No Online Franchise in MLB The Show 19

[Bartolo Colon]

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no MVP would just bring in MUT that ultimate team rubbish that started this decline in sports game that they try and feed us into our face. this whole 'deluxe edition' I couldn't care less if your gonna give me 34904950 stubs I will not pay more for that crap. I hate in franchise when all those cards come up I can't hit x enough times I must have over a million stubs I never used over the years, that is how much I couldn't care less about that mode.



Maybe I am getting to old but I like to play a sports game for the sport.



what's gonna be next DD mode only play your own franchise and earn stubs to edit players?? or earn stubs to unlock equipment in franchise?? or you can pay REAL money and just unlock it now!



the video game market crash is coming... the sporting one maybe well here soon. There will be a time when the DD lovers will grow up and get fed up of the mode and bored. then the sales will go down because it's the only mode focused on and then we have the massive crash.

I've got MLB 2k12 in my disc drive on my PC and don't get me wrong, it has problems. Big problems. There's no mystery why the show beat it years ago. It was the better game. (Problem is its still that same game.)



But man, it's smooth as butter and those pitching gestures are just irreplaceable.



Incidentally, MLB 2k is to 2k what Online Franchise is to SCEA, ha.

I meant the competition would improve The Show. The Show is still a really good baseball game and I think it is miles better than 2K baseball and MVP baseball.

It just doesn’t have a huge development team; because how much better would it sell with an 80 person staff versus something like triple that. If they tripled their development team there is no way the sales would even double.

[Houston]

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This is disappointing news that's a huge let down and sucks no online franchise , but how about this let us invite a friend to play games with use in our offline franchise there able to use the other team? Again what I'm asking is I hate playing CPU and loved leagues me and a friend have tried shareplay it's not perfect to much lag but if u allowed us to invite friends to play the opposing team etc a option to play a friend in offline franchise at least it's close to the league experience we no longer have.

I am pretty much done with SDS after this fellas. There will be no more MLB ON FOX ROSTERS, MLB ON FOX PITCH EDITS (I was working on these this week for end of the 2018 data with over 1300 pitchers on it) No more SCEA ADDED PLAYERS LIST, NO MORE STILL MISSING PLAYERS/PLAYER DEBUT LIST and NO MORE HEIGHT & WEIGHT LIST from me.

Good luck to all of you who support this game still, but I no longer can. I said if it didn't return this year they have no intentions on bringing it back! I'm out fellas[emoji35]

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[ninertravel]

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I meant the competition would improve The Show. The Show is still a really good baseball game and I think it is miles better than 2K baseball and MVP baseball.

It just doesn’t have a huge development team; because how much better would it sell with an 80 person staff versus something like triple that. If they tripled their development team there is no way the sales would even double.

I wouldn't say the development team being small is a issue. they once did great franchise games early on, EA have a HUGE team and release the same game every year focusing on MUT only and a roster update, it took them 6 god damm year to be able to put a long snapper at the actual long snapper position in that CFM mode which ruined that franchise 6 years ago.

[Bartolo Colon]

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I wouldn't say the development team being small is a issue. they once did great franchise games early on, EA have a HUGE team and release the same game every year focusing on MUT only and a roster update, it took them 6 god damm year to be able to put a long snapper at the actual long snapper position in that CFM mode which ruined that franchise 6 years ago.

I think the small development team definitely hurts them. You are right with EA though.

The big issue might be that a new sports game (every sports game franchise) has to release every single year, when the games would be so much better if it was every few years.

[redsfan4life]

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I think the small development team definitely hurts them. You are right with EA though.

The big issue might be that a new sports game (every sports game franchise) has to release every single year, when the games would be so much better if it was every few years.

2k is still the bar for sports games as I see it. They have their microtransactions just like the other games, but they go above and beyond improving their franchise mode and career modes. The effort by 2k games just dwarfs what we see from Madden and MLB these days. Maybe effort isn't the right word, but the end product simply doesn't compare. You buy a 2k game and it feels fresh every year. MLB and Madden...you could buy the game every other year and it'd still feel incredibly similar.

[ninertravel]

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I think the small development team definitely hurts them. You are right with EA though.

The big issue might be that a new sports game (every sports game franchise) has to release every single year, when the games would be so much better if it was every few years.

It's like how they gotta release a call of duty or assassins creed game every year. quantity of quality. imagine if GTA came out every year.

but 100% correct that is the major problem and why nothing gets improved with some modes and why things are taken out and recycled just to announce something as 'new again' never see stuff like create a manager. There was create a coach for 1 year in madden. even create a fan(my god what a joke that was!)

just a simple thing like create a manager or edit a manager. so we put in managers that are not in the game and make them look like them. I would prefer that so much more then a retro mode. or just legends.

[jkra0512]

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Bought this game religiously the last decade. I'll no longer do that. Have fun with DD...This was the last sports title I was playing and now it's not worth it. I'll happily give my $60 to a company that cares about more than one segment of their fanbase. The best new feature for franchise mode this year: Contract Extensions! Woooooooooooooo!!!!! Look out!

[RoyalBoyle78]

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Bought this game religiously the last decade. I'll no longer do that. Have fun with DD...This was the last sports title I was playing and now it's not worth it. I'll happily give my $60 to a company that cares about more than one segment of their fanbase. The best new feature for franchise mode this year: Contract Extensions! Woooooooooooooo!!!!! Look out!

Still bought , still will buy it, don’t even play DD at all, just offline franchise. I’ll wait and see if anything has been updated there before I jump the gun, game is still a month and a half away. I’m sure more info will come and if they didn’t change much for offline franchise, I won’t be made because I’ll still play it.

Once the first screen of the PS5 is released and when it is, you all will be running right back lmao


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[UFCMPunk]

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Bought this game religiously the last decade. I'll no longer do that. Have fun with DD...This was the last sports title I was playing and now it's not worth it. I'll happily give my $60 to a company that cares about more than one segment of their fanbase. The best new feature for franchise mode this year: Contract Extensions! Woooooooooooooo!!!!! Look out!

I don't play online but hate it for those who do. It's one thing if you remove it for one year to fix it and get it working properly. Yet two years in a row without it?

I know people said last year that no online franchise meant more time to making offline franchise better but we didn't even get that. All they did was add ways to streamline it and make you play the games faster. As you said, contract extensions is the only thing within one dev cycle. Compare that to multiple and many things NBA2K19 added within one dev cycle, it's crazy.

[MLB14]

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Once the first screen of the PS5 is released and when it is, you all will be running right back lmao


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Why? The development decisions are what people are turning their back on. The people in this thread aren't concerned with the upgraded graphics the PS5 version will have.

[bravesfan1984]

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Why? The development decisions are what people are turning their back on. The people in this thread aren't concerned with the upgraded graphics the PS5 version will have.

Exactly. Graphics have never been most important for most of us. It's quality of modes and details that matters much more.

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[JayhawkerStL]

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On Line Franchise DLC. $4.99 per season, $39.99 Year long pass. Or make it like fantasy baseball hosts and charge the league as a whole.

You know that only works if there are enough people playing that mode regularly. And even if there were enough, how many would pay? It’s a blatant non-starter.

[TheDarkKnightRises]

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I’m really thinking about skipping this years game after hearing this news. It’s like the developers didn’t listen at all after everyone complained about them removing it last year. It’s really a shame that with every step forward they take two steps back.

They continue to do more things for trash DD mode but they can’t even bring back the mode everyone wanted back. Sony is doing their best to turn into EA Sports.

[Jgainsey]

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Probably won't be purchasing for the 2nd year in a row now.

I'm still not sure what's worse...

That they neglected online franchise to the point where it was almost too embarrassing for them to keep in the game, or that they wouldn't just be upfront with us last year, regarding the removal.

IIRC, they made it seem like it was this close run thing last year. Like the decision came down to the wire somehow. Which is what you would say if you didn't want to seem like dicks for letting people pre-order with the presumption of an online franchise mode.

But if the decision to include or remove online franchise was really a last minute decision, why couldn't they have thrown some bandaids on it in the meantime, and push it back out?

How about the bare minimum for a show of good will to those of us loyal fans who you deliberately mislead the year before?

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[TheDarkKnightRises]

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Probably won't be purchasing for the 2nd year in a row now.

I'm still not sure what's worse...

That they neglected online franchise to the point where it was almost too embarrassing for them to keep in the game, or that they wouldn't just be upfront with us last year, regarding the removal.

IIRC, they made it seem like it was this close run thing last year. Like the decision came down to the wire somehow. Which is what you would say if you didn't want to seem like dicks for letting people pre-order with the presumption of an online franchise mode.

But if the decision to include or remove online franchise was really a last minute decision, why couldn't they have thrown some bandaids on it in the meantime, and push it back out?

How about the bare minimum for a show of good will to those of us loyal fans who you deliberately mislead the year before?

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My thoughts exactly. Last year I heard the exact same thing about Online Francise being a last minute thing they removed. I figured they took it out for a year to improve it and bring it back better than ever this year. Now I read that it’s missing for a second straight year and that’s unacceptable. Make MLB The show great again!