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@platewelder_363_MLBTS said:

@capardo_XBL you’re not wrong but neither am I. I’d be willing to bet that the majority of the glitch users are loyal members of The Show community who have been begging for feedback from SDS all year and perhaps longer. Begging them to fix their game. Begging them for some sort of communication especially after the cheaters were exposed……...and have received nothing. So they had enough. Someone found a glitch and they exploited it. If they ban the “glitchers” without banning the exposed cheaters…….they will NEVER recover from that and they know it! SDS put themselves in this spot. Just my opinion.

Do you know of any exposed cheaters that weren't banned? The one Kyle played was.

@platewelder_363_MLBTS said:

There’s no correct answer. If they ban him and all the others they alienate half the community.

There is very clearly a correct choice.

But SDS is likely more interested in what is best for their bottom line vs what is correct

@platewelder_363_MLBTS said:

@abulargent_MLBTS I think they’re screwed no matter which way they go. I have opposite opinion of you. The glitch is their own fault. If they ban the glitchers and not the outright cheaters, I’m done with this game for good. I’ve been playing since 2015. No matter which way they go, they’re gonna take a loss.

They have banned cheaters though. The ones they have proof of are given the boot.

I can't believe how people struggle with this so much:
There isnt a foolproof method to catch all cheaters. There is a risk of false ban that they want to avoid.

There is zero risk of false bans with this exploit. You had to do something very specific to trigger it that wouldn't naturally be done. There isnt a single valid excuse to not ban everyone who did this. Obviously the people that did it a couple of times can get a pass or a 1 day ban, but people that did 100s or spread this? full year ban.

@sizzlntruth_MLBTS said:

@SpawnOfDitka_XBL absolutely. You can be mad all you want, but this was bug in SDS's game. Just like King and Hader are as well.

Calling out the elephant in the room:

1. It took ~12 hrs from when this bug became more widespread for them to patch it.

2. King and Hader have been glitched for ~2months and still no acknowledgment or fix.

Im all for fair play but if youre going to fix your bottom line so quickly, you should also fix your game for your customers.

They applied a bandaid that probably took them 5 minutes once someone had their coffee Sunday morning, its not like they actually fixed the issue

I spent a lot of time on 23 last year. It would be a shame if they took those offline, it has the best gameplay and card variety in the XBOX era of the series.

@Sarge1387_PSN said:

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

If they were working through the night on it they would have likely taken the game offline.

You're absolutely right, it was more a bit of hyperbole on my part as to how SDS appears to operate

And Im also not trying to make excuses for SDS. The 'fix' to this exploit hurts all players because now WBC is not worth playing.

Be interesting to see though if they do patch the exploit, and if they are dumb enough to not to fix Hader/King or some other bugs with it

I highly doubt MLB cares about DD. Come on now.
The rest of the game needs some love but it is far from the dumpster fire DD is.

@DemIsE4_XBL said:

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

@DemIsE4_XBL said:

It is why we had double XP this weekend.

Hasnt double xp weekend at the end of an inning/season always been a thing? Theyve done a full week in the past as well for the last week.

I don't think they would do it if their data showed a ton of people getting to it.

This is historically false. Until this year xp path has been quite easy to complete (with one outlier last year) and they have always done double xp

@DemIsE4_XBL said:

It is why we had double XP this weekend.

Hasnt double xp weekend at the end of an inning/season always been a thing? Theyve done a full week in the past as well for the last week.

@Sarge1387_PSN said:

@TheJeweledLotus_PSN

That being said, it really really bothers me that SDS turns a blind eye to many of the glaring issues the game has that consumers bring up...yet the very second there's a bug that benefits the consumer, they work through the night to patch it.

The game has a lot of inexcusable bugs for sure, but I imagine changing the rewards to 1 stub wasnt remotely working through the night. They didnt fix the exploit, they just changed the reward.

If they were working through the night on it they would have likely taken the game offline.

I wont be playing this week either way but I support this all the same

Your argument has a few flaws.

For one, not everyone could have done it. People who don't follow the game's content creators or reddit may not have known about it. People may have been on vacation.

And you are wrong about it not hurting other players. Market inflation affects all of us.

And yes, someone who used the glitch in general has an advantage over someone who did not. Not only do they have Tulo, they also have JRam and Marte while making it more expensive for someone without Marte to get him. They have an advantage with the next legends collection as well.

And in general exploits tend to lead towards the game becoming less player friendly. A good example of this is the bunting bots in 2024 multiplayer that led SDS to change the ranked path to being almost purely offense (and Ks) based instead of innings as a baseline with offense to speed it up. People exploiting RTTS players, created stadiums, etc. Plenty of examples.

Online people don't want to play offline.
Offline people don't want to play online.

There is a very easy solution to this. Put the cards in the programs. Put packs in events/mini seasons/conquest. Make the packs better for the online modes. Problem solved.

Oh its a mistake so its ok!

If I see someone leave their wallet somewhere I don't steal it just because they screwed up.

@globetrotter360_PSN said:

I wouldn’t blame any player for exploiting the glitch.

I would. It impacts all of us (unless its an offline player who never uses the marketboard and just quicksold [censored] to buy more packs)

The most public person in the investing community was actively spreading this as well

Yeah, I had barely played this inning and this may be my final straw. They need to undo this somehow.

But they cant even keep a forum up

NBA 2K puts out cards regularly in their events that are realistically only obtainable by spending thousands on packs. The two games are light years apart. SDS is creeping towards what 2K was 5 years ago, but in that 5 years 2K has gotten exponentially more greedy while SDS is closer to linear.

These collections are every other week and feasibly obtainable as NMS (although grinding DQ isnt for everyone and pack RNG from miniseasons sucks). On a scummy scale of 1 to 10 its like a 2. They arent time limited, repeatable packs are earnable in game. They dont require a microtransaction only currency. Some people will be impatient and buy stubs but its not remotely necessary

That said, the potential collection fatigue is bad for the game. I greatly preferred the 2023/2024 collection model of much bigger collections and strongly feel that these last 3 drops should have all been part of a 100 card set instead of 3 smaller ones.

@ThaGhettoBlasta_PSN said:

I still can't quite claim it's straight up cheating behind it but I'm not going to wait for that 5th 500ft homer in the inning to land because it came off of batter with 20 power.

Dashboarding is no better than cheating.

2023's implementation of TA was great, other than the bosses not being 99s.

While not best ever content, the Sosa and Halloween programs were great last year with small daily content and great rewards along the way and the best content we have had in the last two years. Especially the Halloween one which had several cards along the way.