I know it’s been discussed to death but this is irritating. It’s on every single other platform, given away free even with a gamepass subscription, yet we can’t get a PC port?
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Re: Why no PC version?
Its hard to swallow, considering all games are built on PC architecture these days.
I'd love to hear their reasoning directly.You want free speech?
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Re: Why no PC version?
I wonder the same because clearly it shows them bringing it to the Xbox made them more money. I wish they would bring it to the PC as well so we could have better graphics and be able to mod the game.
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#4
Re: Why no PC version?
I think they are scared to put it on PC and have mods mess with it and make it better than they can. I mean look how many people are unhappy right now. Imagine you give mods a chance to improve it.
Might sound silly but it's not. Every baseball game back in the day on pc, like high heat, mvp, etc. The mods made the game so much better. Hell i use to log into high heat and every team you played had their home stations logos on the screen, things like that. Was amazing.MLB- New York Mets
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#5
Re: Why no PC version?
I think cheating is their biggest concern. This would require the development of an anti-cheat system so people could play online.Comment
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#7
Re: Why no PC version?
Laziness probably. Or they are waiting for a more dramatic update of the game engine before porting it. I'm really hoping the reason why the latest versions are hardly changed is because they started work on revamping the graphics for next year, but I doubt it.Comment
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#8
Re: Why no PC version?
I don't think Modding would dramatically change this game. At least not in comparison to Madden.
It plays great between the lines. Its been the best playing baseball game ever for a very long time now.
Visually, yeah. Jersey and field textures jump right off the page. Player movement/animations.. but could that be modded?
Its not like layers can be added to Franchise. Like managing your parking or concessions, or stuff like advanced draft scouting. I would hope modding could beef up CPU AI as far as team management. I'm sure I'm missing something here, but nothing else is really jumping off the page.
A roster editor would be the game changer. I would hope we could edit stats as well. We could have tons of retro seasons in a matter of days, not the months it takes to create them now.
I don't think rosters and jersey swatches are the hangup here. As another user said, its the cheating capability. Which, another example of online gaming ruining everything for sports games.
I still would like to hear the 'whys' from them though.Last edited by Madden08PCgmr; 03-04-2024, 11:50 AM.You want free speech?
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#12
Re: Why no PC version?
I wish it would... Modders could have a field day with The Show.Comment
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#15
Re: Why no PC version?
Because through market research over the years, these publishers/developers have realized that the vast majority of consumers who play sports games play them on console. This market research is partly why NBA 2K hasn't put out a next-gen version of their game on PC yet and why EA up until Madden 24 always gave PC players the best PS4/XBox One port they could until their development workflow was able to build a next-gen version of Madden on PC.
There is a very small audience of sports gamers who play games on PC as it is, and an even smaller one that plays baseball games on PC, which OOTP now has covered due to the lack of a solid PC baseball title or a solid console port.
I can't chalk it up to developer laziness or whatever when SDS as a studio never put out a game on PC before, and different studios have different workflows in how their games get made, even now moreso than ever, and I'll give you an example:
From my memory, when MVP 2003 came out, and subsequently 2004 and 2005, a majority of EA Sports' games to date were made with what I think was some form of a unified development workflow, so any tools someone would have developed for another EA or EA Sports title on PC (like NBA Live, FIFA, Need for Speed etc.) would have been fairly compatible with MVP, either directly or through a little bit of reverse engineering by some talented members of the modding community.
Even older community built tools that worked with Triple Play still worked with MVP, like the EA Graphics Editor which was originally used for NBA Live 98! Just unheard of levels of backwards compatibility.
As someone who was a part of that early 2000s mod scene for High Heat, Triple Play, MVP and MLB 2K, I also think about how much support Super Mega Baseball, MLB 2K and RBI Baseball on PC got in the last 10 years...not much, so I'm not as optimistic.Comment
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