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Great request, but should only materialize when a player becomes a key veteran for the team.

That said, this is another area where EA has lapped SDS. You see, in Madden NFL 27 and NHL 27 titles, this option is already in those two games. When you become a captain in either game within their avatar offline modes, you can help shape who the team pursues in trade deadline deals. Madden takes it further than NHL because in the early offseason it also lists the available free agents and lists the team's cap space.

So, you can go through the list of FA's and check those whom you recommend the team pursues. And thing is, the team may well go in that direction.

So, when I say that SDS is way behind their rivals in immersion, this is but one concrete example of that reality, among many other such examples.

Well, since I'm from the state, I think it is on mark to use the following Latin: Esse Quam Videri

It translates to: "To be, rather than to seem." I have always admired how Latin allows complex concepts to be phrased in very few words.

SDS should go to school on this, both the motto and how in one more way they are behind their competition, and only seem capable of appearing to be even!

@dart_wuffy_MLBTS said:

@PriorFir4383355_XBL said:

Overkill reaction, akin to banning knives because some criminals use them to kill people. The right response is to not only kill such vulgar logos in the vault, but also issue a lifetime ban to whomever uploaded them, and by lifetime ban I mean a console ID based ban and SDS has that information.

The current situation with SDS's ongoing neglect is a bit like the police receiving phone calls about murders with knives and not caring enough to investigate and prosecute the criminals. That isn't the fault of the knives. It's the fault of the people who are supposed to care but do not.

Really? If you had a nephew who isn't old enough to know what that is when he sees it (12) why would you think its overkill?

Twelve year old's cannot comprehend murder. And I share in that fundamental failure to comprehend why anyone would do something so vile. But, it does. That said, I would never countenance every person having their kitchen knives confiscated because someone they didn't even know used a knife in such a crime.

If this is truly impossible for you to understand, then you are incapable of welding anything approaching social influence much less social power. It takes great wisdom to run a society. Moreover, I don't even think you are well qualified to issue SDS advice on how to manage their video game.

@Sarge1387_PSN said:

@Dolenz_PSN same. There’s enough newer games out now that I can rotate, AC Black Flag, NASCAR, BF6 has come roaring back. So now I’m playing MLBTS a couple hours a week as opposed to a couple hours a day.

For a video game, any video game, to remain successful it has to deliver on the most simple and yet profound measure -- is the game fun to play?

I mean seriously, how many people out there plunk down hard earned money to buy something so it can frustrate the pee total [censored] out of them!

It is common sense at work here. If the game loses its fun appeal, then the game has lost its relevance.

Fun can be measured in many ways. Is success achieved with the proper balance of challenge? That is best achieved by a proper scale of difficulty level so that as a player develops expertise, the challenge can be advanced to match and maintain the challenge-reward measure.

Does the game have a means to allow original material to be included that adds personal interest? Does the game offer a heightened level of graphical joy, immersion level, and auditory stimulation?

When one evaluates MLB the Show on each of these five tiers of enjoyment, the game that used to be at the top of the heap several years ago, is now trailing big time when measured against its rival companies' latest releases.

@Sarge1387_PSN said:

They need to have an NSFW filter similar to what 2k has.

I’d even go as far as letting us upload our own images(with that filter)

How does that filter work? Is is voluntary where the person uploading designated the logo NSFW, or does it operate smart enough to figure out if the logo is NSFW?

@betamax0_NSW said:

It's just people who don't know there's a tax and that you get less than the quicksell value. I think the player base should be more educated by SDS about this, but otherwise I don't see it as big issue.
If you're offering 5,001 stubs for a card with a QS of 5,000 stubs, good luck ace, cuz I'm quickselling that before I take a lowball offer.

That's a reach given how easy it is to see the "sell now" option offers a given price, and how quickly one comprehends the influence of the tax on the community market sell price. In other words, people are not that blind to the obvious.

The tax is inflationary, but there are some people who simply want to offer the product on the community market and sell it for the lowest possible price. In short, they are a lot like folks who engage in act of charity. They do it not for profit -- even artificial currency profit -- but are instead motivated to offer things to the public.

They are likely well aware of the situation, but are choosing to sell on the community market for less than they would get from the sell now option.

SDS has not provided any bug fixes much less upgrades to Uniform Creator and Logo Editor in well over six years now.

The notion that they don't care about these modes is well past the question phase, but firmly in the conclusion phase!

Overkill reaction, akin to banning knives because some criminals use them to kill people. The right response is to not only kill such vulgar logos in the vault, but also issue a lifetime ban to whomever uploaded them, and by lifetime ban I mean a console ID based ban and SDS has that information.

The current situation with SDS's ongoing neglect is a bit like the police receiving phone calls about murders with knives and not caring enough to investigate and prosecute the criminals. That isn't the fault of the knives. It's the fault of the people who are supposed to care but do not.

This is precisely why the "tax" is both stupid and utterly unnecessary. It serves no purpose since being an artificial currency carries no actual value and therefore provides no benefit that tax revenues in real life are designed to pay for. It's not like SDS converts tokens into hard currency!

Indeed, the vast majority of people who even care to sell stuff within the game for stubs quickly realize that the quick sell should be the minimum price anything gets sold for as it makes zero sense to sell it on the community market for even less after the "tax" is deducted.

So, the tax is a deliberate inflationary tool.

Victoryphoenix,

One of the hands down best posts I have read here. Well thought out and written. SDS should go to school on that feedback.

To piggyback on this excellent request.

There is another item that has been consistently asked for in Franchise for years and gone without, despite it being a very easy option to implement.

At the end of each season, all league teams should be eligible for their uniforms to be amended in any way, just like is available to do during the initial setup of the mode before league play is started for the first time.

It makes no sense that one can change the stadiums for any of the 30 teams at any time, but cannot ever change the uniforms for any of the 29 other league teams once the GM career is started.

@TheJeweledLotus_PSN said:

Home field advantage doesn’t mean much in this game, but backing out of games with lag is why I end up home team a lot. Less latency with home games, if it takes a second or more to toggle between pitchers on the lineup screen, you can be sure I’m out.

Sure, you tell yourself that. You're a minority of one.

The last at bat is just as important in a baseball video game as it is in real baseball. You know the score, you know what needs to be done to win the game and of course you have the option to walk it off -- something the visiting team never enjoys.

In terms of the outfield, it depends upon the stadium, but there are venues where if you play the outfielder you have an advantage if you are familiar with how the ball will behave.

The latency issue is entirely on SDS to update their code to prevent this happening. I don't care if the game's video resolution has to be dropped to 1990's levels, there is no excuse for an online game to lag and if SDS cannot fix that problem then they should just remove all their online game modes until they can fix it.

@rubicante23_PSN said:

Foul balls are a problem everywhere - except maybe on legend difficulty online.

This happened because they didn't want strikeouts to be through the roof. Most players cant lay off the low change ups...so they let them foul it off. Half of the foulballs should be "weak in play contact" to stop the foul ball merchants. Also half of the homers should be doubles and triples. This would get us a lot closer to reality.

One of the basic problems that's been pointed out to SDS years back is that the outfield is too small. If you go by scale it's too small by a factor of about 30%. If this was corrected, a great many of the issues reported with the basic game would be solved without anything else needing to be done.

This is why the game lacks the realistic number of "dying quails" that drop for hits, as well as too often seeing fielders able to make laser like throws to the infield to nail runners when in a real game such a play would be impossible.

It is absolutely hilarious to see how an OP with a few paragraphs is enough on its face to send the trolls into the stratosphere of personal insults, taunts, and utterly foolish replies. To those whose prime beef is the length of the OP, there are things in this world called books!

Yeah, I realize for the trolls that might be an epiphany. But, they really do exist, and they write pages of words on papers, literally (gasp) thousands of words! It takes time to read them, but it's worth the effort. This OP was worth that effort. It is detailed and provides many examples of how the game engine employs dirty tricks to makes things artificially challenging.

Challenge isn't the OP's issue. Artificiality is. Big difference, but I guess it takes nuance to figure that out, and that seems well beyond the intellectual grasp of the trolls here.

@BlueJayGuy67_XBL said:

I'm new here;I'm enjoying this video game,and it's the best baseball video game. One thing to suggest for the next MLB The Show 27,is for the Create a Stadium format;and is the roof dome built for us to create a dream Stadium with open/closed roof. And also add the Retro Stadium and old ball park like: Houston Astrodome,Toronto's Exhibition Stadium,Puerto Rico's Juan R. Loubriel Stadium of Bayamón,Montreal Olympic Stadium,and Baseball from New Orleans Superdome. As well allowing the aluminum bat. That's my suggestion. Bring back the legendary baseball players like Reggie Jackson,Roberto Alomar,Ken Caminiti,Tanya Perez,Andres Galagarra,and others.

It is the only MLB licensed video game on the market -- a reality that SDS has abused to mail it in for several straight years now.

@victoryphoenix_PSN said:

If they brought back sounds of the show, that would be a major victory for franchise players, a group they definitely don't ever think about. That claim it causes copyright issues... which sounds like an amazing BS story

Oh it's total BS! Here is the legal truth. This is your game when you purchase it. Provide you acquired the music legally, it is available for your chosen method of private use. It is no different from a legal point of view than playing the song in question in any music player you may use.

The only legal question is the method of use. Unless you specially acquired a commercial license to the song, it must be used for private use. Within your privately owned copy of MLB The Show, there is zero copyright issue.

@TheJeweledLotus_PSN said:

Home hunting is not a reportable offense or “wrong” by any means. I think you just need to enjoy the game and stop looking for things to batch about

Says the "home hunter?"

Frankly, this is the first time I've even heard this term, "home hunter," but the whole point of competition is a fair setup. I never knew there was a reliable method to ensure one more or less always get home games. The home field advantage in baseball is among the most significant in sports. These realities translate even to video games.

Last AB's is huge. Translates.

Familiarity with the outfield. Translates.

So, yes, employing a method to deny yourself road games is wrong. And before you think I'm upset about being "victimized" about this, I don't even play online games. I'm just an objective and neutral observer. I think you're the one suffering from a bias.

I recall a thread where people were discussing economic theory. I pointed out that inflation is when there is inadequate supply for the demand. Your view is conclusive. The amount of currency does not determine inflation. You have no demand. Therefore, there is no upward pressure on prices.

@Jacob151167_XBL said:

@codeman8806_MLBTS
Honestly, pal, it's not even worth being mad at SDS. At this point, I'm convinced Sony is completely running everything into the ground. The studio was just a casualty of Sony's very bad decisions. I don't think we'll ever see this happen to another company in the last five or six years; not even EA could be this mismanaged, and they are controlled by the Saudi Arabians.

Sadly, I think this is very true. It echoes what I have heard from some folks who used to work at SDS. Sony has really put the squeeze on siphoning off the profits and keeping SDS's operating capital more akin to an indie software company than what SDS should be staffed to provide.

I appreciate the efforts that Manu has gone to to recode the market related code to try to defeat the bots.

That said, I note that less than one tenth the good old fashioned hard work that Manu has dedicated over these last several months to upgrade Stadium Creator would have added great depth and fidelity to the game overall.

I simply wonder when SDS will devote this kind of dedicated hard work to long neglected game modes.