They need to fire who every their social media manager is. And what the hell does Ramone do their. Being in touch with the community seems right up his alley. The lack of information is what is most concerning to me. They make a generic post every so often on their twitter and that's it! At least be involved stay in touch with the community, let us know what's going on. B/c to the majority of the public it just looks like you have no clue, which is why you aren't saying anything, and that is alarming. Especially in a game that is considered grindy with a time limit. Baseball doesn't pause b/c your game isn't finished. Just imagine how much calmer these forums, twitter, etc. would be if we heard more information. Just be honest, let us know how serious it is, what your doing to correct it, and what is even on your radar to be fixed at all.

I get that in this day and age a ton of games are released way to early. And devs rely way to much on patching after deadlines are met. But the difference in SDS and even tiny indie game developers on steam is that SDS has NO customer support. A standard webform submission with an autoreply stating it could take 5 days for a response. This is not customer support by a long shot. They are dead silent on their own website, practically non existing in their forums. At this point i'm thinking they don't even have a social media manager because their twitter posts are way after the fact, generic, and don't tell us anything we don't already know. Their website is a joke, I could put together in a weekend. No blog with a roadmap, no nothing. I'm sorry but when a company is making up to $1000's of dollars of some users (Not me) they should have some sort of customer support to assure whoever is spending money that someone is there to help them if needed.

Just my 2 cents, I strongly urge everyone that has SERIOUS problems to start contacting Sony, Xbox, and even MLB customer support. Let them know there is no communication with the devs and your starting to get nervous. Maybe they will put pressure on SDS to at least offer customer support, or even help them. Thanks MLB for forcing their hand into this extra work load and server load on a years notice.

@jfaznyy13_psn said in 2022 Early Development Must Haves!:

@grizzbear55_psn said in 2022 Early Development Must Haves!:

8 heated responses within 35 mins and you don't believe these are issues?

Every one of the responses are against your ideas LMAO

This is the correct answer to this whole post.

I think the OP is a troll. Or really just not a baseball guy. And oh by the way the pci feedback for opponents doesn't work right. So how do you know where his pci was?

@dfw_texan_psn said in PLEASE fix sound of PERFECT-PERFECT...:

PERFETCT-PERFECT sound is simpy NOT correct...

I'm actually a big fan of the perfect perfect sound change, it was way over the top last year. Have you ever perfectly squared up a baseball? The feeling of lightness is almost perfectly replicated.

Surely he can't think other people feel this way. Just like the people saying to get pin point pitching out of the game. Ummm NO just NO

@dfw_texan_psn said in PLEASE fix sound of PERFECT-PERFECT...:

My guess is you've not spent much time @ a ball game. You can identify the correct sound by watching a game now since the staduims are not so full. The sound of a squared up ball is loud and distinct. More like last years version.

Considering I played minor league ball for years, I would say I've spent my fair share.

@louieepthree_psn said in #JobuInTheShow:

Need Wild Thing's glasses as Equipment too.
Velocity +8, control +8

Didn't I see a Rick "The Wild Thing" Vaughn hair style, when creating my player?
I want Harry Doyle for the broadcaster lol

#JoBuInTheShow

LoL since when is Ramone a programmer? He's only said the last 4 years that he doesn't do any programming. Poor Ramone they trying to get you fired for the wrong thing. However, if he's not a programmer, I would imagine his job has something to do with public relations. And there has been almost 0 information relayed to the public.

Suzanne Dorn
+10 Clutch -8 Stamina

I couldn't agree more, for years I was a Franchise and RTTS only player. Now i'm pretty much exclusively a DD player. But never in my years of playing did I think it would be a good Idea for the two to cross paths. Hey OP very well written!

Does anyone know if the Gamepass version that you can play on PC is next gen? Also curious if it would support 120-144 FPS or if its locked at 60? I was thinking about playing on PC but figured it wasn't worth the download if its exactly the same as my PS4 version. Thanks in advance!

Can anyone tell me if RS is cross gen? I didn't watch the streams this year, because I wasn't planning to play since I haven't upgraded to next gen yet. And don't really want to since I play everything on PC.

Some of yall would have never made it in TheShow17 lol I still find myself to early on HOF fastballs just because they are so easy to read out the hand, its instinct to swing as soon as I see a FB in the strike zone resulting in a ton of early swings.

@surfinsantacruz_xbl said in Still cant hit after months:

Start with directional hitting to get timing down. If you like directional and having fun with it then just go with that.

No offense but this is the worst advise I could recommend. Stay on Zone b/c if you ever want to play competitively you'll be using it anyways. Under no circumstance would I ever recommend directional for online play. Its impossible to hit most the pitches that you will see against a decent player unless you are just lightning fast and early on all fastballs. Find your timing routine, everyones is different. And just practice a ton. I'm sorry but there is no way around that.

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According to a job listing, PlayStation is looking to hire Quality Assurance (QA) testers specifically for MLB The Show. The description for a "Baseball Test Analyst" calls for persons that are knowledgeable in the sport of Baseball and in the MLB: The Show franchise to apply for the position. Buried within the job requirements is a line that specifies that the applicants must have a "Basic to intermediate understanding of networking setup and hardware, as well as how its principles and components apply to modern console, PC, and mobile gaming/functionality."

Just saw this today, I have been playing with the expectations of this being my last year of playing the show. Because I bought a PS3 and a PS4 for only this game and wasn't going to buy next gen consoles this time around, since my pc's are much better. Try playing Rocket league at 144-240hz for a year then go back to a 60fps game and let me know how much fun it is. I started with MLB pennant race in 96. I would really hate to not be able to play anymore but consoles just don't realistically meet minimum competitive requirements in my opinion.

If your one of those people that say the human eye can't see more than 60fps please understand its not about how many frames your seeing, its about how soon your seeing the first frames. Which in this game is pretty much everything, Pitch recognition as soon as possible. Take a look at some of Nvidia's side by side comparisons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hnfyNwU7L4

With that being said, I would expect all PC players to be on the same servers with the only cross platform being play vs friends only. I'm not looking for a competitive advantage over Console players. I'm just looking for a chance to play a great game on great hardware and not have to blow money on a console i'll use for only baseball.

The last couple years I would use all silver or all gold teams for the last month anyways just to practice with smaller pci sizes before the new game launches and we are using day 1 players again. You would be very surprised how successful you can be with WAY lower players against all 99's

I used Kontrol Freaks for 3-4 years with the show and this is the first year I took them off and hitting better for some reason.

@fallenjedi9614_xbl said in Timing issues:

@ke1th_n1chols_psn said in Timing issues:

Anyone else have very inconsistent hitting and pitch timing?

I was waiting for someone else to say this. I will be the first to admit im not the best player. I play with directional hitting and I can already here the comments coming from admitting that. However I have always been VERY GOOD with pitching. On Rookie, Veteran, All Star, even Legend. There was a mission a few years back to get the Yoan Moncada card you had to beat WhiteSox on Legend in a 9 inning game. It was brutal and tool me two tries but pitching is what kept me close. This is the first year since owning the game (Show 16) where im missing my locations horribly with ANY pitcher. I even noticed that even the ones I paralleled to IV or even V, I miss too with them. So its not just you. Hitting timing may be different for me cos I use directional so I cant really speak for most but I will say I get a lot of balls the CPU calls early or late and I was right on them, ESPECIALLY IN MOMENTS. Also a lot of "underwater swings" where it feels like my batter is swinging a 100lb bat and phantom swings where the ball is right down the middle and my good to near perfect swing swings through it.

I strongly disagree, hitting timing feels the same, and pitch timing feels easier this year than in any year past. 25 Games 0.63 ERA. Pitching is to easy this year. Which in turn makes hitting timing feel harder. Just my opinion.

"There's nothing wrong with check swings" - SDS FanBoys

How about now?