MLB The Show 21 is, yet again, a really good sports game – review forthcoming – but there are some aspects which have attracted criticism since release. Road to the Show, the series’ popular rags-to-riches single player campaign, has been at the eye of the storm – especially in enthusiast communities, like on Reddit. Fortunately, the team at Sony San Diego has been monitoring the feedback – and has promised improvements.
Here’s the problem: the latest game unifies progression for your Ballplayer between the aforementioned Road to the Show and card collecting mode Diamond Dynasty. This, in concept, is cool because it means you can use your created player in both modes and still progress. Unfortunately, it’s introduced a number of issues not present in previous instalments.
Chief among them is the fact that progress is just extremely slow – especially if you’re only playing Road to the Show. This, according to Sony San Diego, will be improved in an upcoming patch: “We’re fixing an issue where ballplayers aren’t getting enough progress from Road to the Show training choices and base gains in a future update,” a blog post reads. It continues that the company will be buffing Archetype items in Road to the Show.
Some had complained that they felt like the series was pushing them towards microtransactions – we don’t agree, this definitely isn’t NBA 2K21 – but Sony San Diego has stressed that this isn’t its goal: “A Road to the Show player should feel like they can freely progress by playing Road to the Show and only Road to the Show. Any participation in DD is purely optional and at no point should anyone feel like they need to monetise to progress their Road to the Show career.”
Hopefully this is something it can tidy up promptly, because progression across the entire game feels quite stingy in general this year we feel. There’s no mention in the blog post about other Ballplayer-related issues – like the fact that you can only have one of ‘em – but it sounds like the developer has its hands full with this set of changes first.
[source theshow.com]
Comments 12
I wonder if Xbox players will do more micro-transactions since it’s F2P over there. 🔥
NOTE: Joke!
Seriously, though, glad it’s getting good support. I do hope patches are consistent between both platforms - for cross-play sake.
I’m playing the game for the first time on Xbox and started with Road to the Show. I thought that progress was ridiculously slow, but just figured I was in it for the long haul. Glad to hear it will be accelerated a bit. Now I’m awaiting the patch that makes it so I don’t suck at batting.
Yeah, this is a major issue. Created players in DD are just a dreadful concept as it is, unifying the progress just penalises offline only players. They really could have just kept it the same as last year. The only times I even saw created players in my >300 hours of last year’s game were people giving them abhorrently racist names.
Just started playing this game but only did a few exhibition games to get use to the controls and such. I guess I will hold off on The Road till the patch comes out.
@Tasuki how it went? my first inning with the new pitching controls was a 7 run 2 hits infinite amount of walks catastrophe, 2 or 3 games later I got a shutout
@Hypnotoad107 also felt it was slow, imagined is because I was not being good enough... I've been waiting to be patched for hitting for at least 6 years... hopefully it'll be there soon...
Theoritcally: the ball lights on the color on the pitch and then you identify the pitch, move the left joystick towards the ball depending on the pitch break so you can barrel it aaaaaaaaand then swing on perfect timing depending to the pitch speed
They say hitting is the hardest thing in sports, I guess is also the hardest thing in gaming
Yeah... they have a lot of patching to do....sounds of the show needs to be patched back in on PS5...while maybe not important to some a great many of us used this feature....and don’t get me started on graphics....they’ve looked the same the past 3-4 years...PS5 shoulda had some improvement....and don’t blame covid....
It's not just that the progression is slow. It is primarily that the progression is BROKEN. The whole progression revolves around upgrading your perks by performing in game tasks. These tasks are not tracking so if it says you need to steal 1 base and you get three in a game, it still says 0. It makes the game unplayable because none of your actions matter. I cannot believe this has not already been fixed seeing has we are now officially past the official launch.
Wow. This is interesting. It’s entirely possible that Sony has updated its contract for 3rd parties to disallow them releasing games on PS4/5 for full price IF the competitor(who is 10+ times more wealthy) is willing to give its customers said game for borderline free. I hadn’t even thought that this was a possibility!
@Hypnotoad107 I've been waiting for that patch since The Show 18. Any day now...
Nothing is working for me dude. Not as a 2 Way Player anyways.
It seemed to work originally with my slugging 1B that was a full time position player, but nothing for 2 Way. Switching between Loadouts in between game doesn't work either lol.. Why make the entire mode based off of one form of progression and being a 2 Way Player if the entire premise of it doesn't work at all..
I actually play DD as well and was hoping to rip some RTTS and actually progress my player enough to be able to slot him on my DD team. Doesn't seem like that's going to happen now.
1. You can only play the position you're locked to in RTTS, and have to sim games until you can request a new change. Before, there was a version of your create a player for every position.
2. It used to cost up to 200k stubs in order to have a maxed out create-a-player with diamond gear and stats.
Now people are making videos where they spend 1M stubs.
"Some had complained that they felt like the series was pushing them towards microtransactions – we don’t agree"
When people are making videos of them spending 5x the previous amount required, this is 100% a move to further monetize the game.
You'd think that with how many games that have died to greed and MTX in the past decade, you wouldn't be ignorant enough to not see the signs.
Show Comments
Leave A Comment
Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...