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@joshjays44_psn said in Crowd Drumming at Progressive Field:

@dontred0nme_xbl said in Crowd Drumming at Progressive Field:

Rather hear that then the announcing

I don't think I've ever played with commentary on with The Show. I'm playing a baseball game not watching a baseball game, maybe is a noob thing I'll never understand.

It would be cool if you dropped mentioning people being a noob in every single post. That is so tired. It's ok for people to play the game they bought with their money, however they want.

Something you might consider is everybody doesn't have to think like you. And if I have to see yet another post about franchise at legend difficulty and max pitch speeds, I'm gonna scream.

Nobody cares. It's just a video game.

@aam34_psn said in Update 7 Patch Notes:

@spin_doctor01_psn said in Update 7 Patch Notes:

@aam34_psn said in Update 7 Patch Notes:

No more slip n sliiiiiiide! Good bye forever.

We'll see. I just hope they didn't break the game again like they did last time when they updated it

That's true, I think gameplay updates come slow for this exact reason. They have a lot more to fix. Hopefully hitting is next!

I wouldn't bet the house on it...

@lucas8181_mlbts said in Wow this game is bad.:

@ttv_clapezz_psn said in Wow this game is bad.:

I normally don’t bother with sorry,lonely,an pitiful but how disappointing is your life to jump in that man’s message of frustration(no game mentioned just swinging) to all of us that play this game. We’re posed to be together an help but then that’s why America is f*** up right now. I play my road to the show on beginner if that is the easiest an fix my sliders to rock s*** an I know the frustration that are show 22 bro is having the frustration has nothing to do regarding you or your comments he probably feels bad for also

As an educator in the United States, I personally apologize for this kids writing skills. No, I didn’t directly teach him, but there’s a collective responsibility we all bare.

If you're going to call out educators, you should definitely strive to get it right. As in, "...collective responsibility we all bear"

@dirtydan1981_xbl said in The Commentary...:

It is VERY repetitive.

Oh man is it... After the 9000th time of hearing, "that's something you don't see these days - the pitch out..." Jeeze it's like torture. I'm sure that by now I have every line memorized, without even trying.

Can't miss what you never had. To me, it's just a $60 game. As long as it looks and plays well, I'm good.

If you're mainly a franchise guy, there's no reason to buy a new game at this point because SDS isn't offering anything new. You shouldn't have to pay full price for a new playoff schedule, or removal of the shift. That should just be a patch.

But not in MLB 21. I’m just doing MLB 20 and I don’t have an intention on getting 21. I came to MLB The Show late. In fact I’d never even heard of it because I stopped gaming 10 years ago when I started taking bass lessons and then got into a couple of bands.

While I was in the local thrift trying to score some cheap vinyl records late last year, I spotted a copy of MLB 16 for like 50 cents. Covid had killed the gig scene for the time being and I was still working from home, so I’m like, sure why not try this. I had a PS3 that hadn’t been powered up in a decade. But I’m a baseball guy and it seemed interesting. Well I had a great time with that. There were no servers up, of course, so I didn’t experience Diamond Dynasty, or any of that. Diamond level gear was available by default, so I just used it and was cool.

Eventually I scored a PS4 Pro for cheap and MLB 20 was going for $10 new on Amazon, so I got it. And I was completely overwhelmed with all the different aspects. Diamond Dynasty? Trading cards? Conquest? Moments? No idea what that’s about. I just wanted to play some baseball with better graphics. But I did some research, gave it a good try, bought some cards, traded some cards and once I wrapped my head around it all, I realized I didn’t want to make a career out of this video game. I just didn’t have that kind of time to kill.

At that point, I sold everything to get stubs. All the cards, all the gear I wasn’t using, everything. Every time I got a card, I immediately sold it. I turned my DD team into a bunch of faceless nobodies. Then went to the market and started buying stuff, and soon realized that I could usually sell gear on the market for many times what I paid for it. That was cool. It was a nice feeling when my buys and sells went through and I accumulated better and better gear. Meanwhile, my stubs bank account was steadily going up. It was like playing the stock market. I played a few Conquest maps just for the stuff I might get, but never did the strongholds, because I had neutered my team, lol. Moments are a time sink, but they are pretty cool. By now my guy has mostly Diamond level gear and I’ve 75,000 stubs collected from card/gear sales, so I’m straight. I can just play it like this and not think about the rest.

I hear MLB21 has a lot of issues and the fact that it seems tied directly to DD makes it a non starter for me. And it saves me from buying a PS5, since I don’t have time for a bunch of games anyway. The fact that they have 21 patches on it tells me it wasn’t ready to release in the first place.

There are a couple of things I miss from MLB 16, like being able to track the ball as I’m running with the R1 button, stealing is harder and sliding doesn’t really work with classic baserunning. But other than that, I love MLB 20. Hitting seems easier in 20 vs. 16 so I don’t have to juice the sliders to make some progress. It’s a pretty good looking game, and the idea of using a “loadout” like some first person shooter to play baseball isn’t appealing to me. I can just fire up this old game, play awhile, and then get on with my life.

Anyway, sorry for the long read. But I’m kinda excited to just play some virtual baseball.

I only play offline and I'm just glad I'm playing on a PS4 Pro. Runs great, no crashes, server errors, etc. All I'm missing is the stadium creator, which I don't care about. Plus I still get to use Sounds of the Show.

@d_money2309_psn said in Suggestions for next year:

@spin_doctor01_psn said in Suggestions for next year:

@d_money2309_psn said in Suggestions for next year:

Live Franchise, where you can jump into a new franchise and choose your starting point. Such as selecting today's date and jumping in with real life stats, records, rosters.

That sounds pretty cool actually. Speaking of real life, I've been wondering if I need to take Pedro Severino and JC Mejia out of my Brewers lineup...

I'm that guy that likes to play as close to "current" as I can in my Franchise with rosters/lineups etc. Would be cool if mid September you could start a new Franchise and hop in at that date with current rosters and current standings. Make that final push for a playoff spot!

This is really a much better idea than that March to October thing they have. Doesn't sound like it would be all that hard to do either. You just mark the date and then do a live roster update

Just my personal take on things, but I think SDS put in a bunch of mechanics to "simulate" the fact that in general, batting averages are way down in MLB. Lots of pop outs that people hadn't seen before, line outs straight at the fielder, superstar outfield plays by fairly low level players, etc.

What SDS hasn't figured out is that while people say they want "realism" in the game, they actually don't. They want their RttS guy to bat at least .400. They want their pitcher to throw no-hitters every other game. One guy here on the forum was complaining bitterly that the stat tracker for home runs stopped at 255. For the season. For one player. Realism... Yeah. Sure. That's what you want...

I was watching a Brewers game the other day, since I have a Brewers franchise going and I was shocked at how low their team batting average is and they are 1st in their division. But in my franchise, I like to see most players batting near .300. Not realistic, but it is fun... I did dial back the reaction and speed for outfielders, so that it looks more normal, but that's just me. It's a video game and in video games people like to win and they like to win big. They also want to do it in the most masochistic way possible so they can brag about it.

To be honest, I dunno why the game is the way it is, and SDS isn't gonna tell you.

@lioned-33_xbl said in directional hitters just mashing power swing:

@get_worked249_psn said in directional hitters just mashing power swing:

I get messages about being a directional hitter when I have been zone since 2016. You can not tell what type of hitting style someone uses so stop blaming your loss on something other than your own skill/luck.

I actually won. It was against someone who i know and directly asked. But hey thanks for the info!

So you won the game, asked ONE guy about what he was doing, and that makes it out of control? Yeah. Okay. People on this forum cry about everything and I mean literally everything for no reason at all. It's pathetic

If you're any good, it shouldn't matter how anybody else plays their game.

I only play RttS and franchise. I did enough DD to get gear for my RttS player and it was cool. But DD isn't something I'm going to spend a whole bunch of time grinding through because it's just the same stuff over and over, and I just can't bring myself to care about it.

Since I'm pretty confident that SDS isn't going to make any kind of improvements to franchise or RttS, there's no reason for me to ever buy this game again. The only reason I even bought it this year was because I heard that it was supposed to have improved trade logic in franchise, which I'm not really seeing at all.

All this angst over a $60 video game is pathetic. Some of you guys need to get out and see what the rest of the planet has to offer. Go see what you can do about getting a life.

All the constant whining around here is super annoying

All over a video game LOL

I agree with you. The whole God squad concept was a big turn off for me

@eatyum_PSN said in This game is the worse gaming experience that has ever been developed.:

@MrMcGibblets_MLBTS said in This game is the worse gaming experience that has ever been developed.:

@eatyum_PSN said in This game is the worse gaming experience that has ever been developed.:

I don't really like comparing it to other sports games, because just other sports games are worse doesn't mean this one is good..... but I gather you haven't seen what's been happening with Madden.

It's so bad that EA is actually hiding replies to their posts on Twitter. So no, this is not close to the worst gaming experience ever developed.

What's wrong with Madden? I haven't played that game in years and was tempted to buy it, since it's on sale for $30, as I'm probably pretty much done with The Show until 23 comes out. No because I don't like how it plays. Mainly because I have every card available and almost 20 stubs with what I have that's liquid and what's tied up in buy orders.

Plus, I'm about 200K away from the Touch Grass icon and 1,000,000,000 in stubs.

A tiny glitch happened, that permanently deleted 60% of players franchises, and some people haven't been able to access mut for over a week with no real communication from EA.

Sounds like a bit more than a tiny glitch

@d_money2309_psn said in Suggestions for next year:

Live Franchise, where you can jump into a new franchise and choose your starting point. Such as selecting today's date and jumping in with real life stats, records, rosters.

That sounds pretty cool actually. Speaking of real life, I've been wondering if I need to take Pedro Severino and JC Mejia out of my Brewers lineup...

My clutch has been maxed for I don't know how long, but I still get challenges to boost my clutch... I wish there was a way to skip that stuff.

@aam34_psn said in Update 7 Patch Notes:

No more slip n sliiiiiiide! Good bye forever.

We'll see. I just hope they didn't break the game again like they did last time when they updated it

Understanding the mechanics of the game is the key to being good at any sport. If you don't know much about baseball you pretty much answered your own question. If you weren't heavily into football do you think you would be any good at Madden? The Show online is pretty much shark infested waters.

Continue playing against the CPU for a while and be sure you understand why you're doing whatever you're doing. Check out some tutorials on YouTube. Watch a lot of baseball.

Those all sound good to me, especially those stupid dynamic challenges. I think I maxed out clutch on the first month and literally every challenge I get is to increase my clutch. Annoys the F out of me.

Of course because it makes sense to make that change, SDS will never do it. They'll give you a new song for the jukebox though