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I agree 100%. The gameplay took a HUGE step back from MLB 19. I know 19 had line-outs, but contact hitters were usable. This year, if you do not have over 80 power you are likely to be out. I played a game the other day, my opponent had 0 baserunners through 6 innings, and in the 7th, I was pitching with 99 Giolito. I had a perfect release on a circle changeup and he hung it over the plate and he hit a solo homer. I actually only had 2 runs because I was making good timing outs all game. Entering the top of the 9th, i was up 2-1, my opponent who has struck out 15 times this game, gets a bunt single, my infield was playing in and J-Ram decided that instead of charging the ball on a bunt, he will walk to it, of course once your opponent gets something cheesy it starts screwing you. I had a only thrown like 5 pitches with Fingers and he was wild. I walked the next batter. He had 99 Trout up, I brought it Crochet. Had him down to 2 strikes after two dot pitches, the game decided another Good timing released 4-seamer down the middle was the option and he it a 3 run homer, in the bottom of the 9th, I made three good-good outs. I lost 4-2. In MLB 19 I was a top 200 player with close to 1000 hours played. I'm at 560 hours this year, I just cant play that much. Its not fun to play a lot of games.

I really miss the pre-release gameplay, it was legit the best feeling mlb game i have ever played. They released a hitting patch on day one, ruined it for the year.

In MLB 19 Moments were a great idea. Things happen during the lengthy history and each season, and i think it is important to recognize it, but having said that, we are 4 straight games into moments having a huge impact on offline grinding. I find them to be boring and mind-numbing.

I really do not care who the rewards are for the Moments extreme program, because i've had enough of doing moments.

All this i've said double it for conquest. If I never see another conquest board in my life i'd be happy.

SDS have become very lazy with content and I guess the praise they've received over the past few years has caused them not to care as much.

I can only hope they hire someone who can bring some life into the game, instead of releasing a boring mess.

I honestly could make an entire post about the lack of Supercharged cards in the game, and how with a little effort could have been the best part of 22.

For some reason I am not meant to make World series. I lost again, 14-7. My opponent was taking bad swings in the first 4 innings and then all of the sudden in the 5th inning he couldn't get out. From a game development standpoint. Idk how someone could take horrible swings and keep getting rewarded. I gave up 3 "Late" homers. lol I'm current down to 847 because SDS enjoys making you lose more points than you gain on wins.

I'm 18-13 on the season, and its not looking good. I would take a few days off of Ranked, but there isn't anything else to do in the game lol. I've played BR and Events, since there's no other grinding. Ranked is the only thing I haven't done yet.
At least in MLB 18 you could grind Immortals, there was always something to do. In mlb 24, you complete the 10 minute mini program and then nothing.

Hey guys! I am writing my review of mlb 24. I want to start by saying I am not a new player to MLB The Show franchise. I have been playing the game since MLB 06 on my PSP. Actually I put plenty of hours in "MLB" with Vlad Sr on it on PSP as well.
I am going to break down each part of the game and say what I like and what I'd like to see improved. Any comments (Even Trolls) are welcome!

I'm going to start with Offline game modes and then move to DD.

1. Road to the Show
   When I first heard they were bringing Females into RTTS I was kinda excited. I really haven't played much RTTS in the past few years. The last time I actually had any decent time was in MLB 16. The game mode was basically the same thing over and over. I have watched different Youtube playthroughs including Mighty Goat & Dodgerfilms, so I had a good grasp on what the mode was. I want to say i only have about an hour in RTTS this year, but based on mighty goats play through I am not seeing a lot of differences from previous years. With the addition of Females I would have hoped they had different animations or swings, but I haven't noticed any. They look like the same male models except the face is different. That is very disappointing, I was hoping for someone NEW! One thing that really bothers me about RTTS is, MLB 24 is on the same consoles that GTA6 is coming out on and we CANNOT have voiceovers? Why is the entire mode built in text messages? I didn't get deep into the Female story but I know you are supposed to have a friend that you go through your career with, how can you develop a personal relationship through Text? You will probably mention budget but i'm not looking for a Meryl Streep performance here. LOL. Hire some voice actors to play the characters or even have devs read the lines. That would make it more engaging IMO. I know they have the "MLB Network" Videos but based on the ones i've seen they are mid. I say that because it doesn't feel like they are talking about my character. I remember in NBA 2k franchise they had Erin & Shaq between games scanned in and it made it feel like they were talking about my performance. The MLB Network ones feel like they are talking about a fake person. I'd love to see them Face & Body scan RoFLO & Sarah, that would be DOPE! I just watched MIghty Goats video from today and he didn't stop and view one cut scene probably because it doesn't really make a difference in the game because it is irrelevant. Please SDS put in effort here and make me want to play it please!
   SDS can also do what 2K does and give your character a "Nickname" that everyone calls them, make it feel like they are talking about an actual person. I want an actual story and narrative in the game, not just skip all the cut scenes and go to the next game.
   Rating: 2/10 NEED MORE EFFORT

Franchise
I haven't played Franchise much, but I've watched Ant Ortiz and RGS play. The game mode is basic and boring. I loved Franchise back in MLB 10-11 and those days. You could actually do hot dog prices, tickets, buy a new field for your stadium so it could avoid injury, training facilities, i can't remember all but it felt more of the business side which i enjoyed. Back in Dec I played MLB 14 franchise and rebuild 5 teams for the month to do something while I was bored of MLB 23. The game mode hasn't really changed too much in a decade. If I had more time to write and think about it, i could come up with more ways to improve the mode. If you play it for what it is, its not horrible, but I'd love to see more. I will give it credit that you can draft a 98 overall player that's fun.
**Thinking about it, more storyline driven content in Franchise would be cool. If your team isn't playing well and you have to DFA a player, perhaps they don't take it well and you get into an argument. That doesn't have to be it, but more manager and player communication would be fun to see. You get promoted to the MLB and you get a voiced over cut scene of the player getting hype, we all love those on twitter. that would be awesome to see get added to franchise mode! Imagine you are calling up your top prospect and you get a cut scene and its in the managers office and he's like you're going to the show and you see him get hype. I would love that!
Rating 4.5/10 MORE EFFORT

Storylines
I haven't really played Storylines yet, but they are fine. After being tortured over the past 6 games in moments, I am glad they aren't too difficult and you can skip them. The video production is always top tier and Bob Kendrick is probably the best narrator in the history. I would love to see that effort put in RTTS. I will say I dislike doing moments and that ruined the mode for me last year. I plan to do these soon, so I may revise my review about them.
Rating - 8/10

Overall offline gets a 6/10 Storyline really carries this rating. Without storylines its a 4/10

ONLINE Diamond Dynasty

Ranked
This has been the exact same mode as MLB 17, I think it was the same in 16, but I really got into DD In 17 and it hasn't changed. Yes we have the Ranked program, but that still doesn't change the main goal is to get to 900 rating. I've been at 900 rating so much I don't really have desire to do it anymore. I want a better progression system, something more from the mode. I am not sure how I would do it yet, but If i got paid to do it, it would be better. Don't get me started on the stamina system and quitting. It sucks when you start your favorite pitcher only to pitch and inning your opponent quits now you cant use him for 4 games. Please work on that. Freeze offs are just as bad, from my understand they attempted to help with the loss you get from quitting a freeze off but it didn't work coding wise.
Rating 1-10 - Please give us something different next year.

Coop Ranked
I really enjoy linking up with my viewers on twitch and playing coop it is very fun and probably my favorite online mode. I have really enjoyed using Real 99s and cards we won't normally get to use. Its been fun. I do HATE freeze offs though, they have to be addressed in COOP. My partner and I were up 21-11 in a game and I had to quit because i was live on twitch for nearly 30 minutes looking at a freeze off game and no one wants to watch that. If they improved connections that would make the game better.
Rating 6/10

Battle Royal
Similar to my above post, the only change is now 10-0. That is a nice quality of life change, but the concept is the same. No real changes here. We need something else. I wish i had more to say, but with very limited content there isn't much to talk about, we've had BR since 17 and the goal is always the same. No creativity at all.
Rating 1-10 - BORINGGGGG

Events
I do not see any value in events anymore lol. So far this year, they just have the same cards from Ranked & BR in events and you just got to get 20 wins for collection fodder. Why can't we have all Common event, Gold., silver. Just something to where i can use different cards, not the same diamonds. I can only hope they give us more, but based on last year probably not. Events haven't meant anything in a long time and with only 3 online modes its embarrassing. I'd like to see a month long event with multiple layers to it, making it 2 weeks and get a mid card doesn't make me want to play it, makes me want to stay away.
Events 0.5/10 Not a lot of redeeming qualities. Can only hope for better

WE NEED MORE GAME MODES. I was thinking the other day. What about a SHOOTOUT MODE. You start in the top of the 9th inning. You try and score and then save it in the bottom half, and vice versa for your opponent. You can have like 75 win rewards or something. It would be intense and engaging and probably fun. It would also give you a chance to get better in save situations in Ranked. I would love anything new. PLEASE SDS Give me something!!

Overall Rating 4/10 - if COOP Ranked wasn't here I would legit give it a .5/10 overall

Offline Diamond Dynasty

Mini Seasons
This is where I could write an entire novel about how bad offline grinding is. Again there is ZERO creativity in Mini seasons. I know they are trying to go for a "Ranked" like experience with MIni Seasons but it just becomes a drag after like 10+ wins. Once you've reached 10 wins you realize you're just playing the CPU, and that's all it is without a storyline, character/player development. It just becomes boring. I know there are people who enjoy the mode and I would pay money to hear how they enjoy it I've heard playing on higher difficulty is supposed to do that, but it just makes it more annoying. I will say you do get plenty of PACKS from doing it, but it sucks you have to be bored to death for 4-6 hours to get the packs. and I'll come back to packs later. I've personally really enjoyed the Salvy card from the grind, but I want more from the mode that just isn't there.
Rating 4/10 - Savly & Packs boost this lol.

Conquest
For some reason SDS gets a pass every year for releasing the exact same game mode for 8 straight games without any differences and everyone is fine with it lol. I know Conquest was in 17, not sure about 18, but i'm positive it started in 17. They've made ZERO changes to conquest since then. Its a slug to get through. They could at least change the hexagon to a square or triangle or something. NOPE it just looks the same with a different pattern each year and we keep doing it. I don't understand why we need to see the SIMULATION screen each time you take a territory. Can't we just remove that screen and you tell me the amount I have left? I also dislike when i have 15+M fans going up against like 3M and lose and then the CPU starts taking the spaces I already had, then you have to go back and conquer those territories again. It takes forever, its boring. I know there are people who enjoy it, but I am not one of those. Doing the something over and over sucks, I wish SDS would make something new in its place. The USA Conquest board takes 6+ hours and is so boring to get through. I've heard, you don't have to play it. Yes you do, SDS hit 8 CORE cards in the Map so, if you want the CORE collection you have to do it. I did the stupid board, and I hope its gone in 25.
Rating - 1/10, it would have received a 0 but the packs are nice.

Showdown
In MLB 20 when they introduced Showdown I actually enjoyed the challenge. It was a different way to play and I though it was great, but like all the other modes its barely changed in the past 4 games and has only gotten easier. They took any difficulty out of it and you just do it to get the TA tickets and you're done. Once that is over there really isn't a reason to go back. I wish they would release a few like 20 that are long and had challenge.
Rating 5-10 Its fine whatever lol

Overall Rating 1.5/10 - MLB The show is in desperate need of something else.

XP Reward Path
The reward path has been fine so far, nothing special about it really. I think it is silly to have 30 cards in the path but you can only have 2 and the others were 25k a piece in the pack store so if you choose a card you aren't really good with FOR ME Adam Dunn you are now stuck with it. I though Dunn would be great to use, but I have struggled and now I don't have another option bc he is NO SALE. Who thought this was a good idea? Please tell me why I can't just change my player? I'm 3-18 with Dunn, maybe I get better with him or not. I FULLY understand why we have the XP limit, but come one who cares, let us play all day and get the cards we want to use. who cares if I get the 99 before someone else. Just let me play how I want to.
Rating 5-10, please do better next season.

Team Affinity
TA is a grind to get through and I'm not really a fan. I can appreciate that you can do most of it online, but I wouldn't mind if it was gone. I never missed it a few games ago, and still wish it wasn't here. We have enough grinding in the game, i'd like to see less.
Rating 5-10, nothing really to say.

Programs
So far the programs have been nice, a nice good surprise so far, all the cards given are actually usable! Missions weren't too long or felt over grindy. Moments are horrible but went by fast. Please keep it up!!
Rating 9/10 we need more stuff like this!

Overall Rating 5/10 Please GIVE US SOMETHING NEWWWWWW PLEASE!!!

Misc

Packs
DO NOT GO INTO THE PACK STORE UNLESS YOU GET A FREE PACK. Packs this year are so bad. You should never spend stubs on packs you should only open the free ones given. SDS wants you to open packs to make more money by you purchasing more stubs, but its a waste. I've opened 2 Headliners and only got silvers. Base round on the Fresh Start pack. I am not money spent and stubs are important this time a year. To lose half of the pack value sucks.
Spring Chicken pack cards are mid, Ottavino is the best out of the pack so just pay 26k and not waste 20k on trying to pull him.
Chase Packs have been boring. I love Mantle and bc that card was so nice I was looking forward to the future packs, but Baez and Langford aren't great and there are free options thats better. Please make this pack the best card in the game at the time they come out.
DO NOT OPEN HEADLINER PACKS PLEASE. thats all i have to say.
SDS Needs to put in more effort to reduce pack costs and make the cards featured in the packs interesting. Not boring. No pack should cost 40k.

Collections
Live Series Collections
I am not really interesting in doing live series collections this year. Babe is awesome but he has been in the game since 18, i'd love a new legend as the overall collection reward. Pedro is usually BP, and although I like the Palmerio card and understand why he is a 95, we should be getting all 99s for locking in millions of stubs. I wouldn't mind removing the collection all together in future games. Try something new.
Rating 2/10 - not impressed.

Season Collections
This is a good idea, but it sucks we don't have the effort form 19 & 20. When the Wagner and Trout collection came out you had to lock in all your cards because they were the most expensive sold cards IRL so it made sense they would be expensive in the game. It was creative and brough excitment to the game. Now collections are just a feature that has been overplayed . I'd like to see them go back in the lab and think of more creative ways to do collections. I have not seen one person use Biggio, there are better options. Franco is a MUST have in the pen so good job there. I like Aurila but haven't used him yet. i'm sure he is great.
Mays, Brett, and Paige are great options, but don't really make sense in the "Collection" concept. Again just another part of the game.
Rating 6/10 Great cards, just no creativity.

Special Collections
Hyper Vlad.
This is the worst collections in the history of Diamond Dynasty. The Vlad should be a 95 overall minimum, you have lock in 240k stubs worth of cards to get a 91 overall that other cards are already better than? the only reason to do it is because of the CORE Collection. This has to be the worst effort put into the game so far.
Rating 0/10 Don't do it.

Card Art & UI

I really like all the card art this year, its a plus! The ripped paper look at the top is a great touch! Great job art team!
Rating 10/10!!

Overall I give MLB 24 a 5/10, The lack of Creativity and nothing really new doesn't give me a lot of excitement to want to play everyday. Do it do it. Yes. I just want to see SDS revamp the game. It must be lack of competition that they release the same game each year and think its okay. I'd love to see 2k, EA, or another developer make a Baseball game, then we could see the real SDS back. Maybe one day.

Thank you so much for reading. I'm looking forward to comments!

I think mini seasons is uninspired and boring.

They could have done a lot with this mode, but its just conquest without simulating spots on a board.

My biggest complaint, i've played two different teams that have generated full collections complete, and the most recent team has Andrew Miller, so i guess whoever i matched up with is rich lol. The CPU seems to cheat on the higher difficulty so i have to play on Veteran to make sure I win. lol.

I wish before each series they had a cut scene breaking down the team your playing's last few games, or telling us more about the team's history (even though its made up). or just something other than a paragraph.

Instead of them randomly generating teams from online, they should have made up players and give them complete backstories and their history, then they could have put leaderboards, by showing who played the best vs those teams.
Its just playing the cpu 20+ times for the Longeria card and thats the only reason i'm playing, and it sucks he is stuck behind that grind...

Come on SDS, where is your creativity at?

@spin_doctor01_psn said in I have officially become a Joke at MLB The Show.:

@jcassaro44_psn said in I have officially become a Joke at MLB The Show.:

I’d say that the meta of this game hasn’t changed in years and now everyone knows how to play, uses monitors and the player base has expanded, So it’s even harder to be good at this game.

Yeah that all sounds very nice and logical. But the OP just said the dude struck out 18 times and only got one run, probably because an accidental home run, playing in a cast and is just a casual player.

The op is an experienced player so, I don't see how that plays into the "meta" of whatever you're talking about. If you look at 90% of the post around here you will see that a lot of people think the "meta" has absolutely changed, other than the fact that it's still a baseball game.

My opponent In this game had all of his hitters with .250 ba and lower. He hit a solo homer bc I threw 1 fb up and in and he turned on it. I put a lot of balls in play and wasn't rewarded with any xbh.

I've been playing mlb the show since 06 and this is the lowest the game has been.

I honestly miss mlb 10-14 when I used to play with franchise with the Reds and play every game and win the world series. I'd make the same trades as the irl Reds. It was much more fun than this.

I'm thinking about going back to that for 23, bc DD isn't fun.

@Teak2112_MLBTS Disagree. I'd rather play a complete play vs cpu. I can control the difficulty & quit when needed.

The honesty answer was the May 12th hitting update. It really messed up hitting beyond repair in my opinion. I finally made WS on Saturday, my opponents were less than amazing. Hitting has been horrible since that last update.

There was definitely a change in the gameplay starting May 29th. I started this season 11-2 and at 850, i've done nothing but struggle in Ranked too. Even guys like Koogs and Shelfy have struggled. They 100% made changes that weren't needed.

My one request for MLB 22 is they revamp the ENTIRE hitting engine. No more PCI junk that means nothing.

I just lost a game to a guy with over a 100 loses this year, Larry Walker has 125 power but misses the center of the PCI by a half an inch and it is popped up in the infield.

I would love it if they can try something new and give us a system that would actually make sense.

I cannot understand how anyone can get to 1000 rating or 40 wins, because after 2 games of playing ranked a day, i'm done playing for a few days. The amount of weird PCI feedback and losing just makes MLB 21 boring and uninspiring to play.

Great idea and I love the concept. Too bad that would require effort on SDS part, and they only want the easy way. They've proven that from MLB 20-22.
Example, Mini Seasons.

@the_dragon1912 said in I have zero interest in Moments Extreme.:

While I agree they have grown somewhat tiresome, extreme is awesome imo. It brings a lot more life to these modes

Sure, it was a great idea 2 years ago.

SDS is so lazy and lost any creative ability. They want to go to the well once more, instead of coming up with something new!

@Blind_Bleeder said in Anyone actually still having fun?:

@Weshill627_PSN said in Anyone actually still having fun?:

@Blind_Bleeder said in Anyone actually still having fun?:

I am, but I stay away from the parts I don't like (except opening packs - that's a necessary evil). No online, showdowns, mini-seasons (which are okay, but I feel they are a waste of my time), or events.

I have eight conquest maps to finish, TA3, TA4, and the August MA - so I have a lot to do...so yeah, still having fun.

I'm happy at least someone is, the game has become super stale to me.

Give Franchise or MTO a shot. Franchise can be more challenging than MTO (depending on how involved you get with your team), but they are both fun modes.

I have been playing MLB The show since 06 lol, ive done just about everything there is to do in the game lol
I tried MTO it is BORING, just more CPU griding at this point haha.

I find it hilarious that people actually believe that since Sets & Seasons are going to be removed that MLB 25 is going to be great. That is far from the truth.

S&S weren't really that big of an issue in MLB 24.

SDS really needs to put all of their money they are allocating for legends into their network structure. I could run out a team of all the top 10 players of all time and still not have fun bc the balls warp and don't even look right. IDK how many times I've attempted to steal a base and the runner stops middle of the way and walks to the base and gets tagged out. If they can't overhaul their network they should at least allow me to narrow down my search of players.

Let me search for people on the East coast - PS5 specific. would i may have to wait extra time, maybe but having a smooth game is better than having a laggy game that I can compete. I am really tired of playing people in the DR & PR and it just lags the entire time. No one will accept a friendly quit anymore. So i'm just stuck in a laggy game for an hour bored.

WE NEED more game modes. I can guarantee all the people praising S&S being gone are the ones who probably still won't be playing the game today. I have 950 hours in MLB 24, and even with content coming out tomorrow, im still going to be bored, bc we get these new cards just to play a laggy ranked game.

We need SDS to please give us new modes and fix the network.

Issue #1 - Feedback goes away to fast to review data given.

Best way to describe it is.....Easy but boring. They really need new ideas for MLB 21. I am bored of moments, they aren't as much as last year, but I did ALL of the moment grinding last year. I have only completed the Bellinger moments and a few from the Team Affinity. The CPU can't throw a strike for nothing. I had to hit a HR with Zunino, after what felt like my 20th attempt, I finally hit a HR only for the CPU to rob it. Perfects are hit directly to fielders. I started the moments at 6PM after work, by 11PM EDT, i had them all completed. The moments Idea was great last year, but please SDS find another way we can grind.

Lucky! I opened all the packs from 5th inning conquest, showdown, through 200 stars and some events. 2 headliners Best pull - Stanton. I cant remember my last diamond lol

Tbh, I dont believe SDS knows the answer to this question lol

Actually...in my personal experience, its been the easiest Ranked Seasons of the year. I stopped grinding it back in June, two reasons,
1: rewards weren't really that good
2: I wasn't having any fun with the game.

So, I basically only played an hour or two a week, this is from someone who played 900 hours of mlb 19.

I played 4 games of ranked for July went 2-2 didn't play anymore.

I started at 400 this season and I am 11-0 and made it all the way to 801 rating. I am going to keep grinding it out and try and get to ws this weekend. I feel like if the game isn't fun and you aren't doing well. A break is needed, these cards aren't going to be used in 6 months so no need to be upset about it.

The only issue that i've had with showdown this year isn't the missions or being down 15-0. its the fact for the team affinity grind, if you do not want to do exchanges they make you do it 99 times in order to not spend more than 1,000 stub per entry. I wish it was only 1 time per team. I find it gets very repetitive and that's why i only have 4 teams at 100% right now. lol