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

[redsox4evur]

Quote: Originally Posted by dherrera1015

Can someone enlighten me? I'm totally confused. Was the exploit in the in-game marketplace? Or were people buying stubs, cancelling the transaction on their credit card later, and then still getting the stubs without paying for them?

In game marketplace. The rumor is they would place a buy order on a player. Then when it came time to cancel the order to put in a new they would do it twice (once on the console and once on a tablet, phone, pc, etc.).

[cardinalbird5]

Quote: Originally Posted by ShowTyme15

This was sad and funny. Guy tried to call Ramone out and Ramone got him back. Guy did the exploit 41 times and got over 3 million stubs and had the audacity to ask what he did wrong. LOL the hilarity. Dude even said "Ramone I challenge you to tell what I did wrong."

I know that guy and he did nothing wrong. He is a disabled that plays the market a ton. He is actually going thru depression apparently. I know most probably wont believe him but we will see. Either way this has gotten out of hand.

Alot of misinformed ppl in here but thats ok....easy to criticize ppl n these situations. Alot of people are missing the point though. Noone is defending anyone who blatantly cheated the system. I am defending guys that were falsely flagged for whatever reason. I dont care what numbers their queries are spitting out...we all know sds made errors in the past.


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[redsox4evur]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ghost Of The Year

Wait, Sony claims to have fixed the exploit WEEKS ago, but it can still be exploited? That doesn't add up.

What happened was Sony fixed the exploit 2 weeks ago or whenever it was. And between the fixing of the exploit and the release of the mass bans 2 days ago they were looking at their data, checking it 3 times, to see who they were going to ban. So all these people were able to continue playing for X amount time before they got banned.

[ShowTyme15]

Quote: Originally Posted by cardinalbird5

I know that guy and he did nothing wrong. He is a disabled that plays the market a ton. He is actually going thru depression apparently. I know most probably wont believe him but we will see. Either way this has gotten out of hand. Alot of misinformed ppl in here but thats ok....easy to criticize ppl n these situations. Alot of people are missing the point though. Noone is defending anyone who blatantly cheated the system. I am defending guys that were falsely flagged for whatever reason. I dont care what numbers their queries are spitting out...we all know sds made errors in the past. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah clearly he did nothing wrong. According to Twitter you know a lot of banned users. Get over it man you guys got caught so cut the crap.

[Ghost Of The Year]

Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskins04

Touche. You can't accidentally trigger this 30+ or 40+ times, get 3 million stubs and be like "i challenge you to tell me what I did wrong". Um, no.

So you believe 100% of those banned were done so deservedly. From what I have seen in this thread, they have banned at least 1% wrongly. And that 1% is 100% too much.

[extremeskins04]

Quote: Originally Posted by cardinalbird5

I know that guy and he did nothing wrong. He is a disabled that plays the market a ton. He is actually going thru depression apparently. I know most probably wont believe him but we will see. Either way this has gotten out of hand. Alot of misinformed ppl in here but thats ok....easy to criticize ppl n these situations. Alot of people are missing the point though. Noone is defending anyone who blatantly cheated the system. I am defending guys that were falsely flagged for whatever reason. I dont care what numbers their queries are spitting out...we all know sds made errors in the past. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Dude he did it 41 times for 3 million stubs! You're going to tell me that he didn't know what he was doing?

Come on...please...just stop. lol

Quote: Originally Posted by Ghost Of The Year

So you believe 100% of those banned were done so deservedly. From what I have seen in this thread, they have banned at least 1% wrongly. And that 1% is 100% too much.

Yes the ones that did it 30+ times were banned deservedly.

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ghost Of The Year

Wait, Sony claims to have fixed the exploit WEEKS ago, but it can still be exploited? That doesn't add up. People ARE idiots. Sony has said doing this a few times is acceptable. I'm positive the great majorty deserved banning. But it sounds like Sony threw the baby out with the bath water & banned some people that didn't deserve it. Sony gives me stubs all the time, I don't know if it's intentional or not. I don't even have a clue exactly how many I have. I have no intention of using them. If Sony wants them back, they are welcome to climb into my ps4 & get them. But I'm not wasting my time keeping up with what stubs I think are legit mine, and then wasting more time on top of that tracking down what I think has wrongly been given to me. I would rather Sony just do away with all this stub businiess. It's a shame I can't just play baseball without having to worry about Sony beancounter **** up.

It cannot still be exploited.

[brainundead]

The cardinal youtuber mentioned the thing that got my attention and has me thinking.

I've never used their website or another device. I did everything market related on the console.

What I would do sometimes is, I'd put up 20 Atlanta players at a time, then I'd go and surf the internet after pushing the PS button, and let the game run in the background. I'd come back after 20 minutes and if nothing sold I'd take them all down and put up another team. Repeat. Is that the behavior that got flagged? I was making stubs while doing other things.

I kept videos at the end of April that show my 3 weeks long hot streak. I also kept a list of diamonds I pulled since day one.

I put 100 or 200 dollars (The visual evidence from the videos was that it may have been only 100) on my account and bought stubs in late April.

Date, Player, Stubs in the right top corner
4/27: Bryce Harper. Stubs:324.
4/27: Manny Machado. Stubs:Forgot to write it down. Had 4 20s waiting to be opened. I must have sold the Harper for 100k.
4/29: Bryce Harper. Stubs:477.
4/30: Diamond Bat + David Robertson. Stubs:78,771. Must have sold that Harper and decided to open packs 1 bundle at a time.
4/30 Diamond Equipment (Black Nike Cylinder, I can't even get into the game and check) Stubs: 139. I have 3 20s waiting. Obviously I bought 4 20s.
4/30 McCutchen. Stubs:5,398. I pulled another McCutchen around the same time but didn't keep the video. I sold them the same day a few weeks later.
5/1 Votto. Stubs: 306
5/5 Bryce Harper 99 Stubs: 11,903
5/5 or 5/9 I can't read my writing. Kenley Jansen. Stubs:1,585
5/11 89 Tulo. Stubs:14,723. 4 20s waiting to be opened. I must have sold the 5/5 Harper.
5/11 Paul Goldschmidt. Stubs: 81
5/11 Diamond Shoes. Stubs:2,987 1 20 left.
5/12 91 Andrew Miller. Stubs:3,038
5/12 Max Scherzer. Stubs:590
5/12 Gold Fowler, Lorenzo Cain. Stubs:48
5/12 Giancarlo Stanton. Stubs:1,601
5/13 Tulo 89 Stubs:128
5/18 Chris Sale. Stubs:2,145
5/19 Buster Posey. Stubs:1,132
5/20 Diamond Key. Stubs:154
5/21 Diamond Bat. Stubs:484
5/25 91 Matt Harvey. Stubs:15.

A $100 investment gave me all that. That's at least 600,000 stubs worth of cards. 1 full month of enjoyable mindless pack openings. I may be the first player ever banned because of pack luck.

Since that run ended at the end of May I haven't gotten much of
anything. I put another 100 on my account and sold most of those cards. I got nothing. The house took it all back. My sellable diamonds left are a Bryce Harper and Buster Posey.

Every good card I got came from pack openings. $600 in 4 months isn't going to make me poor or them rich. I never cheated anybody and didn't deserve getting banned.