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I am a person that calls out stuff good or bad. Calling out some good this time. Huge props to SDS for releasing a legend pack. This is a great move.

Nice to see their connections with people is as solid as the online gameplay. See what I did there?

Just sucks the energy right out of you. No, I didn't lose a game. Instead I played the prime DQ for nearly 2 hours. I guess luckily got 2 prime packs if you want to call it that and you guessed it. 2 5k cards. Every time I open a pack and I get a diamond it is either 3k live series or garbage base round.

Let's see, 10k pull so if I get both prime cards every run (no chance), I would only need to run it 60 times to get Shohei. Like I said, easily the most unrewarding game I've ever played and it isn't close.

@NR7LES_XBL said in Just beat…:

A guy who had Jackie and Adley 99s from set 3. My god the spending of $$ on stubs // devoting every minute of your life to this game is sad. Take the L weirdo.

I have Jackie and Adley. I am old, have an older daughter and a wife that likes to watch [censored] like Married at 1st Sight. Yea, I grind quite a bit and spend no money.

Had to upvote since 199 hours in and still about 800k from LS collections and I think 13 vouchers from Miggy.

My favorite part might be Chipper collection. I have done almost everything you can do in the game and have 2 of the cards needed to get him out of the 12. Yea 2. Absolutely comical at this point.

@baseball229056_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:

@darkblue1876_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:

@baseball229056_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:

I like the change. The way it was before, there was no value in the reward cards. I think the ws rewards last season were going for about 40k. There should be some incentive and reward for doing something good in the game. Not everyone should get a trophy.

So in other words, this game should be for the "get gud" bullies and everyone else can just shut up and take it.

No that’s kind of a dumb take on what I wrote. What they have done is a good compromise. In the past you could only get the reward by going 12-0 or making ws or buying off the market. A few years back almost no one could get chipper because there were thousands of million stub orders. They created the reward path so everyone could get the reward. That hurt good players by devaluing the rewards. This new system is better because good players still get rewarded but everyone can get a free card.

12-0 players in BR were not hurt. Most 90+ players were still over 100k and the Flawless cards were still 130+k. That is plenty reward for going flawless. This pack SHOULD have remained sellable. Bad move by SDS.

For WS, those rewards were down to 30k which is absolutely pathetic and something needed to be done. I think they did the wrong thing. The card should have remained sellable but the program should have been adjusted so it wasn't so easy to get. BR program takes 10+ hours for most casual players to finish which is a good amount of time.

Best card in the game is behind a 75k pack with probably less than a 1% chance of getting him. This trend of best cards being behind this [censored] will continue and I think it will hurt SDS in the long run. Really not liking where this game is trending.

Streamers and cheat devices have ruined online gaming especially shooters. EVERY game caters to their streamers. Really don't think you can argue this point. Just watch Call of Shame and you will see just how corrupt streamers and gaming companies are. COD whitelists its streamers even though Call of Shame has mounds of evidence to show they are not legit. If you don't think The Show juices its packs for streamers or turns a blind eye to things I don't know what to tell you. And no I'm not talking about streamer Timmy with 10 viewers.

Flat out needs to be delayed until the cheating is addressed.

These are the worst RS rewards maybe ever. Are you trying to get people to not play RS? I love RS and it is making me debate whether to play it. If they are still non-sellable there isn't a card here worth that ridiculous grind.

And thanks for continuing the trend of locking the best players behind a 75k less than 1% chance to get wall. Tatis was the best infielder at the time, Mantle is still the best outfielder (and probably best card in game) and now Mauer is the best C.

I would be shocked if the online numbers are not drastically down this year.

They need energy. Game is playing awful.

Before any of you geniuses comment about loss, I won my last 4 event games in a row. Doesn't take away from the fact the game is playing absolutely terrible. Was going to play some ranked but no thanks.

@SaveFarris_PSN Haven't you ever heard time is money?

Everything is a collection this year with the same MO. Give us access to an extremely small portion of the cards through programs, mini seasons, etc. Rest are buried behind stubs or .000001% (my odds anyway) chance to pull. Not a real good model imo.

Because for Ohtani you have to sell a kidney and Judge you have to give up your first born child.

@go4stros25_PSN said:

@Belli_bomb_PSN some people have never had any actual wins in life. Normal people dont understand the level of true degeneracy that exist in life.

or the amount of money these people can make streaming while the sheep think they are "elite" at the game. Streamers and cheating have really taken online gaming to a bad place.

@Player99_MLBTS said:

I've gone back to playing MLB 25, purely because I can play with 99 overalls.

Disagree. The power creep is about the only thing good with this game. Game gets very stale when it is all 99's.

@Onix_Savage22_PSN said:

as a die hard baseball fan I will always play the game even if not as much as I do now but I even find myself not wanting to play this game anymore. I’m playing much less then beginning of year and don’t miss it at all. This game is becoming much more stale much earlier in the year then normal usually for me I play till atleast end of baseball season so World Series but man this year lucky if I make it to allstar break without needed a lengthy break to freshen up this game again the avarage players are being pushed away wether ur a market junkie who’s being pushed away by bots wether u are a ranked pvp die hard like myself who is being pushed out by losers who cheat and use scripts. Whether it’s the rng. Whether it’s the shotty servers being down. The back breaker for people is that it’s being made very obvious we aren’t priority this new mobile game is where all there energy is going not fixing ur actually yearly product. Like last year was far from a great game but it was paradise compared to this mess. I get sds is a corporation and has to make money but my god scratch the peoples back who put the money in ur guys pockets my god this is getting tiring quick…

Edit: somebody is clearly listening just opened the app and didn’t get asked to pre register for the stupid waste of oxygen of a mobile game…

I'm trying to figure out who in the hell would want a mobile game. I love baseball and I wouldn't touch that thing if they paid me.

@Pergo_MLBTS said:

I'll never understand letting the difficulty of completing the live series have such a big affect on enjoying the game or not. It's not even close to necessary to complete to have a good team unless you have visions of competing at the very top levels and even then it's not exactly necessary.

Here's the deal. Whether you're doing the LS collections or not everything is predicated on a RIDICULOUS (talking 6+ hours as I have about 3+ per day on average) amount of grinding and extreme pack luck. Every collection is the same. We'll give you 3-5 cards of the collection then you need pack luck (with rare pulls) or buy the remaining cards. I do not have a problem grinding or buying cards but I do have a problem with 15 of the 20 needing pulled by being lucky or paying for those cards in a game that stubs are hard to come by.

Sure if I pull Ohtani twice it's great. 99.9999% don't pull him once and there you see the problem. It isn't only the LS collection you can't get it is every collection every week or two. I have played a lot (ton less the last 3 weeks) and still around 850k from LS and probably 8 vouchers from 99 Miggy. Not close to Murals or Cityscapes either. Still 110 out of 142 on WBC.

It is a ridiculously unrewarding game. It will catch up to them.

@GradektheBard said in BR program unsellable too. Thanks streamers:

Designing a reward structure that only benefits less than 1% of your customers is a terrible strategy.

But hey, at least they won’t have to hear oh chev cry anymore.

I agree with you and I am a WS player. Never gone 12-0. If you just play the game and are not an elite (12-0 player), you simply can't make enough stubs to afford to buy the Tatis' or Mantle's.

I am a good player, not great or elite, and play a TON and I haven't completed LS collections or have enough stubs to get either of those players. Part of why I haven't got LS done is I can't hit with RH hitters anyway so McGwire is a complete waste.

Also something people don't think about is with the BR flawless retaining their ridiculous value more, the more goons you will have in BR making it even more difficult for the casual player to finish the program or afford any of the other ones.
SDS going down a bad path this year imo.

@aware_ward13_PSN said in Expiring Cards is absolutely ridiculous:

@Honor_The_Game44_PSN said in Expiring Cards is absolutely ridiculous:

I get what you are saying, but I think this is the age we live in. Games are modeled after mobile games which are designed to keep people playing and spending currency.

No that’s exactly what it is and it’s really frustrating- it’s a money grab

Like I bought the BR reward Griffey- so now in a month I won’t be able to use him but they will come out with a new 99 Griffey that I either have to grind for or pay more money for

I’m almost disgusted with this- sorry if it sounds like I just woke from a coma but this really didn’t hit me in the earlier months of the game bc we were able to use any cards we like

I'm guessing that new Griffey will be in another 75k bundle that you have less than a 1% chance of getting. Enjoy!

@killerpresence4_MLBTS said in Fix online connection issues with players:

@PScrabro_PSN said in Fix online connection issues with players:

@killerpresence4_MLBTS said in Fix online connection issues with players:

@BestPalV_PSN said in Fix online connection issues with players:

@Xfoufoufou_PSN said in Fix online connection issues with players:

Yup some games on HOF 102 is hittable sometimes it's 135 mph .

Seriously, I hope next year they really focus on this because the masses are leaving early this year even with all this content. People really do care about the online experience what's the point of grinding all these cards when the network connection ruins all of it. The fact in the matter is SDS needs to get it right, if not EA MLB is just right around the corner...

If you want a good online experience it begins on your end. Good equipment, sufficient bandwidth, not gaming wirelessly, and good condition of your household wiring.

This is not true at all though... you can have top of the line perfect internet, but if your not the host (away games) and your opponent has lag, you have lag as well. This is why a lot of top players home hunt... so they are guaranteed a smooth connection. This game online is equal to most games 10 years ago... it's really bad in comparison to the few other online games I play. I played well over 200 games of MUT and hours H2H in GT7 this year and never had even a slight issue with lag.

Guarantee that if everyone who played this game did exactly what I said the online environment would be much more pleasant. So yes a good experience begins on the users end not SDS. What SDS should do is do a settings test on both connections prior to loading into matchmaking. If your system is not transmitting healthy connection information back to SDS your not able to matchmake and are kicked back to the main menu. Several games do this and it is not hard to implement.

This would be good. I shouldn't be punished for having a good connection and if my connection isn't good, I would want to know that also.

I also think something showing your connection would be good to. Like:
Ping
<50 Green
51-149 Yellow
150+ Red

You can't match with someone of another color. Most games these days have ping indicators. MLB The Show should too. OhChev is literally like 131-9 in RS and he can see the connection issues with the game. Is it only people that played D1 baseball that can see these things?

@CDNmoneymaker93_MLBTS said in Another prime example of SDS excellence and class:

Speaking as someone who has a partnership with a company to promote a product I can tell you that the only real "rule" is to not publicly speak about tye company in a poor manner, if I have an issue with something I have a direct line I can call and discuss the issue.

Applying that understanding to this situation the likely hood is that "rule" would all to Thuney who made a poor choice to air his issue in an open public forum. He could have been more nuanced and tactful in how he did it to say hey I have issues and concerns and I have voiced them direct to SDS and left it at that.

We are in an age where creators are getting more and more affiliations and collaborations with companies but are not fully understand that once you do that there are reasonable limits to what is acceptable from one side and not acceptable from the other.

Bottom line is he made statements as a partner to a company and they didn't like how he went about it so they cut ties. That's how it works, if they banned him from playing the game that would be considered excessive but cutting ties for thr working relationship is reasonable in its context

We are in an age where streamers/creators have entirely too much influence on games. Listening to these people have made games worse. Gaming companies have gotten greedy and lazy. Instead of marketing the game to sell, they use streamers/creators and give these people special privileges.