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Looks like there's good reason since 99 overall Shohei as a fifth inning boss.

Also, they have up to 6 players who could get 400 hrs by the end of the year.

Machado - 387
Goldschmidt - 386
Judge - 385
Harper - 383
Freeman - 382
Schwarber - 371

Two more 300 hr players

Jose Ramirez - 295
Alonso - 284

Point is they haven't done everyone and still have a lot left probably planned.

@t22odd_PSN said:

betts 300 hr club, program next day
springer 300 hr club, program next day
freeman 2000 hit club, program next day
sonny gray 2000 k club, program next day
scherzer 3500 k club, program next day
degrom 100 win club, program next day
gausman 2k k club, program next day

SHOHEI OHTANI 300 HR CLUB, program .....................................

No program for Ozuna or Olson.

@Teak2112_MLBTS said:

@Thongypu_PSN said:

@Ditka06-_MLBTS said:

@Thongypu_PSN the difference is you go online. The majority of the complainers refuse to. You are a normal player. You play both. You cannot complain if you refuse to play both. All im really trying to say.

But yes. Im not backing down on my stance. I think a good majority of people are scared to lose.

Scared to lose vs don't want to lose are two different things. I think there's a lot of reasons to not play online and no one wants to lose even against the computer. Scared is hyperbole. It's a video game. It's more likely they know they aren't good and don't want to waste time. However, I understand just not wanting to deal with people. Especially if you deal with people all the time.

There are many, many reasons. Here are some more

1. The feel of having your time wasted
2. Don't pay for PS+
3. Like to divide focus (I watch MLB while playing The Show)
4. Need to be able to pause and attend to things (kids/family) at a moments notice
   etc

Agreed. I mentioned some others in my first post. 3 &4 are why I play less and less online although I really disliked last year's game and quit pretty early and yet I think this year's was somehow worse.

@Ditka06-_MLBTS said:

@Thongypu_PSN the difference is you go online. The majority of the complainers refuse to. You are a normal player. You play both. You cannot complain if you refuse to play both. All im really trying to say.

But yes. Im not backing down on my stance. I think a good majority of people are scared to lose.

Scared to lose vs don't want to lose are two different things. I think there's a lot of reasons to not play online and no one wants to lose even against the computer. Scared is hyperbole. It's a video game. It's more likely they know they aren't good and don't want to waste time. However, I understand just not wanting to deal with people. Especially if you deal with people all the time.

@Apolloz_99_MLBTS said:

@Thongypu_PSN there was plenty of offliners that complaining about having to play online for June countdown. People also tend to word vomit whatever others are saying about online players. It’s also not an assumption to say people are afraid to lose. No one wants to lose.

I've read plenty of people on here complaining about playing offline too. I think OPs take is extreme but he's entitled to his opinion just like yours. Also, yes it's an assumption that that's the reason they don't play online. Obviously no one wants to lose. It's the same reason you don't go into conquest and play every game on legend.

@Ditka06-_MLBTS said:

Im hardly a forum bully. The majority of the complaining is by offline players, complaining about having to play online. If its not offline, its content complaints. Every single day. We all complain about different things like pack odds etc. But its been literally all day long with you guys everyday . Im also older. I go online plenty. So thats not an excuse. The majority of you are scared to lose. There are great rewards and ways to progress in the game. But you have to play both.

Being older only means we will never be great. But we can be pretty good.

Here's the thing. You're complaining almost every day in response to others as well. You're almost always very combative and for really no reason. You go 0 to 100 almost instantly. As for online, it's not that people are scared to lose, it's they don't want to waste time playing through lag, against cheaters, and dealing with people that bunt cheese, pause for long periods of time, etc. I play online and get what I want when I want. I'm decent as well but not committed enough for world series. I much prefer to relax and beat the [censored] out of the computer to unwind. Different strokes for different folks. You don't need to make assumptions that people are afraid to lose just because they don't enjoy the same things you do. P.S. packs aren't rigged

@rubicante23_PSN said:

Shoot, lets say you are an elite player...

To earn 75k stubs, you have to at least...

1. Play 5 BR games and win them
2. Play a 9-inning vs CPU game to strike out a bunch of hitters
3. Play enough event to get Castellanos, then play him in at least a few games to get 1000pxp.
4. Play a few ranked games to get runs

In the time it takes you to do that, I suspect you could easily raise 75k through other means.

I did three but I didn't feel like doing the runs or br since br loses me stubs. I was doing the event and lucked my way into 10 hits. Castellanos xp is easy and can be done multitasking and the one game on rookie was easy but yeah I agree that the awards aren't worth it. Would've been nicer earlier in an inning for xp.

@Bodhii24_XBL said:

Only reason I wasn’t upset was because it was the rare round so I got 15k for Bryan reynolds.

Better than nothing. I had a lucky pack day today but I haven't finished those last few packs yet in the mini season.

You shouldn't even be able to pull those from the ultra pack. That's bs. I would be so angry lol

Nevermind they seemed to have fixed this non Grant Taylor related thing.

@Onix_Savage22_PSN said:

If it lines up with last year should be prime.

This is my big fear. I'm literally sitting here deciding if I collect Ted Simmons right now or not. I think I'm going to wait until after tomorrow's drop. I get vmart right away and even if prime drops Simmons value a bit it's better than having him collected lol

There are really good packs in that conquest. I'm sorry but that conquest was a win not a loss. This is the exact reason people get frustrated because of complaints like this. They drop good content giving good chances to make 60-100k+ stubs in a few hours and people complain.

@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN said:

@Thongypu_PSN said:

@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN said:

No option to get a huge chunk of progress by Collecting the 2 Spotlight and/or the 3 TN cards.

Wonder why?

Don't gaslight yourself. It was missing for me too and then showed up. It's a weird glitch or they made a quick fix IDK

Lol. At least it wasn't me.

To bad I spent almost all ny stubs on Summertime cards.

I made myself broke during the flash sale trying to get closer to vmart.

@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN said:

No option to get a huge chunk of progress by Collecting the 2 Spotlight and/or the 3 TN cards.

Wonder why?

Don't gaslight yourself. It was missing for me too and then showed up. It's a weird glitch or they made a quick fix IDK

@Dolenz_PSN said:

I'll try to add as they are revealed

And of Course your mandatory Yankee. What A Random one at that. A May 2025 Topps Now card? I guess anything is better than going a drop without a Yankee.

He's the Martian though! It's a pun! Yeah I'm a Yankees fan and admit it's a little old. I want to play with some different people for once. I like when you get a card like George Brett at 99 early to use someone you never use. I've never really used Miggy or Albert much until this year and it's been fun. I'll be one of the few that would enjoy a Mauer and actually use him lol

@I23SAVAGE23I_XBL said:

@Thongypu_PSN said:

This is great news. Honestly made my day. Rare win for SDS to teach people a lesson. I'm genuinely curious what the action will be but I'm hoping it's a ban or a full account wipe. For the streamers who made videos showing people and advocating for the glitch they should be perma banned because if not for them it wouldn't have been nearly as abundant.

I got perma banned two years ago for saying people cheat on these forums. They banned me for 999 days and I could not access anything in the actual game based on what I said in the forum.

Hopefully they take that level of action against these people.

So to make this super simple for others you violated their TOS (not even on the game) = permanent ban. Then for consistency sake they clearly need to perma ban them all! Good example of a double standard though.

This is great news. Honestly made my day. Rare win for SDS to teach people a lesson. I'm genuinely curious what the action will be but I'm hoping it's a ban or a full account wipe. For the streamers who made videos showing people and advocating for the glitch they should be perma banned because if not for them it wouldn't have been nearly as abundant.

@LadySwampfox_XBL said:

If they gave us a decent game at launch we wouldn't be here complaining.

I don't think the devs should be fired. I can't hope for that in good conscience. Those are people with lives and jobs. I struggled to find a job for six months last year in this abysmal job market, and I don't want someone to face the same thing.

But we should hold the game accountable, I agree. We should expect better from a game we pay $70 for every year. At that price we should be receiving a good product that is not only worth the money, but also our time playing it.

Definitely this. They've always had server issues for early release and first week but this game legit felt like a beta test at release. Menus were worse than last year, changing your squad after moments still freezes the game and new glitches everywhere. I'm tired of paying to act as a beta tester. It's not just this game either but it's getting pretty bad.

@PriorFir4383355_XBL said:

This OP is laughable. Expecting a corporation to meet reasonable standards is simply reasonable expectations. You buy a car and you expect it to start in the morning, get you to work, start in the late afternoon, and return you home. If the car fails to meet those reasonable expectations, then criticism follows.

MLB 26 was released with bugs so profound that batters hit foul balls over the dugouts that were ruled homers! I still see as recently as today, new posts on MLB The Show themed web forums where video shows catches made for a final out of an inning being overruled in the game score with the game code inexplicably awarding the runs like a homer was hit vice being caught for the final out as was actually played out on screen.

These are deep and profound bugs in game code. Many of them have remained unfixed, including menus that lag several seconds from control pad input to finally carrying out the ordered action.

If you posted the OP for attention, then congrats. But, if you value your basic self-respect you really should have thought differently about writing it. Less than half the MLB 26 bugs that were discovered by the paying customers the first week of release remain unfixed. And again, that includes basic menus that are horribly bugged up.

And I could fill paragraphs with bugs that have remained in the game for several years despite hundreds of bug reports being sent to SDS over these years.

And you blame the customers, vice the company that put this garbage out there. OK, you play that way in real life and see where it leads you!

Yeah, I believe it's both though. This is the worst product I've ever seen them put out but I'm sick of hearing people cry about switch hitters because they can't spam sinkers inside followed by dotted sliders low and away.

I wish people would stick to things like if I pick the pitch allocated to circle and try to pick off a runner on first base it just quick pitches to home. Same with triangle pitch for second. They're literally breaking the game. Singles that should be doubles because battery are catastrophically slow out of the box. I'm watching my son play an old mlb the show on the switch and I'm literally thinking to myself [censored] that's playing better than mine. That's a legit problem. They have done some decent things ok maybe two. I actually like the new strike zone and I like being able to mass collect cards and prevent cards from being collected which I'm surprised they didn't screw that up more. Also, eff cheaters, exploiters and companies that don't uphold their TOS. I grinded like crazy to finish the live series and get miggy just to see tons of people to get it from a glitch with thousands of packs. The lack of response is frustrating.

Also, there's definitely less content even if it is grindy offline stuff. It was casual xp and cards to get when I'm exhausted after work and my eyes are too tired to play online.

tldr; I mostly agree minus crying over meta switch hitters [censored].