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Just wow! Not sure anyone except Dolenz would have picked Walker to win it, but it was EPIC! I had Schwarber on most of my accounts...oh well! Congrats Jordan and Cards fans! enjoy that 200K card!!!! LOL!

Yay for Dolenz!! Another Expensive Cardinal in a pack!!!!

@Bridge-Piece_XBL Yeah, I would have likely stopped their too, but if its true that 150K have Acuna, and 500k have Carlton, that just an enormous difference of 350,000 players. I'll need to look when I get home how many got Britton.

@JenkinMeyer_PSN Thanks a pretty big difference. Makes me think that offline players counts are much higher than I even thought they were, as I doubt most online players would skip the chance to get those cards free and also 75K in stubs and 90k XP.

@JenkinMeyer_PSN I would think all of the new All-Star cards coming in a few weeks will be captains

Caprado, yes I agree with that. That was a great quality of life change. They also speeded up Conquest Map processing in 22, which was great. In regards to the games, I though '22 and '23 were ok (although I think '23 lost TA), but as a whole, the game as been slowly getting worse year by year, and I'd bet that their usage stats prove that. up until '23, i played the game all the way through launch date the following year.

Blame the bots for this one. SDS seems like they certainly trying to fix this, but its not easy (speaking from experience). I'm tellin ya, the only real way to stop this would be to disable the online marketplace until they can find a permanent solution to the bots, without trouble shooting with a game thats been in General release for over 4 months now.

SInce I am on my soap box.....Been playing the The Show since 2016. This team really needs to go back to the start here from a dev standpoint. Like literally go back to The Show 21 (the last good game in my opinion) and start over. Dump the Nintendo switch integration (i think a big part of their issues), and bring in some more voices (Online and Offline) who can help direct how this game should really be developed.

This game could be so much better online and offline, but every year, seems like they just keep doing bolt on's, which end up breaking more and more.

Also, Live Content.....infrequent attribute updates, cut and paste programs year after year (except this past week when they completely alienated half of their customer base), killing investing with purchase limits, timed programs that force you to play modes you have no interest in.. Its been so bad. And dont even get me started on franchise mode, which has been a complete disaster since 2021 when they stopped Year over Year saves, dumped sounds of the shows, ruined playing RTTS when they disallowed using the created player anywhere in DD (I get not using them online I guess, but offline too?).

THe only really great additions in my opinion have been 1) The Parallel system, 2) the boost system implement this yea (which could be made to be so much better) and 3) The Negro Leagues addition (this too, which incredible, could be made SO much better but introducing a Team Affinity and more longer term usuable cards from the initial launch of the game). And for goodness sakes, why cant we make Live Series cards relevant for the entire MLB season, with higher escalting ratings that can compete with flashback and legends and consider the idea of the very best LS Cards ultimatly "morphing" into the Finest Cards, which would even make the more valuable.

If the franchise is going to survive long term, the team at SDS need to go back to the drawboard, bring on some trusted community voices to help lead the future direction of the franchise. Its either that, or MLB should allow coemption back into the Baseball Game Market, really forcing a higher level of innovation by all.

Wow! That's medium??? What could the hard ones be? No thanks to all of that.

10-4. I've always advocated that playing online should entitle you to more rewards, I just think this took it too far.

I choose not to pay for PS+ to play the only game I play online, because

1. Online play has been broken for years
2. The are many Toxic Players online
3. Cheating and Dashboarding
4. Constant Pausing.
5. Glitched players
6. Little attempts to fix the bugs and issues
7. Horrible Servers
8. Its generally not fun

So, I guess if I had known that offline players would be required to play online as well to complete programs when buying the game, maybe i'd feel differently. But lets be honest. This game has been going down the tubes since MLBtheShow 23 (the last decent games), and I've always given SDS and the LC team the benefit of the doubt. After this kick in the teeth, no more.

Completely ridiculous that the Live Content Team shut out offline player completely from this program! I mean, make the programs harder, add a collection, do something other than making the content sellable.

I've been avid offline show player since 2015, and it feels like they just dont care about ANY of the offline stuff anymore.

This feels like the dumb egg hunt program all over again, except worse, beucase we cant even get past Phase 1!

Be better SDS and Live Content Team.

The craziest thing about all of the poor folks that are not "bots" getting banned, is that the "bot" issue still seems to be getting worse and not better. Coincidence? I think not.

I have never been a "flipper" on the market...just dont have that kind of time, but when it take you an hour just to buy a Blake Snell and a Yamamoto to complete LS collection, because you cant make a bid without being outbid in a second or less....yes that is a huge turnoff....

The people and/or businesses that use these bots are obviously very tech savvy, and just continue to create new users when the old ones get banned, becuase they dont care about the game, only acquiring stubs. I fear the only way to really stop this kind of traffic, is to not offer the market online or mobile app, and only on the console.

Looks like they added a new Server Maintience ETA clock. Had never seen that. looks like more maintinence in 7 mins....That's really cool. glad they did that.

Looks like its still down?

Yup down. An update and Add free packs and Bots bring down the server.

@NotesOfJohn_PSN One of the things that I also noticed, in addtion to turning cross play off, is that the slowness was "More" limited, and worse, on my sub accounts on PS5, so I removed all but my main account and my primary sub-account, and the menus and pack opening seem to be much fater.

I have found that turning off "cross play" in your universal profile seems to help with the lag a bit

No ....its broken on PS5 as well.

Servers seem to be a mess. Spotty to say the least.

Took 2 months off from the game and just game back last week. What on earth happened? This menu lag is insane! There was a little lag in the beginning but I don't remember it being this bad at all! Not sure if anyone would purchase bundles of packs, because literally would like hours to open the packs, not to mention trying to sell the card. My guess is that bot traffic is obliterating their servers.

This HAS to be their top priority to fix this.