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Your points are 100% valid and perhaps even the fanboys who think anything posted critical of SDS is somehow a personal insult to them will realize this is a fumbled opportunity.

It amazes me that SDS has so totally limited the scope of the Negro League players and teams in the games, restricting it to the tightly scripted Moments. At minimum SDS should have added the option to play Negro League games in the Exhibition Mode, if not actually allowed for a mini-version of League Play options versus the CPU using Negro League teams and schedules.

If SDS really wanted to introduce a wow factor into MLB 25 they would have by now introduced a mini version of RTTS, where in addition to the normal MLB option, customers could also create a special Negro League avatar player and used that player in a special Negro League format. How cool would that have been! To play games from the past using all the Negro League era stadiums.

Again, proper upgrades to Stadium Creator could have even allowed stadium designers to create historically realistic versions of the many Negro League ballparks and allowed those to be added to this special RTTS option.

But, all of this would have required SDS to write significant additional code to the game, something they don't seem willing to do any longer, and I guess being they are a monopoly, they don't feel they have to. Still, in this case, one would think respect for this historic league would have carved out a special exception. But, I guess not!

While SDS got the reality correct for the actual All Star game -- putting the players in their default home and road team uniforms, they got the special All-Star uniforms wrong in the Home Run Derby.

First, they put the NL team players in the AL uniforms and the AL team players in the NL uniforms. Additionally, they have the players wearing their normal regular season uniform numbers. The reality is that MLB put the number three on the backs of all the AL uniforms to honor Babe Ruth and the number 44 on the backs of all the NL uniforms to honor Hank Aaron.

Since MLB The Show already models putting the number 42 on the backs of all uniforms for the annual Jackie Robinson Day game, the code to implement this actual MLB plan is there.

MLB made a public announcement of all these plans several months back, even before the first release of MLB The Show 25, so SDS should have gotten these details correct.

@Zachtronics_XBL said in What's the first thing you'll do when MLB The Show hits PC?:

@PriorFir4383355_XBL I read all of this, and I agree 5000%, for what its worth! I thought the studio came off a bit snotty, up until the mid-2010s. I didn't care for the product, but with all of the visual upgrades, the immersion, the various difficulty and ways to play additions, adding legends, and all of the freedom of customization, it became an incredibly good product!

XBOX fans went NUTS for this game, when 2021 hit. I could already see the drag while paging between teams, pages in the Vault, the glaring omission of Sounds of the Show. It wasn't off to a great start.

I'm not sure where the hiccup is, where this bottleneck is, but a lot of the people on these forums certainly don't seem to care to encourage positive change for the series. They prefer to watch as we make considerate, thoughtful critiques and ideas for positive change, tearing us down.

It's a forum, so... it goes with the territory.

So when someone like yourself puts up something this thoughtful, it adds to my day, so thank you!

I know there are lots of great people who love this product and especially those who love making it. Let's not see it devolve into Madden, because the XBOX and Switch fans are already trashing it more, year-to-year. They get a well-respected Sony game on a different platform, and Sony is held to a standard. And, rightfully so!

Well, it would appear that while you agree with it "5000%" the people running this forum at SDS simply cannot stand me saying it for folks like you to read. They put my XBox based account on a terminal redirect path, which is a sneaky way to ban someone without actually banning him. This is my Show account I'm posting under now. And it's likely my last post.

Companies that run in such a shady and below board manner don't deserve my time. It's become clear SDS isn't interested in what the customers think about their game or want to see in it. Now, it's equally clear they don't even want to hear us say it in ways they fear might tip the balance of customer viewpoints.

@SDS_JoeK_PSN

The clock is firmly ticking, Joe. If something isn't done rather soon, the damage will become almost impossible for SDS to overcome. And if that comes to pass, it may well be better for SDS to just kill the logo editor, stadium creator, and custom uniform tools entirely vice see them remain languished in purgatory!

The current MLB rule is nonsensical, as it assigns a duty to the hitter running to first a requirement to stay inside a running lane and then somehow contort his footing instantly to side slip to his left anywhere from one to two feet while running full speed.

That's biologically impossible. So, the rule is compromised.

The MLB rule should have been changed decades ago, or the base changed to facilitate the current rule. Extending first base so that it firmly rests in the running lane is a reasonable solution.

@SDS_JoeK_PSN

@Zachtronics_XBL said in The following description for an uploaded player was flagged as INAPPROPRIATE:

I created and uploaded George Sisler (whose last name has not been re-recorded yet), and apparently the following description was offensive "HoF 1B/OF/P, Best Hitter in Browns-Orioles history, scouted Jackie R"

I don't understand. This is offensive, yet you allow logos of Nazi symbols, drug use, beer advertisements, nude women, and [censored]?

I've been very patient with your studio for the past 7 + years, but it's time to do something about this.

Catering to duplication of tens of thousands of logos, both vulgar and non-vulgar, while expecting the user base to recreate EVERY player each year is ridiculous.

What's your solution, San Diego Studios? What are you doing to address this?

@SDS_JoeK_PSN

I am bringing this excellent post to the attention of Joe at SDS. You make strong points and in a very professional manner. It is time for SDS to address both issues forthrightly. Like with a great deal of the code that tries to automatically limit what customers can do, the effect is rejecting perfectly valid attempts to do things that are reasonable, moral, and wholesome, while facilitating some of the worst forms of vulgarity and outright cheating.