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The announcers are just terrible. They could have cut costs somewhere else, honestly. It’s not just the repetitiveness— they’re uninteresting and way less interactive with what’s happening.

Not a [censored] chance. Not even touching it, because I know in a week they’ll have another batch of redundant cards to grind for.

@killerpresence4_MLBTS said in Where's the "Random" in RNG?:

@undertakerlives_MLBTS said in Where's the "Random" in RNG?:

Random: whatever they determine will entice people to spend more money. In this day and age, anyone who thinks any game with MTX isn’t being manipulated to lower the odds for the consumer, is just looking on the sunny side. They should also probably stay away from lottery tickets and casinos.

Haven’t spent a dime outside of the initial purchase of the game. I actually believe this game does a good job at not making the user spend money to be competitive if they don’t want to. Grinding takes patience but is worth it in the long run if you don’t want to spend money.

When are you “hAveNt sPeNt a DiMe” robots going to understand that when we talk about MTX, we aren’t talking about you, and your input about not spending a dime is utterly worthless?

@CBrev47_MLBTS said in Anyone else not get the XP head start reward?:

We're investigating this issue. Thank you!

Ready to admit this was complete and total horseshit?

@Mjshalom1974_XBL said in Anyone else STILL missing Head Start rewards?:

Yes still missing also. How do I submit a request?

Select ”account issue,” then “Missing items or stubs”

https://theshow.sonysandiegostudio.games/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360003012253

V-Mart, if you’re strictly switch. Otherwise, Griffey Jr. forever.

It was bad, but not “Two hits with Mario Mendoza” bad, or however many doubles with Joe Torre (15?) bad.

@tybud_PSN said in Was it always just a misconception that rewards were good:

@undertakerlives_MLBTS said in Was it always just a misconception that rewards were good:

For every one oblivious player who says “I hAveN’t sPeNt a DimE,” there are two who have. Otherwise, single player modes would be way more robust over the years instead of progressively getting lamer. Stubs wouldn’t be progressively harder to obtain through normal gameplay. I wouldn’t still be waiting for rewards they enticed me to load up DD for, three days later, because their funds would be going towards better quality control. Ideally.

As for rewards, these nincompoops can’t even get people the free rewards that they promise. I’m still [censored] waiting for the Head Start stuff to show up. These results are not indicative of a company that gives a [censored] about maintaining a reputation of quality.

Only quantity.

So the people who don't spend hard earned money on a video game are oblivious, but those who do spend are not?

Interesting analysis! LOL

Interesting reading comprehension skills. And by interesting, I mean “very poor.” I never said all people who don’t buy stubs are oblivious. The ones who fail to see the problem with the game in the MTX era, and justify their ignorance by telling us how many stubs they don’t buy, are who I’m talking about.

For every one oblivious player who says “I hAveN’t sPeNt a DimE,” there are two who have. Otherwise, single player modes would be way more robust over the years instead of progressively getting lamer. Stubs wouldn’t be progressively harder to obtain through normal gameplay. I wouldn’t still be waiting for rewards they enticed me to load up DD for, three days later, because their funds would be going towards better quality control. Ideally.

As for rewards, these nincompoops can’t even get people the free rewards that they promise. I’m still [censored] waiting for the Head Start stuff to show up. These results are not indicative of a company that gives a [censored] about maintaining a reputation of quality.

Only quantity.

Random: whatever they determine will entice people to spend more money. In this day and age, anyone who thinks any game with MTX isn’t being manipulated to lower the odds for the consumer, is just looking on the sunny side. They should also probably stay away from lottery tickets and casinos.

Day two. I still have jack squat from the Head Start thing. Maybe spend less time on your 500th quantity-over-quality card set, and more time on fixing your broken [censored]. I truly think they’re counting on people who got [censored] out of the reward to forget. It’s very hard to forget the shitshow this year has been, for all game modes.

@killerpresence4_MLBTS said in "Skill Sets" need to go:

@undertakerlives_MLBTS said in "Skill Sets" need to go:

@killerpresence4_MLBTS said in "Skill Sets" need to go:

@lastingimpact_PSN said in "Skill Sets" need to go:

I've been playing MLB The Show since the PS2 days. I've always loved building my character and grinding out his career. A theme I've been noticing over the last few years, though, is that I keep stopping and creating new careers after a year or two because I'm never quite happy with how the character turns out. I can never get the nuance of what I want to build quite right; there's always some kind of sacrifice or "well I guess I just can't do that" that didn't used to exist back in the days of being able to spend training hours on whatever stats you wanted. I guess I'm just failing to see any advantages of the current system over a less restrictive, more customizable attributes system.

The main problem I have is that players I want to create require a spread of attributes to excel that simply isn't attainable within the game. For example, in my head I want a center fielder that is range-y with a professional glove and a rocket arm, and I'm happy to accept being relatively average at the plate as a tradeoff. So to translate this into the game I want high speed, high fielding, high arm strength, medium hitting attributes to be the "end goal" of my build. Speed is locked away behind a secondary archetype by itself so I have to get that from there. Fielding can be the primary archetype, but then my arm strength is abysmal because it's tied to power. Not only that, but all of my hitting attributes are banished to the 40's before gear and require an astronomical amount of training to make serviceable, which also requires me to ignore training the attributes I actually want to excel at.

This dilemma is much worse for two-way players who can only pick one of each attribute group to excel in on each side. The last two-way player I created reached his Diamond skillset at a towering 67 overall. There's also just zero room for customization since all you can do is pick one thing to be good at so your options to make something unique and fun are nonexistent.

A system from another sports franchise I'm reminded of is NBA 2K. Granted 2K's VC and monetization efforts are oppressive and compromise a lot of the gameplay experience, but I've really enjoyed their design philosophy on character customization. I'm imagining a similar world where I can set "caps" on each attribute, and I can keep increasing the caps up to the point where maxing out every single attribute to its set cap would get me to 99 overall. These caps also determine what kind of perks you can acquire (think active perk cards in the current system) and even labels you cosmetically with an archetype name based on the spread you created. I think I'd really enjoy the ability to specify exactly what I'd like the end goal to be for my player, and then spend my time working towards that through something like training points earned from games/practices (that can be granted bonuses through the current in-game goals, even) instead of trying to finagle one of the handful of preset spreads to fake what I want.

Not gonna lie but no one is going to read that essay you just posted. I know some of my post can be long too but I realize I want the community to read it and respond. Maybe break it up over multiple post but I couldn’t get through the first paragraph before I gave up. I’m sure you have some valid points I just can’t see myself wasting 20 minutes to read that post and then process what I just read. Not a knock on you personally just something to think about next time.

I read it. It took me two minutes. It’s not anyone else’s fault that your reading days ended in middle school. You think his post is useless, and yet, you said absolutely nothing yourself. Have a think on that before you offer your unnecessary input to someone’s legitimate griping.

And there it is a sad sack who runs to the community forums to COMPLAIN about a video game. And what I said is I lost interest in the post half a paragraph in because people don’t come here to read an essay. They come to leave brief thoughts and respondents to leave brief reply’s. And you trying to make some witty insult just makes you look like the clown in the forum. FYI, most people don’t want to read long winded diatribes. And if you don’t know what that is go google it.

I assure you, I’m aware of what a diatribe is. I’m looking at one right now. Look in the mirror, my illiterate friend: you are that sad sack. Taking a dump on a post just because it’s long, while adding nothing substantive, or even interesting. Why add anything at all, in fact?

Because you’re a sad sack. Sorry to bear the bad news, champ. Play ball!

@RevCuddyer_PSN said in XP Head Start erased from DD entirely:

They can't take it away after it was explicitly promised. I made decisions on whether to lock in cards, which has real value, before the season started based entirely on that statement. I'm sure they're still working on it.

I’m not holding my breath. It’s nearly an entire day since they announced the rewards. They’ve been radio silent about them since, and probably counting on us to forget. Typical business mindset: rewrite history and insist the consumer is stupid.

@samguenther1987 said in XP Head Start erased from DD entirely:

@undertakerlives_MLBTS said in XP Head Start erased from DD entirely:

@samguenther1987 said in XP Head Start erased from DD entirely:

@undertakerlives_MLBTS said in XP Head Start erased from DD entirely:

Looks like SDS has removed all mention of the XP Head Start rewards that they horribly bungled. This must be what one of the mods here meant when they said they’re working on it. I had a feeling all those packs and XP were too good to be true.

Better luck next month!

2 months from now. This program is 55 days.

Not the important part, but thanks

Fair enough lol, was just pointing out, sorry

Btw I got mine so not going to complain

Well, I’m happy some people are getting it, at least. Better than nothing

@doobiebross66-72 said in Anyone else not get the XP head start reward?:

So if they’re going to go the route of just silence and think we’re just going to forget about that 30k XP, that’s an absolute joke

If you’re not going to be able to fix it and give people the 30k XP they didn’t get, then just announce it cannot be fixed and that you’ll try again next season

If they go radio silent that is an awful stance/look

Big money doesn’t care about optics. Welcome to the new normal.

@samguenther1987 said in XP Head Start erased from DD entirely:

@undertakerlives_MLBTS said in XP Head Start erased from DD entirely:

Looks like SDS has removed all mention of the XP Head Start rewards that they horribly bungled. This must be what one of the mods here meant when they said they’re working on it. I had a feeling all those packs and XP were too good to be true.

Better luck next month!

2 months from now. This program is 55 days.

Not the important part, but thanks

@maurice91932_PSN said in Just stop it…:

We have big ol insects and electrified dinosaurs in the background. Let’s stop talking of “realistic sim” please. Lol

All of the legitimate issues with this game, and you’re flapping your digital gums about some dinosaurs. Are you really that bored?

Tell me: are you the guy in the movie theater who incessantly exclaims “that’s impossible!”?

Looks like SDS has removed all mention of the XP Head Start rewards that they horribly bungled. This must be what one of the mods here meant when they said they’re working on it. I had a feeling all those packs and XP were too good to be true.

Better luck next month!

Never thought I’d live to see the day where gamers complain about having too much stuff to earn. Alas, here we are. Stop whining just to hear your head rattle. Don’t do the [censored] programs. Let them sit there. Do something else.