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Call it a rant but this mode needs an overhaul. What I think it needs is a way to help out hitters. Maybe guess pitch option should be a thing? It is just too easy to pitch good and too hard to hit. Every game is just a complete guessing game grind fest that ends in bitterness when one player gets lucky enough to eke out a couple of garbage slap-hit seeing-eye hits or somehow hits a towering home run off a pitch nowhere near the zone. It comes down to whoever is luckier. Competitiveness is fine but we aren't pro baseball players and it is just too much of a grind. It's just not fun by its very design. And therefore ends up being a huge waste of time.

Also, to make things worse, why do I lose 8 straight yet have the same rating and still get mismatched over and over? I mean, come on.

Am I alone here? Or missing something that can actually make this anything other than an infuriating experience?

@dunkypunch25_psn said in What a disappointment....:

Give it time. They will add more content. Hopefully they see our displeasure with how they compressed daily moments, team affinity, and the inning program into one program and make some changes.

I agree tho. Team Affinity last year was hundreds of free packs on top of the free packs from the inning and daily. Now the whole program gives you like 10 packs to earn.

Team Affinity was the biggest reason I enjoyed the game; if we don't get something equivalent I will be a sad panda. Made it so much fun to grind.

WHY DOES MAKE ME HAVE AT-BATS AS A PITCHER IN A PITCHING BASED MOMENT... IN AN AMERICAN LEAGUE MATCHUP????

MVP Baseball 2005, which is now a 17 year old game, is still vastly better than any Show game, from a technical and design standpoint. It's really a shame there isn't any competition but we live in a monopolistic world now.

Even on its own right, the game is riddled with bugs, inconsistencies, technical issues and sub par gameplay.

@rabid55wolverine said in So glad madden:

Good riddance to anyone that goes away but the sad part is they don't. They leave for a bit then get mad at the new game, whatever that may be at the time, whine and cry on those forums and then come back only to whine and cry again. Madden is an absolute dumpster fire and will be forever but it's the shiny new thing that sucks people back in every year.

Want to show companies that their game is trash, stop buying it.

Again, these comments are hilarious because they deflect the point.

Frankly, I personally don't care if Madden is broken or not but The Show is a clusterfuck.

Most all final Showdowns feel rigged anyway, lol.

@dap1234567890 said in How can this happen so late in the cycle?:

@saintleo14_psn said in How can this happen so late in the cycle?:

I just played a guy in RS, ended up winning 6-4. Massive game by Jimmie Foxx (shocker). Come back from behind and get the win.

Anyways, I get back to main screen and get the “game summary not found due to friendly quit.”

How is this still an issue?!? It’s like opening month all over again.

I want my [censored] win and stats. It sucks. I don’t need them, but I at least want my stats to count. I’m using Juan Pierre, Kevin Kiermaier, Jonathan Villar, and CJ Abrams in my lineup for crying out loud.

Something was fishy with the opponent throughout but [censored].

When will "you people" learn to go play a different game if you don't like the game and let us who like to play this game play the game we enjoy?!?

Why should "we the people" take a lesson in determining what makes an enjoyable from "you people"?!?

Because it is painfully obvious The Show is mediocre but played because there are few, if any, alternatives. Trying to deny the franchise is extremely lacking and holding water for it is just silly. The fact the game didn't even get a (long overdue) visual makeover for next gen is a joke.

I'll never understand people accepting things being sub-par. The old, stupid "If you don't like America then get out!" nonsense rationalle when anyone suggests things need to be improved, lol.

We're a week in and the Infinite tutorials glitch hasn't been fixed rofl

It does really bother me how when you complain about stuff people just tended to deflect. We all love baseball and want The Show to be good, but the simple fact is the series is a huge mess and has been for some time. There so many glaring issues with this franchise it's inexcusable. Well. There are baseball games from 15 plus years ago that still play better than this franchise.

@beardowngoblue said in Suggestions to cut down the frustration experienced in Moments:

Yeah so this all definitely applies to Showdown. Just tried Ryan and if that’s really Veteran as it exists in other vs. cpu modes I’ll eat my hat. I hope there’s not a must-have player hidden behind extreme showdown this year I have no interest in playing that mode ever again. Never not infuriating.

Yes. But when you do conquer it it feels amazing. It rarely happens for me but I managed to do it during Double XP week and therefore 4th inning was the first inning I fully completed.

@xelrojo44x_mlbts said in So glad madden:

@tekkendolphin_psn said in So glad madden:

It does really bother me how when you complain about stuff people just tended to deflect. We all love baseball and want The Show to be good, but the simple fact is the series is a huge mess and has been for some time. There so many glaring issues with this franchise it's inexcusable. Well. There are baseball games from 15 plus years ago that still play better than this franchise.

How is this series a "huge mess"?...What are the "glaring issues" are you referring to?

The fielding is still awful and looks unnatural. That's #1 with a bullet. Baserunning AI is absolutely abysmal. The PCI is an extremely flawed system by design.

Constant server issues. Lack of original animations for most characters. Inconsistent results on contact zones. Bizarre facets like pitchers batting in AL games. Etc.

A lot of these seem minor but many make the game CLEARLY inferior to baseball games that have been around for over a decade.

To try to pretend The Show isn't just a dial-in at this point is silly.

@go4stros25_psn said in Well guys I think that's it for me.:

I might turn it on every now and then, or maybe enjoy franchise mode, but I think I'm done with DD for awhile. I have all the top player except ohtani. The new posada is my only player that isn't 99. Except a few 97 in the bullpen.

Have Harper, have Jansen, have Walker, chipper, Soriano, Jackie, Ortiz, Morgan, Ryan, mookie, kiner.. and it still doesn't matter. I have around 600k stubs just sitting, still have investments. All that and I still can't bring myself to play anymore. Why, because the combination of these new pitchers and ppp have made hitting impossible, and this is baseball, people want to hit. No one wants to play pitching duels. Its a good game, but online play is unenjoyable, and with all the other stuff like fielding animations, bunting, hrs off poor pci while you are squaring up warning track shots, I'm just done.

This community has been awesome. I'll pop in every now and then and hopefully see that they have fixed hitting, or slowed pitching down. until then, it's been fun.

And you're only describing a sliver of the massive problems plaguing this series.

Who decides to have pitchers batting in AL games (and in Moments where batting has no bearing on the goal)?

There is certainly no shortage of questions on "why" where it pertains to this series.

@cbpm72_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:

I played 2 ABs in an events game today. The pitches went from the hand to the catcher's mitt with no graphic depiction in between. Essentially invisible pitches. I don't know if my opponent would have experienced the same because I decided to bail on the experience early, but honestly I've experienced far too much like this in online play. It's rubbish. I do enjoy playing the game, but the online experience is not always as much fun as it could be and I hope some attention is directed that way, eventually.

I think I forgot to add how much stress is added by lag issues.

@gradekthebard said in Gameplay is a disaster. The tournament highlighted the issues:

I watched a bunch of the tournament games on twitch this weekend (while watching football on the tv) for the drops and what I saw from the elites confirmed what I have been seeing myself, gameplay is an absolute disaster right now. More bloop hits than line drive hits, zero pci home runs (reb had a terrible one against Weens), terrible baserunning (runners diving back to the bag on 2 out liners, etc), and obscenely op pinpoint pitching (especially with everyone exploiting the pci limitations that Mcgunski showcased).

We are at a point (since this is 2 years in a row of bad gameplay) where it is clear the game has moved beyond the abilities of the current gameplay team to fix and new programmers are needed if we are ever going to get the quality of gameplay to match the (amazing) quality of content. I can only imagine the fallout if someone wins the tournament on a zero pci home run.

It's absolutely unbelievable how bad the AI, fielding and glitches still are in 2021.

@codywolfgang_xbl said in I haven’t gotten to watch a Yankees World Series in my life:

@kdclemson_psn said in I haven’t gotten to watch a Yankees World Series in my life:

2009 I was a 6 year old so I didn’t get to stay up and watch the full game. Ironically enough, 2010-2011 was around the years I started watching every Yankee game. I’m now 18 and haven’t gotten to watch my team win a World Series.

Every year it’s the same thing, the same pain and heartbreak. Y’all act like all Yankee fans are spoiled, and it’s just not true. I’m an adult now and haven’t seen my team do anything important in the playoffs live. It’s the same heartbreak every single year.

It’s funny that as a Yankee fan you think you are entitled to the World Series.

I remember Billy Crystal on the Late Show years ago harping on how world series titles belong strictly in New York and some other nonsense that really highlights how entitled Yankees fans are. I'm not saying every fan is and can understand the OP's frustration but he is super young and has plenty of time to see a team that makes the playoffs virtually every year win a title. But yes, Yankees fans are absolutely spoiled.

@schwizzle_nizzle said in I haven’t gotten to watch a Yankees World Series in my life:

I grew up a hardcore Astros fan and all they did was let me down year after year throughout the 90's. Then they won the WS after I moved on. What a bunch of jerks.

I really wanted Biggio and Bagwell to get a WS in 2004(?) but it just wasn't in the cards...

Yeah, but THAT team is the Houston Asterisks. And 2005 was the year you are thinking of; they lost to the White Sox and AS a Sox fan, while we are on the subject, that was pretty much the biggest highlight of the White Sox EVER, let alone in MY 35 years on earth; another team with a pathetic history.

Aside from the usual quirks, I notice the PBP guy just seems to get super excited over any hit, even on a bloop single with no men on and 2 outs. Kinda funny.

They still have AL pitchers bat in AL vs. AL games in DD. That never made sense.

Feel like there is a decent amount of content but the packs are coming so slowly, feel like for as much as I have played I should have earned significantly more. I dunno, maybe it's always that slow early on?