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I agree I have Xbox series X and never pick created stadiums when playing online. Now when I’m playing the cpu and grinding away XP I always pick the shortest stadium with max elevation. H2H isn’t fun seeing your opponent getting rewarded time and time again for home runs on weak hits.

This is my biggest gripe since I started playing in 2020.

@PAinPA_PSN said in Why does sds even have a forum?:

@wildthingwilly_PSN said in Why does sds even have a forum?:

@BJDUBBYAH_PSN said in Why does sds even have a forum?:

@wildthingwilly_PSN said in Why does sds even have a forum?:

@BJDUBBYAH_PSN said in Why does sds even have a forum?:

@wildthingwilly_PSN said in Why does sds even have a forum?:

They get the gameplay criticized every day, look at it (maybe...) and even if the issues are substantiated with reasoning they just shrug their shoulders and leave the same issues alone.
Issues we've complained about for years:
1.fielders go braindead or won't charge balls
2. Pitches that are perfect still just go wherever at times
3. Sinkers..... I've given up on this one, I'm lying ill be back
4. Hitting desyncs (hits a foul perfect)
5. Can't hit opposite field without it feeling like swing a nerf bat (was perfect in mlb 18 then they patched it bc people couldn't throw corner sliders all game)
6. Balls an inch outside of the zone can't be hit as well even with the dot right on the ball
7. runners go braindead
8. 3rd basemen play bunt defense and diving stop a ball hit 110
9. Balls always seem to hang up for ages in the gaps even hit hard
10. Ball is low and away, pulls it for a hr. Hits the same pitch to center and its always a line out

I could go on and on and these are almost all legacy issues, but yeah let's worry about making cards work in sets to increase profits. Screw the customers, make investors happy.

That’s free market capitalism. The only way to change it, is to not buy the product.

They have no competition, it's a legal monopoly on the market due to licensing

RBI Baseball, Out of the Park Baseball, Super Mega Baseball.

You know [censored] well that's not actually comp. Actual comp would be another big studio being licensed by the the mlb to make a baseball game, but for the league it makes more sense ro just have 1 company do it

SDS does not have nor has it had an exclusive license. These other companies could if they wanted to, in mid 2000s there were several major baseball titles, the companies gave up on them,money can't be the reason either,these games dropped out at a time when future projections would have shown the expanding online market and expanding of the profit line,so there must be other reasons why.

Either way the point still stands that those issues all exist and don't get fixed due to there being no comp

@wildthingwilly_PSN said in Perfect pitch?:

@iBonafideScrub_ said in Perfect pitch?:

This always happen to me when the other person is on McWiFi

Yeah, bc ik it's not mine. I never lag. Meanwhile the game is freezing while dude is taking swings or his fielders are doing moonwalks

Yeah, the person was probably playing on WiFi and nit even close to the router. You can bet the house on it.

I was using the TA season 1 Keston Hiura and held a guy at first on a sure double so his contact wouldnt drop from 100+ to his 62 clutch rating lol

Pitching is getting better, averages will continue to decline

@killerpresence4_MLBTS said in Why is the sinker still so janky?:

@wildthingwilly_PSN said in Why is the sinker still so janky?:

@killerpresence4_MLBTS said in Why is the sinker still so janky?:

@wildthingwilly_PSN said in Why is the sinker still so janky?:

It's pretty simple. The higher you throw a sinker it just shouldn't have downward movement. I shouldn't watch a high pitch sink into the top corner or have it start top corner and drop middle inside as a ball. That's just not how sinkers move. You have to get on top of the ball and spin it to make it drop. You can't get on top of a pitch at the top of the zone. They should be little flying saucers that get cranked when you throw them high, not the best pitch in the game.

Ahhhh what the ——- are you talking about? Get on top of the ball??? Make it spin for it to drop??? Where did you get this info??? A sinker sinks because of the orientation of the seams on the ball at the release point. Has nothing to do with being on top of the ball!!! Actually you will find most sinker ballers are not over the top throwers. They are usually high 3/4 arm angles. Most sidearm/submariners also throw sinkers. Spencer Strider is great example of over the top and his ball does not sink at all. In fact his ball has what they call hop which means it appears to actually rise as it approaches the strike zone hence why so many people swing under it even when the ball is low in the strike zone.

Yeah, the 3/4 arm angle guys usually throw it low to get swing and misses and they do get on top of the ball. Your arm pronates when you throw a sinker. If you try to throw sinker high it will literally just be a flatter 2 seam. Getting that specific spin along with the seams causes it to drop and that spin won't happen as much if you throw it high. It will drop very slightly, but the pitch breaks the same in the game whether you throw it head height or in the dirt

Your arm pronates naturally bud. Sinkers don’t cause you arm to pronate anymore or less. Not sure where you are getting this information.
I'm not saying it prorated more. I'm saying most pitchers slightly exaggerate it for a sinker, and the spin along with the seam alignment allows for the sink and it sinks more if you throw it low because you are quite literally throwing the ball downward

@Honor_The_Game44_PSN said in Has anyone noticed timing this year is funky?:

@wildthingwilly_PSN said in Has anyone noticed timing this year is funky?:

@Honor_The_Game44_PSN said in Has anyone noticed timing this year is funky?:

@wildthingwilly_PSN said in Has anyone noticed timing this year is funky?:

@Tylerslikewhoa_XBL said in Has anyone noticed timing this year is funky?:

Sounds like someone is playing on wifi

I'm not speaking on the timing of the swing, but the windows themselves. Like, how is a pitch on the outer half lined opposite field a slightly early swing. It doesn't make sense

It could still be slightly early if it should have been sat back on even more. If it is on the black and you hit it to straight away right/left, it would be slightly early.

You should be able to hit an outer half pitch really solid from center all the way foul opposite hand side. That's how hitting a baseball works. Trout hit a ball 470 last year to center on a ball directly in the corner

I’m not saying you can’t hit a ball hard, But you can’t hit a pitch on the black to straight away center and have “perfect timing”.

I'm not saying perfect, but it shouldn't be a line-out directly at the center fielder everytime either like it is now

I mean Live series cards are not viable buy June 1st most years so I don't think it's an issue.

They have done a much better job make more active players into usable cards instead of just a run of legend cards

@ShowProdigy_MLBTS said in Full out rant on set 2:

@wildthingwilly_PSN said in Full out rant on set 2:

Set 2 is a disaster. They made it so if you actually play the game you can't actually profit off of the programs anymore. Only way to make stubs is to sit on the market, guess on cards which they never upgrade who actually should. It's so corny to make stubs now. I get sheckels thrown at me for playing games. I would say I could make it to ws to get a ws card and sell it, but sds thought it would be hilarious to reset my rank 3 times in 1 day, "seasons over!!" 3 times bruh. so I have to start in spring training. Sent in tickets about that and the no xp and haven't heard back in 3 days now. Don't start this bogus EA stuff where you just funnel people into the store to buy stubs please.

Ppl really care about making stubs in the market? I mean, I've heard comments about it but is that a fun thing?

Market is the best way to make stubs. Pretty much have the live series collection done. All I need is goldsmidt. Usually I'd just play and sell a card and buy it back later, but now I can't

I think they released all this stuff on Friday then bailed for the weekend.

Yup people can get around it.