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Exit velos been feeling weird to me for weeks. I’ll have good timing and center of the pci on an outlier fastball and hit a 95 mph warning track lineout then 2 batters later pull a lefty lefty low away slider with early timing for a 105mph homer

Personally I think the gameplay is fine. Sure pinpoint can be annoying and the strike zone is inconsistent when you do dot the corner. For me it’s the content. It’s pretty grindy and more repetitive than years past. Hyper focused on 2 series of cards each set and just do the same things as you did in set 1 but with different card designs. Some people may like the sets but to me it’s not my thing. Especially right now considering the set 2 is focused on incognito and their names don’t even show up in the actual games, just blanks and commas.

That said I’ll still play throughout the mlb season, but probably just ranked, unless they cycle all my favorite players out of the set

@Dolenz_PSN said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

@lightshow_PSN said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

Also what are you going to do about people opening packs right now and pulling Commons with Gold badge? Is SDS going to ban pack openers too who bought packs or had packs in store and have no clue about this and just automatically quick sell everything they get unless its a diamond.

As I mentioned in the above post, they should have a way to determine someone who sold one or two cards and may not have realized what is happening vs those who tried to exploit it to the max.

Yeah I mean i always clear out duplicates the day before an update in case of inflated prices from anticipated upgrades. These cards were appearing above my silvers and bronzes. So i sold them. Feel like the people who just sold what they had are fine.
There are multiple other bugs and exploits being used for xp, stubs and in online gameplay that have yet to be addressed. The ballplayer and ohtani reliever glitches to name a few.

@energystar157_PSN said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

@DahBeeRs_PSN said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

@aware_ward13_PSN said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

@DahBeeRs_PSN said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

@energystar157_PSN said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

Right from the terms of service at https://theshow.com/mlb-the-show-online-code-of-conduct/

You may not cheat, exploit or use any bugs, glitches, vulnerabilities or unintentional game mechanics in PlayStation Network or any of its products or services to obtain an unfair advantage.

They probably won't ban anyone for this, but you never know. Just fair warning.
I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but don't want anyone to get hurt, either.

I get what you’re saying but in this case it’s a bug from their update. The individual users are not necessarily doing anything to glitch or exploit the game. Like I only found it because I wanted to sell some duplicates and the app was filtering random common cards to the top of my inventory

But it literally says you “cannot exploit bugs”

I can definitely see them banning people for this because it hurts their bottom line- which is $$$$

Yeah but what are people exploiting, they’re selling cards from their inventory. Other people are buying them. Some people were simply clearing duplicates from their binder. So they should just hold onto these cards for fear they’ll be banned by selling them. It’s one thing to actively be buying and selling these cards to maximize profit, but people selling inventory they had would be a ridiculous ban

Again, not judging right/wrong, but I just wanted to weigh in on the idea that "other people are buying them".

We had this discussion on another thread a few weeks ago and the consensus seemed to be that not every transaction here involves two actual players in the game. That is, SDS may use their own bots to fill buy and sell orders, much like EA does on the FIFA marketplace. Similar to the way a central bank works, it's just an efficient way to regulate the money supply and promote market liquidity. So the stubs you pocket might be the company's.

Fair, but if they ban people who made like 20k just selling what they had when their own software was the only reason I even found and posted this here so be it.

@aware_ward13_PSN said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

@DahBeeRs_PSN said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

@Bearsfan217_XBL said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

Knowing SDS they will ban users for doing this though. I wouldn't

True, but with all the backlash for the no sell rewards they might need to take this one on the chin for PR reasons. Banning Timmy and Jimmy cause they made 25k stubs off of their own mistake might not be worth it

Bro they stopped the sell of rewards to literally make more money

You think they’re ok with people manipulating a glitch in the market where they lose money…

And probably only die hards even know about this glitch and are doing it- the majority of players are at work or school

They can def lay the hammer down on 100-200 people or so-

If you wanna take my advice don’t do this.

I know this. It’s not manipulating a glitch unless you’re buying and quick selling the gold badges. I was clearing out my binder on the app. The app filtered random commons to the top of my inventory. So naturally I went to sell them and they sold to another user on the marketplace. The stubs didn’t come out of thin air.

@aware_ward13_PSN said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

@DahBeeRs_PSN said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

@energystar157_PSN said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

Right from the terms of service at https://theshow.com/mlb-the-show-online-code-of-conduct/

You may not cheat, exploit or use any bugs, glitches, vulnerabilities or unintentional game mechanics in PlayStation Network or any of its products or services to obtain an unfair advantage.

They probably won't ban anyone for this, but you never know. Just fair warning.
I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but don't want anyone to get hurt, either.

I get what you’re saying but in this case it’s a bug from their update. The individual users are not necessarily doing anything to glitch or exploit the game. Like I only found it because I wanted to sell some duplicates and the app was filtering random common cards to the top of my inventory

But it literally says you “cannot exploit bugs”

I can definitely see them banning people for this because it hurts their bottom line- which is $$$$

Yeah but what are people exploiting, they’re selling cards from their inventory. Other people are buying them. Some people were simply clearing duplicates from their binder. So they should just hold onto these cards for fear they’ll be banned by selling them. It’s one thing to actively be buying and selling these cards to maximize profit, but people selling inventory they had would be a ridiculous ban

@Bearsfan217_XBL said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

Knowing SDS they will ban users for doing this though. I wouldn't

True, but with all the backlash for the no sell rewards they might need to take this one on the chin for PR reasons. Banning Timmy and Jimmy cause they made 25k stubs off of their own mistake might not be worth it

@energystar157_PSN said in Companion App Bug and Suspicious Market Activity:

Right from the terms of service at https://theshow.com/mlb-the-show-online-code-of-conduct/

You may not cheat, exploit or use any bugs, glitches, vulnerabilities or unintentional game mechanics in PlayStation Network or any of its products or services to obtain an unfair advantage.

They probably won't ban anyone for this, but you never know. Just fair warning.
I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but don't want anyone to get hurt, either.

I get what you’re saying but in this case it’s a bug from their update. The individual users are not necessarily doing anything to glitch or exploit the game. Like I only found it because I wanted to sell some duplicates and the app was filtering random common cards to the top of my inventory

Yeah my 99 jazz now has a bronze badge too. I knew he’s having a down year but a bronze lol

Yeah it’s weird they’re being pushed to the top of my inventory though

I just refreshed my inventory and 3 more common free agent relievers are golds and selling for 1000 stubs. I’m nervous to sell them even though I only have like 3-4 dupes

I was on the companion app and sorted my inventory by duplicates to sell off a few on a break from work. It showed like 6 63 ovr free agents above my silvers and bronzes. 3 of them showed with gold badges despite being commons, and when I clicked on them they had buy orders for nearly 1,000 stubs and the app said I could quicksell one card for 1,000 stubs. When I did quicksell it only gave the standard 5 stubs, but it seems something is glitched on some of these low overall free agents

Weird bug in my ranked game, threw a guy out at home from the OF. Ump signaled out, was awarded an out, but my opponent was also awarded the run. The commentators even acknowledged “he guns him at the plate… but a run scores on the play.” Still won the game, but something to look out for.

I go up 2-0 in the first of an event game and my app randomly crashes for the first time ever lol. Glad to be back

@deleteyourttvbtw_mlbts said in How good are you really in ranked??:

I’ll tell you a secret. Anyone with a record that good picks a chooses when they play to boost there record and look better than they are. For example the last week of the season when everyone who’s comp has already hit WS the 60-8 crew is out. I’m 19-1…I haven’t played a good player all year outside BR or Events lol.

I’d wager anyone with a 80-90% win rate in RS and less than 80 games has about a 50-60% win rate in events when you play random people good or bad, and not just hand picked opponents stuck in between 500-700 with a week left in the season.

Ego lifting at its finest. Just ask yourself why someone who is 45-5 wouldn’t want to actually make WS every season (way more games needed) and cash in on 150,000 stubs. They stop before they get there so the record stats intact.

This can be true for some, but for example I’m 59-8. I make WS every season, usually about halfway into the season, sell the card and then I move onto other modes to complete programs cause I personally don’t find legend ranked enjoyable. I went undefeated the first and third seasons, but usually I just play the 10-12 games or whatever to get to 900 and then wait till the season is over. Although I am like 5-2 on legend, it’s not fun to me to have to caffeinate and lock in to hit on legend on an old gen console.

@grux19_mlbts said in All Star Program Prediction thread::

Pujols and Cabrera double collection rewards 99 overalls...a guy can wish

I think either them or judge and acuna since they got most votes

Everything has been super repetitive and grindy. The city connect, monthly programs, the face and future of the franchise and the spring and summer programs. The all star content is going to really make or break the game for many. I myself have cut down to just ranked and maybe some program offline stuff if I need the xp

I got 2 ranked games in earlier then took a break to cook dinner and walk the pup and right back to getting challenger failed and app crashes

I finally got into a game and immediately was offered a friendly, like nah sorry bro not on these servers

@dlgltal-athlete_psn said in servers:

@dahbeers_psn said in servers:

Was away over the weekend until last night and the servers were brutal. Right now I’m getting challenge failed every ranked attempt. Anybody else?

I'm getting it in BR and then I get the PS4 Error ce-34878-0 code and the game closes.

It’s ironic that they have time limited content out and the servers haven’t worked last two days and no word from sds if they’re aware.