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So basically if they come out with content next week: Mission 1: Have 1 AB in any offline mode. Missions 2 - 10: (insert Online stuff offline & casuals don't want to do)...people would praise this being new and exciting?

I get the reverse argument that online players have to play offline stuff to unlock cards they want. There should be more online options for the same cards as well. Not every card...I know in the past I saw juicy cards in online-only stuff, but I was ok with that because I had plenty of stuff to do offline to get similar cards. The problem now is the offline content feels like a complete afterthought. Lots of hype for this Friday! Oh look, both Themed programs are ONLINE. New mini-season with 1 card reward with the same PXP requirement as all the other mini-seasons. New Spotlight with the same easy PXP requirement. I don't even look at Spotlight progress anymore because I know it gets done after a couple of games. I swear as an offline player who loved this game for over a decade I feel like SDS just ripped the money out of my hand then turned around and took a dump on it.

So tired of people saying "just play online, it's easy missions". Because that is entirely not the point. I wouldn't care if they had a mission that said, "have 1 plate appearance in an online mode". The POINT is that they are forcing it. Completely tone-deaf. You force a player to play a way they do not want to, they will move on to other games. Between an XBox account and a gaming laptop with a Steam account, there are way more options for my $70 next year. Just a shame there is no competition for MLB games.

As an offline player, I was sort of taking a lot of these death of MLB the Show posts with a grain of salt. Yeah this is one of the worst years in memory for content, but there is always complaining, right? Looking now at the June Countdown requirements I'm now on the bandwagon. I might play this one through the All-Star content as that has always been historically pretty good, but yeah this will be the last year I dump $60 to $70 for this obvious Online shift in the content.

@TheGoaler_PSN said:

Maybe the free (through PSN) Soccer game?

There's always Rocket League for that LOL. I help run one of the amateur draft style leagues.

@PAinPA_PSN The point is it's not about hitting the ball, it's getting hits. With the new MLB the Show 26 RNG the odds of NOT hitting right into an infielder, or the buggy new launch angle physics hanging your fly balls in the air where a guy in a wheel chair could run it down, and not having this happen 3 out of 4 at-bats is nearly astronomical.

I've gotten 2 hits by restart-scumming over and over, but the next two at-bats are always line-drives into mits or outfielders jogging, doing their laundry, reading fan mail, then finally raise their glove to catch that 40 degree launch angle hit where I'm 1 pixel under the ball.

Sorry but this moment is the poster child where "play OUR way or you don't get the reward" system is driving people away from this game.

Make it 3 TB...fixed.

@Ericulous1_XBL said:

Not sure why my original thread was locked after 68 pages. But here is a new thread.

If you are stuck in a moment and can’t get out of it, post here. Vent about it and watch it magically go away.

Paul O’Neil. Please just get 3 hits

LOL glad it's just not me. I think I've gotten 2 hits like 99 times now. I've basically given up on the card, just use the moment to warm up before I go into minis or conquest.

@capardo_XBL said:

@go4stros25_psn

I play on veteran. I don’t play online at all.

And yes, I expect SDS to put enough offline content out there, so that if I complete it, I can finish an Inning path. That has not been the case so far this year.

THIS is exactly the issue. THIS is how MLB the Show used to be for offline players. We reject the ThErE's ToO mUcH NeGaTiViTy posts. We reject the "you need to adapt and play online" posts. We reject the "here's the efficient way to get xp" posts. We just want it like it used to be...put a reasonable amount of time into the offline content (with little or no need to repeat) and get the inning rewards.

In what universe does "less people should earn the inning Boss" make any business sense?

It's not about lowering the xp, it's the simple fact that if offline players complete the content put out in an inning they can still be massively short of earning the boss. This is the change they made from like every single MLB the Show in the past. This is what we are bitching about.

I agree with the 21 & 23 post. I forgot which one had the TA connected with March to October but that's pretty much all I did in that one because it was so fun to try and mold franchises into playoff contenders in just a few nights, and actually get rewarded for it (TA completions, playing xp). I don't remember anyone complaining about not reaching the Inning bosses back then, and the following posts telling people to get better, adapt their playstyle, or grind harder. In fact I think the only thing on the boards was people bitching about online play after losing one game, I don't even think I looked at the boards much back then, no reason to.

@JDHalfrack_PSN Great post, but I think the point is it shouldn't have to be this way. Previous years you could play the offline content at a reasonable pace, have a variety of things to do, not even pay attention to the XP Path and then 'boom' oh wow I got the inning boss. Now it's finish the new content in an hour or two, then have to get back into the mini-season grind over and over (which I have done and still won't complete the Boss xp). It's just not fun for most people. TA was always one of my favorite things to do, I've already completed it this year by the 3rd Inning! (I'm talking about all the Jolt rewards not the stupid millions of Pxp for a few packs). Myself and I'm sure a lot of others are just apathetic now. We don't want to play online, we've accepted we won't get any of the boss cards, and we're bored of the cut and paste content.

Love the posts saying to suck it up and play online to get the rest of the xp for the Bosses. Thank you for making my point.

I was gonna stress about it, then I got all mathy...70 from the EZ stat missions, 30 from the PxP missions. Ok maybe that 4000 w/ Vintage seems grindy? Win 1 Conquest = 10. Or sub in the 1500 for Jolt (I still have a few that haven't hit 500 pxp) = 10. Or win a BR game = 10. Literally 145 mission points to get before you gotta get all Highlander and figure out who the Immortals are. It was just a troll by SDS.

@TheGoaler_PSN But the replies are hilarious.

298k did every offline program, finished grinding out the rest of the Jolts (lots of TB tracking), went through the Mural mini-seasons twice, finished all the Storylines, finally finished enough collections to get 95 Miggy, played a bunch of RTTS. I don't know how so many people are farther along, as I'm just bored with the game now. I'm just resigned to the fact Inning Bosses and Judge/Ohtani will be out of my reach this year.

Houston needs a 99 card aluminum trash can named "10th man"

Think it was 19 or 20 I had a RTTS 3rd baseman who led the league in HRs in his 2nd full season in the majors. Outside of that my favorite The Show was the year they had MTO feed into the TA program, I literally ran every MLB franchise though MTO at least once which was a ton of fun learning each roster.

9 inning games are good when chasing stats, for some reason (at least for me) I'll hit a spike in hitting and go through my entire order in one inning, often with back-to-back HRs. When I play 3 inning games I often have 1 run/4 hit games that feel (from a stat gaining perspective) like a waste of time.

As far as the Live Series collection, I'm down to Judge/Ohtani/Ramirez essentially, and probably won't get the stubs to get those as I'm already bored with the game. I got the 95 Miggy, every Jolt, every mini-season done at least once, every (offline) program done, and still 100k from 3rd inning boss. Just not a whole lot of incentive to keep playing.

Who's the one that would always shout, "Left on left crime" anytime he'd get an extra base hit leftie on leftie...like it was some magical ability only the top players could do. That dude was annoying and I barely lasted watching his stream.