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@wingspan1985_PSN said:

I've been playing DD since 18, posted a fair amount back then but now I mainly just lurk. I remember some of the crazy people, the guy who complained that every opponent and everyone who posted were "center swingers".

JJdaggas or something like that was his name. I played him a few years ago and he messaged me recorded voice messages over and over again calling me a center swinger amongst other things. He is the reason I switched to no longer accepting messages. It was pretty funny though I guess.

Cpu pitching has been the most frustrating part of this year for me. Almost all pitches being out of the zone or barely scraping the zone is frustrating. It's not the difficulty so much as the amount of extra time it takes. I've been doing 9 inning mini-seasons and the games are taking 35-40 minutes whereas I used to be able to do a 9 inning vs cpu game in 20-30 minutes.

I am happy to have him in the game. He had a nice run for the Cardinals, especially 2006.

I've been playing for years and my son who loves baseball wanted to start playing too at about 8 years old. Every year he would try and rookie was too hard for him so he would give up after a few days. He was finally able to start enjoying the game at age 12. It makes me wonder where this game would be if younger kids could enjoy it and not give up due to it being too hard on the easiest level for them. I imagine most kids just wouldn't come back each year like mine did.

Looking at the market, it's obvious they are doing things differently with pack odds this year. I don't mean the 1:50 odds for a diamond but it's obvious they decreased the odds of pulling a card over 85 (except the special cards that have ridiculously low quick sale values).

My biggest issue is them decreasing quick sale values on the non-live series players and this year, the unlockables. MLB the Show is still far better than other franchises. Go try NBA 2K25. That one is the worst.

Same here but this isn't unusual. It usually becomes available for me around 12:30-1:00 pacific time

From my experience this year, it seems to be slightly more rare to pull a diamond but the bigger issue I see is that it is very much more rare to pull anything over 85 diamond. I think that is why the market is so inflated on the live series compared to previous years. Plus, most of the diamonds I do pull are the egg hunt cards worth 1500 stubs. I admit that I am a pack addict and buy 50 packs every time I reach 75,000 stubs. I would say I have probably pulled a diamond in 1/75 packs on average. Sometimes I will go 2 or 3 bundles with zero diamonds and then other times I will pull 2 or 3 in one bundle. The Chase packs are almost always 85's.

Unfortunately still not the case for uniforms.

I had this happen earlier. I switched stadiums and it worked. For some reason I got the challenge failed message in all online modes every time I tried to use the mets stadium.

I have the dual sense edge. The ability to adjust the sensitivity of the sticks has given me an improvement. It is a small enough improvement that I would probably stick with the regular controllers if I had it to do over again. It wasn't a big enough improvement to be worth the extra cost in my opinion.

This has been a frustration for me the past couple years. I see it move on my screen but feedback always puts in dead center like I didn't move it. It doesn't happen super frequently but does happen enough to frustrate me.

I had this issue with Carlos Pena getting stuck at 120 pxp. Thankfully it was towards the end and I finished the program through the repeatable all star series pxp mission.

Barry Bonds, Pete Rose, Frank Robinson

I used to be a mostly online player but as I get older and my reaction time gets worse, it has become less and less fun. I used to be a world series player and win ~ 80% of my games. Now, I feel I'd be lucky to win 50%. I do play the Battle Royale programs. I focus on the missions and don't care if I win or lose which makes it easier.

I'm around 80 hours and just over 400k XP.

I did an experiment in a conquest game on rookie yesterday. I set the controller down while batting for the 1st inning to see how many balls I would get. I walked 11 times, scored 8 runs, took 75 pitchers with 29% strikes. I only did the 1st inning because it took 20 minutes. I imagine it would have gotten worse as I got deeper into their bullpen.

I have had 8 walks in a conquest game and 5 many times. Most games are 1-3. This compared to previous years where I probably had less than 8 the entire game cycle. They are definitely throwing more balls on rookie & veteran. I agree that this is on purpose to slow us down. Conquest games are taking 5-10 minutes longer on average.

Does anyone know if I should be getting some sort of confirmation that my support ticket went through? In the past you always got a generic email that they received your ticket.

I claimed 2 from last week's stream and never received them in game.