MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

[CBoller1331]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

Wish he asked about SOTS!!! Lol

Yeah SOTS brought such a cool new level of realism when I started using it. Last years game was great, but it definitely felt a bit generic without custom music.

[noseeumcreek]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

I want to be optimistic. I want to take away snippets from the interview that make me think the game will meet the potential it has. I am an offline franchise player and like most of us, I do feel like little effort is put to it. Well, any effort put to it basic things that should have been better established long ago (like trade logic).

Trying to get the game to its potential where (as he said), the game is making everyone happy for every platform, seems impossible. Unless the team is willing to release different versions of the game every year (a normal edition, a franchise only edition, a DD edition, and so on) I keep thinking the game is going to keep running into data problems where they have to decide what to include and what not to). And I don’t think my idea is feasible anyways. The game is wonderful but franchise mode lacks so many basic customization things other sports games have that it’s almost embarrassing. And I hate to say that.

[Roadracefan95]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

4 teams (Red Sox, Angels, Dodgers, and Giants I believe) had pretty much all day games in year 1. We kept waiting and hoping for a patch to fix it but never did.

Was it just in year 1 of franchise? Year 2 and on it was back to normal?

[bryanm1982]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

Was it just in year 1 of franchise? Year 2 and on it was back to normal?

Yeah, it was just year 1. Year 2-4 we’re back to normal. 5 was back to day games.

[Red_Ted_is_back]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

I think its clear that MTO is their focal point. Great interview, but honestly its not exactly what I wanted to hear.

My take is that March to October is the new name for Franchise mode. ‘Franchise mode’ is really generic and not enticing.

The implication was that MTO was built on a new foundation that will eventually be the foundation that Franchise mode features transition to.

So rather than ‘express MTO’ (current playable format) being the focal point, the engine/platform is the focal point and express MTO is currently the only mode that uses it. Eventually we will be able to play 162 games in full in MTO.

My only concern if that is true is that when current Franchise mode platform is switched off and the new one is switched on, which features won’t have been migrated?

I reckon the community here on OS should start ranking (like on ranker.com or something) the features of current franchise mode in order of priority of most important to keep to least important. Could be a useful MoSCoW tool for the devs.


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[Scooter3]

Loved the interview. I'm passionate about baseball and art my specialty is faces. If you can't at the very least offer created roster transfer please  do something about the stick on the hand controller it jumps around on the up and down selection when creating a player. 
My suggestion is to use the up and down  controls to the left of controller. 
This would allow  fast movement of numbers or one click at a time and the numbers will stick. 
In the 3 month  endeavor of  transferring my created players this simple thing could save me weeks of work.
Thank you

[Karle]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

Thank you for posting this interview. For me it was as important as the presentation on Thursday as I learned that ideas like Y2y saves and the ability to customize the league structure are ideas that are not forgotten or ignored but rather remain in mind. I was left with the feeling that the MTO and Franchise team are really doing there best to make these parts of the game as good as possible.

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[Caulfield]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

I enjoyed the interview and look forward to more and even though Nick seems like a good guy and the kind of person you'd genuinely enjoy drinking a beer with, I still don't really know anymore about the direction and vision of franchise today than I did yesterday lol

I guess what I do know is it is the Studio's intention is to keep including franchise and improving it for the foreseeable future however long that is whatever that may include and that will be kosher w/me

[ripcandlestickpark]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

Loved the interview. I'm passionate about baseball and art my specialty is faces. If you can't at the very least offer created roster transfer please* do something about the stick on the hand controller it jumps around on the up and down selection when creating a player.*
My suggestion is to use the up and down* controls to the left of controller.*
This would allow* fast movement of numbers or one click at a time and the numbers will stick.*
In the 3 month* endeavor of* transferring my created players this simple thing could save me weeks of work.
Thank you

This has been a gripe of mine too when it comes to editing players and, especially, batting stances. Using the sticks to manipulate all of that is insanely imprecise and frustrating.

[Karle]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

I too find it very difficult to use the stick to get precise values when editing players faces.

This has been a gripe of mine too when it comes to editing players and, especially, batting stances. Using the sticks to manipulate all of that is insanely imprecise and frustrating.

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[Kotter]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

While it was great to hear about the vision of franchise mode, it was sad to hear that y2y saves don’t appear to be returning anytime soon.

I’m really happy to hear they’re continuing to tune player value to more accurately represent real life, but y2y saves is the only other thing I’m really looking for in franchise mode. It has really killed the motivation for me to play franchise, which is the only mode I play.


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[Caulfield]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

While it was great to hear about the vision of franchise mode, it was sad to hear that y2y saves don’t appear to be returning anytime soon.

I’m really happy to hear they’re continuing to tune player value to more accurately represent real life, but y2y saves is the only other thing I’m really looking for in franchise mode. It has really killed the motivation for me to play franchise, which is the only mode I play.


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yeah, the Y2Y carry-over was something unique in the video game world that made it easier to want to purchase the next years version of the Show. Y2Y was a friendly unit shifter, I'm actually surprised it isn't priority number one w/Sony to get it back on line. it must be a tricky thing to pull off because it's definitely something all yearly sports titles should strive to have, not just the Show IMO

[Karle]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

Y2Y saves of rosters is for me the most important missing piece of both MLB 21 and MLB 22.

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[ripcandlestickpark]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

Just rewatched the interview. I'm glad that things like Year to Year saves and league customization were mentioned and/or on Nick's mind. But, a lot of the answers he gave about the long-term vision for Franchise (especially as it relates to MTO) were fairly uninspiring.

I wish Frisk had brought up Sounds of the Show as well. I know it's not explicitly a Franchise feature, but I feel safe in assuming there's a strong correlation between people who heavily utilize that feature on PS4 and people who devote most of their time to offline modes.

[DJ]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Developer Reveals Vision For Franchise Mode (Emmdotfrisk)

I don't see Y2Y saves returning, at least not any time soon. While it is disappointing to have lost the carryover ability, we should congratulate SDS for making that a reality for years, when no other sports game has attempted to pull this off.

Franchise isn't going anywhere, and while I don't play it a ton, I do enjoy M2O as it gives me a chance to try out teams I wouldn't normally play with in a franchise-like setting.