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Thank you, Gentlemen. Switched to directional and got it on about the fourth try.

Why in the 3-hit moment for Paul O’Neill are the Yankees playing Boston with the Houston Astros Roger Clemens pitching?

And yes, I’m frustrated because I can’t get the three hits. I’ve earned well over 1,000 XP trying. Two hits over and over because of diving catches and lineouts.

The English language is inadequate to describe my hatred for Moments.

The community has spoken loud and clear. SDS will do something about the glitch cheat.

People have to understand that there are legal considerations. A company cannot be too quick in their response and risk making their problem worse. They know they have a large part of their consumer base that is upset but, believe it or not, even the cheaters have rights. That’s life in a democracy.

Sure, there are terms of service and all that but, from a legal standpoint, if something isn’t explicitly forbidden in those terms then it makes their response a little trickier.

They have lawyers that are thinking about every possible angle here before they make a decision.

They are also trying to figure out how to appease the angry customer base, I’m sure. But everyone should understand this now: you won’t be happy with what they decide.

Whether it’s free packs, free stubs, it doesn’t matter. A horrible thing happened and it cannot be erased. No solution is going to please everybody; it will always feel like the bad guys got away with one.

The legal team may conclude that punishment for exploiting this particular glitch isn’t feasible. But they will make amends to the community, it will fall short of pleasing most, and we will have to move on.

I can see why you’re so angry. You’ve lost in life and you were hoping that by breaking open Peggy Sue’s piggy bank and spending your family’s last hundred dollars on this game that you could finally win at something. Alas, it wasn’t meant to be.

Sorry for your loss.

I would love to use the Negro League cards but without getting any TA credit it makes it hard. I wish they had a TA for this entire series.

I have to come on here once a year and put it out there: I hope whichever developer thought of “Moments” gets diarrhea in traffic.

Moments are by far the most frustrating part of this game.

Moment #1- Get a hit. First pitch and it’s a homer.

Moment #4- Hit a homerun. Spend 40 minutes hitting singles and perfect line outs.

I love when you can complete a program with the OPTION of doing the moments. Whenever a card or program REQUIRES moments, I cringe. I know I’m going to spend a stupid amount of time trying to complete it.

Okay. Got that off my chest. Carry on, yall.

Thanks for the feedback. I should have perused the forums before posting.

I was playing my sixth and final game in the WC and my opponent hit a lead off homer in the top of the 1st. Before I even threw another pitch to the next batter, the game was disconnected. I got the loss.

This is really unfortunate. I haven’t been disconnected like that before. The timing is suspicious and, unfortunately, in light of the cheating scandal, I can’t help but wonder is this another way people have figured out how to cheat?

I was only pursuing my 4th win, so I miss out on an opportunity for a Chase pack. It’s not the end of the world but it sucks that we even have to wonder…

I don’t play that mode much. When I have played, I run away from that thing that chases you and so far haven’t been caught. I know the penalties if you lose to it, but how hard is it to beat?

@Graeves-_PSN Well, yeah. There has to be some sort of formula to determine max purchases from the community, whatever that may be. It seems to me that they’re trending in the wrong direction, though. A lot of people are saying they are losing interest in the game because of the cheaters. So if those 1,000 people spending a million cause 200,000 people to not only stop buying stubs, but also stop buying the game, they’ll really be in trouble.

@eatyum_PSN I wonder how much people actually spend on stubs? Apparently many people aren’t spending like they would. They’re cheating instead.

I don’t even care that people cheat, honestly. When I play ranked and someone is dotting or hitting nukes all over the place, I just assume they’re really good and do my best to compete. It never crossed my mind that someone could cheat. Then I saw that video on YouTube…

First, I don’t understand the fun in it. Running some program and putting your controller down and watching the CPU beat some poor unsuspecting shlub doesn’t sound enjoyable to me. I truly don’t think the people that do it have fun doing it, either. They do it to get those stubs and those rare cards. I would imagine once they have every card obtainable, they play straight up. Maybe not but it’s what I think.

This is going to be a controversial opinion but, I think the solution is to make every single card available in packs and increase pack odds dramatically. Even WS rewards, and 1000 cards would be in packs.

Not the most ideal, and some will say it’s a participation trophy approach, but I don’t know what else will make stub chasing less important. Besides, aren’t the people who have to have something others don’t have just as weird as those who want everyone to have the same thing? Like, if you make it to 1000 and get a gold card, why does it bother you if other people have it? Chasing video game prestige is weird to me. But I digress…

Personally, I don’t have to have every card. I just play with the best cards available to me without spending money or time flipping on the market. I don’t care that I don’t have the WBC MVP, or Tulo, or Ohtani. It’s just a friggin’ game. But I know some folks are very passionate about this sort of thing. They want it to be fair and they want to collect every card obtainable. I understand that. Not sure how that is possible, though, without eliminating rarity.

I think both can be true. Every pitch that touches the black should be called a strike, and they can be a little more generous with perfect and almost perfect swings.

Of course more generous on the swings means the really good players are going to put up 30-40 runs a game. It also means that we will be swinging at almost every pitch because most users can tease the strike zone pretty well. Pitching is easier than hitting, and really bad misses while pitching are very rare at even low levels of H2H play.

The changes proposed in this thread would result in everyone swinging on almost every pitch.

Agreed. 40k? Only in the Event? That’s too much. 40k across all game modes would be okay. But just the event? That’s too much for me. I’ve given up. Only got to 8,000 and played A LOT

I loved Baseball Stars but to say it’s better than The Show is probably just nostalgia.

I think the idea is that you can build teams of equal strength whether you prefer online or offline gaming. If you’re the type of person that wants to collect EVERY card, then yeah, you have to play every mode. As the game goes on, though, and there are red 99s everywhere, getting all of these 90 overalls will seem like a waste of time.

I agree with some of the commenters, though: I HATE off line play. And I can’t believe “Moments” are still a thing. I loathe moments.

Yes, I am getting that, too. Like ten times in a row.

I’m sure this has already been raised before, but I was late to the game this year. Anyway, way too many pitches on the black are called balls in H2H modes. I understand the desire to have umpires make mistakes for the sake of authenticity, but considering no pitches completely off the black are ever called strikes, its is too advantageous for the hitter.

Love the game, though.

I think this year’s soundtrack is the best yet.

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I feel like I’m the worst player still playing this game. The only people left are really, really, good. I’ve played five event games and everyone had a remarkable W/L record, and they hit everything. I won the first two, luckily, but it was sweaty.

I guess there are no easy wins left out there, huh?

You mean the worst at online play? I’m still playing and I’d be worse than you online I just prefer not to play against people. I don’t even wanna play my girlfriend son and he lives with me.

Yeah that’s what I mean. This Event has been brutal. I can’t get anyone out.

I don’t even try those. I’d be better off virtually burning the cost of the stubs to enter those. They do cost stubs right?

Not Events. Battle Royale costs stubs