No Online Franchise in MLB The Show 19

[countryboy]

Re: No Online Franchise in MLB The Show 19

These conspiracy theories are getting out of hand...

I understand people are upset and disappointed that online franchise is not in the game, but we are reaching another level here boys.

[Houston]

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Only one flaw in your logic here.

The numbers of people that play franchise aren’t low at all.

You’re making this stretch comparing it to two modes that actually DID have low numbers.

I agree, offline franchise you would think is the foundation of this game going all the way back to 989 and it will never get cut, but after the direction they have decided to go with anger more and more and eventually same as online franchise the numbers will not be the same.


I have been in this form the beginning when what they thought was leagues compared to where I came from to the show was 2K. At first there leagues were bar boned (THESHOW) 40 man rosters, no real schedule, we had 1 home and one away game when I arrived on the scene. Trhu my wish list I want to believe and talking with a DEV I became good friends with at the time eventually got things added.


Player search
Real MLB schedule
Option to reset games
Expanded rosters not just 40 man


They and many people dont give online franchise enough credit, despite what they cliam the numbers are and were I know plenty of peole who came from XBOX 360 allong with me who were die hard league guys and had passion like I do for baseball. There are thousands of leagues well were 1000 of leagues LOL People did still play it without updates, server issues and especially the glitches with setting up leagues that took 2 months to activate a league on MLB 17. We all still played thru it all that like to play our friends, competitive people to have stat tracking and quality games without all of the cut throat people who played rank lobby matches and now in DD.


I lived thru a lot of in and outs with this game and leagues, not seeing the same hting your opponent sees, having to pause game and wait for your opponent to connect back due to latency or network interference. At times I felt like I worked for NASA with all the work arounds we had to go thru, but we all did it because theres nothing like playing a legit person that plays fair and you get that realistic game and get to talk about baseball or sports as you play them. Playing the CPU is just not fun to me anymore, I will take playing naother human person anyday.


If any of you go back and look at my wish list most of it has to do with online franchise and of course offline roster stuff that would help get rosters ready for a onlnie league thats why I did rosters to begin with. I was in talks like I do every year behind the scenes with them and neer would come out with if leagues would be here this year, Got the same response last year that I have some great ideas and they had made a folder on me and would pass everything along. This went on from October to here recently to come to find out Victor was the only one who finally came out and told the community on shownation that there will be no online franchise which hes just a forum mod and does slides for them during the streams I am sure the higher ups had him do it and people were not pre ordering until they knew if it was in or out.




Well thats all I half to say about this and good luck to you guys who continue to support it, to me it's a slap in the face as much as I have contribute to them over the years. I nkow theres millions who buy and play the game they dont make it just for me, but im sure theres others that contribute just as much as Ih ave that probably feel they got the shaft.


Here is my post and threads over the years at theshownation.

https://theshownation.com/users/Houston-Brewer/post_history?fbclid=IwAR1NNZnkdER2tuoQSGCu4KeP3p4nK8tJDR4TWt6Ur-sUP580Z5CXsKyuyGs

You can also find many threads here on OS where I try to provided rosters, height & weight changes, Pitch edits along other useful things to make this a better game or a more enjoyable game for many here. Someone else will half to do those type of list because my days of doing anything related to MLB THE SHOW is over!

[NYYanks26]

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The same effort that people took with online franchise mode (which was a buggy mess and awful gameplay which to me is the death of any mode or game for that matter).

A buggy mess, agree there 100%. It absolutely was a buggy mess but so are half the other modes in this game.

Awful gameplay? Online franchise used the same servers diamond dynasty uses. If online gameplay is so awful then why is DD the most played game mode? Why did they spend so much to overhaul the servers last year?

The "effort" we took involved back end stuff and resolving/fixing games that froze or were never registered in the standings. Has absolutely nothing to do with online gameplay. There was never any lag when you actually got in a game. It was after the game (stats, final scores not showing up) where the problems really start. The mode itself was broken. They continued to release a broken version for years.

But bottom line..This is an online franchise thread. If you didn't play the mode and don't care, why post in this thread?! There's 100 other threads you can talk about what a great game this is. Nobody here is getting all worked up over a video game. We're simply expressing disappointment.

[BigOscar]

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Funny thing is while we want more under the hood improvements to franchise mode it is not a buggy mess for me. I have made it work really well with 30 team control. The same effort that people took with online franchise mode (which was a buggy mess and awful gameplay which to me is the death of any mode or game for that matter). I have taken with offline franchise mode.

It get’s ripped apart and I get it. But it works for me in it’s current state. I want more....we all want more, and hopefully we will get incremental upgrades. Because it has all been incremental since 12.

I don’t think offline franchise mode is going anywhere for a long time.

I was more looking long term. If the trend for what's gone on with franchise continues for the next 5 years, 10 years, while DD and RTTS continue to get big improvements each year, franchise will eventually look pretty pathetic in comparison. There will have to come a point where they actually dedicate genuine resources to it if it's not going to get left behind and they've not shown a whole lot of desire to do that.

online franchise would have kept on, limping along, being a buggy mess that they just left untouched every year, except they came to a point where something changed so that they either had expend resources to fix it, or dump it and they decided to do the latter.

[CubHawk1788]

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is anyone really surprised by this??

I am a offline guy, but I can really understand peoples frustration.

sporting games are really on the decline. it aint about the sport anymore it's about the fantasy and cards

Summed up perfectly.

[Artman22]

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They removed this last year and it annoyed the heck outta me. This year I think I’m going to skip this year’s game. It’s the mode I played the most and I just can’t reward these games when they do stuff like this. This is very disappointing to me..


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[Ballgame59]

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That's kind of how I'm feeling. Been with them for so long. But they changing up these days

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Eventually, everyone sells out.

[Caulfield]

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These conspiracy theories are getting out of hand...

I understand people are upset and disappointed that online franchise is not in the game, but we are reaching another level here boys.

Damn, cb, keep talking like that and they'll say it was you on the grassy knoll
Back and to the left. Back and to the left.

[underdog13]

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Damn, cb, keep talking like that and they'll say it was you on the grassy knoll [emoji38]
Back and to the left. Back and to the left.

Nice game pretty boy!

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[redsfan4life]

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These conspiracy theories are getting out of hand...

I understand people are upset and disappointed that online franchise is not in the game, but we are reaching another level here boys.

It's fine for them to be upset, this game is worse than Madden in the eyes of many these days. Sad how far it's fallen. Some of us remember when MLB was considered the gold standard for sports games. Now it's just...not to put it nicely. The gameplay keeps getting worse and catering more to casual players, the additions to franchise mode are laughable at best and that mode is stale and boring after 3-4 years of very few updates. It's just DD this, DD that just like Madden. The difference is Madden actually kept their online franchise in, and it works quite well. SDS didn't even bother to do that, they just decided that if they weren't making money off it then who cares about their fans that play it. That's bad business and no one should defend it. Then the wording they chose to use last year made it worse. Shady to say the least.

[PhilliesFan13]

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Nice game pretty boy!

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That.....is one magic loogy.

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[MLB14]

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I always thought The Show could benefit a lot by having a casual mode and simulation mode of gameplay.

They're not much into giving people choices lately though.

I was one of the people who preferred to play season mode in the past.

[countryboy]

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It's fine for them to be upset, this game is worse than Madden in the eyes of many these days. Sad how far it's fallen. Some of us remember when MLB was considered the gold standard for sports games. Now it's just...not to put it nicely. The gameplay keeps getting worse and catering more to casual players, the additions to franchise mode are laughable at best and that mode is stale and boring after 3-4 years of very few updates. It's just DD this, DD that just like Madden. The difference is Madden actually kept their online franchise in, and it works quite well. SDS didn't even bother to do that, they just decided that if they weren't making money off it then who cares about their fans that play it. That's bad business and no one should defend it. Then the wording they chose to use last year made it worse. Shady to say the least.

I never said it wasn't fine for them to be upset. In fact in the post you quoted, I said I understand the frustration and disappointment. I even said that in my initial response in this thread to this news.

But this talk that SDS is purposely tanking franchise mode so that they are justified to remove it later in favor of DD is preposterous at best. If they are trying to steer people away from franchise mode, then why did they take the time to add PHASES to help more casual fans understand the intricacies of franchise mode? Why did they add Critical Situations and the ability to jump in and out of simmed games in franchise mode? They did both of those things to open the mode up to a bigger audience. So why would they take the time to try to open the mode to a bigger audience if their secret plan all along is to slowly kill the mode so they could remove it? It makes absolutely no sense.

Again, frustration and disappointment over online franchise is one thing. But completely making up theories out of that frustration and disappointment is ridiculous.

[pingponggame]

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If only some brave soul from SDS we’re allowed to provide some insight on the direction the game is headed, and reasons why modes are gutted, preferred over others, etc. Perhaps it would slow down the conspiracy theories. Or... maybe they like the madness lol

[coach422001]

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That.....is one magic loogy.

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I saw Countryboy behind the bushes by the gravely road...

Well, I'm sorry I posted sympathy and support for the online franchise group since I don't play online and it was mentioned the likes of me shouldn't post here. I wish I had a good conspiracy theory of my own, but I'm just not that imaginative; I guess I'll just wait to see what is in the game when it comes out and hopefully learn from folks here to make decision.