it should be a 5 man rotation that gets locked for 5 games. after 5 you can change your rotation again the way its done now its as if we are playing game 7 of the WS every game

if you want arcade baseball go play slugfest or mario baseball. MLB the show has always been a sim style game having batting averages of .400+ up and down the lineup along with 5+ era's is not actual baseball. Yes mistake pitches should be crushed, yes hitting should be fun & rewarding but the same way you find 6-5 games boring I along with alot of ppl find consist 15-13 games boring because it's not baseball the sport the game is trying to simulate.

loved the stat grind of 18??? you are a special kind of crazy sir, kidding aside a mix of 17 & 19 would be cool but nothing from 18 should ever be added to any game

It makes so much sense after reading the reports I remember watching in 17 & 18 and my yanks couldn’t get a ball past any hitter it was so mind boggling since we had never seen such dominance before and here it was in back to back years.

Not quick selling is huge in 19 you could get the collections done for around 500k with the proper plan. Now it’s easily going to be a million+ all year long

All I ask is please do not ignore this topic and just address if it'll be back or when itll be back. I understand DD is the big mode but that doesnt mean fans of other modes should suffer. Servers should be better now, there are more players today so I imagine the player base of OF would be bigger and lastly, I love DD but we need other things to do other than collecting cards and playing with god squads really miss the strategy that went into OF.

@cvogsfashow said in Online Franchise:

@STI1489 said in Online Franchise:

@cvogsfashow said in Online Franchise:

@Dounte said in Online Franchise:

Omg.. Why is there such disdane on a mode that you guys don't care for? Just why? Why even comment with the same garbage people have been saying for years? The same people who spew this hidden hatred for us OFM guys just want it to burn so that more attention is given to DD.. I can not wait until this CREATED LEAGUE thing busses their bubble.. Please, just go away!! We've heard it long enough! Jeez..

I am just tired of people constantly complaining about the game mode not being in the game. They removed it years ago and gave reasons why they did remove it and at the time they said they have no plans on it returning in the future. The created league thing may be the best thing to keep you happy and I am happy about that.

Complaining about not having this game mode is just as annoying as people complaining about lineouts in this game. Everyone knows it's an issue don't need to repeat it everyday.

We are complaining bc ultimate team modes have effectively killed any other modes in sports games especially the show.

I love both OF & DD but as I get older I see myself wanting to play mostly OF because of the time commitment that DD requires. Whether it is grinding through RS, moments, missions and etc DD requires a lot of time no matter how good you are.

OF allows someone to keep playing but not have to log in every day to keep up with content while also giving ppl something new to do in 20 im entering my 5th year playing DD and its getting old the reason I keep going is because I love the sport and love the competition of RS.

No one is saying DD should not be the main focus for SDS lets be real its how they make most of there money but ignoring other aspects of the game is not good either. Look what happened to COD last year they took out the campaign and as per them not too many ppl played it yet there was an uproar and they had to bring it back for this year's game. There should be options like there are in other games.

You are trying to compare the only offline aspect of a COD game to a small portion of what is an online mode called Online Franchise....terrible comparison. Furthermore, 17 million copies sold in the first 8 days and this is while Fortnite was at its peak. Don't say not too many people played it. And this years game is made by a completely different dev team and company. Anyway, here are some stats for you as to why they dropped it. In 2017, the last year of OF, there was a total of 493,000 games played in OF. SDS sold 1.09million copies of MLB the Show 17. That means on average each user played less than half an OF game. Compared to the average 75 games of RS a user played. There was a total of 81,800,000 RS games played. Yet, OF put as much stress on the servers as DD did.

I pray that this custom league mode is similar to OF so you all can enjoy.

The comparison sticks because ACTIVISION the owner of COD regardless of the publisher wanted to concentrate on multiplayer and nix anything that could not be monetized. They had to revert back because of the backlash. Yes, the noise is much bigger coming from the COD community because of the number of players but the principle is the same gaming companies are doing away with anything that can not be monetized. Sports games are headed in the same direction as shooters.

What you fail to realize is everything you stated was when SDS was a smaller company. Also if DD had come out like OF with minimal effort put into it the player base would be just as small. OF never took off like DD bc of the of bugs that it had. My honest opinion is SDS is holding out because they fear if OF did come back in its full capacity DD would take a major hit that's why they will probably wait until the game is multiplatform.

The new custom league sounds nice but ill wait to see exactly what it is. If it turns out to be just a mode inside DD where you can only play 1 season then its still a bust.

In general I am excited we have some sort OF back and I think this is a 1st step for the mode itself which can expand in next years game.

I do have 1 critique there is no incentive to have 20+ team lgs with regular MLB teams. Since there’s no rebuild potential and FAs won’t be a thing there’s really no way to rebuild the lesser teams which was a great challenge in OF. Yes maybe you’ll find guys to come play with them but it’ll be an endless revolving door since players will get frustrated and quit.

Like I said I’m still excited and this will probably turn into my main mode. Might end up playing DD mainly to build a nice team for custom league itself. Curious to see other ppls opinions on this topic.

Dennis “el presidente” Martinez as well

@SelahsDaddy1974 said in Does the new patch.......:

Does it affect Custom Leagues? In the patch notes it says for multiplayer Competitive modes....Guys in my Custom League are saying it's only DD

why should your care? You made a league and deleted it out of nowhere then asked to join mine and quit before playing a game.

@maurice91932 said in Not a fan of new pitching rotation rule anymore:

@STI1489 said in Not a fan of new pitching rotation rule anymore:

it should be a 5 man rotation that gets locked for 5 games. after 5 you can change your rotation again the way its done now its as if we are playing game 7 of the WS every game

Well, we kind of are doing that. When your sitting at 895 in ranked and you need that win to make WS, you should be able to use your entire roster, in whatever way possible, to pursue the win.

With that said, I don’t think I have once used a starter out of the pen, but I like having that option. Furthermore, in my experience, it has taken four games to get to full strength.

I think a lot of people must be throwing starters out there that aren’t fully energized. I don’t do that.

Edit: Actually, I have used a starter out of the pen once.

sure you can use anyone in your roster but it only takes 3 games to be back in full energy so in reality, all you need is a 3 man rotation and your 4 & 5 are long pen options this is an issue. Either it should be you have to use your 1-5 in order or energy must be lowered. Right now guys can run there starter for 4 bring in another for 2 another for 2 and a bullpen piece for 1. Then the 2 starters that went 2 innings in the previous game are good to go in the next game

it should be a 5 man rotation that gets locked for 5 games. after 5 you can change your rotation again the way its done now its as if we are playing game 7 of the WS every game

@Rbase_96 said in Mookie Betts trade:

the media is no doubt only speaking about worst-case scenarios and making people panic but at this point you have to ask yourself why is the government taking such extreme measures for something some say is just a flu. We will never get the full truth but at this time saying all of this will blow over by may seems off. I could be wrong i am no expert but I like gathering info from multiple places and coming up with a middle ground.

Here in the Netherlands the government is very up-front with their reasons for the (near-)lockdown: A lot of people will be infected regardless of the measures they take, but they're trying limit the number of people getting ill and needing care at the same time to stop hospitals from overflowing. To be honest, it works pretty well so far as long as people oblige to the rules. Germany has even stricter rules in place and the number of new infections per day there is staggeringly low for such a contagious virus.

In my view the main reason why this pandemic is taken so seriously is that we currently don't know exactly how to handle the virus. Give it a few years and i'm positive that there will be a way of curing even the most vulnerable groups.

everything you said makes sense and I too believe this is all an effort to not overflow hospitals like has happened in Spain and Italy hopefully, this ends sooner than later and we can go back to arguing baseball

@KyleS779 said in Mookie Betts trade:

@dart_wuffy said in Mookie Betts trade:

@DriveByTrucker17 said in Mookie Betts trade:

@MathMan5072 said in Mookie Betts trade:

Nope. We got to watch two weeks of Spring Training. So, not nothing. And, the dodgers get to pay him a lot more money. Glass half full my friend.

Since we’re technically in a national emergency right now, I don’t believe players will be paid if we don’t have a season. It’ll come down to the decisions made about whether the season counts as a full year of service time or not.

The players union and MLB have already reached an agreement to pay players an emergency sum of money per player for the time missed until the season starts back up. Contrary to what the media may say this is going to be done and over with by May.

I wonder if opening pitch may be by Easter. I believe, same as you, that they find a way to get in most games.

if mlb said we are up and running again players would still need 4 weeks of spring training this has been said its everything goes well maybe june or july

@dart_wuffy said in Mookie Betts trade:

@DriveByTrucker17 said in Mookie Betts trade:

@MathMan5072 said in Mookie Betts trade:

Nope. We got to watch two weeks of Spring Training. So, not nothing. And, the dodgers get to pay him a lot more money. Glass half full my friend.

Since we’re technically in a national emergency right now, I don’t believe players will be paid if we don’t have a season. It’ll come down to the decisions made about whether the season counts as a full year of service time or not.

The players union and MLB have already reached an agreement to pay players an emergency sum of money per player for the time missed until the season starts back up. Contrary to what the media may say this is going to be done and over with by May.

the media is no doubt only speaking about worst-case scenarios and making people panic but at this point you have to ask yourself why is the government taking such extreme measures for something some say is just a flu. We will never get the full truth but at this time saying all of this will blow over by may seems off. I could be wrong i am no expert but I like gathering info from multiple places and coming up with a middle ground.

@DirtySixThirty91 said in Does the new patch.......:

Gonna have to mark the quitter down in my notepad make sure they don’t join the leagues I’m in.

smart there's always ppl like this and I don't understand it when I was in his league alot of us had already played 3-4 games before he deleted it.

@SelahsDaddy1974 said in Does the new patch.......:

Does it affect Custom Leagues? In the patch notes it says for multiplayer Competitive modes....Guys in my Custom League are saying it's only DD

why should your care? You made a league and deleted it out of nowhere then asked to join mine and quit before playing a game.

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@Nanthrax_1 said in its time for a new commentary team:

What people don't understand or care to, is the insane amount of time and development required in order to do this. It takes much longer than a year to get right. More like 3+ years. Not to mention the resources needed to secure a great broadcaster to give his time for this.

If thats true then this should already be in development. They need something new again this is a small thing nothing compared to gameplay but it would be refreshing for some new voices and homerun calls instead of SANTA MARIA!

nothing against the current crew they have done a great job all these years but its become so stale that I just mute them and play music. It would be very refreshing if next year we had a new trio of broadcasters there are so many talented guys today why not use them and rotate every 3-5 years. I understand this is a small thing but it does add to the game if done right.