A rant on that PCI Shrinkage "explanation"

I have mostly kept my mouth shut this year regarding gameplay because I don't expect much anymore. the game is what it is. but condescending, disingenuous, and misleading write-ups like this need to be called out, this shit pissed me off crazy.

like, put out a mediocre product. fine, whatever lol. i'll have my fun with it and move on. talking to us like we are stupid while mansplaining baseball to your community is fucking insane lmao

Yeah… after reading it again I misread the shit out of that lol It’s definitely a bug they cannot fix instead of it being an intended gameplay mechanic

I have never seen so much contradiction in one small paragraph lol ever. none of that makes any sense. if one point is true, the other cannot be. yet they are asserted to be equal truths? how?

I swore I wasn’t going to get this game this year but hearing that they got rid of pci shrinkage on stream was a huge selling point for me and I loved that they were listening to the community. we all fell for false advertising and overall the community deserves better.

^^^^^ i NEVER point to malice what can be attributed to incompetence but in this one instance it's indefensible. they lied about this pre-release.

I think PCI shrinkage is a bug they can’t fix. The whole “it was added to reduce foul balls” is them making an excuse for its existence.

i really want to fully believe this but if you remember they basically got rid of it entirely on GOAT for the last few weeks of its life before they took that difficulty out of the game. i swear they did

What do u expect? Game relies on RNG for contact results. It's a baseball simulation, user input DOES NOT "reign supreme" Fix - Shrink PCI, HOF as base difficulty, no fouls on very late swing, outs for bad pci placement. We want User input vs. User input to dictate results

The worst part about this is them saying “a dotted pitch is harder to hit” misses the entire point. It’s just a well-located pitch, not unhittable. If a hitter is looking for it, they can absolutely barrel it.

You want PCI enlargement pills?! I know I do.

doctors hate this one trick! (hanging curveballs)

It went from it’s gone, to ignoring the community for a month, to it’s there one out of two times, won’t tell you which one and when but the kicker is the explanation of what their thought process is, when they don’t use real world logic IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE GAME lmaooo

You can’t tell us you got rid of it only to have it in the game then give us this bs explanation

yep, that is the TLDR. whoever wrote that up has to think they are the smartest person in the room or something. how in the world do you type that out and not realize how ridiculous it is? "we said we would remove it. we didn't. but that is because we were right all along!"

I think they thought they fixed it realized they didn’t and don’t know how to truly fix it so wrote up this dumbass explanation like you said

They just need to be honest with the community, they can’t fix it. The old bait and switch worked this year by stating they got rid of shrinkage but it will not work again. If they can’t fix this problem then we have zero chance of them minimizing cheaters/bots.

Time to just suck it up now, put on your big boy pants and stop playing the game and supporting a dev team who lied to its consumers. It's that simple. Look forward to streams now that won't include MLB. LFG!

This didn’t seem like a big deal to me but yeah now it just seems like they don’t know how to properly fix it, but why not just give people clarity on that? Makes no sense why they keep telling us it’s intended when it’s clear nobody wanted it in the first place

regardless of how one feels about the mechanic, you can't tell consumers that you're going to get rid of something, straight up NOT do it, and then act like it's okay that you lied because you have a man-splanation on how it's actually a good feature! crazy

That shit made me lose hope I’m fine with bullshit in the game, I’m fine with problems they can’t fix. But I won’t sit here and be rage baited by patch notes, when I have a hole in my bat while Willie fouls off another pitch.

given how “good” SDS is at “fixing” things, pretty sure all they did was shrink the box on the front end for the strike zone and changed nothing on the backend which I guess works for making it ABS-like but they make it seem like it was a herculean effort

So are they saying any pitch down and away is a harder pitch to hit? And their talking about foul balls and not fixing the outer pci size is just fucking comical

literally anybody with a functioning brain would immediately just think to reduce outer pci sizes as a whole. why would we implement an overly aggressive inconsistent mechanic to represent some random person's "hitting dogma" ?

Literally the outer PCI is 1/4 of the strike zone on legend!Damn near the whole box on all star and they trying to say shrinkage is in to limit foul balls like gtfo,yo sds😂 to make it worse the sliders are going to get even worse low n away if they touch 1/16 of the fuckingbox

And I don’t think I’ve ever played a game who’s company completely false advertised like this to where it plays a factor or making it a good game and making it a terrible game just by that selling point they pitched

I’m not quite sure they actually play their game in any competitive scenario

SDS has thrown their hat in the ring with TakeTwo and EA as the slop circus of sports gaming continues. It’s embarrassing how titles somehow get worse every year now. Poor OG’s have to decide to fight the battle or flee the nonsense.

@MLBTheShow have your devs ever watched a game of your own product?

All this basically showed was they didn’t want to risk people not buying the game so they lied about getting rid of pci shrinkage to get more sales. And now since the game is out, they’re reverting back to what they first said. This can be the beginning of the end for them

It’s never bigger than I want it to be 🤣

Preach. This shit is destroying the game and they keep doubling down on it so they can sell us switch hitters and probably just keep that one senior guy who they got on to talk about shrinkage happy. I dare to say they probably keep it in because that dude has picked his Alamo.

Can’t they just put the coding in chat gpt and ask it to remove pci shrinkage 😭😭😭

These m’fers doubling down AND recanting their previous statement all in one feel swoop is just poetic at this point.

@thejmils01 I’ve been saying they don’t listen for years lmao

Man, watching SDS spit in the face of this community year after year got old. I’m so glad I haven’t given my money to this company for 4 years straigbt.

How dare a game try to be accurate to the source material and not have batters hitting .500-.600, and even the best pitchers having 10.00 eras

I was not buying the game until they said they were removing shrinkage. I will never give them another cent now.

an employee misspoke. grow up and stop crying

Class action lawsuit for false advertising

tulo def doesn’t have max stats or anything

With shrinkage the strike zone change is horrible! It will ruin the game.

This is just a small reason why I stopped playing DD last week. From pack odds making the ROI on the time spent on this game just god-awful to routine fly balls being dropped to the rampant cheating, this game is so unplayable. Goodbye SDS.

I have had multiple instances of down and away sliders being perfect timing in the dead middle of the pci and the pci shrinking to a peanut. They seriously think we’re so stupid they can just jumble some words together and we’ll all accept it. And it’s even more idiotic when the 3 99 batters in the game are all righties but it’s a disadvantage to use them over a switch hitter. It takes all of the fun of using different players out of a mode that should be what it’s built around.

Yep. I was definitely lied to before I decided to buy 26.