Someone else said this so please take credit if it was you. But it’s completely accurate
SDS takes away the things we as a community enjoy before fixing the real issues with the game.

One example, HR derby used to give you a good XP amount. While some may say, it’s unfair cuz that person is getting a ton of XP. My response is. If you want to sit down and play HR derby for 5 hours. You should be rewarded with XP. Like home run derby isn’t that fun. It’s tedious. So if you’re gonna put in the work and do that for 5 hours or whatever it may be. You should be rewarded. And this is coming from someone who didn’t even use that method

Oh my goodness. If one more terrible fielder makes a gold glove play in showdown that’s gonna be it. I swear. Players with less than 70 fielding consistently make driving plays to get me out. It’s so annoying. Like SDS you made them bad at fielding for a reason

For the past year I have been bragging to anyone I talk to about video games that San Diego studios is the best developer out there. That EA sucks and honestly any game made by EA would be 100x better if SDS were to create it. I thought Mlb 19 the show was amazing and had real effort put into it. I’ve thought SDS was the best company out there and anytime someone said “what’s a good company and why” I would say SDS bc they aren’t money grabbers and actually listen to consume feedback. Well. Every good thing I thought about SDS has gone out the window. Absolutely terrible job making this game. Online sucks( read my other reviews. It’s just bad) and I just watched a clip. Where someone hit a walkoff homer in in MTO and the ball ricocheted off the bleachers and into the outfielders hand and was called out. Inexcusable.

After seeing a lot of people comment and post and playing the game a lot myself I’ve come to the conclusion that at this point in the game the hitting engine has to be mostly RNG(random number generator, which basically means everytime you hit the ball it is random whether it is good/good or good/okay, not based on user skill) and this really does seem to be the case. I’m not complaining so much as I’m just asking the devs to make the game more user control based. If I hit the ball completley in the pci with good timing give me a good good base hit. If I miss the pci. Give me a slow dribbler or slow fly out. Just make it user based and give us control of the outcome

@StarsWillAlign said in SDS priorities:

@ejwik13 said in SDS priorities:

@StarsWillAlign said in SDS priorities:

For the people who complete collections and play the DD mode in versus.. showdown.. conquest.. and get the XP by earning it. Playing HR Derby for all of your XP shouldn't reward you with cards and other rewards that are not meant to be obtained so quickly. It's not a grind. It's exploiting a glitch.

Playing a single mode for 5 hours is defienlty a grind. It’s so pointless. If you wanna sit there for 5 hours playing a mode like he derby. Yeah you should get xp

So your telling me people who sit and play something so mind numbly boring that takes no skill should be awarded more XP than those that complete collections for as many teams as possible? Yeah ok. Sure it's a grind.. a extremely tedious one. It's still exploiting a glitch. The HR Derby wasn't designed to give that much XP. That's why they are patching it. I don't really blame SDS.. they would think people bought their game to play and try to get cards.. not play a mode for 10 hours out of a 24 hour day. Lol.. but sure .. big time grind.

I don’t blame SDS for that specifically. The thing that bothers me is that outfielders still can’t lock on the ball and the thing they decided to prioritize is the HR derby XP. Like fix the actual gameplay. Like you said. They should focus on people who play the game. So okay. If you wanna get rid of Hr derby xp. Do that. But actually fix the fielding in gameplay first. It wasn’t an issue for me the first half of the game but latley my fielders never lock on and it gets annoying. Or my center fielder will be running torwards a ball hit right up the middle and it’ll go right by him

Okay so this might make some people annoyed but I’ve been somewhat posting a lot on here lately and at times been rude to some of you. I want to take this post to genuinely apologize and say I’ll do better moving forward. Love Mlb the show and while it has as many flaws as the next game I’m grateful for the devs hard work nonetheless. And to the community. If I was rude I apologize

Doing the Paul konerko moments and yordan Alvarez robs me of a home run. 49 fielding yordan alazarez. Who has never robbed a home run in his life and is clearly an awful fielder. Like cmon now

@StarsWillAlign said in SDS priorities:

For the people who complete collections and play the DD mode in versus.. showdown.. conquest.. and get the XP by earning it. Playing HR Derby for all of your XP shouldn't reward you with cards and other rewards that are not meant to be obtained so quickly. It's not a grind. It's exploiting a glitch.

Playing a single mode for 5 hours is defienlty a grind. It’s so pointless. If you wanna sit there for 5 hours playing a mode like he derby. Yeah you should get xp

It bothers me that I’m not allowed to delete my own post or comment. It says I do not have enough authority to do that action. But like what do you mean? It’s my comment. It’s my post. I should control what happens to it

Stop having terrible fielders rob home runs and make gold glove level plays in moments and showdown. It’s the most unrealistic thing ever

When making a trade I don’t get to control who gets sent down which I think is super lame. We just want user control. Not the cpu taking over our management like roster and lineups

What is it based on?im in my second MTO. Did the first with the Padres and instead of calling up guys like CJ Abrams or Mackenzie Gore, they gave me options of D potential and C potential players. Why not offer the top prospects? I was thinking of doing the oriels cuz I love adley, but if they won’t even call up a top prospect what’s the point? So my question is. Does anyone know what it’s based off if not potential and ratings?

That’s crazy that you got all four in different trades. My trade offers have been awful. Twice now they tried offering me Manuel Margot and he sucks at hitting. And just today they offered me Scott Alexander from the dodgers in return for two B potential guys lol.

I don’t understand why I have to start every game losing? My momentum is at max fire and I’m winning the previous game 6-2. You’d think that means I’ve earned the opportunity to come into a moment with the lead lol

Well apparently Ozuna is a gold glover in this game. (Despite irl his being an AWFUL fielder) but okay

It’s not. The devs said that postseason would be more moment based instead of every game jumping into the 5th/6th inning. Well that was simply not true. Every game starts in 5/6th inning

I played one all the way through and only needed 3 or 5 runs to win it and all the way through only took 30-35 min

If I play MTO when servers are down. Will the progress toward TA save?

Commenting so I know when something happens with this.

@skipple_mlbts said in Seriously, thank you SD Studios.:

Server, app service and database work is insanely complex and have thousands of intricate tie in with one another. I've worked in the industry for years and this type of work is never easy. The moving parts that need to coordinate perfectly with one another is simply overwhelming at times.

I understand people's frustration. You purchased a product and you expect it to just work. The hype and anticipation to play only to be let down. I get it. That said, it's so upsetting to watch a community insult and disparage a studio who consistently puts out one of the best sports games on the market.

They are trying to fix a day 0 bug. Relax. Go play offline for a bit.

Give them time and credit for the work they do. It could be a whole lot worse with other studios who truly don't give a care about you or the game.

Will XP save if I play offline rn? Or will it cancel and not carry over?