Weren't you the one who, last year, complained about the game all year long and swore that you were not buying the game this year?

@mr_murda_cap_psn said in I see why packs are a joke to Buy:

it's kind of funny how all the You tuber and Twitch star pull diamonds all day long in 50 bundle packs when i should at least received 4 diamonds

That is not how odds work. 1 in 50 odds is not a guarantee of a diamond every 50 packs.
Your odds of pulling a diamond in the first pack is 1 in 50
Your odds of pulling a diamond in the second pack is 1 in 50
Your odds of pulling a diamond on the 200th pack is 1 in 50

A few other points.

Anyone here who has played the game for years could have warned you that packs are a waste of stubs/money.

YouTubers can edit their videos to make it seem like they are far luckier than they actually are. YouTubers know that people don't want to watch a video without any diamond pulls.

The message you probably wanted to send is the exact reason people block messages.

But man I feel bad for you guys who hit the ball on the nose every time and have never, ever benefitted from a bloop hit. In fact you're such good and upstanding players that I am sure you would just forfeit any game where you benefitted from a bloop single.

I still can't believe they accumulated all of the data in beta and probably spent months tweaking hitting and coming up with Perfect/Perfect and then decided to throw out all that work and tweak hitting only a few days after release.

Before Launch:
"We here at SDS worked hard all this offseason to come up with a new hitting dynamic. We even had a beta period to test it and receive feedback from players. We used that telemetry and feedback to make further tweaks in order to make things even better for our release"

2 days after official launch:
"We are going to take a few days worth of telemetry, when everyone is playing on the easiest difficulties, mix that in with some player complaints and abandon all the telemetry we gathered and work we did prior to launch."

Here is where I stand as an offline player as of last night

• Completed Starter Conquest
• Complete list 1st Inning Conquest
• Completed US Conquest
• Completed Starter Showdown
• Made Several failed attempts at the 1st inning Showdown
• Did all of the Welcome Moments
• Did all of the first inning Moments (Granderson and Woods)
• Did the Eckersly Evolution moments.
• Did a MTO run up to the World series(have not played the world series as it would be a waste of affinity points)
• Earned the FOTF from my favorite team.
• Played the nine inning CPU games against Cubs and Yankees. (Woods and Granderson)

I am sitting at 205 program points.

There are only a few options open to me to get the final 95 points. Showdown, which I have failed badly at in every attempt so far, and that costs 500 stubs each attempt. Collections, which also cost stubs, but in this case both collections together are more expensive than just buying the three bosses outright. Mindlessly grinding for another 30 hours or so in the last 9 days of the 1st Inning Program.

Basically the goal of 300 stars still seems so far away and the options to get there seem so unappealing (and just not fun) that it has killed a bit of my desire to keep playing.

Tried to play around 9:00 am my time and got a network error exiting a Conquest Game. Bounced me back to the main menu. I went back into DD and Conquest and tried to play a Stronghold game and got an error that would not even let me start.

I closed the game and walked away. I don't see much point in even trying the rest of today as I assume the server load will continue to get higher and higher as the day progresses.

Going through with a double XP weekend when the servers can't be trusted was just a bad idea. The servers will eventually get better and the bugs will be fixed but I still can't pretend that this is not disappointing.

@dannydevito8997_xbl said in Ban question:

@creedbratton466_xbl said in Ban question:

I received a 365 day console ban for "uploading an inappropriate image to the Vault". I'm guessing it's for the signs at my stadium that said "eat booty" and "clappin dem cheeks". Lesson learned, don't threaten to clap cheeks.

My question is, will this 365 day ban affect MLB 22 also? Seems like it's essentially a 2 year ban if it does.

I've seen some pretty heinous [censored] from teams/logos get way less punishment which is pretty lame, but I've accepted my fate lol.

I would contact them that is not even remotely bad and it was their fault for not having some kind of censor built.

I agree that is what is described is what was done then the ban was entirely too excessive.

But I don't agree with is that it is SDS's fault for not having the words in the filter. At some point, as adults we have to take responsibility for our own poor decisions and stop blaming others for not stopping us from acting on them.

My guess is that the person calling everyone "kid" is probably the younger than the majority of people he is referring to as kids. If not then that is just really sad.

@bjd10048842_psn said in To offline players:

@bk2025_psn said in To offline players:

I seen a lot of posts of "oh I only play offline, and how can this program be done offline..."

I just don't get this concept. DD is meant to be online. I don't play RS often but do dive into BR and def a lot of Events.

If you are playing offline, what's the fun? to get a better team to beat the same missions, conquest or vs CPU all over again???

I'm just not understanding playing ONLY offline and never wanting to play vs people even if it can be toxic players online ie bunt dances pausing etc. For the most part the players you face online play fair and it's really not hard to get some wins in an event or stats to complete the programs.

Agreed, only playing offline is just wimpy. Like sitting down to pee

And insulting offline players, like you are somehow a superior person because you play online, is a sign of someone with low self esteem.

Just checking on the website dashboard it says that I have 149 packs and 55 choice packs. Maybe I will open some tomorrow.

My guess is that they keep the cumulative wins and if they have the tools and motivation then there will be a punishment for tanking. People who tank down to lower levels to get 30 wins quicker are exploiting the system and negatively affecting the gameplay of every person they play after tanking.

As for the devaluing of cards, it may actually be in SDS's favor that the cards values are more reasonable. If a person needs just 50K more stubs to be able to get a player on the market then the possibility that they simply buy stubs is greater than if they needed 500K.

The "Participation Trophies" as people like to call them keeps the majority of players engaged in the game longer. It keeps more people playing ranked seasons. If people know that that they can't reach World Series then they may not even attempt ranked seasons, or will quit each season early when they feel they have reached their cap.

And lastly let's not pretend that 30 wins is necessarily easy or quick for those players who play ranked seasons as intended and do not tank to face easy opponents. If you only average 3 wins out of every 5 games then that is 50 ranked season games needed to get 30 cumulative wins. For many, that many games in a single ranked season is just not possible due to time constraints, especially if they also want to do the offline content (Moments, Conquest, etc)

@raylewissb47_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:

@wk680_psn said in Boycotting next year's game.:

I started on this game in December 2016. My son had been a big MLBTS fanatic for several years prior to. Each year since I have picked up the new version of the game at least several months after release. The past few years since 2018, I have been acquiring my own version after my son got his own PS4. In Oct 2019, the game was a free download (free game of the month for Playstation Online that month). I got the standard version for $10 from Best Buy on Black Friday in 2020 and got it for $30 on Playstation Online Dec 1 2021. You can get this (and other games) for dirt cheap if you are not in a hurry.
That all said: they need to fix the hitting and pitching in this game. Is the new pinpoint pitching worth keeping ? With the preponderance of 102MPH outliers that pitch 100+ almost continuously, I think NO. Are they rewarding 'perfect' timing too much to the detriment of good and just late, to make hitting too difficult? Yes in my opinion. Also why do I come up against players with a World Series banner when I am in the 500s in ranked seasons? Once someone gets to World Series (900+), their ranking should never go below 700 (or maybe 650) going forward.

World Series players now tank so they can take on easier competition and get to 30 wins quicker.

My guess is that if they keep in the cumulative wins that this becomes against the terms of service and bannable. With the right queries of their database it should not be hard to pull back profiles with a specific number of consecutive losses with < one inning played.

@undertakerlives_mlbts said in Stop pushing out directional hitters, SDS.:

"RTTS doesn't sell copies, so we'll work on it 0.001 percent as much as we work on DD and getting all these diamonds out to people."

I don't believe that RTTS doesn't sell copies. It definitely does. They have not given stats recently but even as recently as a few years ago, RTTS was the most played mode.

What RTTS does not do is generate extra income the way that DD does, which is why they tied the two together with the stupid BallPlayer option.

As another who used to play RTTS exclusively I am of the opinion that every improvement over the last 4 or 5 years has been a step in the wrong directions.

• Storylines suck and are repetitive.

• Archetypes are limiting and maxing out your player now requires equipment.

• My BallPlayer further limits player advancement and pushes cards and equipment.

• Doing away with Year to Year saves, which I am sure has to do with My BallPlayer being intergrated with DD means that I will never, ever finish a career.

@dap1234567890 said in MLB the Show 2022 Minor League Edition?:

@chuckclc_psn said in MLB the Show 2022 Minor League Edition?:

This doesn't have a feel of a lockout that would put the season in Jeopardy. Think everything will be fine.

the raise in the CBT ($214M-$220M and $245M). It also appears that the MLB are letting teams go on with the international signing day (Jan 15) as planned and on time.

I need some rudimentary explanation on this one. The bottom 15 teams were between 65 million and 149 million away from the tax last rear. Teams 9 -15 were between 26 million and 61 million.

Do players think raising the CBT is immediately going make every team spend more on players? All I see it doing is widening the gap between the top spending teams and the lowest. The Dodgers would easily spend more than 200 million more than the bottom teams (they almost already do).

At best it is a boost to the top tier free agents, allowing the Dodgers to sign even more of them, but it does not help the vast majority of the players

For the Cardinals I go by the rule of "Are they known primarily as a Cardinal"? Luckily the Cards have enough players that I can pull that off. It might be tougher for other teams.

For example I would not put Larry Walker on my Cardinals squad like others do. He played 144 games for them in his final two seasons. He is primarily known as a Rockie to me.

But to each their own. There is no hard a fast rule other than the player should have played for the club at some point.

@mjfc_363_psn said in Pitch Speeds Please:

@xelrojo44x_mlbts said in Pitch Speeds Please:

1. Remove the "outlier".
2. Use HOF pitch speeds in EVERY division.
3. Adjust pci size in each RS division accordingly.

There is no need to revert back to slow pitch MLBTS18.

I don’t care what pitch speed they use as long as it’s universal. I would prefer HOF with all star pci.

I don't play ranked so it is not an issue for me but I can't see them changing all divisions to HOF pitching. As mentioned, it would alienate too many players. It also would serve to dissuade new players from investing in online play. Once they get shut out or no hit a few times and they will simply give up and stop playing.

Maybe a better option would be a Preferred Pitch Speed and PCI option for online/ranked that acts like a floor but not a ceiling.

For example if you set your settings to HOF for both then you will never go below that even in the lower divisions. If you choose Veteran/All-star you would see those difficulties as normal in the lower divisions but the game would then still ramp up the difficulty as you advance like it does now.

That would give you what you want (consistency in pitch speed) without shutting out new players.

Your best hope is that they resolve it in 2022.

They are most likely in full 2022 mode now.

@beatlesnews_psn said in Will Clark!:

@dolenz_psn said in Will Clark!:

No matter who they release at this point there will be some group of players unhappy about it. There are so many ridiculously juiced cards now I am not sure who they could release that everyone would be excited for.

I have to say I’m disappointed that Clark is out this late AND you have to win Events to get it. I don’t have a chance.

I get that. I am always disappointed when cards I may want are BR or Events rewards.

@ustoopid2_psn said in Will Clark!:

@dolenz_psn said in Will Clark!:

No matter who they release at this point there will be some group of players unhappy about it. There are so many ridiculously juiced cards now I am not sure who they could release that everyone would be excited for.

Andrew Jones

Yeah, of course an Atlanta fan would want Jones just as I am sure some SF fans were glad to see Will Clark. Neither would excite everyone though.