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If you open 147 packs and get nothing, and someone else opens 3 packs and gets 3 diamonds, the overall odds are still 1:50

@go4stros25_psn said in Lack of packs this year:

@chuckclc_psn said in Lack of packs this year:

May make things tough on people trying to complete collections after Roster Updates. There are already multiple Commons or Bronzes out there going for thousands that have no buy order available. Just because of the huge cut back in pack circulation this year. And the game has only technically been out 2 weeks and 2 days.

The game feels unrewarding. Seems like all you are earning from playing the game is packs. And packs suck. It's a fun game, but somtimes it feels like a Monday morning, and you just don't have the energy for another week of the same ole stuff.

I would love if I all I feel I'm earning is packs, because currently I don't feel like I'm earning packs at all

Wishing people were dead because of how they play in a video game is.....less then ideal

I would suggest learning pinpoint, so you'll have way more control of pitches

50k-60k in stubs, you will get all those guys naturally for free, no reason to rush to them now

@nflman2033_mlbts said in This forum is sad:

@kingscrotuum_mlbts said in This forum is sad:

I'm usually a lurker and don't post much but dude everyone on this forum blames all of their problems in the game on SDS. This game has been great and it's the most fun I've had in a while and I'm not even good at it. If you get lagged out, sure, blame SDS. But I see people here blaming SDS because they did something wrong and don't know how to handle it. Sometimes try to be positive. Everyone talking about how bad this game is, if you really think its that bad, stop playing!!

Not everyone, but it has been dominating the topics. I find the block button to be my best friend when it comes to dealing with negative people on the internet.

It mostly dominates because of how much more comments it gets from both "sides" tbh. Just like how news networks know negative stuff gets more clicks

@jacksonvance35 said in This is why we complain:

@eatyum_mlbts said in This is why we complain:

@jacksonvance35 said in This is why we complain:

@eatyum_mlbts said in This is why we complain:

The only way to make it truly like 17 as you described is all bad PCI is not hits, and all good PCI is hits, otherwise BS wins or losses will happen. And 17 wasn't like that way.

All swings outside of the pci should be swings and misses. This is how you solve it.

And then you get complaints about "This was in the PCI, how was this a foul ball?" etc etc.

Also you have to consider the casuals because SDS has to consider the casuals. There has to be a compromise somewhere

Foul balls to the lines would be determined by timing, foul balls straight back would be the balls that are split between inside and outside the pci, or just on the edge.

I’m aware casuals would struggle and obviously pci sizes in general would have to increase slightly. This would also solve all of the people complaining about the home runs as balanced lineups would be far more important just like real life. As for casuals, they can remain just that. Casual. Ranked is a competitive mode and I personally value competitive integrity. I don’t say all this to be a griper or whiner, I’m just putting my two cents in for what would make this game truly competitive. The game we have been playing is no where near competitive.

You can say that, but casuals don't have that same view, they want to play ranked, and SDS can't just ignore that.

SDS doesn't want this game to be a "truly competitive" experience, I don't think that was ever their goal. They aren't trying to be Rainbow Six Siege here.

Hey if you like this game you are a little boy who loves the game helping him

Also stop insulting me please, thank you.

Ah logic.

@parradox-cam_psn said in How to tell you're gonna lose a game:

@eatyum_mlbts said in How to tell you're gonna lose a game:

Hey if you like this game you are a little boy who loves the game helping him

Also stop insulting me please, thank you.

Ah logic.

Nothing to say about all the bs that’s been shared for your own eyes to see huh? Figures…every year is the same. We are conspiracy theorist until you can see it for yourselves and then your crickets.

Logic.

I have no interest in debating someone who ignores whatever anyone says and ignores any proof provided because it doesn't fit his narrative.

I'll debate Raesone all day long, he's a solid dude who knows how to debate and always makes actual constructive criticism posts.

@raesone_psn said in How to tell you're gonna lose a game:

@domebay33_psn said in How to tell you're gonna lose a game:

@ibonafidescrub_ said in How to tell you're gonna lose a game:

@domebay33_psn said in How to tell you're gonna lose a game:

Op, you haven’t figured out that is the balance for you spamming pitches in the dirt?

Didn’t SDS say last year they were gonna punish spamming the same pitch too much?

Have you tried pitching to contact? Keeping them off balance with location/speed mixups?

Bold to complain about cheese tactics not working.

Why would I pitch for contact if my opponent can’t lay off anything? I’d rather strike him out on 3 pitches instead of giving him a chance to run into a lucky homerun

I can’t argue with that, but it further proves that the game is not competitive or even realistic at this point. Which I think is the same argument from OP.

Ponder this, people get bailed out with foul tips on balls in the dirt… but what about the passed ball animation that flashes the ball going all the way to the backstop?? Only for the catcher to still have the ball and throw down to 1st for the out or preventing runners from advancing.

That is a total bailout to dirtballers, and obviously programmed into the game. Not necessarily to balance or bail anybody out, but in past years it was a requested fix due to complaints of too many passed balls.

So maybe this foul tip complaint was SDS’s fix the dirtball spam, the same way bloop hits and errors scored as hits address lack of production or hit variety lol.

One thing I think we all could agree on is this game is Frankenstein’s monster stitched together and needs a major overhaul or completely new engine and code.

Honestly I've never understood the people who say throwing low offspeed should be penalized. The penalty is giving up walks. Walk 4 times and you score a run. Trust me, those "dirtballers" won't throw in the dirt very long if they give up walk after walk after walk. And that's when they have to come into the zone to challenge and THAT'S when you punish them and score all those runners. In other words; baseball 101

But yeah you keep chasing? I'm gonna throw in the dirt all game long. As I should. Anyone who tries to even think otherwise needs to change hobbies.

Since 17, I have played exactly 1 person who wouldn't stop throwing in the dirt, I kept walking over and over, it was hilarious tbh, but considering there only one in the thousands I've played. I think that shows how effective taking pitches is in making people throw strikes

@charterbus_psn said in Can we all agree that The OUTER PCI should be gone:

@spc_garza_psn said in Can we all agree that The OUTER PCI should be gone:

@ibonafidescrub_ said in Can we all agree that The OUTER PCI should be gone:

@spc_garza_psn said in Can we all agree that The OUTER PCI should be gone:

Let’s agree on one thing here.

Agreed

See @iBonafideScrub_ you even agreed

Your earlier statement was 100% true. Any issues gets drowned out by nonsense. But the problem is also vision needs to matter. K rates need some sort of effect on hitting with a specific player so the outer PCI serves its purpose it’s just far to extreme. Like 10 inches too far. In reality vision should be able to reach outside the zone but only a certain amount, but when you can move the entire PCI outside and have vision spread around that as well, you have a serious issue.

I guess they could get rid of the outer PCI, but what’s the result? Some sort of a separate “strike zone PCI” for each batter based on vision? You still need to make Tony Gwynn good at what he did, and Judge not so good at the same aspect.
The inner could be vision and contact could effect timing windows, but again you need to create the game in ways players are good and bad at certain things.

It’s not rocket science but it isn’t as easy as “make user input matter”. They could easily make hitting 100% user based and realistic, the problem is to get to that, they need a PCI that represents something realistic, and a timing window that’s the same. So smaller than the ball and milliseconds wide. The best players would hit in the low .100s and average players would struggle to score a run.

They need solutions but people need to be realistic about what they say and want. And this place just isn’t that realistic anymore.

I've seen vocal streamers who are unhappy with the game basically saying the same thing. The community will say we want this! And then when they get it, they turn around and reverse course.

And that's not to say the game is good, it's not and needs change, but people ask for stuff they actually don't know that they really don't want. It's easy to make something sound good on paper.

Let me guess, someone hacked your account and then decided to buy stubs on that account? People are so weird these days right?

People who think that EA would in anyway make a competent game are just dreaming.

They can't get their billion dollar franchises in Madden and Fifa to not have bugs, inconsistent gameplay and exploits.

But suddenly they will get it all together?

@balsamicarrow88 said in This is the worst game ever made.:

@ericulous1_psn said in This is the worst game ever made.:

@balsamicarrow88 said in This is the worst game ever made.:

@killerpresence4 said in This is the worst game ever made.:

If contact swing is a thing again this year wouldn’t the smart man use contact swings then???

Nah, some people try to play the game how it’s meant to be played, Not find exploits. Try again!

If a button does something, it was meant to be used. Did you create the rules of The Show? I don't seem to recall ever seeing a stream that said, "we made this button for contact swing...you must never use it." Grow up bud.

Are you incompetent? Yes that button was made for contact swing, the intent was not to use contact swing to hit dingers and foul off every pitch. Use that brain or we can argue all day. You will not win either way.

Actually contact is meant for that last part. It's meant to shorten up to avoid striking out, aka fouling off

Yes and not just for the bigger rewards, but the lesser rewards along the way for the future big collection

I mean, technically there is since you can buy them, whereas people who don't like to play singleplayer are locked out of a lot of cards unless they play

But I know it's not feasible to just buy all the online cards

The only way to make it truly like 17 as you described is all bad PCI is not hits, and all good PCI is hits, otherwise BS wins or losses will happen. And 17 wasn't like that way.

@schnauzerface said in Lack of packs this year:

@go4stros25_psn said in Lack of packs this year:

@chuckclc_psn said in Lack of packs this year:

We are missing all those Team Affinity and Ballin packs from the last couple years lol. When they change something they really go hard the other way.

Yeah I guess man. Whatever it is, this year's game just isn't holding my interest like last years game did.

My gaming pattern over the last several years is that I’ll play MLB:TS exclusively from launch until about January or February and then I’ll sneak in a different game before the new MLB comes out. Well, MLB22 hasn’t even been out for 3 weeks and I’m already looking around for different games to play this weekend…

Not sure if the game has just gotten stale after all these years, or if I’m sick of the Mini Season glitches, or if I’m tired of the gameplay, or if I’m put off by the stingy packs and market manipulation (or a combo of all these things), but I don’t think I’ll be playing MLB nearly as much this year as I have in the past. Hopefully something changes because I want to love this game the way I used to.

I'm not quite that far, (mostly because I don't really play other games all that much in the first place), but I think there aren't enough packs to keep me interested and/or the program is just so long and I finished it so fast without using RTTS, that it just seems like forever until another one comes

While it is stupid, they didn't tie progress to online play.