SCEA Bans Many Players for Using Exploits in MLB The Show 16

[elbomberoloco]

Just listened to a podcast with some of the top guys, who also happened to be banned, something doesn't sound right with the allegations from Sony. The top guy got an explanation and according to him his top "exploit" was for 8,200 stubs, many for 20-100 stubs. He also brought up some great points that if there was an exploit he would have gone big as I think others would have too. Also he's the top guy he could probably play with all silvers and still win, he doesn't have the need for all the studs. Another guy dropped $900 real money, with proof of receipts, and that guy gets banned? One recurring theme is these guys spend A LOT of time playing the game and the market, not sure why Sony would target them. The lack of communications from Sony is very disheartening and concerning...today it's "stub glitch" ban, but tomorrow who knows. Hard to buy a product from a company that could end your entertainment for any reason they want...

[ubernoob]

Quote: Originally Posted by elbomberoloco

Hard to buy a product from a company that could end your entertainment for any reason they want...

Hasn't stopped Steam from taking over the PC World.

[elbomberoloco]

Quote: Originally Posted by ubernoob

Hasn't stopped Steam from taking over the PC World.

They randomly ban people from playing games they purchase?

[Factzzz]

Quote: Originally Posted by Speedy

Well. This has not been a good year for The Show.

Loll while that's true in many aspects, i'd guess that this year the Show has made more money than any other year.

[SmashMan]

Quote: Originally Posted by elbomberoloco

He also brought up some great points that if there was an exploit he would have gone big as I think others would have too..

I've seen this a lot and it always reads weirdly to me. "If I was exploiting, wouldn't I have done it for more?!" sounds like some odd justification.

Not saying they did or didn't exploit because I'm not in position to make that call, just saying it's not exactly a defense I'd use to prove my innocence.

[countryboy]

I don't know why people are so ready to believe someone that offers up justification/defense for being banned. I doubt you're going to get too many people who were banned to come right out and say, "yep I exploited the system. I cheated. I deserved to be banned."

[baseballsim]

I can't believe I was able to sit through the whole podcast but I did and it was very insightful. For those who feel they are still on SDS side I highly recommend that you listen to the podcast https://soundcloud.com/scorespace/the-bangate-tapes.

They had some folks that were banned call into the show.

PITCHING_REBEL, the #1 player on the leaderboards was banned. He has an email of one of the developers and supposedly received a list of orders that were flagged. Some of these orders were for a measly 150 stubs. Why would an individual try to exploit a game with a 150 stub order? The email apparently also pointed out that they had made zero errors with these results yet there seems to be some sort of glitch at least once a week like the Collections Glitch recently.

PITCHING_REBEL also mentioned he had over 1000 pages of transactions. I myself am at almost 900 pages.

PITCHING_REBEL also pointed out that these some or all of these flagged orders were dated on March 30th. The game was released on March 29th with major server problems. The Server performance was awful if you remember back then.

Another caller was Trevor who was one of the top 1% of exploiters. He was an aggressive card flipper but his strategy was no different than what he did last year. I think he said he had over 400 pages of transactions. 41 of those transactions were flagged with an amount of 3M stubs. Trevor earned 5 million stubs without even purchasing any stubs yet he's being penalized.

There's really no pattern to pinpoint what caused all of these bans that I can think of. None of these callers had one specific thing in common other than they all were heavy users.

After listening to this podcast I am very convinced that SDS made some sort of a mistake on their end.

[Steven78]

Banning players undeserving of it after they purchased a game for $60 plus having to pay to play online is inexcusable, if true.