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Imagine proudly touting a new feature (mini seasons) that you know for a fact doesn't work. If you don't think they knew about the issues from internal testing, you don't understand how this industry works now. It's all about release timings and having enough "new features" for the advertising. Every year there are more and more bugs that fall into the "unacceptable" category.

The harsh reality is they don't actually care about the average player, they cater the entire product to competitive level players. Does anyone really think that if you were to take the entire player base and average their playing ability, it would be All-Star difficulty? BS, it would be somewhere between Rookie and Veteran. And yet, so much DD content was locked behind All-Star difficulty.

And yes, I'm a PvE player who just wants to watch Netflix while grinding content on Rookie so I can mindlessly mash bombs. I don't care at all about realistic stats, I just want to see pitches over the plate so I can pad stats and "check boxes" in the content interface. I just want SDS to get TF out of my way and let me play the game the way I want, not the way they want.

This is the worst release in terms of stability I have seen from this company. Ranging from the "unhandled exception error" I see in so many situations multiple times per day, to wins being counted as losses, to the massive number of market issues that somehow properly track transactions while not actually completing them. Keep in mind this was all during early access, just wait for full release and see how bad it gets.

Unfortunately, we are living in an era where formerly trusted and professional game developers are becoming more like the worst actors in the industry. What happened to CD Projekt Red is happening to SDS. It's impossible that these issues weren't experienced during internal testing, but they don't care anymore and just want the money.

IMO, the game has regressed as a whole over the last 2 years. Yes, there are nice new features but too many bugs to be worth it. This drop off in quality is directly related to the expansion of platforms, which is obviously happening faster than they are capable of maintaining. It's so sad that it has become ok to charge for early access to a product that doesn't work correctly.