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@TripleH-4481_PSN said:

@KenKen71412_MLBTS

I knew people were buying cheap stubs but didn’t know it was even worse than that. SDS by proxy thru Sony has become increasingly greedy but that doesn’t justify so many players taking shortcuts to get ahead. Cheaters gotta cheat I guess.

Yep. Ohtani or Miz will cost you around $20. The Chase cards that are around 300k stubs are $10.

You're right though, just because they can come up with a reason for cheating (I can definitely see the EXCUSE behind someone buying 3rd party stubs.) doesn't make it right or not against the rules.

Hopefully SDS uses this as a learning experience, doesn't let things get so far out of hand and this game can get back to being the best sports game around. I think that's what we all want.

With the way these bots and resellers work I find it real hard to believe that someone got caught in the middle for no reason. Is it possible? Absolutely, anything is possible with SDS, we all know that. It's not just stubs you can buy off these sites, you can also buy individual cards., some sites even sell complete accounts.
I'm glad SDS is doing something about this but these problems have been allowed to go on for so long that this has to be just a warning shot from SDS. If this is all they do then it fixes nothing.
We/I shouldn't have to say this but... Thank You, SDS for starting to fix the problem. Now in the words of the great Shao Kahn "Finish Them"

As expected...more garbage. Just enough so they can say they tried without trying.

SDS is a joke.

@mike_ph_PSN said:

@SDS_JoeK_PSN said:

As we know, Roster Updates bring shifts to player items as players move between OVRs.

The previous update did increase the odds of pulling a 92+ OVR Live Series player positively, but lowered the individual player odds of Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge.

You will be more likely to find 92+ OVR players after the roster update tomorrow.

Do you think this makes it ok?

Come on we should be thanking them. They just gave us a shot glass half full of water after stranding us in the desert for 6 months. We need to be thankful for every piece of garbage they give us, because if it was up to them we'd be eating it.
Thank you MLBtheShowMetheMoney26

Side note: The sheer "intestinal fortitude" to spew that line of BS and act like we're all going to grovel and thank them for their generosity is absolutely amazing.

@Pergo_MLBTS said:

https://x.com/mlbtheshowzone/status/2088403603312808049

They're lying again. I just checked and quick sell is 8000 for 91s and 7500 for 90s. Down from 9000 and 8000.

@SaveFarris_PSN said:

If you read all the way through today’s notes, you’ll see on Friday we’re getting ANOTHER Cardinals legend in a Chase pack, our good buddy Stan.

I’m so sorry, @dolenz_psn

Sounds like time for an old fashioned love offering. With SDS pricing a couple hundred thousand in cash sould get all the Cardinals.

How they handle this will be interesting to say the least. Was New Treads them saying 'we hear you, we can't fix everything but this is what we can do'.
Or were they giving us a nibble of the carrot, while they got ready to beat us half to death with the stick?
Scenario 2 seems more likely.

@home-runn_mlbts your being generous saying 100k. The Rosario alone is 250k and I'm pretty sure has been close to 400k.

I sent you a PM. Let me know if you think it'll help. Good luck, either way.

@DrBear100_PSN said:

I use directional hitting most of the time.

I thought I was the only one that uses directional.
Do you move the joystick at the same time as you're pressing hit or try to time it out? I'm same time but I have a DaulSense Edge, use R2 to swing and have the delay set to 35. How I ever hit a fastball is surprising.

Hey, it worked because you shut them down after Baker. I could imagine your opponent going crazy. After scoring 16 in 6.2 then 1 in the next 5.1.
Couldn't agree more about college rivalries. Unfortunately greed and politics are finding their way in but it's still hard to beat.

Thankfully that wasn't a mini-seasons game because you burnt through some arms. Lol

But that's exactly what I mean. That obviously wasn't an easy game but I'm sure it was fun. And that's enough of reward. Not like when we have to do these missions and every batter is a 3-2 count with 8 foul balls.

BTW, if Lucky Cats is a play on the Kentucky Wildcats, I'll just say Go Vols!

@NotesOfJohn_PSN said:

@Bridge-Piece_XBL FWIW, my Ohtani and 3 x Judge all came from standards.

They have been far, far better for me than BIAH packs despite more than three times the odds.

"Not to brag but the 3rd time I won the Powerball, I picked numbers from the alphabet."
Signed, NotesOfJohn.

Just kidding and having some fun. I've been lucky with the Headliners packs, just not recently. Overall I think I've pulled most of the specials out of those.

@SpawnOfDitka_XBL said:

Here is the issue. I dont think you can change odds, mid game cycle when people are spending money and buying packs based on said odds. But I dont know. They definitely are manipulating things.

This is what I was thinking, but everything I found just talked a mobile gaming. I did find something that said players must be notified if drop/pull odds change in China or India, maybe South Korea, too. But that doesn't do us any good.

I know what they can't do is list 12.5% odds for pulls out of an Ultra pack then give you a Bunny pack that doesn't even have listed odds andt is worth less then half of a 5 card Ultra pack. That much I was told for a fact and was asked tto send proof of. (Which I had.)

Why do I have a sneaky feeling that this happened when they started the stub sale?
Keep the 2 gatekeepers marketplace value sky high. Sell stubs 50% off. No one is going to pay cash for enough stubs to buy Judge and/or Ohtani but they might buy enough for a 50 pack.

Regulatory Scrutiny: In the US, the FTC monitors these monetization models; companies that use deceptive practices or fail to disclose the real odds of chance-based items risk severe penalties.

Looks like I'll be updating my complaint from last week.

Does anyone have or can tell me how to get a screenshot of the original odds?

@mike_ph_PSN said:

How in the world can the people in charge of this game decide to decrease the drop rate of those two cards in August, especially after the complete and utter disaster this game has been this year.

It would be disgraceful practice at any time, but doing so half way through the year after nothing but problems and disappoint with this game is laughably out of touch.

I truly cannot wait to never purchase this game again. The server issues, the menu issues, the god awful RNG gameplay, the crappy switch hitting meta.

What a disgusting slap in the face to your customer this game and studio has become.

Which packs odds are you talking about. They done something similar during the Ultra pack Bunny pack scam. Any info you can provide I can pass along to people that can possibly do something about it.
Some of the manipulating they are doing this year is unfair and deceptive at the very least. Boarderline illegal, in FTC terms.

This is just another example of SDS doing the bare minimum to say try tried. Every time I post a Ohtani bid I get outbid by a new bid by 1 stub. Nothing changes under my bid.

We don't want anything free, we want fair. And allowing bots to control the market only benefits SDS.
If they really wanted to fix it they would have had a flash sale, without a stub sale, and then released the vault pack. Or done Vault pack, flash sale today. But they won't do it because at the very least the bots make them money. The longer they allow this to go on, the more likely it is that they control a large portion of the bots and are deliberately manipulating the marketplace.

Egg Hunt Schlittler or LS Skeenes. The 7th Vault/Chase pack this year with similar results.

If SDS really wanted to fix their marketplace manipulation they would have a flash sale right now.
The only people it would hurt are those controlling the bots.

What's stopping you SDS?

@Dolenz_PSN said:

@KenKen71412_MLBTS said:

And I've got 1.6 million stubs but refuse to spend over 300k on cards I'll never use.

I have just over 1 million and I don't want to spend that much on players I would use for the rest of the year orobably

Exactly, and you're a Cardinals fan. I'm a Mets fan and I didn't want to spend the 150k on either Lindor or Soto.

Speaking of Cardinals when is the last time Vince Coleman has been in the game? One of my favorite non Mets or A's as a kid.

The marketplace was allowed to get so far out of hand that another normal flash sale isn't going to help. The fact SDS is still having a stub sale says everything. They're trying to force players to buy stubs.
With Madden coming out you'd hope they would try to fix it, but I really don't see anything that says they are doing anything other then putting a band-aid on a shotgun wound and charging you $50 for it.
And I've got 1.6 million stubs but refuse to spend over 300k on cards I'll never use.