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@fishfan2012_PSN said:

@Thongypu_PSN I’m conscience of the patterns but to your point sometimes in a zone you don’t realize it. I tested this in a moment of frustration and actually charted a pitchers sequence depending on batter side. It worked until it didn’t. In the instance it didn’t I experienced the same trend. I’ll keep playing for a bit but lately it hasn’t been fun when you’re left wondering if the other person is cheating.

That's fair. In general if you feel like you aren't having fun it's worth a break.

Sometimes you're just in a zone and when pitcher confidence drops it gets even easier. Also, you're probably pitching in a pattern that it takes people a couple of innings to pick up and then they sit on certain sequences.

My best pull value wise was Stanton when he was like 200k. Honestly these packs are getting worse because they include the program high tier which are somewhat worthless. I forget who it was but I think it was the vintage Gary Sanchez which is like sub 10k but a 94. I pulled cityscapes Chapman and the 96 overall Jeter. I've had stubs to waste so I'll buy them pretty much every time.

I've pulled 2 or 3 this year. Last year I had insane luck. I think I packed 4 or 5. Usually the success has been the one that comes out of the multiplayer 50 pack bundle

@virusts_PSN said:

Looks like the last big collection will be in November. Jolt no longer part of Friday's collection? That or someone at SDS accidentally released some text early and thats supposed to be the last collection of all Jolt cards for the final collection.

Juicy. Someone's going to get a poor performance review lol

I got my highest overall pull yet and it was a 98 overall Dylan cease. I won't complain about free but man getting that tier makes you really want the chase cards lol

@Rhyno1986_XBL said:

@Dolenz_PSN said:

@Rhyno1986_XBL said:

to then tell people they are basically not allowed to take an endorsement deal from said 3rd party contract also violates some of thier rights shows you are probably mid 20s and mad because you have NO real world life experience.

I'm 62 and I think you are full of it.

They are not stopping Streamers from streaming
They are not stopping them from taking those endorsements.
They just won't be playing MLB The Show while they stream and promote their endorsements.

There are plenty of things to be upset about and aspects of the game to protest against, but I don't see this as one of them.

Your Friend Kyle's promotion of this 3rd Party company got hundreds if not thousands of players banned. SDS are actually protecting large portions of their audience by not allowing them to be duped by streamers who are financially motivated to steer their audience down a path that is against the terms of service.

How are they not stopping them? If they can't promote something they aren't gonna get paid for it. How do you think endorsements work? And agian since all of you must just read 1 point i never said that they shouldn't have been banned for it because I don't care either way about that. But when they have blatantly lied about fixing their game, keep allowing ACTUAL CHEATING to continue, but then suddenly punish people because their profit margin was taking a hit. Yeah it's scummy and just shows how most people on here literally don't think and will just celebrate the smallest thing.

Cutting into their profit margins make it less and less likely that they will fix those things too. They have to do a logical cost to benefit analysis and if the issue caused people to purchase less stubs and the game itself then it would have an impact as well. I bet the amount they've lost due to 3rd party stub sales is significant.

@Dolenz_PSN said:

I just spent entirely too much time going through every team and quick selling all of my duplicates. This was one of the most tedious sessions I have spent in the game. The amount of time and number of button presses was insane

How about this proposal

From a team inventory screen, press the left stick down for an option "Quick sell team duplicates."

That brings up the right side menu that is check boxes for each rarity. Check the rarity options you want to quick sell and confirm. Restrict it to live series even if that is better.

I would much rather deal with the quicksell duplicates option 31 times (1 per team and FA) than 10 or more times per team for a total of 300 plus interaction with 4 button pushes per interaction

This would also discourage people from finding ways to use bots to do it anyways which can only be good (I know you said console but if the console takes forever people will find other means).

[censored] I better play a ranked game this week so I'm not bronze lol

@samguenther1987_PSN said:

@DrBear100_PSN said:

@samguenther1987_PSN said:

Remember when conquest was fun back in 2022/2023? Now I actually kind of hate this mode because all it is now is a time suck.

Playing the Mets on conquest, by the second inning i had 3 walks..... 3, and I swing at everything, I just want to hit.

Program some [censored] strikes SDS, your game is AWFUL.

I won't go as far as awful since now they are making an attempt to fix things. But, yeah conquest is bad. The amount of balls thrown outside the zone is ridiculous especially the first pitch of an at bat. You get to 2 strikes the cpu most of the time won't pitch strike until the count is 3-2 and the usually its a clown just touching the edge strike.

Lol, this is just getting worse. 4 walks against LA and the last at bat i had, ball to the the backstop, ball to the backstop, way up high, and then almost hits me with the 4th.

I might as well just put down the controller and watch at this point.

I'm honestly jealous lol. I'm trying to walk right now just to finish off the legacy walks so the game can tell me to go touch grass lol

@SpawnOfDitka_XBL said:

Now fix the gameplay. Game needs a brand new hitting engine. Etc you all now

I thought of you with the new program. They made it so you don't need to play offline at all

Yup. Now ban the wbc glitchers too

They are non sellable but it's super easy to obtain between various modes. Going to be an annoying amount of dupes you can't sell though. It's a really easy program though. I finished it within a few hours tonight and the event doesn't have players you need just packs.

@OGS_Monkey4737_PSN said:

Is it too late to do the program in 25? I’m just missing the diamond Beltran for the all star collection and want to know if it’s still possible to get the card before I go back and do that program

You get the packs and the player but it's not instant. It took like a day for the stuff to show up on my account. I did it around when Miggy set was dropped.

I'm still struggling. I might just take Wagner knowing I'll probably use him in my bp for the rest of the year ugh lol

It's tough. Part of me knows there will eventually be more flash sales. I'm debating perdomo or beltre. Willie would be interesting too but he'd be secondary position in left field replacing Andruw Jones.

@PapaRick68_XBL said:

This post is meant to be positive, life affirming and doggone it, inspirational. I picked up the game for my grandson this year who hit a homer in his first at bat and then moved on to Minecraft then bequeathed the Show to me. I dabbled in April with my Road player then got bored and discovered DD. I thought it was kinda childish at first - really? Ohtani is on the same team as Babe Ruth. Science fiction, which I hate with a passion. But…then I realized you could earn the cards. Simple as that. I was hooked. Last time I played the Show had to be at least 15 years ago and while it was similar to 2K, I always found it kinda arcade-y. I started DD in earnest the last two weeks of the 1st Inning and finished around 25K short of the WBC Bosses. Since then I’ve been hooked. Sometime in June, I discovered the difficulty was a little low so I moved up to All Star. Recently, I tried Legend. Won one game then got a big head and immediately got my a$$ whooped repeatedly so I dropped back down eventually settling at All Star. I saw the Ultra pack rewards in the Gauntlet and HOF mini seasons so I decided to give it a shot. First couple of games went as well as you might expect but then I noticed my timing was getting better. Well, to make an already too long post a little longer, I just won my 13th HOF game and got the Ultra Pack and for my toil? Five WBC dupes that netted me like 12K. Ha ha. Anyway, I’m on vacation next week with my grandson and I think I’m ready for online play…where I will undoubtedly get massacred by ringers who will call my Mother names but I’ve heard just about everything. My Wife is shooting me “the look” so have a great evening and God bless. ️

I enjoyed reading this post. Thank you for sharing your experiences.

@samguenther1987_PSN said:

Well that went well, let this be a lesson of never try packs. The only reason I did is because I have everything except for the 10/15 chase pack cards. Got

Bobby Witt Jr
Pete Crow Jr
And Byron Buxton lol

I'm tempted too. I'm sitting on 1.6 mil and missing some chase cards and the latest ws/weekend classic cards but I know I'll end up with the same pulls as you lol

The 15k pack is actually a good game. The spring breakout cards essentially cover the cost. I gambled on the mid summer packs and the bundle of old [censored] packs and got Andrew Miller and Tristan Peters which more than covered the cost. The MSC is a bad gamble that I was lucky but strongly recommend the 15k pack.

Edit: unless you're pissing stubs don't gamble the live series packs lol

@NotesOfJohn_PSN said:

Thanks for all the replies, lads.
Genuinely fascinating to see how different we all play.

Comms muted aside, my settings are pretty standard, largely because I was new to the game last year so just went with standard settings and they kinda stuck.

Do you use the metered throws from fielding then because I'll be honest I never got that timing down so I still just use the buttons lol