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I've never purchased stubs; by the end of April, I had already unlocked both of them through pure gameplay. My approach is simple: I build a dedicated Reds theme team alongside a secondary squad specifically tailored to grind out current missions. Just play the game to have fun. Don't waste your money buying packs or stubs, and definitely steer clear of those sketchy third-party stub-selling websites.

That being said, I am extremely frustrated with this year's game. SDS is acting like they simply don't care anymore. Because they hold the exclusive MLB license, they're operating a lot like the Castellinis—acting as if fans have no other choice but to consume whatever product they put on the field. At this point, my only real objective is getting as many Reds player cards to P5 as possible, which is unfortunately easy since they only release a new one about every two months.

If you asked me today whether I'm buying MLB The Show 27, it’s a hard no. But realistically, by next March, I'll probably end up getting it. I just love baseball too much, and anything that gets me closer to the game, I'm in

go to goodwill, buy a commodore 64 play Micro-League Baseball. You'll thank me later

this seems like a my dog ate my homework type of excuse. As I have posted a million time never buy stubs, play the game and especially never buy from a 3rd party and lastly never give a 10 year old access to your financial information.

Banned for Buying stubs from third parties... I've never bought stubs; I don't see the point- just play the game. Even someone who is as terrible at the game as I am. You gotta love the process to enjoy the game; no shortcuts.

The Mini Seasons Breakdown: Broken Modes and Broken Promises

Mode Disrepair: Mini Seasons has been effectively broken since release. Last year's version was genuinely great, but a misguided "fix" tailored for non-players completely derailed the experience.

Persistent Glitches: Basic functionality remains compromised—WBC pool play features blank/glitched uniforms, stats tracking is completely messed up, and modes still randomly stall out mid-run.

Selective Priorities: The developer only rushes to patch things when their own coding flaws allow players to earn extra packs. Their threats of punitive action against those players turned out to be empty.

The Community Penalty: Anyone still grinding this mode does so purely out of a love for baseball, not because the experience is supported. Meanwhile, community outreach like The Show Live has been abandoned to dodge constant complaints.

Anyone still playing is only here because they love baseball. If SDS actually wanted to reward the loyal player base stuck dealing with this, they'd hand out a massive goodwill gift—though knowing how they operate, it'd probably just be another batch of free cards that crashes the market even further.

The One safe Bet to place money on is no Reds released. in the 157 year history of the Reds, SDS thinks their players were Johnny Bench, Barry Larkin, Rob Dibble, and no one else. On the current roster is Elly and no one else.

I wish they would the mods would make franchise tolerable again

I think all of these impressions are 100% accurate. They could at least give three useless packs out a week in another manner. although if they did it would be released on twitter, which I don't follow anyway. A vacuum of information hurts customer reaction more than having a show live and ignoring your customers' concerns.

Have they just given up, it feels like it's been a long time since there has been a 'the show live' Maybe I'm wrong. Or maybe they realized that it was only intensifying customer anger.

Nick Krall is embarrassing; the only thing worse for the Reds is our ownership. Trade out hottest hitter and a LHP from a bullpen that is already terrible.

I have no idea how they do it but some players are either button mashing or something to throw off their opponents' timing. I'd rather stay offline than deal with it.

low expectations on content, although I assume a double xp weekend

After I was injured playing football and my baseball dreams ended, the phoenix was inspiration the idea of rebuilding yourself. With that realization you obtain true victory.

I finish the inning program this year then stop playing until the weekend before the program starts, to prep xp for when the new program starts if that answers your question. Last year I thought it was a much more solid release

@Apolloz_99_MLBTS

you must be much better than I am, I had to powerswing to finish it, when I played my way it ended tied 17 - 17 with about 20 long flyouts to centerfield

It's simple: I hate power swinging. Showdown is about one side of the game; I'm old school. I like defense and pitching combined with hitting; I structure my teams to play with speed, and Showdown is all about sabermetrics.

Because they hate the people that play this game, You must be new here.

Let me point it out again, Showdown is the worst mode in this game by far, it's even less tolerable than playing online. It's the best example of how disconnected SDS is from its customers. They remove all of the moments from manuy programs and throw in a showdown, somehow it must be less effort for them. Last year it was terrible and somehow this year it's ten times worse.

This was the worst possible way to release these, SDS should have just put these in everyones inventory. For those of us who have a life, this consolation prize for this year's game sucking massive amounts of [censored] didn't apply.

New inning program, all star content and no the show live. That speaks volumes about SDS and where they see their customer base right now.