to the impacted cards. If it made such a huge impact then why is Mike Trout more expensive right now than a week ago? It wasn't a huge deal in the scheme of things and the problem originated because they chose to put the game on the stupid Switch and somebody found a way to get free unlimited stubs and bought up all the cards.

People having 3-4 times the amount of stubs they should have absolutely has an impact. On the surface there is no way to tell if its accidental or if the guy with infinite stubs gave people a heads up first. Don't get me wrong, there were probably quite a few otherwise innocent people that got hit with bans, but a true innocent person partaking in this fiasco would be mostly coincidence. Like they pulled the card in that time frame or just happened to look at the price then. It's not like the prices were like that all day. It was several 10 minute windows throughout the day. The vast majority of participants knew what they were getting into.

SDS left a glitch out there and it got exploited. It boils down to their responsibility and banning people that bought cards cheaper than usual on the market fair and square is such a joke and illegal. It is NOT our responsibility to know the EXACT market value of cards that SDS puts in their game and on their localized market.

@the_dragon1912 said in Account Banned:

@cryptopowell90_psn said in Account Banned:

@the_dragon1912 said in Account Banned:

@cryptopowell90_psn said in Account Banned:

@the_dragon1912 said in Account Banned:

@cryptopowell90_psn said in Account Banned:

@grizzbear55_psn said in Account Banned:

@justinlarson_psn said in Account Banned:

I went ahead and submitted a ticket with a screen shot of the pack I pulled Trout from dated 4/18/22.... so now I guess waiting is all I can do.

This is probabally the way to go if you did nothing wrong, they investigate and solve it. But people who knew they were scamming probabally won't submit ticket b/c it will be evidence against them.

Due to how much the market was affected they prolly just banned all accts that had activity with open mind to those who did nothing wrong. But they had to do something because of how big of an impact it had, until they get to the source.

I'm not sure all factors in this are but if you are innocent the truth will out.

Sorry but you are absolutely dead wrong. They should NOT be banning accounts that had "activity" related to the impacted cards. If it made such a huge impact then why is Mike Trout more expensive right now than a week ago? It wasn't a huge deal in the scheme of things and the problem originated because they chose to put the game on the stupid Switch and somebody found a way to get free unlimited stubs and bought up all the cards.

People having 3-4 times the amount of stubs they should have absolutely has an impact. On the surface there is no way to tell if its accidental or if the guy with infinite stubs gave people a heads up first. Don't get me wrong, there were probably quite a few otherwise innocent people that got hit with bans, but a true innocent person partaking in this fiasco would be mostly coincidence. Like they pulled the card in that time frame or just happened to look at the price then. It's not like the prices were like that all day. It was several 10 minute windows throughout the day. The vast majority of participants knew what they were getting into.

SDS left a glitch out there and it got exploited. It boils down to their responsibility and banning people that bought cards cheaper than usual on the market fair and square is such a joke and illegal. It is NOT our responsibility to know the EXACT market value of cards that SDS puts in their game and on their localized market.

If you got caught in the crossfire then send a ticket with proof of buy/sells/pack pulls etc. some innocent people did get banned, I won't argue with you on that. I've just seen a lot of comments and posts in this community that thought they didn't do anything wrong but bought stubs 3rd party. They should be able to tell the innocent from the guilty pretty easily. It's easier to ban everyone involved and fix it later than potentially miss the worst offenders

Are you listening to yourself? Its better to BAN innocent parties than doing a legitimate investigation and banning those responsible for the actual glitch? Why do you hate the community so much? I didn't get caught up in this and have never bought stubs because I have time wfh to flip cards. You simping to SDS about banning innocent people is so nuts.

Am I Simping for SDS or I don't trust this community to tell the truth about their actions? I've yet to see a member of this community thats been around a while and know is legit get banned. I've been apart of this community for a long time. The majority of the bans were handed out to madden kids who bought stubs or were trying to cheat the system. If wanting this community to play by the rules is simping for SDS you can certainly have that opinion, but its wrong. Anyone cheating the market is screwing over good people that make stubs on the market the right way just as much as it hurts SDS

Then say that. I agree that buying stubs is illegal. I don't really care but that is bannable and those people shouldn't complain (same about multi accounts). My issue is the people that didn't buy or sell stubs and just exploited the market that was freely available to them

@hoboadam_psn said in Account Banned:

I've been pretty silent on this but I'll give some opinions now. As a person whose job it has been for over 25 years to manage, store code for and debug data, here's my take...

SDS did the right thing by banning innocents inadvertantly. Every minute these stubs and activity is out there, it becomes harder to unravel and causes more harm to the market. This year, the market has been more stable than ever. People haven't been making millions flipping. That says it all.

SDS has the data to back up ANY claim of innocence. If you are in fact innocent, send in your ticket. Be polite. Cite some dates and transactions. It will only help expedite.

Like many other "veterans" of this community, it's not "our" population affected by this. Why? We know better man. Simple, and factual statement. We've seen shady stuff over the years and know that you either buy stubs via the appropriate parties, or earn them through the game.

Streamers advertising 3rd party stub sellers and people thinking those sales are legit, I don't have sympathy for. Those same streamers are likely getting kick back from those 3rd party sellers.

I'm sure there are innocent people that have been banned. I get it. Innocent before proven guilty works with laws, but not private companies in an online virtual environment that you agree to use under those terms, everytime you log in.

Terrific. I work in IT as well. You are clueless when it comes to how competent SDS/EA/insert big company is at investigating these things. I was banned by EA and it took multiple weeks for those idiots to resolve the issue. Giving people a 24 hour ban would be fine, but EVERYONE that got that ban is still banned for a full year now.

Let's be honest here. The MLB community is a joke size wise compared to the other big sports games. Nobody cares about the "grizzled vets" who have no sympathy for anything.

It's almost unplayable at this point with the lag. Minor league stadiums and even the classic stadiums run so much smoother. I have no idea why anybody would use a major league stadium in an online game unless you are terrible at the game or just looking for a dumb edge.

@biigd008_xbl said in Favorite stadium to play in?:

Field of dreams is awesome. KC is a close second.

Geez. What system are you on? FOD is an absolute lagfest every time for me

@kingakp_xbl said in Hitting help:

Try messing with your PCI placement before the pitch. If you're jamming your stick down, try starting your PCI low in the zone so you train yourself to stop slamming down. Any pitch lower than your PCI will most likely be a ball. There are alot of little ways to rectify the problem if you're getting good timing your PCI placement will take care of itself. Practice practice practice

I tried starting my PCI at the bottom of the zone but struggled catching up to the high fastballs. Maybe I just need to get quicker but I'm afraid that may be impossible reflex wise. I'll give it a try again though. I think just hitting middle pitches will help me a ton. I usually hit pitches at the bottom or top of the strike zone better than middle

FotF Program - completed the 600,000 points.

LS collections - Finished 2 days ago

RS - Havent played a single ranked game lol. Went like 55-7 last year or something because I hate committing 9 innings of time.

BR - Didn't play the first one but have 135 points on the 2nd one (trying to get to 150 for 5 ballin packs)

Events - Don't really play these unless I really want a card or I'm finished with BR and don't have time for ranked

Misc - Completed all programs outside of Astros uniform thing (need like 50 Xp points with Brantley to finish). Lost my fully complete catcher RTTS build somehow. Will be restarting that when new season drops to XP grind.

@hoboadam_psn said in Account Banned:

@cryptopowell90_psn said in Account Banned:

@hoboadam_psn said in Account Banned:

I've been pretty silent on this but I'll give some opinions now. As a person whose job it has been for over 25 years to manage, store code for and debug data, here's my take...

SDS did the right thing by banning innocents inadvertantly. Every minute these stubs and activity is out there, it becomes harder to unravel and causes more harm to the market. This year, the market has been more stable than ever. People haven't been making millions flipping. That says it all.

SDS has the data to back up ANY claim of innocence. If you are in fact innocent, send in your ticket. Be polite. Cite some dates and transactions. It will only help expedite.

Like many other "veterans" of this community, it's not "our" population affected by this. Why? We know better man. Simple, and factual statement. We've seen shady stuff over the years and know that you either buy stubs via the appropriate parties, or earn them through the game.

Streamers advertising 3rd party stub sellers and people thinking those sales are legit, I don't have sympathy for. Those same streamers are likely getting kick back from those 3rd party sellers.

I'm sure there are innocent people that have been banned. I get it. Innocent before proven guilty works with laws, but not private companies in an online virtual environment that you agree to use under those terms, everytime you log in.

Terrific. I work in IT as well. You are clueless when it comes to how competent SDS/EA/insert big company is at investigating these things. I was banned by EA and it took multiple weeks for those idiots to resolve the issue. Giving people a 24 hour ban would be fine, but EVERYONE that got that ban is still banned for a full year now.

Let's be honest here. The MLB community is a joke size wise compared to the other big sports games. Nobody cares about the "grizzled vets" who have no sympathy for anything.

LOL wut?

Are you thinking that SDS doesn't have metadata on every market transaction performed since it launched this year?

Data is being sent and written to DB2 storage tables everytime you buy and sell cards, whenever you complete a game and/or are granted XP in any form.

I'm not going to get into a keyboard battle with a stranger over my general industry knowledge and how data interacts with a console, web, phone, computer etc interface. I managed data for over 15 years in financial services and have helped launch products for Strat-o-matic. Coupled with testing I've done for legacy Sony Online Entertainment products (predecessor to SDS) I kinda know how stuff works.

You fail to mention the fact that there's no way that SDS has people digging through all of this and making coherent decisions until they are forced to. They have the metadata at their disposal but I'll bet anything you want that they are so undermanned that they don't have time to do anything with it.

I absolutely hate it. Way too arcadey this year and ground balls already DIE in the infield

@foofencer_nsw said in Shut the market down until you fix this mess:

@harlemgamer_psn said in Shut the market down until you fix this mess:

I got banned for a year for a first time offense as well. Been playing this game since 2006. I think removing cards from my DD deck along with the 1 day ban wouldve sufficed. But a year?! Can't play anything online. It seems rather excessive if you ask me and I didn't do anything offensive etc. Market manipulation? Seems like there are many others who have done worse market manipulation and seemed to not even get a slap on the wrist.

What was your "market manipulation"? I have to assume it was pretty extreme if you were banned for a year.

Literally everyone was banned for a year. It started at 24 hours and then after that time, it became a full year.

Don't flip player cards during content drops

Love playing in bigger parks with a good hitters eye. Started with Majestic Greens and I don't see myself changing now. MLB stadiums are a lagfest on PS4 and certain ones are even worse (Field of Dreams).