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Everyone here loves the game of baseball. Loves MLB. Loves older versions of MLB The Show. No one wants to hate MLB The Show 26, we just pine for it to be better.

DD menus are unbearable right now. Even if they weren't, everything about the mode is stale regardless, but the menu lag (inexcusable) takes any fun out of the game. RTTS can't even do a proper face scan this year without some hideous dark shade/line on the back of your neck (entire bottom of your face if you have a beard irl), which ruins that mode. Franchise is missing like 30% of best players likeness like that one guy loves to accurately point out all the time.

It's just a horrible game and I will be honest to state as such when I feel compelled to. I will not be playing it much longer, but even then I'll still come here and say something negative about it because it deserves that at the very least. It's great you love it though Player99 and I hope you keep having fun and stop getting upset at people who aren't having as much fun as you.

I support @PolKrout calling out SDS on this every day until Cam Smith is in the game.

Ethan Holliday's DD card has a very nice face scan, while his offline card has a hideous generic CAP default and also the wrong number to boot (which I know only takes a second for a user to fix but it's the principle of the matter).

To me this just screams laziness on SDS' part, whoever works in the offline department or whatever. Or maybe they just don't care. Whichever the case, the lies about lack of scans and likeness need to stop being pushed here. That is not the issue. If these guys can have scans for online play, they should have it for offline play too.

Cam Smith, Joey Loperfido, Brice Matthews and Zach Cole... really hoping these guys can have scans/offline cards after the first roster update since they should all be on the Astros 26 man roster.

It'll never make sense to me how guys can get online card art but not offline card art.

Listen, I have my complaints too, but man it feels like it's been nothing but negativity since the trailer dropped. So what is one GOOD thing you can say about SDS and what you're looking forward to in MLB The Show 26?

Personally, I think the Now and Then packs they've given us are very generous. With the Deluxe purchase (shout out for the 10% off, too), I'm going to have nearly 50 Packs to open right away. I'm no money spent outside of the Deluxe purchase so that's a nice way to start DD and load up my Astros cards.

I'm sure as the premiere vids drop I'll have more nice things to say. What about you for now?

I'm dying for a Jose Canseco card myself.

@SavageSteve_MLBTS Lol all that arrogance and insulting only for Dolenz to prove you wrong anyway.

@SavageSteve_MLBTS It makes no sense for their actual picture and name to be displayed in Diamond Dynasty while their likeness can't be used in the offline version of the game.

But, I'm not a stubborn [censored], so lets say you're correct.

The fact is, I've given SDS $100+ every year for 6 years now. I am a customer. That gives me the right to express any complaints I have about the game.

And right now, my one complaint is Cam Smith isn't in the game. He's been on the 40 day roster since the first game of the season. I know his personality well enough to know he's not putting up a fight to stay out of the game. So yes, if you're right, they're just taking their sweet time to get approval or whatever they need from him.

I would also say it's a pathetic display of their graphic designing abilities with their lack of options to be able to make a player look how they look in the CAP/Edit A Player options. I've literally played PS2 games with more capabilities in that department.

Don't be so defensive for SDS. They're not going to reward you with free stubs for white knighting on their behalf.

@SavageSteve_MLBTS If that were true, then cards with their pics on them wouldn't be allowed in Diamond Dynasty.

@theBlindRhino_NSW Yes, you can see their cards in Diamond Dynasty. They have the pics of them.

@theBlindRhino_NSW So there's something called Photo Day during Spring Training where every single player takes extremely high quality photos that are available for purchase on Getty images. In fact, those are the images used for a lot of player cards in DD. They have the photos already, they just don't care about the offline roster since there's no money to be made there.

@theBlindRhino_NSW They don't need them there in person for a decent face scan. All they need is a HD photo. There's no excuse other than pure laziness why they slack on this.

@theBlindRhino_NSW With today's technology all they should need is an HD photo of the person, which they all take during Spring Training on Photo Day.

All I want is Cam Smith btw. Been saying it since April.

I think Jeremy Pena deserves it over Jacob Wilson. It's close enough to have hope for it as long as Pena keeps playing well and Wilson's BA starts to go down.

All I want is Cam Smith. From what I know about him there's no way he wouldn't want to be in the game. His swing is there, he has card art for DD, but no card art or likeness for offline play. It makes zero sense to me.

All I want is Cam Smith.

DQ has definitely been nerfed, no doubt about it. It was my main way of getting stubs and packs. SDS couldn't have that going on lol.

They have Cam Smith's swing, they have card art for him on DD, but offline no face scan, no card art, and they don't even have his correct position. It sincerely is ridiculous lol. I don't want to start my Astros franchise with the future face of the team being a ridiculous looking CAP. The laziness and lack of awareness from this company truly is sad.

Trfatboy's logic is, "I don't care about this stuff, so it's dumb that you care about it."

It'd be a real shame if this was the typical mindset at SDS. At the end of the day, we all love baseball, and MLB The Show is the one MLB video game we have. SDS should strive to make it as enjoyable as possible for every baseball fan that plays it.

The fans that are already 100% satisfied with it, God bless them, I'm happy they enjoy Diamond Dynasty so much, but the typical offline player also matters and it doesn't take much to satisfy us too. It might not make money right away for the company, but in the bigger picture: the better the offline play is, the better the overall sales will become.

But even money aside, video game developers should have the same kind of pride in their games like chefs have in their food. We don't only pay money to play but we dedicate hours and hours of our lives to this product you put out... SDS should want it to be as perfect as they can possibly make it. And if we're asking for too much, the least they could do is be transparent about what they're capable of delivering instead of constantly leaving their paying customers in the dark.

I'm sincerely going to try to be respectful in this post. Whoever works for SDS that reads this, please take pride in your work. Just because you have my money already, just because you have the other people in this thread's money already.... that doesn't mean our feelings are irrelevant. You should strive to make us as satisfied as possible with your game.

We're not asking for much... just face scans and proper rosters. That's it. A team of 5 employees should be able to do this in one work day without issue. Respect your customers. DD is your money maker, fine, but I'm telling you it's a slippery slope to ignore and quite frankly [censored] on your other customers who gave you their hard earned money so they could enjoy the Franchise mode of your video game.

Have some pride, and strive to make every kind of MLB The Show player satisfied and happy. There's NOTHING stopping you.