@ComebackLogic said in SDS.. Your game is broken. Just please admit it and slash and burn this whole thing.:
Here’s the thing with this game, I can take an L. I don’t get mad or frustrated about losing. I’m not competitive to the point where every loss pierced my heart. I lose around 1000 games a year, while winning around 1200. After a while you don’t care about the losses and you can still take pleasure in losing a good hard fought game of baseball to a better opponent on the day.
If, for one minute, I thought my problems with the game were down to a lack of skill or ability, I’d work to improve and get better, like I did when I started out playing online. While I’m not going to sit here and pretend I’m good at this game, because I’m not - I swing too often, at too many bad pitches, I’m far too impatient to be elite - I’ve spent almost the entire year failing to escape all star difficulty. That’s absolutely ridiculous to me, seen as I rarely played below 700 in years past. I can’t do a single thing to prevent my opponents scoring 5-15 runs per game every single game. There’s nowhere you can reliably pitch that won’t result in a 400 foot moonshot on an early swing and as I outlined above, I’m not that good a hitter that I can reply with 6-16 runs a game, even on all star. This “outslug your opponent” being the key component to success has ruined me.
I used to get by with solid pitching and defense. Knowing I could induce a groundball double play when I needed to, setting the right shifts, pitching to spots that I knew my opponent struggled to hit well, without leaning on that spot, or that pitch, as a crutch because they’d get wise to it, but keeping it in my back pocket as an out pitch or get-me-over strike. All that has evaporated like spilt water in the Arizona sun. Any pitch can randomly be launched out of the park, or bounced over the wall for a scripted ground rule double (on which both your nearest outfielders will get a simultaneous bad jump off the bat, so you can stop running. It’s a GRD instantly the dice roll is over and the ball is in play and we all know it is). The tactical aspect of the game is absent, certainly at all star level and I can’t slug my way to the top with a 8.00 ERA, but a .400 BA to get me through.
That’s why I’ll be quitting MLB the Show after this year and not looking back. This isn’t the game for me, I’m looking for something a little more tactical, mentally challenging and more like actual baseball than this home run derby that we’ve been presented with this year.
Thanks, you just help me made my mind, I won’t be buying 20. I have all of them since it was call just MLB. But unless I find the game at 9.99 or less I’m not giving this people my money again. Keep profiting from DD, which has turn this game into mlb slugfest [censored].