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The developers need to find a way to stop the in-game taunting that ruins the experience for folks who just want to play a sim baseball game without having to deal with with juvenile punks who are weirdly aroused by taunting opponents. Perhaps they can't get a date so they get off being jerks during gameplay. It's dumb and a ridiculous waste of time that makes the game less enjoyable.

Yep, its odd --- TONS of low to mid 90s diamonds this year, very early in the season and very easy to obtain.

Everyone has al All Star Team.

I'm not sure what the point of that is --- kinda lame, actually.

@SuntLacrimae50_MLBTS said in Why are the new AKA cards only 97?:

99's at launch, 99's months later...meh, doesn't matter. The game is still one of collecting hundreds of cards you don't care about and will likely never use to unlock the handful that everyone wants and everyone uses.

FFS, if they're going to "force" us to collect all these cards we won't use, at least give us a cool UI/binder system instead of the same washed-out junior high power point slides and an enormous "SET xyz" collection dumpster that's only rivaled by the FA dumpster in the LS collection...

Totally agree

The animation showed the ball actually bouncing almost every single time, so....

Use Pulse pitching --- much more accurate.

Today, pitching, on an 0-2 count, I threw a splitter in the dirt --- two or three balls below the zone. The batter hit a 440 home run.

That seemed ridiculous, so I tried an experiment....

...I threw this guy nothing but splitting BOUNCING in the dirt for the next 3 or 4 innings. He hit 6 or 7 grounders to first base for an easy out....HOW he did that defies physics, BUT...

...he also hit FOUR HOME RUNS on splitters that bounced before the plate --- and they were monster shots to center field.

This is simply NOT POSSIBLE in baseball.

I am not sure HOW they are cheating to do this --- or how they are exploiting code to do this, but SDS needs to FIX IT NOW.

@dart_wuffy_PSN said in Pickoff CHEESE Garbage:

People who complain about it are the cheesers who get caught by peope all the time. This complain is a prime example

You're a cheat and a bozo.

Roger that.

Sorry, but pickoffs to 2nd base are completely BROKEN.

SLOW runners on 2nd base are easily stealing third ON PICKOFFS!

By the time my pitcher has thrown the ball to second and the SS/2B catches it, the slow runner is SLIDING INTO 3rd base!! When my SS/2B catches the ball and PIVOTS to throw it, the runner is standing on 3rd base with hands on his hips!!!

In NO WAY is this even CLOSE to resembling reality. It happened to me THREE times one one game today --- after the third time, I just quit (it was tied, 2-2, in the 7th or 8th inning).

This kind of GARBAGE completely takes the joy out of the game.

Rage Quits have always been annoying --- and immature --- but with this year's edition of The Show, punks that Rage Quit cost us Parallel XP. This means we can't level-up players as fast, and, worse, there's no penalty for Rage Quitting and, thus, there's no risk for scr*wing your opponent wit a Rage Quit.

About one dozen times this year, I've hit a bomb in a close game with runners on base --- sometimes as early as the 2nd inning in a tied game --- and punks Rage Quit by the time the ball is crossing the outfield wall. The game ends: no HR, no Runs & no RBI are recorded. That means I earn no Parallel XP for that batter --- or for anything else that I've done in the game!

Hey, San Diego Studios, listen up! You need to penalize Rage Quitters. Here's an idea: delete one random Diamond or Signature card every time someone gives up a Home Run and "loses connection" within 5 minutes. If they don't have those, dock them 100,000 stubs --- and if they don't have 100,000 stubs, let them go negative on their stub count.

That would end this nonsense! It must stop!

Seaver's off-speed stuff is better than most --- especially his slider --- and his fastball is adequate. While his curve as tons of break, it's a challenge to throw it for a strike at the very bottom of the zone --- too easy to throw it in the dirt. That' ok, because a lot of hitters will go fishing, even at a ball below the zone.

His biggest downside is his sinker --- it's flat. It doesn't sink. It's 2-3 mph slower than his fastball but that's the only difference between his sinker and 4-seamer.

@EvylShaun said in Drag Bunting is [censored] Ridiculous:

@doobiebross66-72 said in Drag Bunting is [censored] Ridiculous:

Took a week away, came back and my first game consists of my opponent drag bunting with Carew, Jackie and Cobb to start the top of the 1st

Drag bunting is way too effective this year and it’s gotten to the point now where people are just flat out exploiting it. Just add that to the list of reasons why I find myself not wanting to play despite the awesome content.

Please dear god nerf the effectiveness of drag bunting. Yes, you can shift your defense but we all know the sense of urgency in the infield is STILL not where it should be especially on plays like drag bunts.

I’m 100% for bunting to advance runners but if you drag bunt with a speed-stacked lineup, I have 0 respect for you. Buddy deserved the 14-4 mercy rule.

It's funny. You talk to or watch any top tier players and if someone bunts down 3rd against them with a lefty shift they'll almost always say something to the effect of "fair play"

In real life MLB, if Ortiz or Cano would bunt down 3rd agaisnt the shift the opponent would happily accept that and take the bat out of their hands.

And yet here you are, so entitled that you won't take 3 seconds to adjust your defense in a video game with a PRESET OPTION, and then cry foul because someone bunted. This is 100% on you, and you look really salty and pathetic.

But hey, at least you mercied him right?

Exactly. And, when you shift to Bunt Defense, you don't even need that good of a defesnive infielder at 3B or 1B to field the bunt and get the batter out. Major leaguers, playing way in can generally field a very slowly hit bunt and accurately throw to first base.

It seems that there a billion examples of RNG influencing games that have been posted to this forum for the past many years. Many folks --- myself included --- have posted specific in-game examples of RNG determining outcomes. These seem reasonable enough.

What I don't understand is why absolutely zero proof of RNG has come out of SD Studios from current or past employees leaking emails, code, etc. to prove that: 1) RNG is baked into the game and 2) that the company does it to keep mediocre players around (like me) to buy stubs and help SD Studios make a profit. Although I am mediocre player, I don't fall into the trap of buying stubs, so SD Studios is not making a dime from me on in-game purchases.

Since it seems RNG has been around many years now, it seems someone from inside SD Studios would have come clean by now and produced documents, emails, video, code or some other evidence of what SD Studios is up to --- which we all intuitively feel now and again when playing the game.

So, as the old 1980s Wendy's commercial asked. . . .

. . . Where's the beef? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riH5EsGcmTw

@abbyspapa said in SCAM/GLITCH: Starters in the Bullpen:

1. Not a scam/glitch, it was a feature introduced in this year's game. You can bring starters in relief.

2. Most of the pitchers you named were primarily starters but pitch in relief occasionally, Orel did it nearly 50 times.

Ok, my bad --- missed the announcement.

With 100 years of baseball history, why do we need mega-turbo cards of guys who never played a game in the bigs?

Makes zero sense.

SDS --- please end this nonsense forever. Drop these prospect and future cards and never, ever bring them back.

Ever.

Not sure when this scam/glitch first started happening to everyone, but I noticed it yesterday --- other teams putting Cy Young Corey Cluber and Gold Orel Hershieser and other lifetime starting pitchers in their bullpen.

Hard enough going against a Diamond starting pitcher, but you battle him several innings and then in 7th in comes Cy Young Corey Cluber for 2 innings of relief.

It's a joke. This is broke.

It needs to be fixed.

ASAP.