No Online Franchise in MLB The Show 19

[Rekkapryde]

Re: No Online Franchise in MLB The Show 19

Guess I'm skipping for the 2nd year in a row.

[Caulfield]

Re: No Online Franchise in MLB The Show 19

They got rid of it and online still sucked last year. So that was not the problem. They have always struggled with this at every level.

Hope they dont give up on regular online too then. I dont play online but I don't think this game can afford to lose many more buyers.

[CubFan23]

Re: No Online Franchise in MLB The Show 19

I only play offline franchise, but this caught my eye when reading the game description at best buy, it says...

"For one to four players offline, and one to eight players online"

Were you always able to have 8 players playing together online? Just asking because I've never played online.

[underdog13]

Re: No Online Franchise in MLB The Show 19

I only play offline franchise, but this caught my eye when reading the game description at best buy, it says...



"For one to four players offline, and one to eight players online"



Were you always able to have 8 players playing together online? Just asking because I've never played online.

Hr derby

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[JayhawkerStL]

Re: No Online Franchise in MLB The Show 19

All other sports games have online leagues. Madden and nba2k do. This game had them and took them out. To me that’s inexcusable. Both 2k and madden sell a lot more than Mlb the show so the server excuse I don’t buy at all. You and I are on the same page. I rather leave the bad online league they had before than to leave us with nothing. Every year I looked forward to online leagues and now we have nothing 2 years straight and no word from them either.


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This is not true. The NHL series and NBA Live also lack online leagues. I have't play FIFA in awhile, but looking online it doesn't seem like FIFA or PES has online leagues. Super Mega Baseball 2 lacks league play. When EA launched Rory, it lacked the Country Clubs that allowed gamer to see up tourneys with friends and such.

The problem is, card mode games have drained the pool of player looking to play competitive sports games. It's not a substitute, but UT, DD, and MyCareer allows gamers to build teams and use them competitively, and to do this 100% on their own schedule. It scratches the itch and is more convenient.

Are they better? Depends on your preferences. But it is the new reality regardless of what you, I or anyone else thinks. But online leagues really aren't a thing anymore.

And I say this as someone who found online leagues to be the absolutely the best way to play sports games. I ran a FBPro 98 league for years, ing after the 99 version was recalled and the franchise killed off. I played in NFL 2K5 leagues, and ran a league for APFB 2K8 in which we drafted the players we could use to form out teams, and played 5 or 6 seasons. Played in tons of Strat-O-Matic and Diamond Mind Baseball leagues.

For me, the end came when EA started this Connected nonsense, so that every league had every team, with t he CPU taking over teams without users. It ruined online leagues for me. The best was 6-10 team leagues, with users drafting their own rosters. But that's not a thing anywhere anymore. AI controlling rosters is the worst. Trying to run a 32 team league is not fun, as you end up adding a bunch of randos, and you can't keep the league full without a lot of work.

And I still maintain that of all sports, baseball is the worst for a console sports league. To make it work you suck a ton out of what makes MLB interesting.