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I want them to actually put work into RTTS. Gives us a true experience that makes it feel like we are controlling a major league player. Give our player a personality trait that can change depending on our actions. Then interviews can matter. Give us an agent who actually does something useful. Like get us endorsement deals. You could have some diamond gear that can only be unlocked by signing with X company and doing challenges. Get rid of this dumb podcast thing. It's so uninteresting and pointless. Instead how about an actually story mode that can play out during our time in the minors. They are such a dull and boring grind. Nobody likes to play those games. This would at least add something to it. And also I'd love to see a Co Op mode for RTTS. For example my buddy and I go through pre draft work outs together, get drafted, he plays on his team and I play on mine. It would be fun to face each other when our teams play. Or compete for season awards against each other.

I'd also like to see them update franchise and make it worth playing again.

I keep getting a message saying card is in use and I must unequip or unsquad it. And it does not say no sell. The card is no in my lineup. I even deleted all my lineups to be double sure. Why the hell do I keep getting this message

I'd say this list is now geared towards 2021 and next gen. But who knows. Maybe we'll be surprised.

1. Online RTTS - I want to play a career with a friend. We work out together, compete against each other if we share the same position. Watch each others draft stock raise and fall. Then we can either be drafted to the same team or different teams. From there we just play our careers as your normally would.

2. I want to see news updates. It can be a MLB website, newspaper or whatever else. I want to see/read about big game moments, trades and trade rumors, maybe some player made a comment and it's "headline news" really anything. Injiries etc etc

3. I want to see a personality meter. Interviews, social media interactions, fan interactions etc all effect how our player is viewed. This in turn effects our market value. How teammates view us and how fans view us. Maybe have a cut scene were our character is out to lunch. A fan wants a selfie. Give us options. And there would be pros and cons for all the different personality types.

4. I get baseball is a long season. Asking for a story mode is pretty much impossible. But how about a mini story that follows your career through the minors? Or at the very least do something with the farm system. It's so boring. It almost ruins the mode. At least for me. Real stadiums for starters (or this is were create a stadium would be handy) Make the minors feel like the minors. Why not give us a different broadcast team? NBA not only give you different teams for different NBA games. But their smaller leagues even have broadcast teams just for those leagues.

5. Signing an agent, have off the field actions, signing with real life companies. I love the fact we can buy gloves, cleats etc for our players. Go a step better. How about certain items can only be unlocked by reaching different tiers with different companies. And again this is something your personality meter effects. Or something our agent effects.

6. I agree with the comment above. Our play should effect our where we end up on the roster. I also want to see more work put into spring training. I skip right through it. It just doesn't really seem to effect anything really. Also... what about adding the Arizona fall league? Why is this not already in the game?

7. A sandlot mode would be fun. Maybe not a big city to run around in like NBA. Not sure how that would work. But taking our players into a sandlot game would be fun. Even if it's only 3vs3 or 4v4 or 5v5. The rest of the team would be AI controlled.

8. I also like the idea of having our RTTS guy being portable into DD. Even though I'm not a DD player much myself. It would be fun watching our overall ratings and our DD card grow as we progress in RTTS.

I hate how NBA2k almost forces you to buy VC to upgrade. But at least that mode offers a lot of great things with it. I want to see The Show go in that direction. But frankly... I feel like it's going more of the way EA is with it's Madden series. RTTS and Franchise are after thoughts. DD gets all the hype, the updates etc. Hopefully that changes this year.

Does anything else think this mode is a giant flop?

Why can't we search for stadiums by name, best rated, theme etc. It's just a bunch of crappy stadiums lumped into one thing. Scrolling through I see the same stadium a couples times in the first few pages. Someone really dropped the ball here.

Maybe I'm missing it. But why can't we put signs on the walls? The walls look plain and boring. Can't even put the homerun line along the top. And speaking of walls. No tarps or anything to add detail.. Why can't we adjust anything outside the foul poles? The rounded corners make putting seating in extremely annoying. But that's a whole different topic, The seating placement is horrid. The walls and seating should snap together. Get these stupid gaps everywhere. I want to create unique corners and seating areas.

And why are all the bullpens along the field. What maybe 2 teams still do this is real life? Maybe I'm missing it again, is there an option to change this? I hate the super wide foul ball areas.

Though there are some really cool aspects of this mode. There are a ton of things that thing to be fixed. Those upset you can't get it if your not on next gen. Don't be. Its something to mess around in. But it's nothing special imo

@thefalconknee_psn said in Well you guys ruined the mode that I started playing MLB The Show for.:

To me, RTTS has been completely neutered. I'm extremely disappointed in how it plays now (50 overall caps on every attribute? really SDS?).

I never used CAPs previously in DD, but now I can't make a RTTS character be as good as I want in this system. I also can't create more than one character and have to use my one created player for everything, which is a huge disappointment. Lastly, removing sounds of the show on PS5 and not being able to upload custom walk up music/HR music is just bad and I feel like SDS really is just killing single player offline modes in favor of DD.

Now, I also play DD too, but killing off RTTS like this feels like they're taking it behind the shed with a shotgun. If I was offline only, I'd just stick to MLB 20.

Waited.. seriously? I haven't even noticed. If this is true, I'm going to be pissed. I always create one position player and one pitcher. When I want to pitch, I load that one. And vic versa.

I'm sure there is a way to raise the cap. I honestly am so disguised with the mode, I barely played it. But I'm sick of the caps. I'm sick of being restricted. They claim they want realism in their game. Yet give us no real world options that ball players have to deal with. And last I checked, players can't be a power hitter one game then a speed burner the next. Seriously SDS what the hell are you guys doing? There needs to be some people losing their job,

And this is why you don't combined single player modes into online modes. The servers issues wouldn't be a big deal, If I could still grind RTTS. But the only real way to leave your character up is by earning dumb perks. Which you need to be connected to servers for. So yeah. 3 gamemodes are unplayable and the other hasn't changed since MLB the Show 17. Nice job SDS

In theory I think it's a cool idea to use your RTTS in DD. But they way they did it was extremely dumb. This stupid perk [censored] is dumb. I want the old system. You earn points, you spend points on the upgrades you want. Now what, you train once and week to try to earn "perk packs" smh. SDS is clueless.

I want a legit career mode. Meaning picking my agent, making contacts and money have meaning. Signing endorsement deals, having a social feed that is worth putting in the game. Nobody asked for some [censored] podcast that most people will just skip anyways. This is by far the worse game is in the series that I've played in 10 years.

@ComebackLogic said in It blows my mind SDS cant fix these bugs. Loosing ALOT of players.:

Exact same thing happened to me earlier, suffered through a game where I was winning 1-0 and taking a no hitter into the 8th, he ties it of course and we carry on flailing about into extras, because nobody can hit the ball with these stupid settings anyway, then he gets handed the win by hitting a line drive off the wall that was called a walk off home run. What’s the point even playing this stupid broken piece of [censored] game? Collecting cards? You could give me a free Trout or 99 Mantle right now and I wouldn’t even care, they’d just drop the ball near the outfield wall like a dummy and be hitting .190 because the game is set up terribly. That totally ruins the whole game, because there’s zero incentive to build a team or try to compete at all.

https://m.twitch.tv/clip/HonestColorfulCobblerAMPEnergy

That pretty much sums this game up in 2 words. Collecting cards. Everything is geared towards that. It's laughable

They took a class at EA's business 101.

Franchise has been untouched in 3 years. When they finally do give us something, it's this copy and paste feature from DD. They didn't expand on it or make it fit the mode.

And now RTTS gets a bunch of lipstick. The [censored] with bring "instant gains" to the forefront is them saying, hey we did nothing new. But we want to make it look like we did. It takes what, 5-10 mins to finish one game in RTTS. You seriously telling me players can't wait to see their gains? Nobody asked for this and it just makes the mode more arcade like.

And the personality thing is dumb. A person should have ONE personality, not 4. And while the on field relationships are a nice touch.. this is not or should not be a featured feature. It's glorified team chemistry.

They could have changed the Bowman scout day. This is something we've been doing in RTTS since I can remember. It's old, boring and outdated. It's not even a real event. The draft needs serious work. Our "agent" is pointless. Social media is pointless, the who style of RTTS is extremely dumb. If they went full blown with it, and this was a thing looking back on your career or something. Sure it could be fun. But it's completely random and its been the same thing for 3 years. Instead of possible winning gear pack with boss battles... why not allow our agent to find us a deal with a certain brands. And as we promote those brands on and off the field, they reward us with new and better gear? That is so much more realistic. Interviews and social media interaction could factor into our personality. Are we loved by fans? Hated? These things could factor into our trade value, how well our jersey's sale. Which effects contracts. Speaking of contracts. Why not reward us with stubbs based on how much we make? Look at 2k as a perfect example of this. Yes their VC can be thrown in your fact and almost feel forced. But at least they try to add new things and mix it up every year.

But hey!! We get 30 new legends and even a new mode with DD. Hell, get weekly and monthly updates also!! I love grinding on challenges to earn cards, then play people who spend really money to get cards that are just as good if not better. What makes it even more fun is these people sometimes have way more time to invest in the game and destroy me. Yeah it's a blast!!

@underated__beast said in MLB The Show 22 Ideas:

@spitfirex007_psn said in MLB The Show 22 Ideas:

I want them to actually put work into RTTS. Gives us a true experience that makes it feel like we are controlling a major league player. Give our player a personality trait that can change depending on our actions. Then interviews can matter. Give us an agent who actually does something useful. Like get us endorsement deals. You could have some diamond gear that can only be unlocked by signing with X company and doing challenges. Get rid of this dumb podcast thing. It's so uninteresting and pointless. Instead how about an actually story mode that can play out during our time in the minors. They are such a dull and boring grind. Nobody likes to play those games. This would at least add something to it. And also I'd love to see a Co Op mode for RTTS. For example my buddy and I go through pre draft work outs together, get drafted, he plays on his team and I play on mine. It would be fun to face each other when our teams play. Or compete for season awards against each other.

I'd also like to see them update franchise and make it worth playing again.

They should also add some Online RTTS thing like where u match up with other people and play a 9v9 or a sandlot type mode

I keep seeing people suggest this. Personally I think it's a bad idea. In theory it sounds fun. But think about it. You're playing say RF. You get a ball hit to you what, a few times a game? Get a few bats in. Most of the time you're going to be sitting there watching.

I wasn't going to even waste a dime on this game. But because we are locked at home with no baseball. I caved. Glad to see they did absolutely nothing to fix RTTS. In last years game I got drafted by Baltimore 5 straight times. This year, I was drafted by them the first go. Went back to college and then drafted by the Tigers the next 4 times. Doing the same boring "topps showcase" time and time again to get the exact same result. Does this thing even truly impact draft stock? Doesn't seem like it.

Fix your game SDS! seriously.

Every choice they make for this mode, is the wrong one. Not to be rude.. but the dude in charge of this mode needs canned. It's gotten worse every single year. It's normally the first thing I do when I install this game. I threw it on, got draft by the Tigers 4 out of the 5 times I played through it. Gave up and went back to March to Oct. Which is already getting boring and I bought the game yesterday. Waste of money.

@tkma721 said in Drafting in RTTS:

agree with you all. RTTS needs to be updated. some of us enjoy the showcase to see where we can be drafted and playing RTTS. hope they really look into this soon. been a fan from day one and own every copy. this game can be the best ever if they tweak things that players are interested in and listen. when we did beta this year they should of had RTTS in there so we could see it before release.

Next year is it for me. DD is ok to [censored] around with. I never play online. I'm 100% solo player. There is so much they could do with that mode. But EA, sorry SDS doesn't. They focus on their cash cow.

I'd love to see a co op type thing. My buddy gets drafted by X team. I get drafted by a different team. When our teams play each other, we face off. How about adding a real story mode, let us hire an agent, sign deals, make social media actually have some value. Look at 2k NBA then look at this. Its laughable. Even QB1 on Madden has more features I think.

@dolenz_psn said in Thanks for the gift of none working diamond gear sds:

@aa-uh-how-ar-ya_xbl said in Thanks for the gift of none working diamond gear sds:

like alot of the player base I only play rtts, kinda a slap in face for sds to give us broken items to make up for a broken game don't you agree

Why must everything be a slap in the face? The equipment should work eventually and you need to realize that they were not actually obligated to give you anything.

Maybe you don't understand how business works so I'll explain it.

SDS is the supplier. We are the consumers. We are what pay their bills and fed their family. "The equipment should work eventually" is not acceptable. It should work from the start. We paid for a product, in return we want a working product. They are 100% obligated to provide that or offer a full refund. Which of course we all know isn't going to happen.

What exactly changed this year from last year? You added some new podcast? Who cares. I'm sure most of us skip them anyways. I'm glad to see you finally got rid of the DD [censored] in my ball player. But what exactly did they add? This live stream is literally them showing stuff that's been in the game for years. Pulling a EA and trying to sell old features as new? Still no real kind of story mode or decision system. No interviews, no personality types, no agent selection, no endorsement deals, no off field choices... nothing. Get rid of this dumb archetype/rewards [censored]. Its corny and arcade like. No Russell Ramone or whatever the hell your name is, Nobody like perks. lol. This series has gone downhill so bad,

Game is utter trash. Franchise hasn't been touched. RTTS hasn't been touched. MTO is designed all around DD. It's a cheap and corny system. Can't call up players, can't make roster moves other than what the cpu offers. Gotta keep it basic so they can make you grind for points. Screw fun right? And DD is well nothing but gambling and designed to milk you for money. The cost of their stubs is absolutely insane. To get a 85 overall player, you need to spend between $15-$30 real US dollars. Sadly idiots buy these cards packs. If people weren't so stupid and stopped spending real money, these companies would stop charging for them. Or focus on other modes.

Fielding is broken. Hitting is slightly better. But still broken. I've never seen so many errors in a baseball game. Bugs everywhere. Game seems to have an added rubber band effect this year. Anytime you get a lead, all of sudden the CPU tattoos everything. The broadcastt team is horrible.

opps. Sorry forgot to mention showdown. You know.. the mode you have to spend stubbs just to play it. So those of us who don't play videogames 24/7 and aren't gods. Can't really play it or have fun with it. Nice shady move there by SDS. Make it cost money and make it hard to people blow real money to buy stubbs, just to enter. Classic EA move there.

Why would you want to spend extra time in the minor leagues? It's [censored] boring as hell

I had to do this with another game once. It was completely buggy and unplayable.

Went to Target. Bought a new copy of the game. Waited a few hours, went back into Target with the open copy I already owned. Handled them my receipt. Said it doesn't work. "Gives me an error when my system tries to read disk". Asked to replace it. Took that sealed copy back to Gamestop with my receipt for the first copy I bought. Not saying that is what you should do. But just sharing a story.

@critically03_psn said in The worst RTTS to date.:

This game is awful and I don't know if it's just me but can you not train anymore. This isn't even their mycareer game mode anymore this is just a way to get people to play DD I sewar people don't even use created players in DD that often. This game is absolutely terrible.

You train once a week. You start with everything at 30 I believe. And once a week you are given the option to add one skill point to any skill. I think it's capped at 50 though. So once you reach 50. Unless you find "perks" on the marketplace. You can't get that skill any higher. Unless I'm wrong. But this appears to be the way its designed. They literally turned this [censored] mode in a pay to win.

Such a trashy move by SDS.

@nflman2033 said in Horrible presentation of franchise:

@Spitfirex007 said in Horrible presentation of franchise:

@nflman2033 said in Horrible presentation of franchise:

@Nails20 said in Horrible presentation of franchise:

Developers preview of franchise sucked. Having real minor league rosters is awesome!!! I love that. It’s makes it a win. The rest was boring with zero effort or depth. I’d rather have 10 uniform options with mix and matching like we can already do with the MLB teams, then just ONE home and away option. Oh and my stadium is a minor league stadium? Uh no thanks. Classic? No I hate those too. I want to replicate modern times. Is the Twins logos still going to be in their classic dome? If I play in Phillies stadium is their [censored] everywhere? Deal breaker. Like I said having minor league rosters makes this year a win. Don’t half [censored] relocation and rebranding and act like it’s now in the game. Just say we put in 30% of rebranding and will get to the rest with the next generation console. I don’t expect stadium creator. How about 3 new modern options to choose and have logos displayed in predetermined spots. This feels like I mowed my lawn but just did half of it. Love this game but today frustrated me just because they teased me. What about all the bugs in the mode. Those fixed? Then it’s and bolts of franchise seem to be not touched. We wouldn’t know because the dude spent 5 minutes on pasting logos from the vault to your team. Fix the bugs 1st. Make franchise more immersive. Creat a manager mode!! Hmm weird. Done!

Yep, I knew create a stadium was not going to be in, it would have been advertised, but I had hoped they would put in a couple MLB like stadiums to switch to when relocating. This makes relocating a team totally pointless. Even rebranding is stupid if your stadium has logos or team name on it. The only hope is this is laying the ground work for future improvements to this feature. Then again no mention of that in the stream, like sorry no create a stadium just yet, or hopefully next year we will get some more stadiums. This is basically taking the DD team creator and putting it on front end and in Franchise, something that should have been done years ago.

I was buying 20 no matter what, but it appears that DD will be my focus again, because that is obviously the only mode that they care about.

This is the problem. This is what makes me so annoyed. This is exactly what these companies want. Give us bare bones on the other modes, which pretty much forces us into playing a mode that is basically gambling. Sure they aren't as bad as EA. But MUT has been around a lot longer. SDS will get there.

I agree, I didnt buy 19 for this reason. Until I see drastic improvements. I am on the every other year purchase. Once I get to the end of the year and DD is dying out and SDS starts work on 21, I'll then play franchise mode on 20 through next year and buy 22.

I'm really close to doing the same. I've bought every MLB The Show for at least the last 6-7 years. But this year, I might just skip it. I'm waiting to see what was done to March to October. That mode showed promised last year. But it needs to blow me away before I even consider buying the new one. This mean's full roster control, being able to start with any roster I want. (updated) being able to do multiple seasons, better presentation etc.

I personally hate DD. I'll play some of the single player challenges and whatnot. But I have zero desire to play online against people. Especially in sports game. And when you consider the fact that a lot of people spend real money to upgrade their team.