Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

[JWDixon120]

This question popped in my mind today while I was reading through a recent thread I made about frame rate. You don’t have to look hard for threads specifically mentioning poor frame rate throughout the game.

In my thread I mentioned I played a game in a MiLB stadium and the game felt near 60 FPS. This was obviously due to lack of fans and resources being used to generate the fans.

The game felt so smooth and my timing on hitting and pitching felt so much better since there weren’t any minor frame skips.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but back when the Baltimore Riots we’re going on and the Orioles played a game without fans, if you used the “play today’s games” feature on whatever version of MLBTS it was, you could actually play without fans in the stadium.

As someone who has grown tired of the repetitive commentary/lackluster crowd atmosphere, I play all of my games while watching YouTube videos or some other form of media.
I’d love for an option to disable the crowd so that I could play a much smoother game.

I mean heck, we may even see real baseball that way this year.

Long story short, how much influence do you think these forums have over the decisions made at SDS?

[MDgolf]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

Not much if at all. Probably see a lot of our posts as “noise”.


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[LastActionHero]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

Not so much as it used to be. Back in the day the top dogs of OS got invited to community day every year and a lot of things we have in the game now is a result of those days. Now it’s all about the streamers.

[Guys_WhoGame]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

Probably not at all. Too much negativity from some people on here just because.

[JWDixon120]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

Not so much as it used to be. Back in the day the top dogs of OS got invited to community day every year and a lot of things we have in the game now is a result of those days. Now it’s all about the streamers.

This has been the trend I’ve seen as well. Many, many sports games have taken this route trying to appeal to younger audiences. Which in a sense is good, but it’s starting to feel like pure exploitation of gambling habits.

[Gagnon39]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

Zero. Just look at franchise mode.


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[MightyMaxxx13]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

I believe what is said here has a great deal of influence. I think if SDS didn’t have people perusing OS, TSN, or the social media groups they wouldn’t be doing their job.

There is a ton of anecdotal evidence to support this, so we could probably go on all day with it if we wanted to. I think SDS threw the offline crowd a major bone with adding custom teams and pseudo-relocations in franchise mode. Thats no doubt been a topic here for years. It’s also no secret that the DD crowd hates bunt cheesers, and many of us can attest to bunting being effectively nerfed (beginning in ‘18 I believe?).

So yeah it goes both ways. I think they do a good job all said and done ... this is the best sports game out there. As an offline franchise die-hard I’ve resigned myself to accepting some minor incremental changes year-over-year. So if you ARE reading this SDS intern, please clean up the CPU transaction logic a bit

[MetsFan16]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

Going back maybe 6-7 years ago you’d see SDS devs pop in and answer questions, drop nuggets in these forums. I feel this was where they got a lot of targeted feedback. Some OS members were brought to SDS for community day to help devs out.

These days, they are moving on from the OS community simply because the aspect of the game this community is passionate about does not make them any money. Unlike the DD crowd which is literally cash in their pockets. And no, you cannot blame them one bit. They are in the business of making money just like any other company out there. And it would be stupid of them to turn their head to money making opportunities.

It is a shame because there is a lot of experience on these forums and a tremendous amount of care for a great product each year. In a perfect world there would be enough time and resources for the devs to appease both crowds but as for now we have to take what we can get while DD continues to evolve and expand.


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[JoshC1977]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

Not much if at all. Probably see a lot of our posts as “noise”.

99.9% of posts, whether here, the show nation, twitter, etc. ARE noise. Honestly, I'd rather devs stop listening to all of the gamers, make the game THEY want to make, fix any definitive bugs, and then say "take it or leave it".

Sure, it'd tick off a lot of folks...but we'd all have a lot more stable product.

[JHodges57]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

99.9% of posts, whether here, the show nation, twitter, etc. ARE noise. Honestly, I'd rather devs stop listening to all of the gamers, make the game THEY want to make, fix any definitive bugs, and then say "take it or leave it".

Sure, it'd tick off a lot of folks...but we'd all have a lot more stable product.

I agree 100%.

[Therebelyell626]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

I know for a fact the devs still come to these forums. How much we have an actual influence is debatable. I do know the devs still come on here though because:

1.) This year they worked with Ridin to bring “full minors” and prospects to the game. Full minors originated from this site.

2.) at the beginning of this years release a dev cam into a directional hitting thread and cleared up some misconceptions and answered a couple of quick questions.

Obviously this forum is not in the standing it once was because of the rise of DD. But I think the devs still admire the hardcores. They have bosses like everyone else and unfortunately there bosses have shareholders and bosses of their own to please. DD is king and will be for the foreseeable future. The newer generations attention span is much different then our generations, and they enjoy things like watching people open packs, or super cards with unrealistic ratings. But hey. To each their own

[zello144]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

They do add OS in the special thanks in the credits. I'm sure they're aware and browse through the forums but there has been a lot of negativity in recent years here so I guess they do avoid posting. Didn't they say that they saw that thread about lack of improvements in Franchise in 19 in a stream last year.

[Holy Toledo]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

The most common complaint on this site is the lack of updates to franchise mode. And SDS has not made any real upgrades to the mode in several years. And the past two years they have dedicated an entire stream to every mode except franchise mode. That should answer your question.

[The Kid 24]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

I'm pretty sure Mills has a big influence with them.

[Therebelyell626]

Re: Honest Question: How much do you think OS influences the developers?

I'm pretty sure Mills has a big influence with them.

That would have been good 10 years ago. Unfortunately with Mills focus on trying to be a big time streamer, he seems to lean more towards the “younger” crowd these days. I also lost a lot of respect for the guy after some things he said about the full minors guys (and other content creators), as well as posters on this site in general. I don’t like people who take a holier than thou approach to others. So I tend to avoid Mills content these days. That’s just me though