MLB The Show 21 Franchise Mode - 5 Most Important Additions and What's Still Missing

[EmpireWF]

Re: MLB The Show 21 Franchise Mode - 5 Most Important Additions and What's Still Miss

give us more control over our franchise.

What do you mean by this exactly?

A full baseball system would be tremendous. I hope it's in their plans because it doesn't seem to be prohibitive in any manner on the next gen systems. Imagine AAA, AA, High A, Low A, Rookie ball, Winter Leagues, revamped draft and scouting, international FAs, maybe Asia, Cuba are implemented in some form, more realistic player contracts. Not even asking to be able to PLAY all of those leagues, but having them represented would be great.

[Funkycorm]

Re: MLB The Show 21 Franchise Mode - 5 Most Important Additions and What's Still Miss

What do you mean by this exactly?

A full baseball system would be tremendous. I hope it's in their plans because it doesn't seem to be prohibitive in any manner on the next gen systems. Imagine AAA, AA, High A, Low A, Rookie ball, Winter Leagues, revamped draft and scouting, international FAs, maybe Asia, Cuba are implemented in some form, more realistic player contracts. Not even asking to be able to PLAY all of those leagues, but having them represented would be great.

I agree.

For me not a whole lot. Full A ball then 15 extra roster spots in low A or rookie or whatever. The other thing would be to edit draft classes as a whole before the draft. So many of the player types that spawn are similar and ratings are so wonky at times that this would do wonders for our franchises. I don't care if they were not shareable.

Also some simple things like letting us edit the top 50 prospect order and the ability to export or import a player out of any franchise without roster control on.

[Armor and Sword]

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If they add one thing it should be expanded rosters down the road. Give us 120 player rosters.

Doing this will require adding to the draft rounds, improve progression and regression, and give us more control over our franchise.

One thing fixes many.

There is nothing more important for Franchise mode than this. For the mode to take that next step towards a deeper experience as a GM/manager it needs rosters to be expanded on. And of course CPU AI to be really worked on for both on and off the diamond decision making.

Please SDS. Please hear us on this and work on it.

[moTIGS]

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I agree.

For me not a whole lot. Full A ball then 15 extra roster spots in low A or rookie or whatever. The other thing would be to edit draft classes as a whole before the draft. So many of the player types that spawn are similar and ratings are so wonky at times that this would do wonders for our franchises. I don't care if they were not shareable.

Also some simple things like letting us edit the top 50 prospect order and the ability to export or import a player out of any franchise without roster control on.

Editable draft classes would be a godsend for me. And player export/import would also be amazing. I'd love to combine my favorite players from multiple franchises, just to see what happens. I can approximate it via player editing, but it's not quite the same.

A couple other small things I'd like:

1. The ability to add 30-team control after starting a franchise (not in 19, don't think it was in 20, no idea if it's in 21). I don't like doing 30-team control generally, but occasionally I do want to change teams/add a couple teams to my control at times. No reason we shouldn't be able to make those changes whenever.

2. Custom player cards. For generated players (at least in 19, I assume still true), their player cards don't have an image. It would be pretty cool to take screenshots during games and create card art for our drafted players. Seems like it would be a pretty simple photo editor addition, but I realize why it would also be a very low priority for the devs.

[Greencollarbaseball]

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I just want more stats. Baseball more than any other sport, revolves around stats and this game severely lacks in that department.


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[dubplate]

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Presentation. I would love there to be a weekly 'Baseball Tonight' style show done with character models and clips using the game engine to really get me invested in the world of my franchise.

They could show the top 5-10 homers and web gems from around the league. They could also talk about hot prospects & teams, trades, and playoff & awards races.

We've seen it done before, so it is just a matter of them wanting to implement something like this. Sadly, I don't see it happening, but I hope I am wrong.

[malky]

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Presentation. I would love there to be a weekly 'Baseball Tonight' style show done with character models and clips using the game engine to really get me invested in the world of my franchise.

They could show the top 5-10 homers and web gems from around the league. They could also talk about hot prospects & teams, trades, and playoff & awards races.

We've seen it done before, so it is just a matter of them wanting to implement something like this. Sadly, I don't see it happening, but I hope I am wrong.

Agree presentation matters for the longevity of the game.

[seamus95]

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I play franchise exclusively, use quick counts, generally play 2 full 162 game seasons each year. Here are some off the top of my head items I'd like to see in Franchise:
Would like to pause and see my upcoming schedule while playing a game, and would like to see future SPs I am to face labeled as LHP or RHP in upcoming schedule to help plan out rest days in advance. More emphasis in game via graphic displays and announcer mentions to the teams current division and wild card standings games back/ahead/magic # etc. Would like to see rainouts and double headers. Injuries, more of the day to day hamstring HBP soreness etc. i.e. unavailable for today/couple days do I DL or not type and SP skip a start type blister/dead arm etc. Would like to see an opponent injury report prior to each series beginning for possible roster adjusting in advance.

[bronxbombers21325]

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Presentation. I would love there to be a weekly 'Baseball Tonight' style show done with character models and clips using the game engine to really get me invested in the world of my franchise.

They could show the top 5-10 homers and web gems from around the league. They could also talk about hot prospects & teams, trades, and playoff & awards races.

We've seen it done before, so it is just a matter of them wanting to implement something like this. Sadly, I don't see it happening, but I hope I am wrong.

This would be really cool. If I remember right one of the old 2K College Hoops had a selection Sunday show like you’re talking about before March Madness, and that was on the PS3. So I know it’s doable on PS4 and 5. Sadly I think Inside The Show is as close to something like that as we’ll get.

[canes21]

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This would be really cool. If I remember right one of the old 2K College Hoops had a selection Sunday show like you’re talking about before March Madness, and that was on the PS3. So I know it’s doable on PS4 and 5. Sadly I think Inside The Show is as close to something like that as we’ll get.

You remember correctly. College Hoops 2k8 had both a weekly recap show with highlights and at the end of the season it har a Selection Sunday show. Both were high quality at the time. Unfortunately, 2k seems to be the only developer that cares to do anything of the sorts. Going back 20 years now practically every sports game they have had has had some type of show, be it weekly, halftime, whatever, with actual 3D modeled hosts.

I'd gladly watch a recap show in my franchises. It's a better way to see what is going around the league versus me doing it manually.

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[dubplate]

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This would be really cool. If I remember right one of the old 2K College Hoops had a selection Sunday show like you’re talking about before March Madness, and that was on the PS3. So I know it’s doable on PS4 and 5. Sadly I think Inside The Show is as close to something like that as we’ll get.

Yes. I loved having it in that game. And I think NFL2k had some type of halftime show with scores and highlights from around the league.

[BlueSkies77]

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Presentation. I would love there to be a weekly 'Baseball Tonight' style show done with character models and clips using the game engine to really get me invested in the world of my franchise.

They could show the top 5-10 homers and web gems from around the league. They could also talk about hot prospects & teams, trades, and playoff & awards races.

We've seen it done before, so it is just a matter of them wanting to implement something like this. Sadly, I don't see it happening, but I hope I am wrong.

I agree the presentation needs a serious facelift.

[Tweeg]

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Yes. I loved having it in that game. And I think NFL2k had some type of halftime show with scores and highlights from around the league.

Halftime show, weekly wrap-up, free agency highlight shows, draft preview show, draft recap show. NFL 2K5 had it all, and it was 17 years ago on the ORIGINAL Xbox.

[texranger]

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IMO, the best value-add option to include in Franchise in the future is an Expansion Mode (with division realignment). -- Allowing users to create a new team from scratch with a realistic expansion draft (i.e., each existing team would protect a certain number of players), design a new ballpark, design logos and uniforms, build a minor-league system over several seasons, and to compete with "your team" in a realistic MLB setting brings all of the best aspects of the game together. -- If desired, the developers could even allow you to bring your RTTS player into the Expansion Mode so you could create the first legend for a new team.

For me, this is the biggest value-add addition they could put in the game.

AMEN AMEN AMEN!! Preach it Bro!!