MLB 12 The Show Screenshots - Your New Default Camera View and Other Tidbits

[BlingBling19]

I don't think my question got answered lol. Is ball 4 in the dirt bug where it charges an error to the catcher gone?? And is crowd placement throughout stadiums any different from last year?

[toolapc1978]

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Does anyone know if stats in the game have been deepend. Ive asked before and I just want to know if you have what a hitter is hitting against certain pitchers or what a hitter is hitting in certain ballparks. i like the braves and would love to see like in the middle of the season what lets say chipper is batting against the phillies for the year or what he is hitting against cliff lee. those kind of stats would be awesome. what his average is in certain counts. this game is already awesome and i think this would make it better cause we all know baseball is a stats king. everything is accounted for. so can anyone please answer this and great job RUSSELL dealing with all the bull you get on here and the product you are putting out. thank you.

[ryan36]

Guys this is not a "q and a thread"

[BlingBlaine]

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Im a hardcore player who sets the pitch speed at max, that being said "focus groups saying the game is too hard" really worries me. Making money seems to be the focus there, trying to appeal to every tom dic.k and harry. We all know what happens when devs try to appeal to the vast populous...lame dumbed down games.

I would vote to make a rookie mode for all new comers to the game, this would be appealing to all your "focus people" and wouldnt jeopardise the realism and difficulty of the game.

Also adding some icons onscreen is ok, but please dont add any more, as I am speaking for the hardcore audience.

After reading all the posts, the score bug is located in the only place it could be. The clutter should have an option to toggle, (it isnt in this year, hopefully next year) or a rookie mode as someone else suggested. Otherwise it looks well polished. Keep it going.

[rudyjuly2]

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Im a hardcore player who sets the pitch speed at max, that being said "focus groups saying the game is too hard" really worries me. Making money seems to be the focus there, trying to appeal to every tom dic.k and harry. We all know what happens when devs try to appeal to the vast populous...lame dumbed down games.

You can make a game more popular to everyone by adjusting different things across different difficulty levels. One thing they can do is have a different default pitch speed for each difficulty level. Rookie's default pitch speed should be very slow and it should jump with each difficulty level. Stuff like that makes it easier to make everyone happy. And having a bigger slider scale would also let everyone customize the game to their liking. Having only one default pitch speed and a weak 10 point slider scale in the past has hurt this area. Here's hoping that gets a big tweak for MLB 12.

[nomo17k]

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I don't think my question got answered lol. Is ball 4 in the dirt bug where it charges an error to the catcher gone??

A dev said this glitch is gone.

[capa]

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Put in anything and everything you want...just allow us to toggle things on and off...including graphics.

The focus groups may be single year buyers or skip years. The audience here buys every year. Options and toggle on/off is the way to satisfy everyone.

[tnixen]

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Put in anything and everything you want...just allow us to toggle things on and off...including graphics.

The focus groups may be single year buyers or skip years. The audience here buys every year. Options and toggle on/off is the way to satisfy everyone.

Totally agree!

While I myself like having most of the items on screen and would never turn them off. There should be an option to toggle on/off every single item on screen! For me the only time I maybe would toggle most screen items off is when I do CPU VS CPU.

Options Options Options

[Rules]

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Im a hardcore player who sets the pitch speed at max, that being said "focus groups saying the game is too hard" really worries me. Making money seems to be the focus there, trying to appeal to every tom dic.k and harry. We all know what happens when devs try to appeal to the vast populous...lame dumbed down games.

I would vote to make a rookie mode for all new comers to the game, this would be appealing to all your "focus people" and wouldnt jeopardise the realism and difficulty of the game.

Also adding some icons onscreen is ok, but please dont add any more, as I am speaking for the hardcore audience.

After reading all the posts, the score bug is located in the only place it could be. The clutter should have an option to toggle, (it isnt in this year, hopefully next year) or a rookie mode as someone else suggested. Otherwise it looks well polished. Keep it going.

EA did this with their Madden series by dumbing the A.I. down so that those who really don't go out and purchase their game is able to sitdown and be competitive.

Wonder how that went?

[tnixen]

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Do you guys really think Sony would make MLB The Show too easy?

Not a chance in hell

I think what they are trying do is make the "hard modes" harder and the "easy modes" easier!

I can speak for this myself as I find even the easy modes still hard in this game. There really is no easy mode in MLB 11 The Show as far as I am concerned! Even on the easiest level Rookie I still have a hard time scoring runs and winning games! I would trully welcome a true "Easy" mode where I can actually score a lot of runs and win games with ease!

I really do not think you guys have anything to worry about Sony's goal will always be to make MLB The Show the best true simulation of baseball they can!

And why do some of you threaten to not buy the game if so and so is not changed or added? MLB The Show improves every single year. There are things that I keep asking and wishing for and don't seem to get added but I still buy the game every year! Why? becasue quite simple it's the best baseball game experience I can get from a video game! And if by chance they don't change or add a feature that I really really want then there is always hope for next year

For example while I am happy to see that Sony made the Scorebar at the top smaller and a little sharper looking. I still have some issues with it. Like I think it could be even smaller and use dots for the pitch count and outs. But I will not threaten to not buy the game because something I wanted did not make it into the game.

I will just keep adding these things to the "wishlist thread" And hope someday my wishes are will be added to the game!

And one last thing lets all try and be a liittle nicer to Russell. He is such a nice guy for sharing all this info with us well before the game ships to stores. We are very lucky to have him here!

Thank you Russell and Happy New Year!!!

[Heroesandvillains]

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You can make a game more popular to everyone by adjusting different things across different difficulty levels. One thing they can do is have a different default pitch speed for each difficulty level. Rookie's default pitch speed should be very slow and it should jump with each difficulty level.

I touched on this is a different thread a few days ago...

I am FAIRLY CERTAIN (not yelling, just emphasizing that I'm not 100% positive) that pitch speed IS slower by default as difficulty level drops. It may not be as noticable as you're suggesting, but I do believe it is still the case.

[Pared]

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The tunnel vision works both ways, with defenders of The Show or even other games conveniently overlooking obvious flaws, and then jumping all over anyone who happens to bring up said flaws.

And please, let's stop with the praise of the community managers that post on this site. They get free feedback from very dedicated gamers. If they can't take a little criticism along the way from some anonymous shmoe on teh intranet then they need to go find a new job. I mean, they should know what they are getting into by now, and be able to navigate the trolls without much trouble.

Give me a break. We are not discussing major issues here or as you put it "flaws." We are discussing personal wants and desires.

As for your second paragraph, this won't fly here as long as I am a mod. If some "anonymous shmoe" thinks this way, they will eventually have to find another site to post on and lose the privilege of direct access everyone here enjoys.

If you don't think we openly discuss flaws and issues then you're COMPLETELY oblivious as to what this board has done for this game the past few years. And I can't say I am surprised as every year a small group of the community find a few points to bitch and complain about ad nauseam to the point where they become white noise.

This is not one of those "flaws."

People have made some good points here about true broadcast, OSD's and options. In fact I have personally been vouching for this lately. But no - you can't just leave the point alone - but rather post about it over and over and run the damn thing into the ground. You end up doing more harm than good

[EnigmaNemesis]

He does not mean "the inner circle" when he speaks of this.
....actually what you refer to as "the inner circle" is EXACTLY where YOUR voice gets heard. Every one of the guys going to CD has a list directly from right here on O.S. right from your posts. Mine is usually 10 pages long printed directly from the threads.


M.K.
Knight165

Agreed. I think last year I had 30 something pages printed. Had 2 labtops going (yours and Brett's) plus tapatalk on my iPhone. Going back as forth in Shawn's office, Gil's and Lorne's. Just to tweak what stadium and uniform things we could. Lots of back and forth with the community and developers. Lots of logging into the style guide network and flicker/google shots.

And you guys going over roster and franchise items and testing over and over and over and over. Sometimes working on the same item for hours (don't know how you do it Knight).

I got maybe what? One to two solid games in with everyone?

Trust us guys. We bust our asses there from the moment we step off the plane, till we depart. 15 plus hours a day, non-stop in the studio.

And it is so worth it. And we do not regret a single moment. We are the communities voice, and we cover as much as we can for everyone here and ourselves.

[SI52]

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dont want to be much of a bother but did the name requests make it in the game?

This is something I also want to know. Was there a cut-off date on that thread when you stopped with the requests? Just wondering if my name will make it in.

By the way, sorry for everyone's nitpickiness. You guys do a great job, and it's amazing to see you guys actually communicating with your fans on forums like this one. I personally can't wait for MLB 12.

[EnigmaNemesis]

Dalger, I cant find it, but i think RTTS added starting as a higher ranked prospect or something of that nature.
someone who knows will chime in I am sure.

As far as the brave thing. One of the funny moments was Braves fans seeing a Cyber photo of Jason Heyward in one of the screenshots and worried there would be no real photo for him, then later Russ dropped a phot with smile like he swallowed a piano pointing at a screengrab of the J-hey kid with his stock photo, with a caption like 'gotcha' or something to that effect.
Ahh even after 1,049 hours working on the Show, he can still let loose and have fun with us.


he's been cool in my book ever since that one.

Yeah. We all had a good time with that in the office. Taking bets on what was going on with Brave's fans while we left them sweating bullets.

Then when the newest update came down the pipe (which happens almost every hour), I snapped a picture of Ramone straight cheesin' and made a thread.

We don't normally do that. But sometimes we have to have a little fun. And those fanatical Brave's fans made it all too easy!