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I never played Online Franchise mode in MLB The Show

I must preface this post by saying I wasn't fortunate enough to play Online Franchise mode in any of The Shows before 17. The cumbersome and slow interface was a massive turnoff (I did try) but more importantly with my terrible internet connection at the time, I was a liability.

So yes, I'm Standing On The Outside looking in. If I were to claim that the former Online Franchise mode was a load of carp, my opinion would be irrelevant and worthless and you would be 100% right in calling me out.

Online Franchise players, you need to play Custom Leagues

Call me what you will, but this is my rational explanation of why I believe that if you want to play Online Franchise mode in future versions of MLB The Show, you're going to have to play Custom Leagues.

I understand the disappointment that Custom Leagues is not OFM. Not yet. It will eventually evolve into something that will be a suitable and superior replacement to the former mode (preparation for this is obvious - multiple seasons), but it's going to take time (eg there WILL be a draft in The Show 21 or 22, the platform is in place already). Trying to squeeze too much into a release is inviting all sorts of problems (too much code to test, not enough time to test it).

The mode needed to appeal to more than just those who previously played OFM. If not, then it wouldn't have been resourced, simple as that. The sum of the combined user bases for the online and offline Franchise modes together did not compare to that of the DD user base. So it had to start with something that would appeal to all heavy users.

If you played Online Franchise mode previously, you are in the best position to steer the Custom Leagues mode in the direction it needs to go. You have all the experience of what worked in the former mode and what didn't. And you are leagues ahead of the players who have never played a league-based baseball game.

Custom Leagues feedback and telemetry data

Does a chef value more the diner who tried the meal and took the time to give honest feedback? Or the person who turned up their nose at the restaurant and kept walking?

Whose opinions and suggestions will the developers take on board to improve the game?

Those players who refuse to play the mode and therefore have no experience in what works in Custom Leagues and what doesn't?

Or those who have taken the time to play the mode, provide the devs with their quantitative gameplay data and can provide qualitative feedback based on their experience with the mode?

My prediction is that a good proportion of Custom Leagues users will come from the DD user base. If that is the majority of the feedback then that's where the majority of changes to the mode will originate. If you want Franchise features in Custom Leagues, you're going to have to play the mode.

If you don't, you'll be Standing On The Outside looking in.

@MadderBumgarner said in SDS Dev "Brian SCEA" comments on hitting:

This pattern they get into ever year with comparing changes they make to real baseball is so frustrating. Remember that stream they did showing clips of real baseball?!?

This is a game that is meant to be fun! Why not measure changes needed based on feedback from YOUR COMMUNITY instead of "user stats data analysis" feedback?

Was it fun? Yes. Is it fun now? No. Well that's all the feedback you need Brian.

The quantitative telemetry data is 100% accurate and unbiased and represents 100% of the player base. Qualitative feedback (from forum posts here and OS etc) has a high risk of bias and represents less than 1% of the players (on this forum it’s probably less than 0.1%).

Many ideas, several that can be streamlined in RTTS, Franchise and M2O (and season mode if it returns, and it should) if they all run from the same platform:

1. Promotion/demotion based on performance and other RTTS universe variables, not attributes. If I’m batting below Mendoza for a couple of years straight I shouldn’t expect a spot in the starting lineup or even in the Majors the following year just because my attributes are higher than the AAA guy (bear in mind I have limited knowledge of roster movement rules).

2. IL return through rehab assignments.

3. Make a big thing of spring training and a spring training invitation, especially for a AA and AAA player.

4. More off-field meaningful interactions:

extend the use of relationships and personality. These have a great platform to build from. Make the social media tweets more useful and interesting (and fix up the bugs in the management of them).

Interactions with team Manager, GM and agent should be user-controlled (there used to be an option to speak to your team manager) with the occasional auto one.

When you have a really bad game or a really good game (eg player of the game good) have a media interaction. This can impact upon relationship with GM/Franchise team mates, oppo players and fans.

Other off-field interactions also.

5 Awarding of attribute points to continue the way it is, but after a game ask the player if they would like to allocate the points to the default attributes (current method) or choose themselves to which attributes they are assigned (old method). This meets the needs of those who want to create a god and those who prefer it to be more real.

More to come...

@minutesmusic said in Felipe Vasquez:

@eatyum said in Felipe Vasquez:

I had him in my bullpen a couple times, but never used him. It's just easy to forget to edit the bullpen when starting a new run. So having him in the bullpen alone doesn't mean anything. Only if you use him.

Many have lately. 3 today alone. Gross.

Just throwing a random number out there but don't be surprised if only 10% of the game's user base is aware of his indiscretion. That leaves 90% who would use that card without being aware that their opponent could object to it and why.

Enjoy the game knowing that you're taking a stand based on principles and respond by getting on base whenever that card is played.

@IamJanko said in How To Watch Ball In RTTS???:

R1 was last year, and according to the controls, it should still be now.
It's not working.
L2 works for broadcast, but changes the angle which throws me off.

I've also noticed that sliding seems broken. The right stick doesn't seem to affect the type of slide at all.

Wouldn’t surprise me if it no longer works, wouldn’t be the only control in RTTS that is broken. Could be tied to the R1 for jump, R2 for dive configuration not working either.

Maybe that’s it - check your RTTS control settings, it could be set to this. Which doesn’t work anyway.

I'm so impressed with what the presentation team has done with implementing Heidi this year, considering it was a brand new feature.

It was smart design to have Heidi visibly speaking for the intro (although not a dealbreaker, I agree adding another 20 or so intros would be great, to give more variety) and then switch to on-field action and stats for the remainder of the piece, so that syncing becomes a non-issue.

The Heidi commentary is featured across multiple modes (Franchise, RTTS and M2O, not sure about others as I don't play others) which again comes down to smart design but more impressively the depth and dynamicness(?) of the commentary is simply staggering, considering it's the first go at it. The commentary content draws from a range of in-game and season stats and I'm still hearing stuff I haven't heard before (caveat: I've only played about 30 franchise games, it was previously six seasons of RTTS and three M2Os).

If the Heidi content was added to for 2020, I hope it's player spotlights, and goes into more depth than the current player spotlights in the line up and defensive commentaries from Dan and Mark. My thoughts are that the dynamic logic behind the Heidi commentary will be the way forward for the rest of the commentary team and the old logic will be phased out. We've started seeing more dynamic commentary over the last couple of years and it's improving year to year. We may even see an all new commentary team in The Show 21 with all new logic.

I'm willing to bet that two or three commentary teams will be in either 22 or 23 also. If the money side of things can be worked out. I don't do audio mixing so I'm no expert but from a programming perspective, the biggest hurdle with implementing commentary that I can perceive is getting it to sound natural when inserting player names into the sound clips.

Sorry if I've hijacked your thread but I was going to create my own with my thoughts on the above but then I saw this one and figured great minds think alike.

Probably will be back, if you enjoy other game modes and you still want to purchase 20 just play the other modes instead. Do you enjoy any others? (Franchyze mode perhaps?)

1. Reintroduce inside the show back into RTTS.

2. Include in all season-based modes a daily text summary that includes milestones and other highlights from the day’s games, something that was previously in Franchise (on a smaller scale) but was removed in 18 for no apparent reason.

3. Reintroduce to all season-based modes the newspaper stories that were in the game up to 10 or 11 The Show and were removed.

@CHI-TOWN-WONDER said in NEW Video on Twitter for Custom Leagues:

I think you will be able to have them CPU controlled or not it will be your choice. Not 100% but that makes the most sense!! Lol

It does make the most sense that SDS will have either a CPU toggle for teams by the admin or at the very least a way for human controlled teams to become CPU if they quit the league. This would be much easier to implement than compensating for removing a team from the league.

I can't contribute to this conversation because I avoid Moments but I do need to point out I am really enjoying your civilised discussion, thank you to you both.

It used to be to hold R2 when the pitcher was winding up I think, and keep holding it as the pitch approaches. It might still be this. What is the name of the perk?

Yes, the tapping the joystick to turn the pitcher around sending the pitcher running 15 feet drives me crazy too. I logged a bug report for that last week, hope I’m not the only one.

Also a minor related thing but if you’re moving your player after a play he seems to keep moving on his own when control is taken away from you, like in the below clip.

MLB The Show 20 RTTS player won't stop running after play
https://youtu.be/ILWuZ11D_lo

Let us know if you get sent down, it seems to be very rare that it happens so it would be nice to hear that it still does!

Agreed it would make the RTTS more immersive. I had a similar flashback, in that the game made me want to start a conversation with the manager and no way to, made me also think of the old days. I was going to initiate a discussion about changing my role because as a starting pitcher (which I chose) I suck but when made a closer I was dominating. Then I was returned to being starter again. I wanted to ask if I could do some closing again.

@bruno4132 said in Fixed absolutely nothing:

Well just played a few games and they fixed absolutely nothing. Same good ok with pci on all, exit velo still way below pitch speed, timing windows way off, god SDS what the hell do you actually do?

Walk up stats in RTTS are definitely fixed.

Looks like it may be fixed in 1.05, caused by two way players. Fingers crossed for you all (not me, I started anew).

In AA RTTS I just had a batter hit a foul ball that was almost a home run off my pitcher and the umpires called for a video review.

MiLB doesn’t do video reviews, right?

If not, it would be nice if they just skipped the going to the video room, even better if the umps still had the chat and even made an incorrect call every now and then.

If you hit perfect meter more often you'll benefit from this update more than someone who doesn't.

I found this the most intriguing aspect of all. Is this brand new information? I never considered this as a part of the user interface and would like to know how it works. Anybody have a link to a stream with an explanation from Steve or another of the devs?

@mucous052army said in I don’t see anyone defending this game.:

Programming the game to have both users hit and pitch to real life MLB averages is ignorant. Especially online.

No and yes. Offline in modes such as Franchise MTO and RTTS this is important. Who wants to win games 99-0 like we did in the 90s?

But 100% agree with you about online. Keep the sim aspect well away.

@Matt_42187 said in Yeah I'm done:

@Red_Ted_is_back said in Yeah I'm done:

@Matt_42187 said in Yeah I'm done:

@Red_Ted_is_back said in Yeah I'm done:

@Matt_42187 said in Yeah I'm done:

You know, Eminem wrote a song about us once, called Stan. [censored] this game and their patches. Why play with sliders and RNG if most people were having fun in the 1st week? Somebody’s kid in the higher ups probably complained because better players were beating them.

Actually Dido wrote the song, Eminem just added a rap

What? Lol. She wrote “thank you”, which was added as the chorus. Eminem wrote the song, not the chorus.

I am overthinking it for sure, but which part of the song (apart from the rap/words) did Eminem write?

I quite enjoyed the Marshall Mathers album so I’m not dissing him or you. I’m sure no matter how I word it this post will come across as an ‘I’m right you’re wrong’ post but it’s not like that.

No worries. Eminem also does his own beats, with the help of engineers. Not sure what you mean by what part of the song did Eminem write besides the rap words? He wrote the words to the song, rap words included. Dido's part came from her song, "Thank you".

Fair enough. I’m old school so the bass line that plays throughout the verses is all Dido to me, and even the underlying drum beats sound like they’re straight from her song so I kind of consider these to be her work.

But hey, that’s my opinion. We all have our own and it would be incredibly disrespectful of me to tell you that my opinion is more valid than yours. So we’re all good. Thanks for keeping our discussion civil