When there is so much negativity about a game for weeks, it’s suicide to start taking away beneficial things from the gamers that have stuck with it, even if it’s a glitch that only a few were using. I didn’t even know the MTO points exploit was a thing. I knew people were using HRD to get XP and points, but it was just too boring for me to do. Hasn’t it always awarded 25 xP per homer though? Bottomline is that until a game is running smoothly, you shouldn’t take away Goodwill. If anything, Goodwill should be added to reward the loyal consumers of a product. It’s a bad look when developers are quick to nerf things that help but slow to fix actual problems.

Thanks for the free card, but it makes no sense that SDS gives Future Stars higher power stats than Babe Ruth. Gotta be kidding right? If there’s one player in the game that should have 125 power, should easily be Ruth.

Defense needs to be toned down from the current superhero levels, especially with so many requirements for extra base hits.

The gameplay definitely hasn’t been great, but the most disappointing thing about the last couple months is just the general lack of communication from SDS about anything. It would honestly even be acceptable for them to just say, sorry but we can’t fix it until we get back to business as usual. Other studios are having to deal with the same issues, but are continuing to communicate with their player bases and releasing patches and content. None of the announced patches for the game seem to fix much, and often times things get worse. I own my own business and things have been very challenging during COVID. I’ve had a closed office for over 6 weeks, but I’ve communicated with my staff every day and we’ve been communicating with clients via phone and office visits when issues and emergencies arise. If they can’t fix it now, just publicly acknowledge it and say they’ll work on it when they have access to better resources and tech. Lack of communication just creates more toxicity. There would still be some toxicity without fixes but I think we sometimes underestimate how many people would just understand the challenges if there’s just some acknowledgement of the situations. There are obvious issues while just playing the game offline and online. If SDS employees are playing their own game, it’s impossible for me to think that they couldn’t be absolutely aware of each issue. The problems happen often. I’ve always liked the SDS guys, but the lack of communication has soured my respect for them. Disappointing but true. If there’s some communication from them that I’m unaware of, I would happily accept being wrong. I want to stay positive about SDS and I game I’ve loved for years.

If Jeter, the question is whether they will honestly grade out his fielding. He was overrated at SS his entire career. Great player, great clutch, great team captain, just meh defensively. Truth.

Just not a fan of them still giving us players like Kemp as an inning boss this late into the year. Sorry. I will always feel like the Inning Bosses need to be the legendary HOF players. There are plenty of opportunities through player programs, BR, Headliners, etc to give players that had a few good years. Maybe I’m a little biased. I’m a Braves fan and had to endure butthead Kemp for too long. He had one good run with us but he was terrible to have in the clubhouse. He was a prima Donna that couldn’t live up to his attitude very long. He was more interested in how he looked in a photo. It was a happy day when he was gone. Aside from that, though, give us the Mantles, Aarons, Ruths, Mays, (insert better players) and not flash-in-the-pan guys this late in the cycle. Frankly, I also feel like the overall collection rewards don’t need to be current players. As good as Trout and Betts are, it was still more exciting to get a historical player like Honus Wagner. I was excited going into the year for Aaron and Clemente as overall rewards, less so for Betts and current players. Kemp will never be on my team, but sadly I have to buy him to get the next inning XP collection boost. I know, I’ll mock myself by saying Boohoo.

Fielding is still pretty bad guys. 2-3+ times per offline game the fielders are not locking onto balls. If anything the infield defenders have gotten worse since the patch. I’m seeing many times where diamonds fielders aren’t picking the ball up and throwing it. Something is just not right about the game code this year. The baserunning has honestly never been great, but the baserunning IQ this year is way worse. Last night I had runners at 1st and 2nd with no outs. I hit a gapper that was easily gonna be a double scoring 2 runs, but the runner at 2nd refused to start running even though I was pressing to advance all from the beginning. Actually ended up being a ridiculous triple play by CPU defenders on Rookie. I want so much to love the game, but it’s getting harder and harder. I’ve watched a lot of the Players League from the beginning and it’s gotten so I even feel embarrassed for SDS during the games. The game code errors are evident in many of the games, and those games are only 3 innings.

I’m hoping for Hank Aaron or Clemente. With all the other new Braves added this season, I keep thinking Hank.

Regardless of how good or bad the news is, SDS remaining silent just makes it worse. I love those guys but this is their company policy every year at release when things are going bad. They don’t talk until it’s fixed. It’s a bad philosophy. The 2 games I looked forward to the most this year, MLB and Outriders, have both had terrible server situations on release. The difference has been that the Outriders people have discussed the problems with the community from the beginning and have promised fixes and makerights for the player base. SDS just needs to acknowledge the server problems and now they don’t even acknowledge that the Double XP doesn’t even work. Love the game every year, but I despise the silence on top of the problems. If I ran my business like that, I wouldn’t still have my business. SDS should do better than 2K with PR but they kinda just both aren’t good at it.

RIP to prestige requirement if that’s the case. I don’t play online but have collected a large majority of every type of card.

Ebbets Field has always been the stadium I’d like added.

I’ve done it quite a few times, but I play a lot of CPU games. I think I did it at least once this week; perhaps with Nolan Ryan. The “arcade” feel of the games on Rookie is relaxing to me after hard work days. The 27 K games are much easier this year than in previous years. I’d say the majority of my games this year have been either perfect games or 1-hitters when I’m playing Rookie CPU. The only games I give up hits are games that I’m pitching to content to get fielding stats.

Much rather have Bench than Posey.

Really surprised no Fried. No Freddie means that he’s getting an MVP card in the next program I’m assuming.

All HR replays need to be from behind home plate perspective with the green trail showing how far the ball went. Whoever decided to throw in the other perspectives just must not play the game themselves. It’s annoying how often the bad visuals come up in the rotation.

If people would stop putting in orders for a million stubs, the price would come down. This happens every year late in the cycle and it freezes cards from people that aren’t stub-rich or buying stubs. I understand supply and demand, but I’ve never understood piling on million stub orders in the 100’s.

I feel like the last 10 days of program will be double XP to compensate for the shortness.

I felt like the wind had more of an effect in CPU games today. Hit windows seemed smaller even on Rookie.

Aaron, Mays, and Griffey should’ve all been released by 5th or 6th inning.

Sheffield is a shell of what the card was last year. The TA4 version is mediocre relatively.