Now imagine the school year...

The thing I like most about this years game is the realistic outfield play.

It's a big outfield again, balls actually make it to the gap, if you take the wrong route to the ball you're screwed.

I'm seriously considering taking out Juan Soto because of his/my outfield play. Conversely having a diamond outfielder helps immensely, for example take Roberto Clemente, he's not hitting well for me but his defense is stellar.

Julio Franco? He wore #28 for the Braves in 2001, and he had a BIG leg kick.

The East stage 3 is the most difficult by far.

Central is the easiest, and the West was on par with the stage 2 difficulty.

@schack-nizzle_xbl said in The vault is horrible:

Sure it's disgusting but honestly how could you possibly moderate it to such a level that online play would always be kid friendly? This is the world we live in and if you want to shelter your child from it then that should be on you. Sorry just trying to be real.

If it's rated as M for mature audience then so be it.
This is rate E for everyone, so it's an expectation that there won't be anything that would be for mature audiences.

I want to have fun...I'm taking Rickey

Thank you sir, much appreciated!

I just played someone with a 99 Snell....how do you get this card?

@BearDownGoBlue said in Prestige Level 5:

A break?

lol, IKR

@adam_sheffield said in Hot off the mic... Trout Collection overview and tips:

@TTVInstinc_Zero said in Hot off the mic... Trout Collection overview and tips:

Why did they make it so hard to acquire Mike Trout. Basically the people who can only get him are the ones who play the game so much and all day long and the people who put money into the game. They need to make it easier so that people who are less fortunate can get Mike Trout and have fun on the game getting the most popular cards and to be able to have them ok their team and to use them.

I spent most of the time flipping an didn't spend anything but money for game an 20$ my gf bought me other than that I have every big card an 2 million stubs.i actually need to play the game of baseball now after I did all that lol

I had a lol moment after I read your post. I too have spent so much time playing, moments, conquest and showdown that I say the same thing to myself. Hey, play some baseball games now.

I remember a couple of years ago The Show had like 5 of each of the following Braves players, Glavine, Smoltz, Maddux, like every other new program, headliners pack or events reward had a Brave.

@cdnmoneymaker93_xbl said in Babe Ruth or Devers?:

@d_e_m_i_s_e_psn said in Babe Ruth or Devers?:

I'll take what is both for $1,000 Alex. I'm doing Devers at 3rd, Delgado at 1st and Babe in the OF. That means Pujols needs to be in the OF too. So be it. The beauty of not caring about wins and losses. I'll get to WS eventually plus my 300 innings.

I enjoy rank season so much now with the change to innings, my goal is just to keep it close other wise I dont stress about giving up a lead or silly hits and errors and so far the innings are going quickly should surpass 100 tonight

How many games/days/hours have you played so far to achieve your 100 innings?

I'm just trying to get an idea to see if I can budget time over the course of a ranked season, to see if I'd be able to achieve the 300 inning mark.

Be careful with a freeze off, I didn't quit out and instead went to bed during BR game freeze off that I was winning by the way, 1-0.
Next morning I got up and I was banned for 24hrs. They said I was cheating, so apparently if you don't quit out of a freeze off after a certain, I'm not sure exactly how much time, you will get a ban.

@d_e_m_i_s_e_psn said in DO NOT PLAY EVENTS:

@king_lando112_psn said in DO NOT PLAY EVENTS:

No need to get into details. Just do not play events. Play it if you want to get every hit taken away from dives, goods turned to lates/earlies, and out hitting and pitching your opponent but still losing. If that’s what you want then play it. Good Luck!!

Yea, last night was rough period. Did Custom BP on HOF and was crushing including HR's on 1st 3 pitches. Couple of which on 99 mph fastballs. Get in event and can't read pitches and getting beat on 91. Felt like I was swinging a pool noodle. This was 3 different connections I tried - wired, wireless and vpn. Everything was the same. Had a 6-0 run and jumped into a BR game hoping it would play different. It did not. Luckily, I won the game and got out of that mode immediately.

I turned off cross-play and the timing definitely feels better, I'm on ps4.

Have you tried turning off cross-play?

@dolenz_psn said in Unable to contact support:

@crimson_monk_psn said in Unable to contact support:

If the OP really has frozen 34 times then maybe there is more to this, maybe he is using a specific freeze method....I mean I've only had about 3, maybe they thought he was quoting out to drank and only play at certain levels.....no telling,

I don't feel like diving into his history again but as I mentioned he had more wins than losses. Some of the losses looked like they came from quits in Mini Seasons (consecutive losses against the same team) so I doubt it was tanking.

If they wanted to go after a tanker they would have banned others on the forum who have admitted proudly that they tank.

Yes, that's correct, in the last mini seasons I played, I quit out of the like the last 3 or 4 games because I already wrapped up first place.

Regarding tanking, I haven't played rank yet this year so there's no reason for me to tank, besides I was banned after a frozen game that I was winning 1-0.

Also, I did look at all of my pages of game history, and I recorded 34 total 0-0 games, with 17 wins and 17 losses. But as I mentioned, my last two frozen games had me winning both of them 1-0 and 5-1, so we can't assume all 0-0 games are freezes. Also, yes I did quit out of some 0-0 games due to life happening, as did my opponents quit out of 0-0 games for one reason or another.

@crimson_monk_psn said in Unable to contact support:

@jacky-chan1_xbl said in Unable to contact support:

@notsure_2505_ said in Unable to contact support:

I've been banned for the following:
Banned for Cheating, abuse of the game's points system, etc. Remaining Time 0 days 13:42:6 5/14/2022 8:08AM EDT

Last night, while playing a battle royale game, it froze, I was winning 1-0.

I turned off my monitor and later went to bed.

When I awoke this morning I got the message notifying me I was banned.

I'm trying to contact support, but the support page on both the theshow.com and SDS's main page don't work.

Does anyone have the contact email for customer support?

I want to know why I was banned, I want to play BR today and events, and I can't for 13hrs, this is preposterous.

If you went to bed and left your game on "frozen" then you got what you diserved.

If it freezes, take the L by closing out your game and reloading it. The other player probably reported you and since you said you left it on over night it seems justified. Winning a game in a freeze isn't worth the ban. I hope you can remember that.

Anytime a game I play freezes I always close it out and reboot. Games tend to do that and luckily I saved it recently and didn't lose much progress.
In MLB the Show, the game auto saves.

why? should the other guy who was losing get "what he deserves". Maybe if they fixed freezing and just record the current score as a completed game it wouldn't make people wait for the other to quit.

If the OP really has frozen 34 times then maybe there is more to this, maybe he is using a specific freeze method....I mean I've only had about 3, maybe they thought he was quoting out to drank and only play at certain levels.....no telling,

I haven't played rank yet this year, I also posted an account, further up in this post, of my 34 games that resulted in 0-0 games, stating how they are not all freezes.

I can remember maybe 4 games that froze this year, and the two most recent, were games that I was winning 1-0 and 5-1. The 1-0 game is the one that resulted in me being banned, it was a BR game.

@dolenz_psn said in Unable to contact support:

@notsure_2505_ said in Unable to contact support:

Update:

I received the below email from support, they don't state specifically what I did to be banned.
I replied back to please let me know the exact thing I did so I know not to do it again.
The only thing I can think of is that when the game froze, I didn't quit out, I left my PlayStation on and went to bed.
When I got up the next morning I logged into my account and saw the ban.

-------------------------email from support------------------------
Hello,

Your account has been suspended for win loss scamming in online play. This is against the terms of service agreement all users must agree to when first entering online modes of The Show. This suspension is non-negotiable.

Thank you
Kasey
The Show Support

Looking through your history you have a lot of 0-0 wins. They are spread out but I would guess about 10-15 wins on 0-0 games in the last month.

I know the game has some major issues but just how many wins on 0-0 games is enough for SDS to notice it? How many does it take to go beyond what is the reasonable expectation of normal gameplay freezes?

I just looked through all 26 pages of my gameplay and these are the results.

34 total 0-0 games, 17 wins and 17 losses.

My take away from this is, there are many games where I quit out after starting a game starts because life happens. There are also games that my opponent quits out because life happens on their end. It's hard to know exactly how many of these 0-0 games are as a result of a freeze off.

The game that started all of this, was a 1-0 score in my favor, and then last night an event game I was winning 5-1 froze. So we can't say that all 0-0 games are freeze offs.

But at the end of the day, I quit out of the event game that froze last night where I was winning 5-1 because I don't want another ban.

So let this be a lesson to everyone who waits out a frozen game, you may get banned for it.

I just wish SDS would make that part of the service agreement instead of vaguely reference a breech of the terms of service. Specifically state, when a game freezes you must restart the MBL application within 5 minutes or you will be banned, or something similar.

@jacky-chan1_xbl said in Unable to contact support:

@notsure_2505_ said in Unable to contact support:

I've been banned for the following:
Banned for Cheating, abuse of the game's points system, etc. Remaining Time 0 days 13:42:6 5/14/2022 8:08AM EDT

Last night, while playing a battle royale game, it froze, I was winning 1-0.

I turned off my monitor and later went to bed.

When I awoke this morning I got the message notifying me I was banned.

I'm trying to contact support, but the support page on both the theshow.com and SDS's main page don't work.

Does anyone have the contact email for customer support?

I want to know why I was banned, I want to play BR today and events, and I can't for 13hrs, this is preposterous.

If you went to bed and left your game on "frozen" then you got what you diserved.

If it freezes, take the L by closing out your game and reloading it. The other player probably reported you and since you said you left it on over night it seems justified. Winning a game in a freeze isn't worth the ban. I hope you can remember that.

Anytime a game I play freezes I always close it out and reboot. Games tend to do that and luckily I saved it recently and didn't lose much progress.
In MLB the Show, the game auto saves.

If waiting out a frozen game is considered cheating, this is news to me. I've watched plenty of streamers who have also left their game on until the next day to wait out a frozen game. Also, I was winning the game in question, 1-0.

With that said, one of my event games froze last night and I was winning 5-1, but instead of waiting it out, I just quit out of MLB and restarted the game, and I got the loss.

Update:

I received the below email from support, they don't state specifically what I did to be banned.
I replied back to please let me know the exact thing I did so I know not to do it again.
The only thing I can think of is that when the game froze, I didn't quit out, I left my PlayStation on and went to bed.
When I got up the next morning I logged into my account and saw the ban.

-------------------------email from support------------------------
Hello,

Your account has been suspended for win loss scamming in online play. This is against the terms of service agreement all users must agree to when first entering online modes of The Show. This suspension is non-negotiable.

Thank you
Kasey
The Show Support

Well, my game history speaks for itself, win some lose some, it's never happened in the past, and I have no idea what the person could say negatively about my play in the game. I was winning 1-0 when it froze, I have no idea, that's why I need SDS to provide me with their reasoning.

What happens the next time I'm winning a game and it freezes, should I just quit out?