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How about when on defense let me actually play. I just had a game with my SS and was shown on defense 5 times. Here was is what happened. 1 a ground ball about 30 or more away i could not get to 2 same thing again 3 man on first ball it to right side 2B catches tags runner throw to 1B 4 ground ball to right side through for a base hit 5 same as 4. Like WTF. Why show my player in the field just to watch base hits and team mates play?

I am tired of them making RTTS worse rather then better. I am out this time. I have purchased this game every year since 2009 but no more. It is not worth it anymore.

I definitely will not buy MLB21. I have players from 18, 19 and 20 in my game and with all the added stuff you can't get through a career in one year especially if you have more than one player. Eliminating the Y2Y transfer was really stupid

@MarineSpartan44 said in MLB The Show ‘21 Wishlist:

Absolutely need, need, need to be able to have an open world aspect. I mean open world in the simplest fashion, I need to be able to go to the gym and practice field once a day for each gym increases the cap of the chosen ability and practice field increases the actual attributes. I'm on my RTTS Play in the MLB in LF for the Dodgers and I've been stuck on 65 fielding cap since I was in AA (skipped AAA) I check every single time I have the option to upgrade and not once has fielding cap been there. You could also argue that the Gym and practice field do the opposite gym is the attributes field is the cap or a combination depending on what you want to work. Like if you want to work power the gym is the place to increase the attributes and working on "power swing" is the cap if you want to work fielding practice fielding is the only option you can choose to work the cap or the attribute itself. Vision batting cages none of this mini game on the players phone BS you get in the cage for the same amount of time and work on hitting. Keep the ability to get more points for doing well in the event. But the fact I have not had the option in legit 4 months (in game time) to increase my fielding cap is not it.

So you want to take 3months to play a season and when you get the 2022 game you have played maybe 3-4 seasons because all your time was in the gym and practice field

So they did away with year to year transfer?

@Rabid55Wolverine said in MLB The Show ‘21 Wishlist:

A little bit more of a story idea would be good for the mode but to me the biggest thing that kills RTTS is realism. You get everything just handed to you and you have to earn literally nothing. It's almost impossible unless you really try to to have a decreasing stat, no matter how bad you are playing and even though you might be playing awful, you will still get the call up to the majors in almost every first year.

I know people here have said in the past they don't want to toil around in the minors and want to be in the majors right away but there should be some kind of option that makes it harder to get there so you will actually have to earn your spot. That alone kills the career mode for me. There is only 25 player spots on a roster (I guess 26 now) so they are extremely rare. It should be hard to get there. Also this stupid idea that AA and AAA are levels below the one that you choose is beyond idiotic. If I wanted to play on rookie in AA, I would choose that. If i set the game to HOF difficulty, then that is where it should be.

I am looking forward to the new game as I always am but I don't think they will fix many of the things that people want in RTTS and will throw 1 gimmick thing out there and say "we really worked on RTTS this year" like in the past.

I have been playing RTTS since 2009 and back then generally you would play one season of AA then one season of AAA then go to the majors. I had at times a player that never made it to the show and would play several years of AAA. occasionally I would get a player that would be called up early but not normally. Now you get there too fast and your player doesn't have the attributes to play at that level. I liked it much better when you had to work to get to the show.

Let's look at the big picture here. Here in this country we have the covid pandemic so I assume it hit SDS as well. The PS5 just came out and they plan to have the game on other platforms. So that means a whole bunch of programming to do and probably short staffed because of the virus. Real baseball may be late again this year so just be patient. You still have this years game. The new game will be out when it is released. Maybe mid March maybe not.

I want to play baseball. So far everything that SDS has added with story lines (social media, agent, personality, etc) has been terrible so I personally don't want anymore. I would rather have it like it was 10 years ago. JUST PLAY BASEBALL!!!

I have a CP that has
4SFB (100)
Splitter (90 MPH)
Slurve (83 MPH)

4SFB (100MPH)
CH (88 MPH)
CB (83 MPH)
Slider (91 MPH)
pitcher is a flame thrower SP

I always appreciate total jerkwads in this community

Just get rid of the caps. I can live with points going to the attribute that is appropriate. Right now I have 2 players with an attribute around 60 that is pinned to the cap and can't get a cap increase.

probably more than one, there are more minor league teams then there are fake stadiums in the game

I think one thing they could do is have the 3B coach give signs that mean something. He could tell you when you are batting to bunt or hit and run etc.

The challenges remind me a lot of the old games with in game goals and advancement goals

@MLBTHEJOE said in What improvements do you want to see in RTTS for MLB The Show 21?:

@Critically03 said in What improvements do you want to see in RTTS for MLB The Show 21?:

Here is my wishlist

Player Creation mainly for pitching

1. Start off in high-school or college or even both and play some games there. I can't be the only one who is tired of the topps showcase where we can't even increase our overall. Save that for after you are done with highscool and college.

2. Start off with higher stamina. It is literrally the stat that takes the longest to increase 65 stamina is far too low.

3. Choose a second archtype to go along with the first so your stats look more like a top pitching prospect and not a [censored] because we to be the best in our draft class

4. Choose how fast you want your pitches to be. I don't think velocity needs to be a attribute anymore. Before you start you should be able to choose the velocity you want for each pitch. Obviously you and have a minimum and maximum velo for example a changeup you can choose from 76 mph to 88 mph.

5. Draft day. The draft screen is boring you should be able to go up put on jersey in front of people or watch from home.

6. Two way players. I don't personally care for this but we should have the option. Since now pitchers can't bat in the nl give us the option to make one.

Upgrades

1. Get rid of caps please it just slows down the progression of our player.

2. Choose multiple things to train and do it whenever you want to. The worst part about training you have three options. Fielding weights and bullpen or batting. The problem is you can only pick one. You should be able to do all three of them and choose what you want to increase not have it give you options and the thing you want to upgrade isn' there.

3. Another solution could be to hire personal trainers to help you upgrade. That way the money you make from your contract matters because you could sign for 15 years 30k a year and it would matter. The better the trainer the better your upgrades.

4. Off season training to keep your guy in shape as you start to regress.

Pitches

1. 88 mph change ups. Why is it not an option for created players every other mlb player can have it but not created one's.

2. Give us the outliner quirk. This is the issie of sd studios being too focused on dd l. That quirk that lets you exceed the max velo would be awesome to have in rtts espically with how fast guys are throwing sinkers these days.

Records

1. Team records both seasonal and all tome franchise records. There are enough lists with franchise rankings on the mlb at bat app alone I don't think this would be hard. We have been given the same records. Imagine you break your team season record and they play it on the jumbo tron you surpassed x person for the franchise record in home runs or something.

2. Playoff records basically the same as the one above.

Achievements

1. No hit tracker I remember when the game used to tell you that you acheived your first no hitter or your first perfect game and now it doesn't. Every time somebody gets a no no or perfecto it should tracked on a list in a seperate page with the name date and amount of ks. We currently have something like that with team records but it only displays the number and not the person or date.

2. Keep achievements on the back of the players baseball card. What I mean by this is when you go to the player card imagine you flip it over it shows you your season numbers but also the achievements you achieved and how many times you've done it.

Awards

1. Change the image for the mvp award. It's not even how it's supposed to look like the same can be said about the lcs and world series mvp ward update them ot shouldn't have taken this long to change that ugly looking trophy.

2. Add the platinum glove award. It's been around for a while. Shouldn't be too hard to have in the game.

3. Award ceremony during the off season where they present you your award and you can give a speech.

4. Fix the cy young award glitch. I have seen it in previous games but come on it's still there. Every home game I'm presented with the cy young award. I can win mvp and the triple crown but they give me the stupid cy young every time.

5. Pitchers should be able to win the lcs and world series mvp awards I don't know why they aren't able to.

Player and fan interaction

1. Interview. Give my guy a voice and let me give an interview after the game. Base on the personality I chose earlier on in my player creation that influences how I answers.

2. Change the setting for the playoffs. Interview after every game on at the table and not my locker.

3. Let me hype up the crowd after a big play or a big out something.

4. If I leave a team for money or force my way out if I come back to play aginst them fans should boo me out the stadium. One of the biggest issues for rtts is the fans. They sound lifeless and don't really enhance the experience. The playoff atmosphere should be insane.

Contract and money

1. Sponsorships i don't need to say anything else

2. Make my agent matter more. Maybe the more money I spend from and contracts and I make from my sponsorship I can get a better agent who will be better at contract negotiations and get me better trades.

3. Contracts. No trade clauses, higher deals shorter length not more 31 mil per year cap and opt out options.

Management

1. Influence. Maybe you want to play with a certain player you should be able to go to management and tell them to try and trade for them or sign them in the off season.

2. Request for management to not let certain players go. You want to keep someone tell them to keep em on the team no matter the cost. Tell them you'll take a paycut of necessary.

Team future

1. Pitching teammates barely improve. Their stamina always goes down and never up that definitely needs to change.

2. Player regression happens too quickly. Guys like nolan, trout, story and yelich regress too quickly by the age of 30 or 31.

3. The guys who win rookie of the year fall of the face of the earth they need to be able to build their potential more.

4. Position changes. If they want to take a guy out of the cp role fine he must be doing bad. But in the game it's always randomly that it happens and they replace him with somebody worse. At least change the positions of players if the cpu is gonna moce them out of a role

5. Team jersey retirement. It would be cool if this was added into the game.

6. More hall of famers please. Guys like greinke, Verlander and scherzer will most likely be hall of famers. Not in this game for some reason they never make it which is weird because before they would make it. Be a little more lenient to qualifications on who will make. Have a list too because if a guys doesn't retire with a team there is no way to track it.

This whole list is exactly what we need! We need a complete overhaul of rtts! Please give us back training points! No more of this cap on attributes/ archetype garbage. Make money of your contact matter, on the back of your player card show us our accomplishments! Give pitchers a chance to win WS or LCS MVP awards! More acknowledged stats broken by the announcers. Fix the trading sliders, get rid of the agent entirely because he’s completely useless. And again please bring back training points, the cap on our attributes destroyed this mode for me

I agree with some things but not all. I started playing in 2009 when you just played baseball so I am kind of old school. If they are going to have some of the interaction they started with you are correct that our player should have a voice. In the game Grand Theft Auto all the characters have voices so I would think they could do it here. I think you should have a choice for the voice when you create him just like you choose body style, hair style and facial hair. As I mentioned I played the older versions and I prefer the the old point system that you could apply to the attributes you wanted to.

This is not the first player this has happened. I have a SP with the Nationals and when I created him I game him 23 and he kept that number through the minors. When he got to the majors he still had that same number until late May then it was 24 then in early July it was changed again to 25. What's the story on that. In real baseball they don't change a players uniform number unless he asked for a change or a well known super player joins the team that wants that number. Neither is the case for my player.

In previous years I would reach the end of the diamond tier of my XP path and it was end of the road. I just finished getting to the end of the diamond tier this time and it says prestige. What is the prestige tier and what do I get out of it? Is this something new that they plan on expanding on?

they also deserted RTTS which has become total garbage