I have purchased a baseball video game every year since the 90's. I would spend 1000+ hours each cycle playing a full season in franchise mode or trying to get my player to the show in RTTS. In recent years The Show has been the one and only game I purchase every year. But unfortunately that is about to change. The lack of upgrades, removal of features and lack of transparency from SDS has become more and more frustrating recently. I felt this way about Madden years ago and took a year off from purchasing the game. One year turned into two, then three and I have never bought another version of Madden since. I have listed some examples below.
Removed Features
-Year to year saves
-Sounds of the Show
-Online franchise
-Setting Ticket and concession prices
The Graphics/Stadiums
-The player models still look like a PS4 version.
-Teams like the Brewers, Padres and Marlins changed their logos years ago but a majority of their fans wear clothes with the old logos.
-The A's Stadium has tarp covering the 3rd deck. This was removed IRL in 2017.
Roster/Bullpen Construction and Management
-The bullpen management is awful. The AI will have long relievers pitch 80 plus games and 120+ innings while the set up men will pitch in 30-40 games totaling 30-40 innings.
-The drafting and scouting has not been updated in almost a decade.
-There are still no international free agents generated.