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My expectations for season 2, ready?

SDS: Ok guys, what do you want to see?

Consumers: Revert XP payouts to last year's amounts, more usable cards earlier in the reward path, more usable rewards in general and less icons. Maybe up stub payouts a bit and make them more frequent. In the stadium creator, distances on walls, custom foul territory, bullpens in the outfield.

SDS: Ok, we heard you! Here's what you asked for! Enjoy these non guaranteed loot box packs for 40k! AND then these UFO props!

Consumer: wait, what? That's not even remot-

SDS: That's right, you asked we listened!

Consumer: No you di-

SDS: Buy more packs!

@Nauracy34

You're not wrong, but unfortunately they are trending in that direction

I really hate modern gaming community. Zero patience. Look I'm steamed as much as anyone, I paid $145 CAD for the digital deluxe, but holy [censored] these things need some time to figure out. The fact that the newer generation of gamers has zero patience is a huge part of the reason this patch nuked the game...the devs weren't even allowed the time to test it properly.

I can't imagine alot of them would have survived the launch of Halo and how difficult that was out of the box.

I need both my hitting coach and pitching coach with me whenever I play. Goodest coaches. Sorry for your loss my friend, He's still watching you play. Just on a different couch.

Yeah, how does SDS follow up a horrific launch and first season filled with negative feedback? By following it up with an equally as bad S2.

They said bosses would be easier to obtain…which turned out to be a lie. There’s “easier to obtain lesser VERSIONS of” the bosses…that was a deliberate mislead.

They also dropped the ball on the complaints regarding in game xp. People were asking for per inning xp to be reverted back to previous years amounts in order to help the average player.

I think this might be enough for me to take a step back. Not gonna waste my time on the reward path knowing I’m not gonna get a sniff of the bosses

It is with great pleasure that I inform you I accomplished my S2 mission: I earned my Doc Halladay HoF boss card. First time since the Season format I’ve achieved the boss level.

Have a great night.

Yah this soundtrack is an L. Kinda tired of the whole “hip hop/R&b” only stuff.

OMG THE SERVER IS DOWN I DEMAND 50 CHASE PACKS, A 50 PACK WITH GUARANTEED ENDGAME JETER AND ELEVENTY BAJILLION STUBS, 12 BRAZILLIAN LADIES OF THE EVENING PAID THROUGH THE WEEK, AND MY MORTGAGE PAID OFF!

C) Neutering in game XP.

@AdeptOfMemory_PSN said in For those saying they’re not playing Season 2:

@yankblan_PSN My biggest complaint is not being able to gain ANY PxP in casual or co-op if you are not the host of the game.
It's odd that the reason is to prevent cheesing or over grinding casual for the PxP but they are totally ok with doing that for CPU games? Such a dumb thing to do. For players who have time to burn for that kind of grind offline is exactly how you'd do it. You wouldn't grind a non MMR based PvP mode if you wanted PxP fast and easy.
I also have zero desire to play offline against CPU as I don't have many hours to offer and I didn't buy a competitive sports just to play bots all night.
I am also not going to play offline to put time into a card for PxP only to not be able to use them in ranked anyways. It's the dumbest pigeon hold on XP I think I've ever seen.

Personally, I always play vs the CPU...I don't work my nuts off and stress all day to come home and reach a whole new level of stress with the fuckery that is online play. Plus as a married dude I gotta be able to pause if the wife asks me for help with something...which is almost a guarantee the second I sit down, right fellas? I've got extracurriculars like my own baseball etc.

Do I wanna play online? Yeah. But I don't wanna get my $hit pounded in and hate the game.

@Skarmaen_MLBTS said in Anyone Else Feeling Optimistic:

Sets/seasons were a major complaint last year and were brought back, and I'm pretty confident that absolutely no one asked for a more pack driven model so I don't know how much value a survey has.

Also fairly certain nobody asked for nerfed Game XP or a lower daily cap. Honestly, nobody gave a rat's a$$ how quick someone got the bosses. All this move did was hurt their average player

@bimblekay said in Daily XP limit:

My guess is that the XP cap is in place to thwart any exploits someone might find early on. You know the story, someone finds an exploit, posts a how-to vid on youtube, people abuse it, forum freaks out, "ban 'em all" posts, same thing every year. They'll remove it once they can be reasonably certain the code can't be exploited - until it's exploited again and the cap will be back.

Honestly I think capping daily XP in general is a rather slimy move to begin with. Who honestly cares about how quick someone motors through the program? I don't. That's like buying a car and the dealership saying "yeah you can only drive 175 miles a day and then the engine shuts off and wont start again until the next day"
Sure they have top end rewards...but it doesnt exactly make them world beaters if they can't use them correctly. They shot the grinders in the femoral artery by lowering the cap of daily xp, but then they also punished the guys who can't grind, and only play an hour or two every day or every other day but cutting the XP rewards in half. Now I can get behind one thing, or the other...but not both.

Ugh, I can’t even defend SDS anymore. This TA is a massive monstrous L.

@Victor_SDS_MLBTS @Collin_SDS_PSN Can we open a discussion about re-instating the previous XP payouts? They're super low and all but kind of ensures the average guy won't hit many of the bosses.

I'd like to know why exactly it was thought that slashing gameplay xp in half was a good idea. Personally I only do moments, play vs cpu, and MS...I'm admittedly not nearly good enough to play online against other people, so this post is strictly from my point of view and doing my best to not speak for everyone else.

Last year you received I believe 180 xp or so for every defensive inning, and obviously batting depended on the results. But usually two and a bit weeks in I'm about 140k or so more along. It kinda feels like I'm fighting an uphill battle just to even get out of the "perfunctory" rewards section of the program.

Is re-instating the old xp payouts a possibility? Anyone else feel free to chime in as well

@Orcin52 said in Why SDS hates offline players?:

The changes to TA single-player missions are very annoying. It is almost like SDS saw that people were using play vs. cpu games to advance single-player pitching missions faster, so they took that avenue away. Why penalize players for reducing the grind to obtain no-sell cards that are only useful for a month? Why do they want to make the game so tedious?

Unfortunately it’s because they want us to play a certain way. Which is absolutely asinine. We purchased the game, provided it’s not nefarious, we should be able to earn and play any way we want.

I’ll happily play their way…if they make the game a completely free-to-play platform style /s

This whole release so far has had zero positive optics. No matter which way you look at it, it’s a bad look.

@ncbravesfan82_MLBTS

Dude...I know SDS is absolute dogwater at communicating with it's player-base outside of hype streams prior to launch...but give them some time here...it's a week and a half old, man. They need time to receive the reports, find the bugged code, replicate the issues, devise a solution, code that solution, and implement sed solution in a patch. That's about a two week process in and of itself.

I get it, but this isn't anything new with any game released in the last 15 years.

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It’s gotta bring up some warning signs for SDS here. Under a quarter of the votes who voted have even reached Boss 1 in the reward path, and 86% of the people who voted don’t even have 1 of the players from the Boss collection pack.

They can’t even make the stands fit the field template, there’s way too much “red zone”, you should be able to snap stands to the wall to create a flush look.

They need to create coding so that the stands themselves adjust to the walls. Again, to create a flush, clean look. I can’t believe how much they touted the mode yet half assed it. We’ve only been asking for bullpens and foul territory control for a couple years now

Wow...this is why every time I think I wanna play online I pinch myself. Win-at-all-cost players/cheaters are a cancer to online gaming in general, not just MLBTS

I think this, as @X-FREEZE-OFF-X_PSN said in another post, might be the nail in the coffin. Straw that breaks the camel's back...whatever your metaphor is.

It's coming across super lazy, like the incognito series last year.