Players Can Create and Play as a Female Ballplayer in MLB The Show 24 Road to the Show

[PDibby23]

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Seriously, everything gets ripped to shreds on social media. Everything.

Yes, but in this case it’s quite warranted.

[CrizzleDizzle13]

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I was really hoping for an online franchise option this year. I suppose now I can focus on creating Juanita Soto instead.

[ramspeedkill]

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Try spending more time on Franchise lol

[mlbtheshowgamer]

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Try spending more time on Franchise lol

They clearly don’t give a crap about their own game or less they would stop with these silly gimmicks

[Hooe]

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I know a lot of women play softball, but I don’t know a single female that plays “the show”. It looks like they’re trying to boost sales by marketing something to an overlooked customer base

Honestly, I'm only surprised that this didn't happen sooner.

Sports video games have been male-dominated spaces for an extremely long time, and for obvious reasons, all the big four American sports leagues roster exclusively male athletes. Adding support for a gender expression beyond only cisgendered masculine males is a stupidly obvious opportunity not only for the company making the game to increase its market share, but also it is a tangible and real cultural reach out to those who have never considered playing sports video games because they haven't felt represented by the limited ability those games have historically offered to express their personal identity.

I don't really play The Show at all — real or fake, I can't hit a baseball to save my life — so this news doesn't really impact me whatsoever. What I do know is that there is plenty of room under this sports gaming tent to welcome new perspectives and attitudes towards the games I've enjoyed for a long time, and I'm in support of anything which increases the chances of having more and more varied friends with whom to enjoy sports video games.

I fully expect any major licensed sports game which doesn't already feature playable female athletes (as far as I know, only EA Sports FC, NBA 2K, and WWE 2K offered this prior to MLB The Show's announcement) to add this capability into their games over the coming years. Yes, even the football games. I'm sure that will be a fun discussion when it happens lol.

EDIT: appears that EA Sports NHL also supports women skaters, and there are several licensed golf video games which offer opportunity to participate to men and women.

[inkcil]

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It's funny to see some of the reaction because of all of the major American sports (Football, Basketball, Hockey, Baseball), Baseball is the one sport where women come the closest to being able to match the men on the field.

The problem with this mode is that it "appears" to be no option for you to have a women's league or to play with multiple women on the same team or to have women playing against one another.

If it's just a mode where you get to pretend being the first woman to make the Show, then that's cool, but it's short-sided of what the full potential of putting women in the game could be.

Either go big or go home, otherwise it comes off as a marketing gimmick as others have accused it of being (right or wrong).

At least let us create a team of women, let us stack their attributes and put them up against men's teams from multiple eras. That might not be for everyone, but at least it could be categorized as a solid "video game type of fun" fantasy mode.

This just feels like lazy, half-hearted implementation.

[dubcity]

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It's funny to see some of the reaction because of all of the major American sports (Football, Basketball, Hockey, Baseball), Baseball is the one sport where women come the closest to being able to match the men on the field.

Is that true? I guess it's all about the comparison with other sports, but I've never thought that women could hang in baseball more than others. It's definitely a severe disadvantage when it comes to pitching.

[KnightTemplar]

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Is that true? I guess it's all about the comparison with other sports, but I've never thought that women could hang in baseball more than others. It's definitely a severe disadvantage when it comes to pitching.

Check out Kelsie Whitmores 4 year pitching stats. Absolutely awful and this is in an independent league.

[Dolenz]

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I was really hoping for an online franchise option this year. I suppose now I can focus on creating Juanita Soto instead.

I am amazed that people still believe that online franchise is ever coming back. It's been gone for 6 years now.

Also, I doubt year to year saves ever returns and also doubt that Sounds of The Show will ever be added to the newer console models.

[LegendKillerOne]

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I am amazed that people still believe that online franchise is ever coming back. It's been gone for 6 years now.

Also, I doubt year to year saves ever returns and also doubt that Sounds of The Show will ever be added to the newer console models.

I have zero knowledge that this is the case just sharing what I heard. In games like WWE2k they use to allow you back in the day to upload music. Specifically for entrances. Then it went away At the time it was rumored that it opened up the company to lawsuits. Now I have no idea if that is true. Just what I heard, Maybe Sony doesnt make it possible anymore due to legal issues? I mean I play PC games you can upload music no problem. But maybe?

[Dolenz]

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I have zero knowledge that this is the case just sharing what I heard. In games like WWE2k they use to allow you back in the day to upload music. Specifically for entrances. Then it went away At the time it was rumored that it opened up the company to lawsuits. Now I have no idea if that is true. Just what I heard, Maybe Sony doesnt make it possible anymore due to legal issues? I mean I play PC games you can upload music no problem. But maybe?

Sony flat out does not allow you to copy music or other files directly to the console drives. The only way to play local music is via a USB drive plugged into one of the PS5 ports.

It seems very likely that Sony/SDS did not want to deal with supporting a feature that would require a 3rd party USB stick or drive. But they left it in the older console versions as a legacy feature.

I'll be honest, I would not be surprised to see that option removed even from the older console versions this year.

[ChaseB]

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Did I really just read "woke mind virus" in the year 2024 here on OS and it wasn't in jest? Wild. At least come up with a phrase that isn't lampooned and not so hilarious all on its own if you want to make that point (please don't make that point either way).

Anyway, apologies that the modding was a bit overly lenient/slow yesterday, the thread has been cleaned up. As per usual, shred the content, don't be weirdos (most of you weren't weirdos, I only had to delete like 10-12 posts, and that was like 4-5 people making them up -- pretty sure they'll all end up perma-banned as well).

As for the feature, I don't think this will be that awesome if only because I don't think RTTS itself and how it delivers its stories has been very compelling with the structure they have in place the last couple years. Playing the games has remained fun, but all the off-the-field stuff just has not been that interesting to me.

Where women have thrived the most in sports games to me since they started being included more in the last 5 years is this year with FUT in FIFA -- Mia Hamm rules, and various other women are just really fun to play with -- and then the WNBA feature in NBA 2K is arguably where you can play the most enjoyable hoops because it plays and feels more sim in many respects compared to the NBA version. FIFA and NBA 2K overall def have done it the best because there's been the most buy-in and thus it has made the gameplay feel different and they have a buttload of licensing to create large groups to use. The Show obviously does not have that real-life component unless they open it up to softball or the like (which could be dope don't get me wrong) but would require more than just a re-skinning.

If this is more just a re-skinning with the same narrative devices in place, while it's good to see folks who look like you in the game and shouldn't be overlooked, the actual product I have my doubts about from a purely holistic level.

I also do think it's fair to make the separation between church and state here that while there are some freaks in the thread saying bozo ish, the general consternation is more that adding something on to a mode that wasn't that good the last couple years at its core means the same issues will exist. This does not mean "where are my franchise mode updates!?" is what I'm saying everyone should do -- I would keep the focus on the specific mode here being RTTS -- but in a broad way I do understand the concerns.

[jcar0725]

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Did I really just read "woke mind virus" in the year 2024 here on OS and it wasn't in jest? Wild. At least come up with a phrase that isn't lampooned and not so hilarious all on its own if you want to make that point (please don't make that point either way).

Anyway, apologies that the modding was a bit slow yesterday, the thread has been cleaned up. As per usual, shred the content, don't be weirdos (most of you weren't weirdos, I only had to delete like 10-12 posts, and that was like 4-5 people making them up -- pretty sure they'll all end up perma-banned as well).

As for the feature, I don't think this will be that awesome if only because I don't think RTTS itself and how it delivers its stories has been very compelling with the structure they have in place the last couple years. Playing the games has remained fun, but all the off-the-field stuff just has not been that interesting to me.

Where women have thrived the most in sports games to me since they started being included more in the last 5 years is this year with FUT in FIFA -- Mia Hamm rules, and various other women are just really fun to play with -- and then the WNBA feature in NBA 2K is arguably where you can play the most enjoyable hoops because it plays and feels more sim in many respects compared to the NBA version. FIFA and NBA 2K overall def have done it the best because there's been the most buy-in and thus it has made the gameplay feel different and they have a buttload of licensing to create large groups to use. The Show obviously does not have that real-life component unless they open it up to softball or the like (which could be dope don't get me wrong) but would require more than just a re-skinning.

If this is more just a re-skinning with the same narrative devices in place, while it's good to see folks who look like you in the game and shouldn't be overlooked, the actual product I have my doubts about from a purely holistic level.

I also do think it's fair to make the separation between church and state here that while there are some freaks in the thread saying bozo ish, the general consternation is more that adding something on to a mode that wasn't that good the last couple years at its core means the same issues will exist. This does not mean "where are my franchise mode updates!?" is what I'm saying everyone should do -- I would keep the focus on the specific mode here being RTTS -- but in a broad way I do understand the concerns.

Yeah I saw that comment. Ridiculous.

[Drmetzger3]

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I was playing 23 the other day and I thought to myself, “you know what would be better than decent wall detection, PS5 actually looking like PS5, updated pants like tweeners (like we see on PLENTY of players), and a plethora of franchise improvements? WOMEN.” In fact, let’s not stop there. Let’s let them face Jordan Hicks and his 103mph fastball in real life! I can sleep soooo much better now and I am totally convinced to buy this game, because I can create my daughter in RTTS…

[Armor and Sword]

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Seriously, everything gets ripped to shreds on social media. Everything.

Other than OS and the very occasional FB browse or post I am not on social media at all. Deleted Twitter/X as that maybe one of the most vial places I have ever seen or read.

I never ever go to Reddit either.

Ignorance can be bliss folks.


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