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@UncleVinny___PSN it’s just as fast as before, and in virtually every card listing now. Looks like I’ll be staying off the market again for a while. Seriously, probably time to make the market access, console only. Or maybe make it mandatory to do at least one console based market transaction per hour. Wouldn’t even mind is you required 2 factor authentication instead of recapcha’s.

You guys have let the bots get out of control again

Stan Musial Milestone card has had a bot in it all weekend. Been trying to sell one of that card all weekend and am instantly outbid by 1 stud. How did the bots bypass the app verification?

I wish you could bring up your RTTS player in franchise mode

Bot is heavily active in the Kazuma Okamoto World Baseball Classic card right now. Instant outbid when I bid or retract my bid. Also noticed stub transfer activity on the card on Oct 14 around 5:07 AM Pacific Time. Dozens of alternating bids between 18007 and 49990 stubs taking place within a minute of each other.

Edit: same thing with Logan Webb WBC card. I’m just trying to collect the WBC cards. Seems like most of them are botted and where the stub transfer activity is happening.

@Manu__SDS_MLBTS I appreciate that and everything you are doing. I’ll take a restriction here and there if it means defeating bots. I used the website instead for a bit and it was fine.

@Manu__SDS_MLBTS No I understand and appreciate you trying to make the market better. I’m using the website until my restriction is lifted and it’s going fine.

I was unfairly banned for a day as well, and am a real user who has provided feedback here before. Restrictions are too tight for real users.

@PLY24MKR_XBL The market is pretty much all bots again. I’ve just adjusted my habits to not engage with the market when it’s overrun with bots. It’s a shame, but it’s unusable when like this.

@Oliver230230230_PSN I agree with that, but you also aren’t wrong either. I think many of the stub transfer sites for this game and other sports titles are indeed operating out of here in Russia. There are also legitimate players like myself who earn stubs legitimately too here.

@Oliver230230230_PSN Please don’t ban users from Russia. I’m a legitimate player of this game and big baseball fan that lives in Russia. You can’t paint all users from an area with a broad brush like that.

@Pergo_MLBTS First round of picks is either wild card team. You basically get to pick the wild card team or division winner

@Oliver230230230_PSN I can confirm almost all listings in the marketplace have bots again. Rampant bot activity, back to the levels seen in the early season. Looks like marketplace is unusable once again. If it was me, I would require a 2-factor authentication every 6 hours to users using the companion app. Sure it would be a bit of a hassle, but very much worth it to restore the market to fair selling.

@ArcPrime126_XBL it’s the same pattern I’ve noticed. Groups of 3 and 4 undercutting my bids instantly. When I delete my bid those undercut bids also instantly disappear, so that shows me they are indeed bots.

@Oliver230230230_PSN @manu__sds_mlbts
Yes, bots are in full force on Mike Trout All-Star card right now for instance.

These actions have renewed by confidence for MLB The Show 27

Indeed, seems better

Bot currently active on Ryan Braun card. Instantly outbidding by 2 stubs on a buy order.

@DEF266_PSN I like that idea. But instead of just doing a verification only by email, maybe do verification via google authentication too.

Market is working amazing, and feels like an organic market now. All bids that outbid me seem like humans now. Well done, and thank you for your efforts.