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I created an accurate version but you cannot play it in MLB 26 because SDS did not want it to be played in MLB 26. You have to play it in MLB 25 and earlier. Moreover, because SDS wants Stadium Creator degraded, no one can create an accurate layout of any historic ballpark. Designers are forced to use the default jewelbox squared layout, because again, that's how SDS wants it to be.

There is zero copyright on a baseball stadium engineering design. The copyrights exist with respect to branding -- trademarks.

You can freely create a virtual copy of any baseball park with precisely matched wall layout and dimensions.

That said, SDS went to extra effort to ensure you cannot do that in Stadium Creator -- hence the anger within the stadium designer community, which SDS seems they couldn't care less about creating.

Hard to argue. The game code seems really off. It makes unrealistic plays normal and safe leads suspect. Yeah, it's baseball and of course people can point to isolated examples of the epic comeback, but that doesn't mean that it's a norm.

My explanation for it happening? The marketing types want excitement; they want drama. So, how do you do that in a baseball game? Well, you have centerfielders make miraculous throws of nearly 300 feet distance from the wall to nail the hitter digging for a routine standup double. You have teams blow nine run leads with one to two innings left in the game.

It isn't real baseball. It's arcade junk! And I know some out there think I'm just motivated by my beef with SDS over Stadium Creator, but I can think objectively. This criticism is independent of what has been done to SC. This is the same junk where even in MLB 21-25, my RTTS team would sign free agents with a track record of hitting .300 with 30-40 homers and slot them batting fourth behind my avatar player, and suddenly the dude simply cannot advance me on the basepaths and his overall average is .220 and his BA with RISP is .120!

Nothing but total warping of baseball reality to heighten drama.

Yeah, they were at least in MLB 25 able to display stats, game scores, and team names and logos. Since I am boycotting SDS due to their malicious actions toward Stadium Creator, I cannot test this out. But, I trust your description is accurate. Therefore, this appears to be another mind-numbing blunder in the code.

This is just like how for reasons never explained, the strike out meter prob went from functional to disabled.

These guys cannot carry out even minor code changes to the game without causing seemingly unrelated adverse issues. This is clear evidence of game code poorly written, lacking in proper documentation, as well as inadequate modularity to allow intended code items to be amended without harming other code actions.

OK, you are free and clear to engage in semantics. But, I don't think Sharon Tate would have been upset in the least had the Manson family chose to "ignore" her! OK, fine, they did not ignore the mode. In fact, six months ago they deliberately amended the code to turn off the newly discovered option to modify the entire wall layout of a stadium, and then chose to ignore Lagrassa, that is until they very much again did NOT ignore the mode and deliberately cut off the existing vault from it!

To get to the point, we here ARE wanting updates. SDS has refused to provide them, knowing full well they can with a minimum of time and expense. Why? Because the code is already there to provide them given SDS themselves said their special version of SC was used to create the high school and college stadiums for MLB 25.

@StadiumsCenter_PSN said:

@ROTMG88_PSN

Yea it's not like they added 240 new props in 24.....
Or fixed the strikeout meter
Or fixed two light props not working
Or fixed the window issue....

You can make the argument all you want about how those things shouldn't have broken in the first place but they def haven't completely ignored the tool.

Fixing their own mistakes isn't upgrades! For years we have posted a list of around a dozen desired upgrades and all but one was ignored, and that one item was introduced two years ago -- standing crowds. The upgrades we want makes the game mode better and we have consistently shown where making this game mode better unlocks a huge potential in increased sales of the title.

BTW: I can point out several bugs SDS created that have never been fixed:

1. Seat colors reverting to white or light grey during a game.
2. Props falsely flagging intrusion into the field of play when there is clear space showing.
3. Wall props consuming way too much memory as well as refusing to snug up against each other to form proper windows.
4. Ugly lines forming on the infield diamond where the grass seams are not properly aligned.
5. Batters eye props having overmodeled areas that falsely flag prop intrusion.
6. Ridiculous requirement that everyone who downloads a stadium off the vault has to upload it just to play it.

We define neglect as refusing to implement these needed upgrades, all of which are very doable and reasonable. Fixing the half dozen bugs in the minimum, and fixing them would still not constitute upgrades, but instead show a lack of care.

My comments are becoming repetitive, but nonetheless true. This is another issue that became an issue a few years back and despite hundreds of customers posting threads asking about this Nike equipment issue, SDS has never posted any replies explaining the situation.

Again, this issue was first raised two years ago after MLB 22 abandoned the prior concept where team socks were automatically made part of a player's uniform. The idea being back then that this was supposed to be a baseball video game simulation, and therefore the uniform should match what the actual team wore.

Then, with MLB 22, something changed. The marketing people took over. Contracts were made with various players and companies that affected uniform items. The idea crept in that it was more important to put this contracted branding in the game and uniform concept did not matter.

Customers immediately objected. SDS steadfastly ignored these complaints while at the same time branding its own marketing slogan of, "We listened!" The heck they did! They ignored!

No question, an issue that is fair to raise, but I will add something. For well over ten years customers have asked SDS to either create the minor league stadiums or at least upgrade Stadium Creator so that customers could create precise versions of them for free (sans copyrighted branding of course). The point being, there are hundreds of customers out there with the skill and desire to replicate very accurate versions of stadiums. That SDS refuses to do it, and then maliciously degrades Stadium Creator, shows that not only is SDS unwilling to spend the time and money to make these stadium upgrades, they are not even willing to allow the customers a way to do it for free!

I have called out SDS hundreds of times over the last ten years over this reality, and remain convinced it is the single worst unforced error that SDS is making. Imagine the goodwill and vastly improved customer interest in the game if customers could create historic and current stadiums (high school, college, minor league, MLB, and foreign all).

@xero4019_XBL said:

@jisaksen2422_PSN “the game you paid for doesn’t work, but complaining about it makes you a baby”

What a braindead take. Unbelievable someone can be that big a bootlicker LMAO

Just post your SDS employee number man.

Not only that. The rules in place for refunds requires that the customer ask for the refund shortly after game purchase. So, every single one of these replies that deride folks for making a "quick" decision just ignores that basic reality.

Again, folks, we have been asking for this for five straight years and SDS has refused to provide any upgrades whatsoever to uniform editor and logo editor modes. There is a reason why SDS folded Stadium Creator sub-forum into the one lumped with Uniform and Logo Editor. It was a clear in-your-face finger in the faces of customers who enjoy creating custom content in the game.

@Jas_155_PSN said:

Yeah SDS is going belly up any day because of bullpens on the field in stadium creator lmao

Yeah, those K-Mart executives laughed the same way! Until they declared bankruptcy!

@Jas_155_PSN said:

SDS never signed a blood oath stating this feature would be updated every year. While it’s the reason I buy the game and I’m dying for some fresh new props and layouts, the creator tool is sharper, smoother, and the vault is more functional than ever this year. If that’s not good enough, simply don’t buy the game anymore. Posting a thousand words over and over isn’t going to change anything. This is capitalism and the creator fan base is a niche community that generates negligible revenue for SDS. It’s not a grand conspiracy or intentional thumb in the eye. It’s business.

In short, you agree with all the facts that I posted but had nothing to add except to call callous treatment of customers as being "business." Well, it's bad business, and bad business leads companies down the path of bankruptcy, and fairly earned.

Slapping a new label on the same product doesn't change the product. This is what SDS is doing each year. And with each year SDS keeps doing this, they lose more customers and more goodwill.

It's a serious issue and SDS does not seem to care much about working to retain their E rating. They pick music suitable for adults only and put it into a game openly advertised for children to adults.

@Christuffer9917_PSN said:

@savefarris_psn @sarge1387_psn @easy_duhz_it__psn Guys I meant on 26.

Oh don't worry. I suspect that the same folks who cracked how to move the walls last year will figure something out like it again for MLB 26 and then the community will be right back in the same situation. When I think of the talented people out there who are infuriated with how SDS has mismanaged this game title, it wouldn't shock me in the least to see it happen again.

This is what happens when you get a group of coders who don't understand baseball working together, operating on the presumption that no matter the position you choose to have your avatar play, you must get an extreme amount of "challenging" plays against you.

This is the same nonsense that sees about 80% of chances for any outfielder be screaming line drives, with practically zero fly balls where the fielder can actually get under the ball with a second or so to spare. This happens most of the time in real life baseball, but in SDS's version, it is very rare.

So, what is the most "challenging" play for a third sacker? It's the bunt, followed by the soft hit grounder to third.

What really galled everyone who plays the game is that SDS did what they always do when these issues are raised, which is whistle past the graveyard like nothing is amiss and fail to fix it. This issue was first observed with MLB 22, and got worse with MLB 23. MLB 24 and 25 saw no improvements, and it seems clear the same nonsense of faux drama carried over to MLB 26. That's four years of utter nonsense and counting.

And what Sarge did not say, but equally true, is that SDS refused the solution that would have made all good customers happy, and instead left the barn door wide open for Lagrassa, and then used that experience as their excuse to restart the vault.

Truth blunt said -- you cannot transfer stadiums simply because SDS leadership chose to prevent that, for no good reason and certainly not because of any backward compatibility issues, because as we fully know, SC has not been upgraded in any significant manner since it was introduced in MLB 21.

@IZZY243Cuh_PSN said:

@PriorFir4383355_XBL I really appreciate you, people think since I’m young I don’t have the drastic knowledge of baseball and/or MLBTS.

Age is a number. I've seen plenty of people in their advanced years act like immature children, and I've seen plenty of young people have the weight of the world placed on them and show significant maturity and dedication to getting a tough job done.

Everyone has a right to his own opinion. What often gets lost is that equally everyone has an obligation to show respect for others. You made a cogent point and was fair-minded in how you wrote it.

@flyarrhea_MLBTS said:

@IZZY243Cuh_PSN with all due respect, you are 17 years old. you aren't old enough to have the right to an opinion yet. most of us on here were playing the game before you were even thought of. and we all enjoy the game.

I don't often reply to trolls, but this one was so far over the top that it earned a rebuke. You sir, are a [censored], and immediately after I send this reply, I am blocking your account because you are no one worth knowing!