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Very, very nicely done! SDS should be a little embarrassed that one guy and ChatGPT created functionality that their app should have had years ago. Reminds me of this:

“Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!”

@Busta-21_XBL said in The Topps Now Card we so Desperately Need This Week:

Wtf is this gen z stuff?!?

It’s just a penguin, my man. He’s black and white… the Sox are black and white… get it? Allow yourself to accept a tiny bit of joy into your life. I’ve never known someone to be so aghast at a bird.

Well, maybe Tippi Hedren. But that’s it.

@SaveFarris_PSN said in Lack of Team Parity in Drops Continues:

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS said in Lack of Team Parity in Drops Continues:

You think that's bad? White Sox fans had to be reminded that Tim Anderson and Andrew Vaughn exist.

At this point, LSU has both better attendance and a bigger payroll than the White Sox.

It's REALLY hard to win "Worst Owner" in MLB when that guy from Oakland is still around, but Reinsdorf is really, really trying!

If we tried to win “worst owner,” we’d probably just blow the game in the 9th.

You think that's bad? White Sox fans had to be reminded that Tim Anderson and Andrew Vaughn exist.

If you do the color storm TA program, you get 150K xp along the TA path. Depending on where you are for each team, that should be a lot of packs. And if you stack that program on top of the Magic 3 conquest map, baby you’ve got a stew going.

Turning double plays, I think I’m turning double plays, I really think so!

@hockey4all2001_PSN said in Hey SDS, attributes are STILL broken in lineup screen:

I’m guessing that no one who has posted in this thread is a programmer. I don’t know if they are easy fixes or not, but what I do know is that sometimes when you try to fix a bug you end up breaking other things in the code, so if the original code is not ruining gameplay you just leave it alone. Like I said before though, I don’t know if that is the issue or not.

Sure, but some of these bugs we’re talking about have been around since the Nationals were reigning WS champions. At some point they should probably go ahead and fix these things.

If I’m not mistaken, the custom team logos in DD have been disappearing at random as far back as MLBTS20. I have given up hope that they’ll ever fix it. I’ve just accepted that about 2/3 of the time I’m playing as the Tucson War Pugs, but the other 1/3 I’m either a logo-less, nameless team or I have some generic logo with bats and stars.

It's never too late to delete embarrassing threads.

I couldn’t care less about the cost of low-90s catchers, but I love the debate. Great minds, battling it out. And I’ve got a front row seat.

@RealPudgyPanda_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS

I intentionally spoke and outlined that the participants in the zero-sum game were the player’s potential activities, not other players. You wanting to frame the discussion to ignore that doesn’t make me unaware of what a zero-sum game is. It’s just disingenuous [censored] because you don’t want to admit that SDS removed the value for time spent for a lot of players because you almost certainly didn’t spend the time yourself and you don’t care if SDS screws over others to benefit yourself.

I’m not really going to reply to any of these issues going forward though. We’re on three straight years of SDS drastically overhauling the content/design and as of two weeks ago, four straight years of SDS abandoning their intended content/design mid-cycle because of how bad their metrics are doing.

At this point, people who show up on the forums to defend their decision-making are just a lost cause. It’s incredibly clear that SDS has no confidence in what they’re doing. None. Yet magically, someone like you does.

I look forward to seeing how they screw up 26’s content/design overhaul.

Maybe then they’ll realize relying primarily on the feedback of less than 30 people, an incredibly homogenous group of content creators, will continue to result in the same problem over and over again. They’ll do something that appeals to that group, while completely ignoring how it impacts people that aren’t in it and then have to abandon the design/content once that impact to other people becomes obvious.

I won’t hold my breath as them figuring that out is as likely as you waking up and developing critical thinking skills tomorrow.

Have a nice day.

You still don't seem to know what a zero sum game is.

@RealPudgyPanda_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS

It is a zero-sum game. People don’t have endless time to play video games. It is finite. Literally, in every sense. That is a zero-sum game. They only have 24 hours in a day and they can only spend so much of it playing. They have to allocate whatever time they have and they don’t always get to allocate it to what they enjoy the most because they want the reward. Two people allocate their time differently, one following the instructions and another completely ignoring them, and then SDS feeling bad and pretending it didn’t matter as if they aren’t just completely screwing over the one following the instructions is inherently wrong.

I provided an example of an actual equitable way to fix their mistakes, instead of what they did, which is make the people who followed the instructions have to grind twice to end up in the same place. It’s not like there was no other option to SDS. There was. They just don’t care and happily screw people over, every single year.

I’m not even replying because this impacted me negatively. It didn’t. I had all 30 finest vouchers two weeks ago. I will have all 30 programs at 100% before finest even drops. My game history is easily viewable to all of us and it’s quite clear this has basically no impact on me because I play this game as much as anyone.

But it’s incredibly annoying for people that don’t have the ability to play this game endlessly and actually did the tasks because that’s what they were told to do to get the reward.

Your reply is just indicative of someone with absolutely no ability to feel empathy for others.

First of all, I don't think you know what zero-sum game means.

And it's shocking that in your assessment, I am somehow the one who has no ability to feel empathy for others LOL. I don't feel empathy that you completed all 30 finest vouchers two weeks ago. You're right. I feel zero empathy for that. I do, however (unlike you), feel empathy for people who want to unlock all-star vouchers and don't have your unlimited wealth of time to play this game. They should get to play with their favorite players, too. I guess I'm not empathetic enough to your mindset that you're the only one who should get to enjoy this video game? If that's what you think "empathy" means, then by all means, call me someone who lacks empathy.

What an UNREAL take, chief. It's not too late to just admit that you're stamping your feet because other people can have digital baseball cards too. Good gravy, little buddy. I've seen some bad takes, but THAT.... is a shockingly bad take. It makes Juan Soto watching 6 straight strikes vs. Crochet look like genius takes. Whoo boy. Yikes. Good luck at life, chief.

@RealPudgyPanda_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:

@Rhyno1986_XBL

Because it punishes people that prioritized grinding it in order to ensure people that didn’t can still get the same rewards, as it doesn’t give any of the people that prioritized grinding it anything for actually spending the time.

If SDS says this is what you have to do, you do it, and then SDS gives the cards to everyone else too anyway, it is an L. As I said in my reply, a competent company would have given those people that did it something for actually doing it (like my suggestion of removing any grind to get the Color Storm cards). Instead, they just screw over the people that actually listened.

Good gravy. Nobody is getting “punished.” So many people think of this as some sort of zero sum game. Just because some people are getting a boost doesn’t mean you’re somehow getting screwed. Such a weird way to view this. It’s not a “punishment” unless SDS is taking things away from you. How is your life any worse because someone got to an all-star voucher easier than you did lol

Did you enjoy the time you spent grinding toward those vouchers? Hopefully the answer is “yes” (otherwise why would you even do it lol). So what’s the problem here big guy?

Aha! I’d never heard that rule before. Thank you both for the info!

I unlocked Lourdes Gurriel and I ended a game at 495 XP, so I figured I would give him another AB to get over 500 and jump my dbacks TA ahead 150K. But I have since gotten two hits with Lourdes and he’s still stuck at 495. The other player stats are still moving up, but the only one I care about right now is stuck! What gives, brah?!

@MarioMendoza935_XBL said in One big win for TA:

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:

I really am holding out hope that those LS cards will drop a good deal by early next week

I posted something yesterday saying that "I have enough stubs to finish the LS collection but I'm waiting for prices to come down".

That post has not aged well.

I mean, they have to come down someday... Right? Oofff.

Right?? This year has been bonkers. I remember when I started playing in 19 and trout was always like 450K. But then a few years ago the big gatekeepers all of a sudden maxed out at like 150,000. Now Shohei is probably close to 700?? What on earth. I just want to finish my d-backs team but I cannot justify throwing half my stubs at a LS Marte that I will hardly ever use. Weird year for the live series!

This should help crash the LS market. Packs are going to be flowing pretty good now. And those 88s and 89s (like Ketel Marte) should really come down now that there are better, free options at some of these positions. I’m glad my buy order for Ketel didn’t go through at 90K last night. He’s bounced back up but I really am holding out hope that those LS cards will drop a good deal by early next week

The XP is down but they hand out like 20,000 XP for completing a quick program. Sometimes more than that. I think I got 15,000 XP last night just for final stage of rivalry week program, and that doesn't even count all the XP along that reward path. I feel like doing the math down to the inning is just trying to find something to gripe about.

@TripleH-4481_PSN said in Biggest Reason The Show is A Terrible Franchise:

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS

Your analogy is not relevant at all. If I hate something about Olive Garden, which I do by the way, there are a million other alternative Italian style restaurants to choose from. Or I can just make something great to eat at home.

If I hate the direction that this game is going there are no other viable baseball video game alternatives. This game once was great and still has the potential to be that for baseball fanatics like me.

However, SDS continues to make decisions that allow for subpar gameplay mechanics as well as questionable content and market decisions that absolutely take away a lot of enjoyment from the gaming experience.

In other words it’s not as simple as choosing another video game until a viable competitor enters the conversation. If that ever happens then you would be absolutely right in that I should choose that option if it better scratched my baseball itch.

lol ok. My analogy is spot on. You’re wasting your life on something you hate. That’s insane. This isn’t your job. It’s your leisure time. It’s absurd to spend your leisure time doing something you don’t enjoy. That defeats the purpose of leisure. Do stuff you enjoy. I assume you’re a young’n. Once you reach your 40s you’ll understand how precious and fleeting and short these years are. There’s no sense in torturing yourself when you’re supposed to be having fun. I wish I had known that when I was younger. But if someone has told me what I’m saying right now, I’m sure I’d respond with the same kind of attitude. So I guess one day you’ll be telling the next generation of kids to stop playing MLB The Show 39 if they hate it so much.

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