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I think the Bonds craze is mostly a matter of anti-establishment type people who want to see folks who cheat baseball put into this video game. Bonds cheated his way to the most revered career record in baseball and perhaps all of sports -- the home run title.

I have a personal level of hostility when it comes to Barry Bonds. This player was well on his way to the Hall of Fame before he started using steroids. However, this wasn't enough for him. He wanted that homer record. Henry Aaron desperately wanted to see his record broken before he died, but it hurt him badly to see it broken by someone who cheated the game to do it.

I believe Ken Griffey Jr. was on his way to breaking Aaron's record when injuries shortened his career. Griffey was the sort of honest player whom Aaron would have been honored to see break his record, and most baseball fans wish that had been the case.

So, no, I don't want Bonds in this video game anymore than I want him in the hall of fame.

The list of songs for MLB 25 was posted in the News section. I'm totally unfamiliar with every song on that list!

I guess SDS doesn't think anything from the rock and roll era will be played in an MLB park anymore. I'm pretty sure that's way off base!

NO!

It is shocking how so many of you fail to comprehend the magnitude of what Pete Rose did to destroy his legacy. Rose not only broke the most cardinal law in baseball hundreds of times, he lied about it hundreds of times. Moreover, when the then MLB Commissioner Bart Giamatti suspended Rose for life, based on a mountain of phone call records with bookies, dozens of detailed affidavits from bookies, and a ton of additional evidence, Rose continued to lie.

Giamatti didn't want to ban Rose. He repeatedly offered Rose sweetheart deals that would have allowed him to be reinstated after a year or so, but Rose stiff armed Giamatti and denied the veracity of MLB's evidence. This collectively and literally broke Giamatti's heart. Most everyone who knew him said it literally killed him as he died at age 51 just weeks after suspending Rose for life because Rose bulldog stubbornly refused any contrition, apology, or cooperation.

When Fay Vincent took over as MLB Commissioner when Giamatti died, it was very personal with Vincent, who was Giamatti's deputy. Vincent blamed Rose for the death, and despite that extended additional opportunities for Rose to come clean and help restore his legacy enough to earn a second chance. But, again, Rose refused all offers, going on a public relations campaign to say he was totally innocent and that MLB had unfairly attacked him.

Even for Rose's closest friends, this was too much. This is why Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan both went public and stated that as long as they had anything to say about it, Pete Rose would never be in the Hall of Fame. In short, it wasn't merely the betting on baseball, including Reds games while he was player-manager, it was his outrageous refusal to own up to it and forcing Giamatti to do something he desperately wanted to avoid doing and dying young because of having done it.

By the time Rose finally got around to admitting what everyone knew, it was far too late. He had already left a path of personal destruction behind him. Giamatti loved baseball, loved Pete Rose, and begged Rose to help him keep Rose a meaningful part of baseball after a reasonable suspension. Rose's action barred all that. Giamatti was in office as commissioner for only five months to the day before he died.

That's Rose's legacy, and it has left scars and anger that are very visceral. He got what he deserved, and he will never be in the Hall of Fame because of his actions.

@Capt_Morgan__PSN said in Can we fix the issue, this is the same problem we had last year:

@Victor_SDS_PSN said in Can we fix the issue, this is the same problem we had last year:

Appreciate the detailed reports. We are investigating.

Just wondering why you cannot reply To comments about things people are looking for in Stadium creator like movable bullpens. Editing foul territory, etc. All us stadium creators. Just want an explanation, good or bad news thank you

AMEN!

Even if SDS has the policy of never wanting to allow these options in SC, clearly telling us that is far better than keeping us all in the dark as has been done for four years now.

I'm 61 and I think I play the game fairly well.

For me, this is a decision point. Without very significant upgrades to SC, I won't be buying another MLB The Show title. Improvements to game play and graphics while nice just aren't enough to really get me enthused. I'd prefer to keep playing MLB 24 in my Franchise mode.

We will learn the reality in the next few weeks or sooner. If nothing is said in the promos about Stadium Creator, then we know it wasn't improved.

@Bi99O_Walnutz88_PSN

So, SDS is somehow responsible for the reliability of everyone's internet connections, and if unable to secure a computer code solution to ensure online internet freezes never happen, then they are a "garbage" company in your view?

I will say it plain. There are a great number of people in these many online sub-forums who need to do some serious growing up!

For the record, it is absolutely impossible for any video game company to prevent internet connections from experiencing glitches, and when data is transferred at such a baud rate as to allow near simultaneous exchange of megabytes of video, audio, and dynamic data, then any degree of glitch presents an impossible situation where recovery is made impossible.

If you don't think it's beyond rational option, then you are welcome to earn your own degree in computer science, and write a new code to control the internet data exchanges and tie it in with a baseball video game code to achieve your version of utopia!

I don't even work for SDS, and yet your OP here just rankles me. Of course, if you remain convinced it's all so very easy, then best of luck creating your own solution!

@trfatboy22_PSN said in I THOUGHT they were listening to us...:

This may shock you...Stadium creator is not what the majority of the player base buys the game for. Same with Franchise. That's why they don't get the updates as much as other things and always will be. But that doesn't make the game bad

Are you truly unable to embrace nuance at any level? All of us dedicated stadium creators are old enough to add and subtract. We can accept the relative customer sizes for the various game modes. However, I wonder if you can?

It may certainly not be a majority of people whose initial focus is on SC, but it is equally true that based on the vault downloads of custom stadiums, the works put on the vault are a big draw for the game.

Consider that MLB The Show goes all the way back over 20 years. For well over half the title's history, the game was all about playing the CPU in baseball games, either individual exhibition style games or replicating a season as a specific team.

Then, along came innovations like RTTS where you would create a player and let it serve as an avatar for you as the player. Other modes started to morph allowing you to replicate the role of the GM (Franchise). These modes served the title well.

Later on, the online options started to expand into competition modes, and unfortunately they combined with a money-making intent to get people to compete for or pay for stubs. This caused 90% of the game's code changes to focus on online play.

The game needs to get back to its roots -- exhibition, RTTS, and Franchise. And while online competition is fine, it cannot become the prime focus. Doing so causes frustration. These have set in with the advent of seasonal card rosters and the requirement to rebuild all or most of your team throughout the year.

Get the pay to play aspect out of the title once and for all. You pay once and upfront and then you play for as long as you desire to. RTTS should be based on your avatar earning promotion and recognition strictly by quality of your on-the-field play, not some paid for (stubs or cash) method via equipment-based attributes. The idea that minor league players today are unable to get outfitted with the latest equipment is utterly ridiculous. The teams at all levels today provide this stuff.

Beyond this, one of the ways to keep the game original is via custom created stadiums, and despite this, Stadium Creator has been almost totally stagnant since it's inception with MLB 21. Those who have used it extensively have repeatedly advocated good changes to the basic code operation to make that mode far better at building realistic looking stadiums from all periods of baseball. It is way past time for SDS to listen to those details and implement them.

Folks, my natural personality is decidedly not negative. But, after beating my head against the wall giving SDS professional feedback (all constructive) having it all ignored over the years, I'm done giving these guys any benefit of the doubt.

SC is the way it is because SDS wants it that way. They don't care to make it work better.

I really don't know why this persistent non-sequitur keeps materializing. This is well known truth. SDS has written entirely different code for the legacy and modern gaming consoles, and even the code among the various modern consoles must be different to handle each system.

Yet, this false claim of "either or" keeps getting asserted.

Folks, again, nothing in the support for legacy systems holds back the modern console versions unless SDS chooses those compromises for reasons having nothing to do with the various consoles.

Moreover, MLB has written into their contract with SDS the continued support for the legacy consoles and until that reality changes, SDS supporting both generations will continue.

I recall the first few days after the pre-release of MLB 25 was made, one of our noteworthy stadium designers commented that he noticed the memory bite on the props was measurably larger than they were for MLB 24 and 23. I only dabbled in the latest SC for long enough to confirm no new props were added, and then left it cold. However, I did notice in that brief time that the textures appeared to change on the stand props. It was subtle, but noticeable.

Now, let's consider the reality that no self-respectable stadium designers creating works for MLB 24 and earlier are going to release a stadium that has memory meat left on the bone. Heck no! All stadium designers are going to use up every drop of memory available to create stadiums that looks as nice as can possibly be rendered.

So, if the lion's share of vault stadiums were created for MLB 24 and earlier consumed 99% of memory, and there is merely a two percent increase in memory consumption for the stand props, then by definition it means props as large as the stands would push the memory used for MLB 25 well over the 100% mark.

What happens when memory exceeds the limit? You are not allowed to save the stadium within your console and you are thereby not allowed to upload it to the vault. So, if a stadium that got in there now exceeds the memory cap, it isn't going to download and load into your console game experience.

Instead, it will most likely default itself right back to the stadium that originally occupied that one slot out of thirty, and that is precisely what folks are reporting. When they can actually get a stadium to download, then what they end up with is nothing more than the image of the custom stadium but when they try to load it in SC for additional editing, or play it in the game, they instead get the default stadium that occupied that save slot and doesn't exceed the memory cap.

To confirm this, I wonder if anyone who created a brand new stadium within MLB 25 and uploaded it to the vault would be kind enough to share that with the community here at Reddit and we can see if that stadium successfully downloads and plays. If it does, and we confirm it's only the legacy stadiums that are "the problem," and if that's the case, then I think we likely have the cause.

Agreed. This setup makes the socks stand out like a sore thumb. There needs to be a return to the MLB 23 setup where the socks always match the team's livery.

Equipment no longer provides points to increase attributes. All the equipment does now is boost your performance level on the field when the perks the equipment is assigned to are actually activated during the game, and even then, the boost is 6% for diamond level equipment, 4% for gold level equipment, and 2% for silver level equipment.

All equipment is equal in this setup. So, there is no "extra" value in one type of diamond equipment over another.

The only way you can increase your actual attribute levels is to earn points and/or tokens during a game. You earn the points via making good plays, but you can also lose some points within a single game by making bad plays. There is one other way to earn points, as well as direct tokens, and that is through the in-game challenges that may pop up from time to time.

Once a token is awarded via a challenge successfully met, it is yours and cannot be taken away. However, say you earn 100 points for hitting a homer. You can also lose 5 points for making a bad decision, like getting thrown out trying to advance an extra base. So, until the game is over, you really don't know your final tally of points earned from that game.

When the game ends, one of the post game screen menus that pop up shows your total points tally, and rapidly converts those points to tokens at a ratio of 100 points to one token. Any remainder points below 100 are put into a protected points bank and will not be deducted by bad plays made in a subsequent game.

You can choose to bank your tokens or immediately use them to boost attributes in any sub-category you choose to boost.

In terms of perks, you earn then again through making good plays on the field. From time to time you will see a message during the game that you unlocked a perk. You can earn all perks in the game, and each perk has about eight levels of advancement with each perk. Each advancement boosts the power of that perk in terms of enhancing your baseline attribute level. Each advancement requires a specified payment of tokens.

So tokens boosts individual attribute sub-categories, which in turn updates eventually your overall attribute. Tokens also boosts existing earned perks provided you use the tokens to promote the perk. Finally, equipment can only boost performance level during a game when the perks associated with the equipment are activated in the game, and the boosts are 6% for diamond equipment, 4% for gold, and 2% for silver.

@Weshill627_PSN said in I find it hilarious:

@TeakAUS_PSN And I wonder why MLB is never nominated for sports game of the year? They listen to people like you who give them terrible advice and instead of improving the online experience. They spend all their time creating offline modes lol.

SDS best bet is remove all offline modes and go strictly online only. Guarantee that would be better than anything we've had over the past 8 years.

That's the most ridiculous suggestion I have ever seen written by anyone in the many years I have played MLB The Show. If you really think the offline modes are that unimportant, then keep your opinion to yourself, because it grossly flies in the face of reality.

I suggest you get out more. You seriously need an awakening that there is a far wider and fuller community around you than you currently seem capable of comprehending!

I am of the firm belief that if you make a public accusation, then you are obligated to provide the details so that people can review the situation and make their own evaluations. Making such allegations without that context tends to throw an undeserved blanket of insinuation against the entire forum as well as the moderators, and I'm not sure either blanket is deserved.

It is rooted in the use of hexadecimal code to count and store numerical values. The Hex code based numbers roll over after 255.

Well folks, it has been about ten months since MLB 24 was released. So, truth is we are close to Thanksgiving and in about six weeks we will see 2025 roll in and soon thereafter MLB 25 is the focus and the release. So, the ride in terms of new released content is over for MLB 24.

In many ways this is part and parcel of the focus on DD content, with the periodic release of cards, equipment, packs, etc ...

Truth is, and this is my root opinion, the prime motivation to play this game should be to play virtual baseball games for its own rewards and joy of the game. For well over 20 years, that was the only draw to this game, and it was more than enough to keep people interested in it.

It's the game, people ... not the cards, the rosters, the fancy designed conquest boards, or the like -- but the simple and beautiful game of baseball -- that's the draw and always will be.

@X-FREEZE-OFF-X_PSN

Why?

User ID's are fair game in my book. It's part of the requirements to post here, so why if someone is going to act foolish not ID them by that tag? This notion that people guilty of bad behavior somehow earn protection by anonymity is nonsense. We're not even talking about someone's actual name here, much less so-called doxing them by revealing where they live in hopes some psychopath harms them.

It's a virtual ID that SDS can then use to ban them from online competition within their created game, which is ultimately what SDS should be far more aggressive about cleaning up.

Universally considered the best catcher in the history of MLB -- Johnny Bench. Best combination of throwing, fielding, framing, calling a game, and hitting.