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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.

@GoozeFn_PSN said:

@kenken71412_PSN They won’t care as long as people continue buying the game. Don’t buy this game next year. Never buy stubs.

If GTA 6 is amazing this may happen. It will only be about 4 months old (if it comes out on time) and looks to be a ton of things to do. MLB with all the collections and chase packs has become a full time job. I play a lot and still a ways from Victor. This is what happens when you never pull Judge, Ohtani, chase packs or rare rounds. Just playing the game takes a ton of time to get collections done. The juice isn't worth the squeeze. I had to spend 100k last night on the WBC collection and not sure I am done yet. I'll have to check tonight. Can't remember but I probably finished that program and conquest the first week. Here I am 4 months later having to spend 100k+. These packs should be dropping like candy along with every other collection over 2 months old.

I understand this is a business and needs to make money but when you never get a bone thrown your way, you really lose the desire. Been playing PUBG more and will likely play a lot more.

Save the no one cares posts. Might want to have your marketing team on overdrive next year. You will likely need it.

@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.

My guide to online bliss is use the cards I want to use and don't care about online record. I haven't cared about record for 3 years. Anyone remember I was like 250-250 last year. Of course not, no one cares.

@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.

@SpawnOfDitka_XBL said:

@AppleLemon560_MLBTS yes 1000 or higher are on a completely different level than everyone else. And its not even close. My 800 range isnt even close to them.

It's called the 3rd party device level.

@TheGoaler_PSN said:

@virusts_PSN said:

This is the time I miss the roided out guys that looked like WWE stars.

It was nice of Netflix to show some of Barry Bonds' HRD performances before the steroids. He didn't need them. He was too good anyway.
He needs to be in The Show. It's a shame that he doesn't want to be.
I loved Elle Duncan on ESPN, but her voice makes one long for Chris Berman's: 'back, back, back.....' 🤪

Bonds was 100% a HOFer before the juice. McGwire and Sosa weren't even close. Sosa wasn't even hitting over 15 hr's a season before he started. The people that say it doesn't help are ignorant. If it didn't help, they wouldn't do it. Bonds got tired of seeing nobody's like Sosa get praised.

I had Schwarber winning and Jac for the longest but that was a great HR derby.

I'm not going to go into details about what I did but on fiber internet I could not score more than 6 runs in all star during the WC. Most games were around 3 runs including getting shutout by Verlander (who is not good).

Dumbed down my internet and played 2 games and part of 1. 1st game against Verlander scored 5 runs off him in 3 innings and 8 in 3 innings total before opponent quit. 2nd game 3 HR's off Felix in 1st inning for a quit. 3rd game scored 3 runs in 1st inning. Dumbing down my internet I could actually see the ball. Full fiber internet could not see or read pitches at all. Looked like a blur. Opponent getting hits on horrible swings constantly, baserunners running in mud (99 base stealers not moving until the ball was almost released and although I didn't have many good swings not being able to see the ball I rarely got rewarded. One game I literally didn't have a hit on a good swing until the 8th inning. Completely opposite after "dumbing" down the internet.

I don't know how these results can be anything but horrific lag compensation. Completely different experiences. Full fiber internet I had trouble scoring on all star. Dumbed down I feel like I could compete in HOF.

@Nickc22_MLBTS said:

I watched and 100% agree with his thoughts and views. As I’ve said before it’s one thing to be negative about a game and just trash them, but it’s another thing to have a company lie and gaslight its community and then have the audacity to ask for surveys and tell us how the game is while doing nothing to fix it. There’s so much wrong with this game this year and imo sds knew this game was broken beyond repair but they put it out anyways because they needed a profit. They used to listen to the community and creators used to be big influences and the game was for the most part always fair and balanced. This was by far the best online sports game to play but now it’s so vile and predatory towards money. For everyone that says well then don’t play it, you’re the reason this game is so pathetic. You’re a sheep and you would jump off a cliff if your buddy went. People are so passionate about their thoughts because most of us have families and jobs and for a couple hours a week we want to forget reality and just play our favorite pastime game. We don’t get to spend hours a day grinding for stuff we probably won’t get. We want to hop in the game do some missions and play but we keep getting booted out or deal with cheaters or cards hid behind paywalls. It ruins the fun for the majority of this games base and it’s so sad that sds has no awareness of what’s going on or they do and they just don’t care. We aren’t asking them to split a atom or solve world hunger. All we want is to be heard and to just play a game that can both satisfy online and offline players. Surely it can’t be that hard to appease people. I get your not ever going to make everyone happy and people are always going to find something to complain about but this years game is well deserved of all its criticism. If it was playable and half way decent then yea maybe we would be over exaggerating but this years game is beyond pathetic.

Listening to creators is an easy way to kill a game. Most (notice not all) creators only care about views and making a buck because they're too lazy to get a real job. There are a few good ones out there but most are just fake pieces of [censored]. Tells you where we are in society when people are giving these degenerates money. No different than OnlyFans. If you are one of those that give money to a woman online you are a simp.

@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.