MLB 09 The Show Blog - Online Season Leagues and Improvements

[Russell_SCEA]

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So since it wasn't mentioned, does a commish in a league still not have the power to replace a league member when someone drops out of the league? Leagues can really die when its members quit and can't be replaced.

Nope and your right it does handicap leagues by not having this feature. 2010

[Nextyearnow]

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***Please respond Russell***

Question 1: In the online leagues, will there be a waiting period like last year before we can start making leagues?

I.E. (14 days, 3* rating, 10 games)

Why get us all hyped up for these leagues, when we have to wait 2 weeks!

Question 2: Can I make more than one League?

Question 3: Can I delete my league if it fails? I hate how if you start a league, You have to post that its failing on the message boards.

Question 4: Will there actually be tech support. Last year it was terrible. If I had a stale league, it took forever to take down. If i had a question, it was tough to get an answer

P.S. In the future you guys on the website should have a huge thread system where mods can answer questions. (LIKE EASPORTSWORLD) They are doing better at answering our questions and it would benefit you guys alot.

[roolz]

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If i can just group together some concerns here, for my own knowledge as we are going to be running a league/leagues for the first time:

1. No custom camera angles
2. No individual player stat tracking i.e. the game dosent count how many HR A-Rod has hit etc
3. No enforced pitch rotations
4. Not able to replace an inactive league member
5. Unsure on ingame lag

Whilst not ideal, those are not that 'bad' to have as your bad points for an online option.

Camera angles is a pain... but its workable as you get used to it. Points 2 & 3 can be worked outside of the game if you wish to track them.

Point 4 is an annoyance (i assume you can force forfeit their games if you need to?)

5 is up in the air on most games... they have fixed the framerate problems so thats a plus, im sure this feature has had solid testing as adding the 'fluff' to the Online Leagues is pointless if its unplayable.

Thanks for the info

[scott209]

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• SportsCast Live now with Live Play-by-play audio while viewing a game (fka View Game Status)
• Set Lineups in Online Season Leagues (vs. RHP, LHP)
• Ping indicator in Team Select screen, before entering an online game
• New Legend skill level, requiring a user to reach 4500 points
• 4 options for Guess Pitch settings (Default, Classic 1/4, Classic 1/6, No Feedback)
• Addition of 30 sec for each extra inning
• Square to forfeit opponent instead of X (not allowing accidental forfeit)
• Ability to select a jersey in an online game
• Ability to mound visit
• Access to Quick menu (up on D-pad)
• Online steals addressed
• Quick pitch exploit addressed with a delay
• Allow both players to view the replay when one player enters replay mode via pause menu
• No pausing when ball is hit in play
• Persistent Chat - ability to maintain a seat and interaction in a game room, even after leaving. This is perfect for League Chat rooms
• Online Player Options in far more areas in the SportConnect Lobby. This is the pop-up that allows for a Challenge, Send IM, Invite to Buddy, SportCast Live, etc.

These all are great i can't wait one more week as for online leagues i don't really play them anyway

[KJWILLIAMS1]

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This has been asked multiple times, but no one seems to want to answer some tough questions. Is there in-game chatting? Is it like last year with the L3? If so, it turns off so much its better not to even try to use it. Secondly, can you track individual stats in on-line leagues?? I would think this is 10x more important than FANTASY drafts. I am not ripping anyone, but if you want fantasy drafts play real fantasy baseball. I want guys that want to take "real" teams and play like the MLB schedule is. I love MLB the Show, but on-line is where my bread and butter is here. My buddies all live hundreds of miles away. I want a live chat option that works in game, ability to keep season stats in online leagues, and for the Show to be as good as the hype.

What does anyone have on these tough questions???? Lets hope good news. I love the show, brought 5 new old buddies on board from all over IN, OH, and MI, they all bought PS3's for this game to play leagues online. Please let me tell them its good news on these subjects!!!!

Thanks for the hard work SCEA. Its appreciated.

[sa012]

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This has been asked multiple times, but no one seems to want to answer some tough questions. Is there in-game chatting? Is it like last year with the L3? If so, it turns off so much its better not to even try to use it. Secondly, can you track individual stats in on-line leagues?? I would think this is 10x more important than FANTASY drafts. I am not ripping anyone, but if you want fantasy drafts play real fantasy baseball. I want guys that want to take "real" teams and play like the MLB schedule is. I love MLB the Show, but on-line is where my bread and butter is here. My buddies all live hundreds of miles away. I want a live chat option that works in game, ability to keep season stats in online leagues, and for the Show to be as good as the hype.

What does anyone have on these tough questions???? Lets hope good news. I love the show, brought 5 new old buddies on board from all over IN, OH, and MI, they all bought PS3's for this game to play leagues online. Please let me tell them its good news on these subjects!!!!

Thanks for the hard work SCEA. Its appreciated.

Right there with you KJ. I would like someone to answer the in game chatting too because I have friends all throughout New England who play this game. The L3 button is just useless. It would make more sense to move it over to R3 since you bare use that button and how about a mic indicator on the screen?

[green94]

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Regardless on how many teams you fill, does the CPU use the rest of them?

[dmbfan1970]

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I'm gonna start chanting.

We want MIC. We want MIC. We want MIC...

Crossing fingers from what dev said that there is still more to come in a blog about new features/improvements to online play. So maybe we will still hear about MIC improvement. Course it isn't gonna matter when we can find out ourselves in only 1 week's time now!

[Russell_SCEA]

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Question 1: In the online leagues, will there be a waiting period like last year before we can start making leagues?

It’s up to us. We can turn it on or off at the server with the click of a button. The purpose of it initially was to prevent hundreds of leagues from being created by users, just because they can :-). The goal was to prevent a clutter of stale league by deadbeat commissioners. Depending on what the community says, we can have it on or off at ship, or even turn it off down the road. YOU TELL ME!

Question 2: Can I make more than one League?

The goal is to have each commissioner focus on one league. We know there are some dedicated folks out there, but just one League per commissioner.

Question 3: Can I delete my league if it fails? I hate how if you start a league, You have to post that its failing on the message boards.

If your league fails, sent a feedback with the subject of “please disband league” and the league name. It should be disband asap (depending on traffic, hours or possibly a day or two). You must be the commissioner of the league to request this. You can still use the Message Board method, if you like.

Is there in-game chatting?

You can chat both via USB/bluetooth keyboard and/or USB/Bluetoth headset chat.

Secondly, can you track individual stats in on-line leagues?

Individual user stats are fully tracked within the league. You can see how your stats match up against anyone else in the league. MLB specific player stats will

[Randiesel75]

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It’s up to us. We can turn it on or off at the server with the click of a button. The purpose of it initially was to prevent hundreds of leagues from being created by users, just because they can :-). The goal was to prevent a clutter of stale league by deadbeat commissioners. Depending on what the community says, we can have it on or off at ship, or even turn it off down the road. YOU TELL ME!

If this makes the online experience better, than I have no problems waiting. For instance, I know the first 2-weeks were when I had the most lag online. I believe this issue was slowly corrected over those 2-weeks with the many SCEA 'server down' messages that went on late in the night to correct this. To that effect, I would rather wait until online play is tweaked (during those 2-weeks) so that when the leagues open up expectation on server load is known and we have things running smooth.

[Nextyearnow]

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Individual user stats are fully tracked within the league. You can see how your stats match up against anyone else in the league. MLB specific player stats will [/quote]


SWEET NEWS

[claystone]

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Russell:

Will you ever have "Managing Mode" for online play anytime soon? I'm not a button masher anymore. Just want to coach my team.

Thanks

[Nextyearnow]

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We all know individual USER stats are kept track of in leagues.

But will individual PLAYER stats (Such as each player on your team) be kept track of in the leagues.

Like, will I know if I hit 20 homeruns with Aroid in the league? Or will there be no individual player stats like this?

[Pared]

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I don't have any hope for this mode. It's nice that way, because I can only be pleasantly surprised.

[sa012]

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You can chat both via USB/bluetooth keyboard and/or USB/Bluetoth headset chat.


Can you explain more? Is it open mic or do you both still have to press L3.

Thank you