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@Good-Talk-Bud_XBL said:

There seems to be lack of interest in the game this year earlier than past years. The twitch numbers are down considerably and videos made on the game from bigger creators are generating less views than usual for this time of year, indicating people are losing interest in the game. What do you guys think the reason is and how can they fix it? I think changes made around roster updates and the market aswell as the struggle for them to deal with bots is one of the main reasons for people losing interest

How much time do you have?

-Unrewarding - Way too much grinding for little reward. The very small chance you do get a diamond is rewarded with a quick sell 85. Not sure I have had a rare round all year. I know I haven't got the chase reward. These things would be nice every once in a while. When they never happen it really ruins the desire to continue.
-PCI shrinkage - Not sure who thought of this but outlier fastballs and great change/splits are just as hard to hit as sliders. Makes me wonder if whoever came up with this idea actually played baseball. It is a hard game that doesn't need to be made harder by some trumped up fantasy.
-Glitches - Hard enough to hit without these. Hader and King shouldn't be in anyone's rotation and bullpen right now and wouldn't be if they were fixed.
-Cheaters - No chance everyone dots all the time with every pitcher. PARS will not physically allow you to do this. Somehow everyone is Maddux throwing outlier hitting every line with every pitch. Why use a Maddux when you can use harder throwers that magically have the same control. I think you would see a huge difference if pitching cheats were removed.
-Market bots - These have recently really gotten on my nerves
-DQ - Think I've played it once. I just have a hard time doing a mode where I can succeed and not get rewarded
-BR - Played free round and then 1 game of another run. If you can't win 10 games there is no point. Waste of stubs that are very hard to come by in this game.
-WC - Great idea but rewards are slacking.
-I don't think 1000 rated players (majority of which I don't think are legit anyway) should start season at 700. It's not like they are not going to make WS anyway. Start them on legend at 900. I see a lot of WS players get smacked and/or quit when a new season starts.
-Stealing is out of control. Stealing needs to be a weapon in the game but it is far too easy.
-Events - Zero creativity. How about even a gold/silver event?

I'm sure there are more but my brain is fried.

@Pergo_MLBTS said:

Here is what I don't get about the "play how you want" complaints. How far should we take it? What if the only way I want to play is to do 1 moment per day. Should I be able to get every reward in the game by playing 1 moment per day?

It is actually very simple. A mission like get 3 k's in multiplayer could also have an alternate say even like 25 k's for offline.

@sbchamps17_NSW said:

Again not home it works, you can go 100 packs without getting a diamond, you are never guaranteed to pull a diamond in show packs or BIAH packs

This is correct. You have a 2% chance to pull a diamond every pack. This does not increase to 4, 6, 8%, etc which is what @fatkidzlag3617_xbl is implying.

@Player99_MLBTS said:

I don't even know who you are.

Really shouldn't matter who it is. Players leaving due to the issues is not a good thing.

If they could just address hader, king, now taylor, pci shrinkage, glitchers and cheaters that would be great. I believe they have the ability to deal with all of these, just choose not to.

@Sarge1387_PSN said:

I was all for this program and hyped for it…til I saw you need 5 wins in BR(under hard missions).

Not sure what SDS was thinking there, maybe the top 5-10% of players play BR

It's almost like the streamer/elites/cheaters complained they don't have anyone to beat up on besides themselves.

I'll finish it but it really is a poorly thought out program for casuals.

@rubicante23_PSN said:

So, how does SDS encourage more players of different skills to play it? Thats the fix. Get more people in there, so it ain't just elites.

A BR program would help a TON, but these programs and missions are okay too.

Get rid of cheaters for starters. Game is infested and I would bet my house SDS knows it.

Lose the $1500 entry fee. Does anyone actually get anything out of the free pack? I know I don't.

Make the first game or two against people in your own ranked rating. Let me guess, elites don't want to play someone of their own skill the first few games but it's OK for a 400 ranked player to play 20x flawless.

@Rhyno1986_XBL said:

@Ditka06-_MLBTS said:

Another 15 packs. No live series diamond. Puts me at 415 packs now in a row. Ill be back to keep up the count.

Lol I really really don't believe you. If you don't have proof I'm guessing what you mean is 415 packs and NO 90+ live series or 415 packs and NO Ohtani. Pack odds are not manipulated. Lol SDS can't manage to fix people's ranked records without breaking the servers if they could manipulate pack odds the servers would crash lol.

I guess you're not aware gaming companies can manipulate pack odds through groups in the servers? Extremely easy to do.

@samguenther1987_PSN said:

I've sent them screenshots of it happening, place a order for 1050 bot puts it's order in for 1051, remove the order of 1050 and make it the normal 950, bot erases it's order and makes one of 951.... it's like they arnt even trying to get the cards anymore just block people from getting cards.

Yea, just had an adventure selling deGrom. Every time I put in the order it was undercut before I got back to the screen. Highly doubt this is a human. Had to go 400 stubs under and that seemed to work but costing legit players stubs. Hard enough to get stubs with dealing with this [censored] too.

@Go4stros25_MLBTS said:

@Dolenz_PSN im mostly an offline player, everything you listed DOES suck, but theres still fun to be had online.

This thread is full of people who are mad that they are being asked to play online. The show has always been an online game.

Striking out 20 times and giving up HR's every time you throw a strike isn't fun to some.

There isn't any difference between a casual player that can't hit all star online to a competitive gamer that can't hit online legend. The competitive player isn't "forced" to play online legend.

@Dolenz_PSN said:

Retro Lightning
(Not Schwarber)

This card has an elite swing.

@GoozeFn_PSN said:

@rubicante23_PSN I’d love a 6 inning online mode where you pick a team and can only use players from that team. Give teams boosts based on how good that teams cards in the game are. Better yet, balance your [censored] game between teams.

I just thought of something that might be fun. A mode or event where you can only use players from one team but can only play a team one time until you are through the entire major league. A team gets X'd out when you use them. For instance, say you use the Yankees the first game. You can't use them again until all the other teams have been used. This would probably need to be a mode or event used after the all star break to make sure every team has sufficient cards.

@Dolenz_PSN said:

The Chase Pack is Summer Series 98 overall Cal Raleigh.

Another switch hitter. Color me shocked.

@rubicante23_PSN said:

@D_e_m_I_s_E_MLBTS yeah, that sounds fine - there just needs to be something to require people to obtain and utilize other cards.

But, they never do these kinds of restrictions on cards you can use - theyre always very broad with any restriction, even in events. Which basically just ends up being "just keep using all the same dudes as always".

If you have tighter restrictions, a million people will be in here yelling "stop telling me what cards to use! I only wanna use my p5 Ketel...dont tell me what to do!"

K, follow me here.

An additional ranked mode completely separate of current ranked. Theme teams only, have to use a different theme team each game. Can only use a team once per run.

You get say 10 points per win, no points for losses. 300 points possible.

Rewards similar to WC with rewards being passed out at every 10 points and solid reward every 50 points.
10 points - 1 pack
20 points - 3 packs
50 points - I don't know like 10 BIAH packs
100 points - 20 pack

Something like this (would definitely need some more thought especially on how match-ups would go). You could even do 3 tiers - all star, HOF and Legend with better rewards in Legend tier. These would be 9 inning games so you would have to make the rewards worth it. You could make it 3 inning games but we already have these in BR and events. Similar to BR you can forfeit and start over any time.

@go4stros25_PSN said:

All year ive played maybe 3 guys I suspected of cheating, but these 2 guys I am 100% sure were cheating. The game is losing players like crazy and we are left with the cheaters you havent removed. Anyone who has put in thousands of hours online knows what i mean when i say its so obvious when you play these guys.

And before the trolls say, "you're just mad you lost". This was a meaningless co-op game with a buddy. Ive already made WS and have nearly every card in the game. This is just frustrating and honestly feels gross. The game is trash this year, but the cheating has ruined any online competitive integrity it had.

I would ask why this problem hasnt been fixed, but a better question would be why hasnt this problem even been addressed at all? The pack glitch hurt your money so you arleast talked about it. Thing is, this too will 100% hurt your money, I wont be giving yall any money next year. Also, think about all the money these cheaters are spending on the cheats. You think these desperate fools wouldnt be buying every one of your BS chase cards?

You ruined this game, sds. Its was so good, it had a loyal fanbase . We, your customers, bragged about how yall were the best ultimate team on the market. Thats dead and buried.

It's going to get worse.

I've been playing online video games since Socom and one thing that is real is as soon as you see the community get magically better at a game it is infested with cheats. I remember being in the 500's a few years ago and those players were flat out awful. Now, they pitch perfect and never strike out. Players do not progress like that.

Not going to happen because this company is greedy but if cheats were banned you would see an entirely different game. A huge number of streamers/partners/elites would disappear. This game has a huge problem with the pitching cheat leading the way.

SDS showed it has no integrity when they didn't punish wbc glitchers. They will do nothing with the cheaters and it will get way worse.

@ChuckCLC5755_XBL said:

Still nothing here. No word back from support per usual. Any word on why @sds_joek_psn ? I own the game on both PS and Xbox, but only play on Xbox now

Still need to test some more but so far Xbox performs 1000x better than my PS5. Again, I think I may have a bad NIC in my PS5 but Xbox play has been stellar so far minus the horrible stock controller. Got a GameSir G7 SE and the difference is flat out amazing. Unbelievably smooth.

@Ditka06-_MLBTS said:

Having cheaters in the game is reason number 1000 and one why they need to put ranked season programs back into the game. It worked great. The really good players got the ws rewards faster and made more stubs. Everyone else was able to get the rewards as well if they put in the work just not as fast. What was wrong with this? Why are they detering casuals from playing ranked.

Well, the game looks better on Xbox for sure. Way smoother but didn't change the warping pitches I saw tonight and yesterday. To hit a fastball, I had to swing as soon as the ball left the hand. [censored] was faster than the legend speeds I see from these streamers. Was going to try HOF on the Xbox until the pitches I saw the last 2 days. The NIC on my PS may be messed up but it had zero effect on the warping pitch speeds. Zero time to react because all you see are outlier pitches from people stealing their neighbor's wifi. Would love to bring one of these streamers to my house. Not a chance in hell they hit .400 on legend.

I'll see if I can dumb down my internet some time this week. Can't get any worse. This was wired fiber on a series X.

@Ditka06-_MLBTS said:

@Bman3883_MLBTS unfortunately we cannot prove it. The nay sayers also cannot prove us wrong either. Its very possible we could be right. Its very possible we could be wrong. If i had to bet on it. Id bet that we are right.

I haven't had one in a while. I got the other japanese player from a chase pack, other than that nothing in standard pack for a long time. At least 100 packs. I finally got the LS done but had to sell a ton in the other collections so won't see Victor until he is irrelevant with 99's being out. After everything I sold I got Ohtani but only have like 30k stubs now. With my pulls it will take forever to get to 100k.

@SDS_JoeK_PSN said:

@Rhyno1986_XBL said:

Well because this DOES NOT affect SDS. It only affects players

If it affects the people that play our game, it affects us, and we understand that.

The team is working very hard on a number of issues that are of concern to the community -- Grant Taylor, Hader/King, and many others.

It's been a while since I've said this, and it bears repeating: Sometimes circumstances make it easier for us to give updates on these things and sometimes they don't. But please don't take a lack of public updates to mean that nothing is being done.

These things can take time and require a lot of internal coordination -- Making the team aware of an issue, being able to reproduce it and find a fix, testing and implementing that fix, and messaging out the fix are all important parts of the process and have to be considered.

Just to offer some friendly insights here.

In this case (Grant Taylor), I can say that this does seems to be a bug and the team is looking into it. I'll keep everyone updated appropriately as much as possible.

Thanks!

Anything about cheaters? They have to know this is a huge issue. IMO, cheaters do way more harm than a king/hader/taylor (although I agree they should definitely be fixed as well) glitch.

I know people want to bury their head in the sand when it comes to cheaters but all online games are infested. I do think since they are connected to the consoles, it should have been handled by Sony/Microsoft years ago. They should have never put this on the game devs in the first place but here we are. Very few games are actually doing anything about it. Back in the day GTA placed cheaters in their own servers.

@rubicante23_PSN said:

Yeah, I get the frustration. But, I also think the deal is - this game gives you a billion rewards...at some point, its like...what's left to give you and how would you even use it anyway?

Thats where this game gets boring to me. It just keeps giving you stuff and you're like "how does one use this? For what? For where?"

You must get Ohtani, Judge, Chase packs and rare rounds. If you get none of these, it feels like the most unrewarding game you've ever played. It is by far the most unrewarding game I've ever played and I've played online games since Socom 1.

@go4stros25_PSN said:

@Apolloz_99_MLBTS thats because you dont know any "oilmen". Its not an episdoe of landman, genius. Not every one working in oil and gas is slinging chains on an off shore platform like you kids see on tiktok.

I just want to say that is a great show. Easily up there with Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, GoT, Ozark, pretty much any other Taylor Sheridan show, etc.