How Has Your MLB 15 The Show Online Experience Been?

[HozAndMoose]

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Go play a handful of games (say like 20) and tell me how it feels when you are ahead and in the bottom of the 8th and the game freezes and you get a loss haha. Most frustrating thing in the world. I would LOVE to get a refund or have SOMEONE from MLB the show to come talk to me about this. Every e-mail, tweet, WHATEVER goes unheard as they ONLY care about positive material. Which makes sense because they dont want to steer away people from the fact they lied about their product. Go look at their social media sites! Everyone kisses the productions team's feet about how good they are at addressing the fans and how open they are. Well SOMEONE should alert them to this....or another blind eye?

Not hating all the way. Offline, game is fantastic. Looks great, plays even better. Online, you're f****. I dont like being lied to. The BIGGEST part of me buying this game was online. I trusted them since they have a solid track record and I've been playing this game since the 989 sports days.....but this is getting insane.

I never once heard them say it was fixed. They said they worked on it.

[Dillow]

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I never once heard them say it was fixed. They said they worked on it.

True....What's funny is that they do/did say that as well, but then they go and say things like this. I remember this one vividly. There are probably more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oklCvqo0pQ

at the 36:34 part of this video, this was said:

“We are defiantly making strides in online. Last year was our first year with a brand new paradigm we were not happy with where online was and we have been working all year long HARD hours improving online and making it better. What you’re going to see is less latency our batting and pitching is really close to offline almost 1 to 1 we cannot wait for everyone to try it”

I appreciate the "work" and trying to do what is right, but its very clearly not fixed. Improved? A tad. Last year in twelve games, I was happy to complete maybe 1 before the "blue screen" would pop up OR yet another freeze. I dont get that blue screen anymore, just straight up freezes and a game of chicken to see who will quit first so neither of us get a loss. There is something REALLY wrong with that. I should be happy that only half of my games are freezing.

[chaz526]

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Things everybody in this thread needs to know:

1. Your experience online is 99% dependent on latency, not bandwidth. You can have Gigabit speeds (i.e. Google Fiber) but without good latency, timing will be off on everything.

2. Wired connections will ALWAYS be better than wireless connections. Don't expect anything playable on a wireless connection - latency over wireless is nowhere near as fast or consistent as a wired connection. This is also why playing the Show remotely on Vita isn't ideal.

3. Sometimes you can have good latency, but if you get into matchmaking at odd times, it's possible the closest opponent geographically is a great distance away and thus your latency suffers.

TLDR; Latency is important, m'kay?

Source: I'm a network technician.

[authentic]

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So far it's worked really good for me. I'm impressed!

[Dillow]

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Things everybody in this thread needs to know:

1. Your experience online is 99% dependent on latency, not bandwidth. You can have Gigabit speeds (i.e. Google Fiber) but without good latency, timing will be off on everything.

2. Wired connections will ALWAYS be better than wireless connections. Don't expect anything playable on a wireless connection - latency over wireless is nowhere near as fast or consistent as a wired connection. This is also why playing the Show remotely on Vita isn't ideal.

3. Sometimes you can have good latency, but if you get into matchmaking at odd times, it's possible the closest opponent geographically is a great distance away and thus your latency suffers.

TLDR; Latency is important, m'kay?

Source: I'm a network technician.

Very well said. Never diminish the fact that hard wired is MUCH better than wireless. Every time will be better. I'm hard wired myself.

My main concern is coming from game freezes.

[mikeq672]

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No freezing problems or anything today, still annoyed I took a loss because I was up 6-2 but it froze and I played the waiting game but after 40 minutes I had to leave so other guy gets win, I get the L.

Overall, game is way better than previous years, and its only the first few days, which in previous years were always the worst the game has ran.

[Dillow]

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No freezing problems or anything today, still annoyed I took a loss because I was up 6-2 but it froze and I played the waiting game but after 40 minutes I had to leave so other guy gets win, I get the L.

Overall, game is way better than previous years, and its only the first few days, which in previous years were always the worst the game has ran.

So wait you said no freezing today then you said it froze when you were up 6-2...so did that happen yesterday or something? How many games have you played overall? Just curious

[WonderCounselor]

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Overall, online play is MUCH better than last year already. I've played 7 games and had only one freeze up on what was clearly a glitch. There is an annoying bug in DD that won't let me and many others add our created players to our "squad." It seems to be the most-reported bug so far.

Online experience so far: B+ (A- once DD error is fixed)
Compared to last year: A

[Spokker]

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The actual online play is better than last year. My issue is with the servers.

Successfully played two games, one won and one lost, and they are recorded. However, two games in Diamond Dynasty since then were not recorded.

One I was losing and we finished the game. When I got back to the menu it said I couldn't connect to the servers and that game is lost forever. I think I got caught in 3AM maintenance that I didn't know about (just got the message right now lol).

I played extra innings in Diamond Dynasty just now and it told me that my game would be put into a queue for processing, and that if it was a friendly quit, it would be discarded.

[ZB9]

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I played extra innings in Diamond Dynasty just now and it told me that my game would be put into a queue for processing, and that if it was a friendly quit, it would be discarded.

That has happened to me twice now, two wins that werent recorded.

[fakingmysuicide]

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just had a game in DD where I couldn't tell what was happening in the outfield only on offense though. got thrown out a few times bc it looked like it was a double in the gap but it was really caught. then my game crashed in the 8th when i was up 4-2 only game where i had a problem so far about 15 games in.

[Hull2215]

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Waaaaaaayyyyyyy better. All my diamond dynasty games have been smooth. But online franchise doesn't seem to work unfortunately

[videogameprojr]

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Waaaaaaayyyyyyy better. All my diamond dynasty games have been smooth. But online franchise doesn't seem to work unfortunately

What do you mean by "doesn't seem to work"?

[Rasco11]

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Im still experiencing freezes (mainly after walks) online, although it's happened post pitch or during a transition scene a couple times too. In general gameplay doesnt seem too laggy at all aside from this problem. Sometimes i finish games, others i dont. My success rate of finishing games is probably only 55-65%. Kinda killing my W-L record having to abandon games (some ive been winning) although I never really care too much about that stuff. I just want to finish the games, and enjoy playing a human opponent from time to time. The ones I've finished have been a blast!!! After a blown save by Chapman I lost on a Matt Kemp walkoff last night in the 12th inning. 13 pitchers used between us!!! Nuts.

I have wired LAN setup, NAT type 2, optimized my dns...I dont think it's my internet. Who knows? There doesnt seem to be many complaints from others. Must be on my end somehow. Hope I, or SCEA, comes up with a fix soon. Cuz when it works it's fun sports gaming!

[Pappy Knuckles]

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Played two games against a friend today and I had no issues. No lag when hitting or pitching, which is a big change from when I got the game last year. I also managed to get up 10 runs in the 4th inning and had the mercy rule called. First time that I've seen that lol.