'Universal Currency' Coming to MLB 14 The Show

[HozAndMoose]

Quote: Originally Posted by cujomatty

No game stop anywhere near me. also im sick of the mom and pop shops who are actually helpful and care about my money getting screwed.

Only way to change that is to make pre orders from any store get the bonus.

[MrMBrown]

As long as they don't pull that always connected bs on us,I'll be fine.

[pirates1fan]

I'm not concerned. I think they are just add-ons. I would welcome clarification too, but I don't think SCEA would do that. I can't imagine they would try to pull a stunt like that after seeing what has happened to NBA 2K.

[Geolink]

My reaction to "universal currency": Oh god... /facepalm

[Curahee]

Now Im confused!

What is the big freak out here? Why is Universal Currency so bad?
Its one set of money you can use in any mode rather than buying RTTS points, then DD Dollars, then Franchise Budget. This is all in one.

[dalger21]

I'm not sure I clearly understand this as you could always buy "currency" in the past games that transformed into things such as RttS points, Franchise money for their budget and so forth. This is a different meaning perhaps?

[nemesis04]

How about we get all the facts first before pulling the fire alarm. We can't assume it automatically means the same as what 2k is doing. Also, pastapadre is a pot stirrer!

[Teigh Cubs Teigh]

Quote: Originally Posted by dalger21

I'm not sure I clearly understand this as you could always buy "currency" in the past games that transformed into things such as RttS points, Franchise money for their budget and so forth. This is a different meaning perhaps?

The way it looks to me is that you buy "Universal Currency" and then can use it in-game for any of those uses as well as the new 2x and 4x bonuses in RTTS. It's just a new unified way of doing it, to my eye.

Instead of purchasing a budget increase from the PlayStation Store you purchase Universal Currency and then go into the game and purchase the budget increase using the UC.

I could be wrong, but that's how it looks / sounds to me so far with the limited information that we have.

(Also note that I have never used any of the purchaseable bonuses before except for my 12,000 bonus RTTS points for pre-ordering last year so I may be wrong about how the system works right now as well. This could simply be a re-branding of the same old system.)