The gameplay is largely the same, but with some very negative changes. Online, pitch warping/morphing has become a huge problem often coming at super inconvenient times. The ever present server instability really doesn't help hitters when facing guys who throw 100+, especially since they messed with timing windows online. Then we get to the really ugly stuff- specifically the card cap, which was set at a ridiculously low 20 in a not-so-subtle attempt to prevent NMS players from making stubs, and a blatant shove towards to micro transaction store. This was conveniently left out of any pre-launch streams et al and was not received well at all by the majority of the community. This is very much akin to another extremely unpopular move they made a few years ago: cutting XP gains in half. Ever since the massive turnover a few years ago, the game has gone consistently downhill and most of us can only hope that EA steps in and makes an MLB game again, or 2K. There's next to no content, made the brain-dead decision to remove everyone's favourite grind in TA, the content they do release is bare bones and extremely lacking and half baked. Some of the programs themselves (outside of the MP) are online only...which as mentioned before is an absolute circus now thanks to the rampant cheating problem. Offline DD is just as bad, CPU defense is back to being mega OP'd, outfielder speed isn't scaled correctly so extra-base hits are virtually non existent, and hitting itself has gotten worse, most hard hit balls in the air die on the track unless you're playing at Coors or Laughing Mountain

Hands down the dumbest **** I have ever played in my entire life. It’s an unoptimized, poorly designed, total waste of time. Playing this felt like a personal insult to my intelligence. Do yourself a favor and STAY AWAY. Don't waste a single second or a single penny on this garbage.

This game ****, they change nothing. It's the same game over and over. SDS is stubborn. So bad, that I deleted it.