MLB Home Run Derby 2023 Reviews

The pitchers never throw strikes

Who Is Doughnut

They don’t throw strikes

Love it

Booty10581

I love this game, it’s so addictive. I wish the ballpark prices were a little cheaper. Also I wished you could choose between daytime and nighttime playing. It’s hard to see the pitches during the daytime parks. Thanks

Problems

piratea68

This game is alright, but the leader board freezes, and it rips you off boosts when your opponent has connection issues...it also steals bonus packs from me

Comprehensive ongoing review.....

mifune21

Unable to submit issues to customer support...probably by design. If any of their staff read this, you people should be compensating any users who have spent actual money on your app. You have consistently and continually stolen from us. I would implore MLB to show some ownership and integrity because at this point, my opinion of your entity is tarnished. Foremost, I must ask "why are HR batting practice pitchers throwing nasty breaking pitches randomly and arbitrarily?" Throw strikes you freaking idiots. 4th update 8/14/18; a great thing to understand going into this game is that "waiting for opponent" or "opponent having connectivity issues" is the designers way of saying "our servers are iffy at best and we are too busy adding to our slush fund to reinvest and upgrade". The amount of purchased boosts I've lost because of this is in the hundreds. Also and Again, I can't stress enough that the glitches in the game -especially at the start of a multiplayer match" will be the difference and cost you the match if your opponent is a better than average player. This is tantamount to the designers being ok with a rigged game. I purchased a "legends player" that is only upgradable via the uber rare cards that MAY, on RARE occasion, show up in a gold pack. Soooooo lame. Why did I bother? Maybe YET ANOTHER chris young card will help.....Awful business model. Frankly, I've spent enough funds (regretfully) at this point to try to enjoy what I can out of it. If you're considering checking this game out, don't. It's flaws are maddening and not worth it. I've continued to voice my experience here with no response or offer to comp anything. These people are garbage. If you're interested, here are previous notes below including straight monetary theft committed against me. -------------------------- 3rd UPDATE; again had rewards lost for no reason at all. I had placed in the 1st tier with a reward of 2 gold packs. I started to open them and poof! Vanished! According to the market, a gold pack costs almost $500 mlb bucks -would cost approximately $20 US dollars of real money to purchase -X's 2!!!!! (That's $40 if you follow) Once again, MLB owes me actual money. 2nd UPDATE; without question, MLB owes me money for funds I have spent that their glitchy game has taken. Their customer service form fails to submit (again, probably by design). They have sold me a product that they have stolen away either through negligence or otherwise. My frustrated tone has nothing to do with winning or losing. It has to do with them absolutely stealing money from me. This should be reported to the BBB or the like and MLB should be fined and restitution given to anyone who has spent any actual money on this app. UPDATE; CLEARLY RIGGED! Just enough to frustrate you into spending your hard earned cash for upgrades. Given it's MLB, maybe those upgrades should include PEDs? the glitches are pretty regular and have contributed to lost matches. I have lost dozens upon dozens of passive boosts and have hit many home runs that were simply not counted and costed me matches! I hit back-to-back jacks over 100 feet inside the foul pole that were simply disregarded! Very, very maddening. -the game is glitchy - which can cost you boosts and matches. -arbitrarily throws bad pitches -which when playing multiplayer mode can cost you the game. BP should just throw strikes! -server issues for some players can cost YOU passive boosts (which are already pricey) -the card pack as a reward is almost a joke. I would figure most players would look to develop a single player so the vast majority of the cards are worthless. -I purchase the Father's Day pack and got the special edition cleats, batting gloves and bat. Now that those packs are over, I have no apparent way to upgrade my investment! Weak. -for true fans, the hr distance is a bit inconsistent, although I enjoy the outlandish readings for 700 plus feet! For something licensed by MLB baseball -who preach ethics through their image (domestic violence policy, ped testing, etc), I found the set up of this game a bit iffy and smacks a bit of camouflaged greed.

Ok at best.

Southernyankee81

Home run derby is about hitting home runs not chasing the ball all over the plate. Make it about hitting home runs. All the upgrades cost too much and the reward at the end doesn't justify the price.

Bad

hellbound705

The game dose not start I download it 2 time and both time it will not even start is keeps saying loading error

Needs to be create a player option

DakotaFuqua

Love the game but the only thing that could make it better is if there was a create a player option

Just deleted the game

Wanted to fish

Why bother playing when the computer can hit 3 home runs in the time it takes you to hit 1 can the programmers at least try not to make it so obvious that they cheat. Just a follow up from my previous 1 star review. After the update there are more glitches. Again the computer still is cheating. Foul balls take over 20 seconds to reset from pitch to landing. When neck and neck all of a sudden all your hr’s are 15-20 second for fly balls. Again with the 2 hr’s for every one pitch I get. Continues with the last minute hr’s for the opponent after time is up. Oh if you get a phone call during game play, forget about the game pausing. It’ll continue to run down the time, somehow causing your 10 hr lead with less than a minute to go to be beaten by 5. Yet somehow I’ve calculated that you get 10 seconds between pitches. And when going head to head you shouldn’t be allowed to use boosts. Skill versus skill.

Almost rigged

Ocmommy2

This is an unrealistic home run derby game. Aguilar and Harper 99% of the time win and I’ve played about 35 derby’s and Only won 1. The real pitchers don’t throw curveballs when you’re about to win. If you’re thinking about downloading think twice.

Glitched supposed pvp

Docryde

Non existent customer support no matter how good you hit, they always add one to opponent at end. I hit perfect no misses he missed once and at the end I was winning then he passed me. Weird how it shows end and they always add 1 more to the opponent at the end. When time expires you can’t add runs.