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@rageincage007_XBL said in Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch in 26?:
Because baseball is all about speeding up. Getting the game over and going on to the next one. Ruining the beauty of the game with impatience.
Slight update to your well written words ... "Because SDS thinks MLB The Show is all about speeding up. Getting the video game over and going on to the next one. Ruining the beauty of the game with impatience."
More needless control exercised by SDS. The action taken here is so ludicrous that it cannot logically be defended. In real baseball, pitchers reduce strain on their arms by pitching with the windup as they can get more of their lower body into the throw with a fluid motion. Obviously, the stretch is used to reduce time to the plate.
My guess is the game code won't factor any difference in pitch behavior nor pitcher fatigue, and if that is the case then it further shows how MLB The Show's code doesn't quite measure up with real baseball. Either way, the look isn't good.
The video linked to is devastating to SDS. Frankly, despite me becoming quite negative regarding SDS and their stewardship of this game title in only the last few years, from my previous quite positive views, I was shocked at how little the graphics improved from MLB The Show 16 to MLB 25 and the same in the MLB 26 trailers.
Frankly, I could have done without his profanity in the video. But, his overall point is right on the money about so many people in the forums acting as if graphics and gameplay cannot improve together. Of course they can. Not only can they improve together, but that is the only reasonable customer expectation over the course of ten years.
You own this SDS. I warned you about how customer anger was stoking and it seemed you didn't really care. I think the initial sales of MLB 26 are going to force you to start caring, and quite a lot. I just wonder if by now it is too late for you.
Yes, my primary anger has been focused on the multi-year negligence of Stadium Creator, Uniform Creator, and Logo Editor. But, I play the game primarily in RTTS and while I liked the fact you finally dialed in the avatar player development, this by itself fails to make up for the other areas where honestly you have been mailing it in. And now it shows. It shows quite starkly.
And, finally, it's not like dedicated customers like myself have not spent the last several years warning you about the pending consequences.
@xRatedGProdigyx_PSN said in Bad bunny:
I'm interested to see who they choose in the future. Taylor Swift, Metallica, and Foo Fighters have all basically said no. The pop / top 40 industry doesn't really generate mega stars like they did back with Prince / MJ. There's more of a shift toward viral online one-hit wonders (e.g. ABCDEFU). Billie Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter don't really have the resume for it yet (then again, did the Weeknd?) Any rock band past or present seems like a no.
Who's next?
That's because the music executives now have a death grip on the industry and refuse to let loose. Musical acts sign an initial contract where the vast majority of their profits are kept by the label. When they get to a point where they could negotiate a new contract on better terms, nearly all of these acts find themselves released from their contracts.
Today, the most talents acts just market their music directly online. The industry is replete with PC-based autotuning software that turns off key singers into perfect note maestros. The software is now even used on instruments. The industry would likely use AI to just artificially generate music in the future, but right now calculate the market isn't ready for that, but it's coming soon.
The ONLY bunny who belongs associated with baseball is Buggs Bunny and his epic changeup!
Given those two choices, I agree, it should have been put in RTTS. But, I think SDS made their mistake by not making it a stand alone game mode. It didn't need to be integrated with anything. As a stand alone game mode, it would have been ideal in that one could pick a national team, and then play out a replication of that team's tournament schedule.
But, it seems clear that SDS is so totally wedded to the cash-for-play chasing virtual trinkets that this was the decision that seemed almost inevitable. And a million customers saying they were wrong wouldn't matter to them.
In their mind, it's their game -- you just play it, or not! A lot like the phrase falsely attributed to Marie Antoinette about eating cake. Except with regards to SDS, it is fairly earned!
@Invinitee_XBL said in What if....(A fantasy CAS post):
@JoeSelser_PSN Idk why they dont let us have full creativity dor the stadiums but the devs can when making generic stadiums for minor league stadiums and high school
One word .... CONTROL!
SDS craves retention of their control over content more than making paying customers happy. Despite their disastrous public relations theme of "We Listened!" used for MLB 25, the reality of the situation revealed their malice.
SDS wants to tightly control content. So, all three of the existing customer created content game modes are seriously degraded. It is deliberate.
Sometimes, a corporation acts in such a negative manner that they don't deserve praise! I've been a part of this for many years, and the negativity has increased each year until this year it is at its zenith. I submit this is the good news for SDS. The bad news are all the people who have voted with their feet and no longer think about SDS, much less purchase their products or participate on its forum.
Sarge can confirm what I'm about to write.
SDS took public suggestions we both made and said that SDS would work on them. SDS never did. But, the worst part that happened this year was private, but given all the events that transpired, both Sarge and myself concluded it was vital to publicly air it.
We both privately warned SDS of the Lagrasa risk associated with the code option to move all the stadium perimeter walls. This because SDS failed to include movement of the baseline and backstop wall panels with the coded option to render the stadium ineligible for use in online games.
Sarge further suggested that vice a hard ban, instead the code be further amended to enact limits to the wall moves before a stadium would be barred from online use. I simply advised SDS of the risks and urged them to quickly expand the code "as is" to ensure cheat stadiums wouldn't harm online game play.
Sarge and I both advised SDS to expand the already existing code to apply it to the movement of any wall panel. That would have prevented LaGrasa from ever being an issue to online game play. We made those suggestions while custom stadiums were already barred from online use due to a bug SDS discovered with their use (not due to the wall movement code). The existing code only invoked the online ban when an outfield wall panel was moved.
SDS had two months to receive, review, and enact upon our warnings, and privately SDS assured us they understood the issue and would act on it. Their definition of acting on it was to amend the code in MLB 25's version of Stadium Creator to further restrict the movement of baseline and backstop wall panels, but leave wide open the same oversight we warned them about.
Had SDS implemented our suggestion, then people could have placed a thousand cheat stadium in the vault without any of them hurting legitimate online game competitions. This because the revised code would have detected the move of any wall panel and made said stadium ineligible for online play. Again, they already had the code -- they merely needed to extend it to apply to movement of any wall panel. Again, SDS chose to ignore that option, leaving the backdoor wide open to LaGrasa, and I call that deliberate malice.
From previous years' feedback, about three dozen dedicated stadium designers who used to regularly participate at this SDS forum (has since diminished to less than one dozen) have given SDS a list of items easy to implement but never acted upon.
This forms the bulk of it.
@Suel21_MLBTS said in Welp, stadium vault isn't carrying over to 2026:
@Dolenz_PSN right? It's a bit more like a kid complaining about not getting what they want from their parents then claiming they have terrible parents when they don't get it...
Except kids don't generally pay for what their parents hand them for free, now do they!
For the record, my two "boys" are both in their late twenties to early thirties, both married, with children of their own.
And yes, when a company of any kind says one thing and continuously does another, it is my right as a paying consumer to call them out for it. Perhaps being 62 years of age I grew up during a time that companies had to compete for business, and angering customers through poor service was considered taboo. I sincerely hope as a society we haven't allowed corporations to lose that focus without serious consequences.
@StadiumsCenter_PSN said in Welp, stadium vault isn't carrying over to 2026:
@PriorFir4383355_XBL
Correct what? That we should still hope for something? I'm not claiming they'll do anything, I'm just saying being that negative every time you post something isn't going to get you anywhere.
Go back a few years and see where me being positive and sincerely working with SDS in cooperation got the customers! Your approach is quite a bit like demanding that a battered spouse keep a stiff upper lip and remain optimistic.
SDS earned their lack of goodwill from me ... they worked for it!
@StadiumsCenter_PSN said in Welp, stadium vault isn't carrying over to 2026:
@Dolenz_PSN
Don't give up hope. The negativity on these forums is unreal. I understand the frustration everyone has, especially after no updates last year. 24 did bring us three updates in the form of props. Two of them were pretty useful with the turn of the century and contemporary packs. Maybe we'll at least get some new prop packs this year.
I can assure you, folks like myself have YEARS of very REAL experience being misled and seeing Stadium Creator, Uniform Creator, and Logo Editor deliberately neglected. Do you realize how easy it is to model 3D objects and texture them? For professional video game coders, it is very easy. There are software suites that make it easy enough for most lay people to achieve. I know, as I used them to create 3D objects used by software companies in Microsoft Flight Simulator and Combat Flight Simulator titles. And my level of talent is nowhere special compared to people who get paid to do it professionally.
I will state right here plain as day ... Stadium Creator will get nothing new, and receive zero upgrades. If I am wrong, I will come back here and correct myself. Will you correct yourself if events prove me correct?
Again, do not get your hopes up based on seeing that. Last year we were told by SDS that Stadium Creator was used to design the college and high schools ballparks used in the RTTS series of college and high school games. These stadiums featured yellow lines, chain link fences, and bullpens off the field of play. In addition, it showed the pinched in baselines -- something we have wanted since 2017 when SC was first released.
The entire Stadium Creator community of designers were shocked and angered when we purchased MLB 25 with optimism that SC would be upgraded. This because there were zero -- I say that again -- zero upgrades or even additions made to Stadium Creator.
This is how we learned that SDS has their own version of SC used to create their stadiums, and I have since learned this confirmed by former SDS employees who have contacted me because they share the anger of the customers.
Yes, SDS has a full featured version of Stadium Creator they have used for several years to design their own stadiums. It has everything that the designer community has been asking for, and likely more. But, we won't ever see it. SDS keeps that full featured version of SC jealously guarded for their own exclusive use.
What the customers get is a terribly degraded version, deliberately neglected to ensure customers are never able to create stadiums to rival the quality of what SDS can deliver in the game.
@MarioMendoza935_XBL said in Gameplay Trailer - 2/3/2026 - YouTube link:
@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in Gameplay Trailer - 2/3/2026:
I saw nothing in the video that spoke about directions of movement for the fielders.
It's at the 43 second mark.
Thanks, I went back and looked at that screen. They added four new avatar player customization/attribute areas for the four directions of movement.
From what I saw, MLB 26 "updates" are all eye candy. Yes, it appears they finally will have a vignette of an HoF induction for your RTTS player if he earns it. That is something that customers playing RTTS (like myself) have suggested four years ago.
I saw nothing in the video that spoke about directions of movement for the fielders.
In summation, we get a handful of extra college team brandings, that will likely use the same extremely limited number of games played (essentially half of the CWS format) and the HoF induction vignette. In terms of "Bear Down Pitching," that seems like pure marketing vice anything one can call a legitimate upgrade.
The WBC was very likely an addition that MLB required, and while I certainly see interest in that, it still remains to be seen exactly how it will be implemented.
@sullivanspring_MLBTS said in Welp, stadium vault isn't carrying over to 2026:
@bravesfan112296_PSN said in Welp, stadium vault isn't carrying over to 2026:
This is a good thing. The vault needed a complete reset. There's WAY too many Costco's, stadium row complex, hrd derby and others. Not to mention lagrassa is FINALLY gone. Maybe SDS will use this as a way to finally not only update SC but make the vault easier to navigate. All the other vaults have easy navigation except SC
The good news is someone at SDS is working on something related to stadiums.
I have to correct that a slight bit. The good news is if someone at SDS is working to make Stadium Creator better. And they have had five years to do that and have so far refused to do so. So, I see no logical reason to believe they will now.
@shadowultimate72_PSN said in Please fix the stadium creator online issue:
@Suel21_MLBTS Whoever made that abomination just earned himself a immortalized spot in the clown hall of fame unanimously
I agree. But, in addition to those who made the stadium, put it on the vault, and then chose to play it in online competition games -- all just to toy with people who simply wanted to play an honest baseball game in an online video game setting -- one also has to assign the same level of proper blame to SDS, for deliberately allowing it to happen.
My view is that SDS wanted -- I say that again -- wanted to see such stadiums being used in online play -- so that they could then look like the aggrieved party. Look at it this way. You are a parent. You can either separate two young boys who are getting mad at each other, or you can put them in a room together to beat each other up. If the boys beat each other up, then the boys are wrong. But, isn't the parent also?
Again, we privately handed SDS a rock solid method to guarantee no cheat stadiums could be used to corrupt online games, but retain the freedom of design. This handed to SDS months before Lagrasa was created, and we warned SDS of the vulnerability that was nefariously exploited. And SDS chose not to implement that method, and also ignored the vulnerability.
Why? My conclusion is SDS wanted to retain total control over their game vice meet customers reasonable demands. Control over customer happiness. I chose not to patronize companies guilty of this sort of behavior.
Considering how SDS has been treating multi-decades long customers, the theme song for MLB 26 should be, "Killing Me Softly!"
@shadowultimate72_PSN said in Please fix the stadium creator online issue:
Why is they put you in coors and some other stadium instead of your stadium?
Because, SDS deliberately sacrificed your happiness as a paying customer, so they could nuke the wall move option in MLB 25, then take all custom stadiums out of MLB 25 play, then nuke the stadium vault for MLB 26. SDS valued control more than your happiness as a customer.
Now, how does that truth make you feel?
@sullivanspring_MLBTS said in Welp, stadium vault isn't carrying over to 2026:
said in Welp, stadium vault isn't carrying over to 2026:
Perhaps. It would be great to be able to edit foul territory and have more tools but I'm a guy who builds one stadium and then I play hundreds of games in franchise - manage mode. If it's the exact same tool box it's just a tedious exercise to try to end up where I am now.
I get this. Not every person desires to spend the time needed to customize the entire stadium wall layout. But, isn't there attraction to downloading a precisely accurate stadium of the first ballparks to feature walls in the outfield and down the baselines, and play them in Exhibition, or RTTS, or Franchise games? You'd be amazed what a difference this makes in how baseball plays out.
You start to figure out real quick why players like Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb hit like they did. The ability to hit line drives was so critical as if you hit a fly ball, no matter how hard, it was going to get caught for an out. There is no other option for people living in 2026 (or last year) to experience that historic reality, except to play it out in a video game.
I don't see how a company that has a sole source contract with MLB could turn their backs on this option. I used the wall option to create highly accurate stadiums that the original Cincinnati Red Stockings played in -- the world's first professional baseball team, and the team that became the Boston, then Milwaukee, then Atlanta Braves. For added value, I created the first park that the fledgling Boston Braves played in and it is a seriously different stadium experience, but it is totally accurate.
So, SDS turned that option off for MLB 26. I sincerely hope SDS gets sent a sharp message. They certainly deserved it, and I anticipated what SDS would do, which is why I already made it known I won't be purchasing any future release of MLB The Show.