Like everyone else, I've been extremely frustrated with the server issues since the launch of 21.

IMO, today SDS delivered a huge WIN for our community. They explain the issues and gave us a sincere apology. The Creative Director looked exhausted in the stream as he thanked us for our support and candor. They're owning it, and working hard to fix it. Unanticipated problems with a huge expansion like this year is understandable, albeit, frustrating.

Thank you SDS for your honesty, sincerity, and hard work in getting your game where you want it to be. I'm looking forward to the rest of the 21 season!!

Just tried logging in for some morning play only to discover the servers are down...again.

I get it. A new platform with Xbox, thousands of new players, cross-play and cross-progression, and I'm sure a ton of other new, different, and unforeseen challenges have popped up.

I think the community would be a lot more forgiving, (most of us anyway,) if there were transparent communication detailing the problems, and the solutions you're working on. Instead, we get silence, or worse, you post a tweet promoting the new BR rewards?!?

This makes you look either ignorant or unsympathetic to whatever issues the players of your community are dealing with. It's been said a million times on this forum, but I'll say it again...People spend a lot of their money and time playing this game. That kind of investment creates a degree of "ownership" to the game. People aren't simply grinding for cards, we're investing our free time and disposable income. We feel an attachment to our teams, inventory, accomplishments, and growth as players.

SIMPLY communicate to us. Tell us you're aware of the issue, that you're working on it. Tell us why something happens and what you're doing to prevent it in the future. Anything is better than sticking your head in the sand and waiting for storm to pass.

In an event game playing an Xbox player. His record is 14-50. His team logo is male genitalia, that appears to be squirting. Really???? How does this get past the censors??? I’m far from a prude, but I do have you g kids that love playing this game.

Anyway, I hit a double. He steps off the Mound twice, then throws a pick-off to 2B. Game freezes.

Awesome game!!!! I am no longer putting ANY money into this sh!t show. In fact, that’s the new name for this game. MLB the Sh!t Show!!

Fix your game.

For the past week or so logging into my Dashboard on The Show Nation website has been very frustrating. Getting into the Dashboard is a 50/50 chance, and most times when I click on the "Squads" tab I get knocked off again.

Gettting to the market, the shop, and other sections of the site seem to work fine, but when I try to get to my team things go south.

Is anyone else having these issues?

I'm a father of two great boys who LOVE everything baseball. We all play the show together, (on our own accounts.). It's a great game with a great community of players! I also remember the old school baseball games. I remember being blown away hearing the umpire call balls and strikes on Intellivision, which was between Nintendo and Atari. Gen-X gamers are OGs of the gaming world, LOL.

First of all, LOVE this game!! 20 was my 1st year and so far 21 does not disappoint, (for the most part.)

Conquests aren't my favorite, but I get why it's there and I enjoy all the hidden goodies like everyone else. IMO, the biggest change that would make grinding Conquest maps WAY more fun and efficient, would be to speed-up the simulations. I feel like I'm spending most of my time watching numbers shrinking on the screen and banging the square button to get past the AI moves than I am playing baseball.

Hi Everyone!

I'm new to TheShow20, this is my first year playing and I've drank gallons of the kool-aid!

I don't have time to play as much online as I'd like because I spend most of my time in the game grinding for cards.

Once I reached 300 stars in the 8th inning program I quickly chose Kershaw and he's great. Then I did the Conquest Extreme map and hit the pack-luck lottery! I scored tons of diamonds that I already had and found myself with around half a million stubs.

Really wanting a solid catcher I bought Pudge, and he absolutely rakes! Then because I had two of the inning bosses I went ahead and bought Cobb to get the voucher for the 9th inning. (I was able to buy both cards for WELL under the current market value too, so I feel like it was a win-win.)

I put Cobb in for Larry Walker, a REALLY tough choice, but I figured it would just be temporary. My outfield before Cobb was/is 99 Trout, 99 Mantle, and 99 Walker, (as I mentioned earlier, I love to grind!) IMO, Ty Cobb is THE best card in the pack and THE best lead-off hitter in the game. 125 contact on both sides and 99 speed makes him a singles-base stealing maniac! his 90 power on both sides with the Bomber quirk gives him enough pop too.

The 8th inning has the best bosses so far, IMO. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts??

I'm still on the fence about putting Walker back because he's amazing too. It's a fun dilema to have!

I think Wagner is great! He's an infield version of Ty Cobb. Unfortunately, I agree with the other posts, there's a lot of great options for his eligible positions. For me, he's primarily a bench bat that I'll rotate in for fun. But when I need a fast base runner or a clutch hit, Wagner or Cobb are my guys.

IMO, the real purpose of these cards and the "Run It Back" program, is to help people complete the collections for Mantle and Trout. It also helps players that are joining the game late in the cycle build a competitive team fairly quickly. Personally I think it's a great idea to help players that might otherwise put the game down until next spring stay engaged, which keeps the player pool healthy for us addicts that'll play right up until we install TheShow21.

REALLY hoping we get a Joe Mauer!!!

@lazy_toast said in Kirby Yates:

@samguenther1987 said in Kirby Yates:

@TheTyGuy05 said in Kirby Yates:

He was a reward in the little general event I believe.

That is correct, i spent 75k in stubs on him and he has not disappointed. Another excellent bullpen arm.

Nice. I spent alil more but I love the card are so he was a must. His splitter is filthy but if they don’t bite on it your in for a rough ride

@lazy_toast, truer words have never been spoken. His splitter mixed with his fastball is brutal. But if you're opponent gets a read on the splitter, you'd better get another arm going in your pen. Overall, he's been lights out for me.

You’re not limited to those two teams. You can also use Legend cards, and (I think) one other “type” of card. When you’re building your team, any players that are qualified, will be in the inventory for you to select by position.

@joeythebigboss said in Ohtani Collection Reward:

@mickdrenalen_psn said in Ohtani Collection Reward:
There’s like a 0% chance we see another Ohtani card after this one + they also released another HRD version of him .

I agree, if he’s a collection reward, this is probably the best version we’ll see this year. But it’s a really, really, good card, IMO.

Agree with the filter idea, makes it a lot easier to build a mission team. Try the showdown too. It almost too easy this time around and you’ll get 20 points! If you can do the exchanges and the collections for each division, you’ll be able to get them done pretty easily.

@killerpresence4 said in C’mon SDS!!! Enough already!:

@thebeev718_psn said in C’mon SDS!!! Enough already!:
This coming from a guy who’s tag in these forums is thebeev. There’s no way that name can’t be taken out of context

Sorry? It's a shortened version of my last name, lol. Is my gamer tag suggestive in any way? Not mad or anything, genuinely asking, I can't think of anything.

@theblindrhino said in C’mon SDS!!! Enough already!:

How do we know that your opponent wasn't trying to design a rocket lifting off? Don't be so quick to jump to conclusions.

Here's a pic of the field with his logo on it. You be the judge...does this look like a rocket ship??? LMAO!

https://imgur.com/GugBxUG

In an event game playing an Xbox player. His record is 14-50. His team logo is male genitalia, that appears to be squirting. Really???? How does this get past the censors??? I’m far from a prude, but I do have you g kids that love playing this game.

Anyway, I hit a double. He steps off the Mound twice, then throws a pick-off to 2B. Game freezes.

Awesome game!!!! I am no longer putting ANY money into this sh!t show. In fact, that’s the new name for this game. MLB the Sh!t Show!!

Fix your game.

The answer is YES! You need a PlayStation Plus account to be able to play against other people online. Any card available in the game can be put on your DD team. Good luck!!!

I started playing MLBTS last year, and fell in love with this game. Unfortunately the gameplay this year is borderline unplayable.

This morning I had 2 event games and a BR game freeze. My opponents were good players and not doing anything shady, (that I could tell.) One of us would go into the quick menu to warm up a pitcher or put in a pinch hitter, then the game would freeze. I waited for a few minutes to see if it would comeback, then I would just quit the game, because who has time for that??

I purposely avoid RS for this reason. I have friends who play that are constantly getting games frozen in RS. I had a decent BR run going when my run was busted on a frozen game, and I’ve had to rebuild my event team several times because of freezing games.

SDS, please! Please! Fix this game!! It’s a gorgeous game with amazing content. I don’t expect you to fix human behavior when it comes to the toxic, cheese players. But certainly you can keep your game from randomly locking up, right??!

Thank for letting me rant. Have a great day everyone!!!

This is on their end, not your's. I would just sit tight and wait for whatever the problem is to be fixed.

Just tried logging in for some morning play only to discover the servers are down...again.

I get it. A new platform with Xbox, thousands of new players, cross-play and cross-progression, and I'm sure a ton of other new, different, and unforeseen challenges have popped up.

I think the community would be a lot more forgiving, (most of us anyway,) if there were transparent communication detailing the problems, and the solutions you're working on. Instead, we get silence, or worse, you post a tweet promoting the new BR rewards?!?

This makes you look either ignorant or unsympathetic to whatever issues the players of your community are dealing with. It's been said a million times on this forum, but I'll say it again...People spend a lot of their money and time playing this game. That kind of investment creates a degree of "ownership" to the game. People aren't simply grinding for cards, we're investing our free time and disposable income. We feel an attachment to our teams, inventory, accomplishments, and growth as players.

SIMPLY communicate to us. Tell us you're aware of the issue, that you're working on it. Tell us why something happens and what you're doing to prevent it in the future. Anything is better than sticking your head in the sand and waiting for storm to pass.