I've been keeping my opinion to myself ever since the game launched, because I didn't dive into the online game modes right away. I usually grind some of the offline stuff first to build a somewhat decent team and that's exactly what I did. That meant I couldn't really give an objective opinion on the game since I didn't play online enough yet and for most of us this game centers around the online game modes.

Let me start of by saying that even though I consider myself an upper tier/elite player, this opinion is mine and mine alone. My opinion is not weighing heavier than any offline player or the more casual type of player whatsoever. You do not have to agree with anything I say, but I do ask you to respect my opinion as I will respect yours.

I can describe this game in an online environment in its current state as following:
I can not pitch.
I can not field.
I can not hit.
And yet somehow I can still win.

I throw so many meatballs and I can't control a single pitcher. Good releases sometimes lead to hangers down the middle. Horrible releases sometimes result in absolute dots on the black. Every pitch feels like spinning the wheel of fortune, I'm just lost when it comes to pitching, honestly.

When it comes to fielding, the obvious issue of outfielders not locking onto flyballs is a problem. I'm sure that will be fixed at some point. What annoys me way more is when the ball gets down and bounces off the wall, your outfielder is literally lost. There is no urgency to pick it up or throw it away quickly, you actually run past it often. Singles turn into doubles and doubles turn into triples because of this.

And the hitting.. I don't even know where to start. I struggle hitting fastballs, while I've always been a really good fastball hitter. Now I have to gamble and as a result that gets me out in front of almost every offspeed pitch. It only takes 1 inning for my opponent to figure this out. The funny thing is that an inning later I can be out in front on fastballs while I'm pretty certain that my reaction time is the same as before. It just feels off and inconsistent, I don't understand it.
I also tend to get under the ball a whole lot, while I'm not even slamming the PCI down. In my screen I align the ball in the middle of the PCI, yet the feedback says I got under it too much resulting in a good/okay flyout. This happens to me way too often.
The perfect/perfect idea is great. In reality only the perfect/perfect flyballs with power guys do real damage. I've lined out on perfect/perfect liners more often than not and perfect/perfect grounders are usually just groundouts or even double plays. You'd expect the perfect input would make you find the infield hole, which sometimes happens but not nearly enough.

All and all I'm just really disappointed more than anything. I was really hoping that we could leave 18 and 19 behind us and start moving in the right direction again, like a tweaked hybrid of 16+17 where the flaws of those games were fixed. But that's clearly not their vision for this franchise moving forward unfortunately.

For now I'll keep playing casually instead of competitively, hoping that future patches will resolve some of the stuff I mentioned, but I'm kinda pessimistic about it. Sorry. I usually quit playing ranked around Christmas, this year that might be a lot sooner.

@backerrrr44 said in Up and in Fastball:

If you result to the high and in fastball everytime you get into a jam.... I have no respect for you, that’s not how baseball is meant to be played

Sorry dude. If I notice you can't hit it, I'm gonna spam it until you show me you can. I couldn't care less about you respecting me or not, go practice on it and get better instead of crying about it here lol.

Pitchers do tend to get upset if you watch your homerun from the batter's box. I think that's a better analogy than the one you used. But more on topic, I don't get upset at all when people want to watch their homerun. But better believe it motivates me and I will replay each and every one from that moment forward.

Decided to jump in some ranked today and 2 games in a row I play the most salty, toxic and miserable people in the community it seems.
Yes, I declined your friendly quit offer. You're looking for a game to play, so play.

Both these guys made it their mission to make my life miserable for declining the friendly quit. Taking minutes to wind up between pitches, pausing for a minute and a half every inning, stepping off, throwing over to first base 5 times in a row while I don't even take a lead. I don't know if these shenanigans ever work out for anyone, but if anything it only gets me juiced up to absolutely obliterate you. I honestly don't understand why people are so toxic, salty and miserable. Just play the darn game man. Such a turn off to play like this every single game.

@KOTANK1334 said in compiling a list of dashboarders:

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever sen on this forum. They dashboarded. Gonna have to move on

I have to say I agree with this. As much I hate people who dashboard on my prestige eligible players, making a list of them to shame them later seems a bit extreme to me.

With the recent release of Madden 21 I once again came to the sad realization of how the sports gaming industry developed over the last 10 years or so. I haven't touched Madden (or any other EA Sports game) in years, nor will I ever again and it blows my mind that their business model is still sustainable because people just keep handing over their money like zombies.

MLB The Show is not as bad, for one reason and one reason only; you can earn the virtual currency by playing the game or working the market and therefore much of the content is not stacked behind a giant pay wall. Although it is for some people, like most of the casual players who have no time to grind the market. That isn't even my biggest gripe about these developments, it's the fact that developers have gotten lazy and the quality degrades every single year.

Make no mistake; MLB The Show has already cut online franchise because it wants to focus on Diamond Dynasty exclusively since that's where the money is made. And the quality of the game suffers because of it. Just look back at the last 5 editions of the game and ask yourself honestly how much of a (positive) change have been made. Almost everything is still the same, with minor tweaks and visual upgrades. Those are not significant improvements, even though they want you to believe they are. You could even make the argument it has gotten worse. And that goes against nature in a way; shouldn't a new game build on the good things of its predecessors and learn from the mistakes? The game looks and feels exactly the same since MLBTS 18. It plays different, due to minor tweaks and adjusted sliders, but are you telling me this is the best they could do in 3 years when 18 is generally regarded as the worst MLBTS game ever made?

Hell no. But as long as you keep playing DD/Ultimate Team and give them your money. This game could have been so much better by now, with all the technology and resources that are available. It's mind blowing and yet we keep accepting mediocrity and even pay a premium for a lazy unfinished product every single year.

I wish I had resources like Elon Musk and take the industry head on. I would outbid EA Sports, 2K Sports and Sony for the licenses and create a whole new line of sports simulation games where game quality and realism would be the top and only priorities with content available to all, instead of milking its player base for every hard earned dollar they have. Developed and funded (!) by people who are passionate about sports and the gaming industry, not by suits who only care about quarterly sales and their fat bonuses at the end of the year.

These companies can make tons of money by just selling the base games. The exclusive single player story games have proven that, like God of War and The Last of Us. I wish the sport games industry did a 180 and went back to that formula where passion and quality overshadow greed, not the other way around.

If you have some extra time on your hands (it's a lengthy video), I highly recommend you watch our brother Angry Joe in his Madden rant and reconsider your own perspective on the industry as it is right now and actively keep in mind that every dollar you spend in this industry is a dollar spent towards keeping things as they are.
https://youtu.be/UX5_6M5LLwA

Making a player program with wonderful moments where you have to hit multiple homeruns with a 60s power guy. That's exactly what everyone was waiting for, and we absolutely love spending time on these fantastic grinds. Especially having to hit a bomb off of Andrew Miller with 61 power is such a delight. Kudos.

Everyone who's hating on the guy here knows very well themselves that sometimes you can sit on something, know it's coming and you still can't hit it. Give him a break, he makes a valid point.

Wouldn't that be my problem and not yours?

I hope so, that would save me a couple of million stubs.

@Ikasnu said in 12-0 Billy Wagner:

@raesONE said in 12-0 Billy Wagner:

@teamJambon said in 12-0 Billy Wagner:

@Boneman05 said in 12-0 Billy Wagner:

@teamJambon said in 12-0 Billy Wagner:

I went 12-0 six times in the last 3 weeks and haven't seen him in any of the flawless packs I oppened...

SDS, could you add all the 12-0 rewards in the flawless packs like you did with the WS rewards so that we can actually get the flawless reward we want when we got 12-0?

It's impossible to buy these cards on the market, we should at least get the card we want when we go flawless.

Thanks,

Can you come to my house and get me 2 flawless mainly want it because I know I will never be able to get it and just need the sigs to complete the whole collection.

Going 12-0 twice won't even guarantee that you will get Feller, so you probably would have to go 12-0 more then 2 times to get him. That's why I created this thread, it should be an easy fix.

The real reason why you made this thread is because you wanted to hotdog about you achievements, because you know as well as I do that they ain't gonna do shite about it lol. Can't blame you though, it's a solid accomplishment and IIRC correctly it's true that you're not half bad at this game.

If I went 12-0 even once, I'd be posting about it here lol

And you should, there's no shame in sharing your pride when you accomplish something. I was just having some fun.

@teamJambon said in 12-0 Billy Wagner:

@Boneman05 said in 12-0 Billy Wagner:

@teamJambon said in 12-0 Billy Wagner:

I went 12-0 six times in the last 3 weeks and haven't seen him in any of the flawless packs I oppened...

SDS, could you add all the 12-0 rewards in the flawless packs like you did with the WS rewards so that we can actually get the flawless reward we want when we got 12-0?

It's impossible to buy these cards on the market, we should at least get the card we want when we go flawless.

Thanks,

Can you come to my house and get me 2 flawless mainly want it because I know I will never be able to get it and just need the sigs to complete the whole collection.

Going 12-0 twice won't even guarantee that you will get Feller, so you probably would have to go 12-0 more then 2 times to get him. That's why I created this thread, it should be an easy fix.

The real reason why you made this thread is because you wanted to hotdog about you achievements, because you know as well as I do that they ain't gonna do shite about it lol. Can't blame you though, it's a solid accomplishment and IIRC correctly it's true that you're not half bad at this game.

Definitely the work of vile spirits.

You're not calculating the odds correctly. Also, you're not able to calculate the odds correctly because you have no insight in how many packs are opened in total. You only know how many you've opened, but the odds on packs are for the entire population. You can get 1 diamond in 1000 packs and the odds they communicate can still be true.

Let's just hope they leave the game as we know it behind them and build something new and innovative from the ground up. It's time to move on, it was time to move on 2 years ago. If they continue to build on what we have now, this player base will be nonexistent in September.

People have been doing this since the days of Mary Magdalene

Sentiment.

@Matt_42187 said in Has anyone tried to use the MLBTheShow Reddit page?:

@raesONE said in Has anyone tried to use the MLBTheShow Reddit page?:

Sounds to me like they think you're someone who got banned on another account and now you've returned on an alt account.

You would think they could just look at the IP address and figure it out. Unless you use an IP app that changes every so often.

And maybe that is exactly what they did.

Sounds to me like they think you're someone who got banned on another account and now you've returned on an alt account.

Sliders in events are more generous