MLB 13 The Show Features Twitter Feeds From Approved and Official Twitter Handles

[Doogie09]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

Have to say that this is disappointing... I agree with those who thought it would be something about our ongoing Franchises - like Madden or NBA 2K. Even MLB 2K's MLB Today homepage with game, player, trade, etc. updates would be a plus.

Gameplay, The Show excels. Graphics, definitely. The small things, absolutely. But with this aspect they continue to fall short. My imagination can only go so far these days .

Still think it will be a great game... So are the newspaper stories about our franchise and one key game now gone too????

[ShowTyme15]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

LMAO I love how most of the people on here are disappointed............that's what you guys get for ASSUMING it was going to be intergrated like it was in Madden. Nonetheless, still a pretty cool feature in my book as I never expected it to be like Madden anyways.

[Number2DJ]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

What would be awesome is if you could have a live feed of every (real life) MLB game going on, like when you're playing RTTS and being able to see the score for the Yankees-Redsox game or the Rangers-A's game. Kind of like how it is in franchise, where you see the games being played by other teams.

That would be 10 times better than a Twitter feed IMO. Probably isn't even possible until the PS4, though.

[seanjeezy]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

So if a player posts a link to a picture, how are we supposed to see it if there isn't an active link?

[Bobhead]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

Have to say that this is disappointing... I agree with those who thought it would be something about our ongoing Franchises - like Madden or NBA 2K. Even MLB 2K's MLB Today homepage with game, player, trade, etc. updates would be a plus.

Gameplay, The Show excels. Graphics, definitely. The small things, absolutely. But with this aspect they continue to fall short. My imagination can only go so far these days .

Still think it will be a great game... So are the newspaper stories about our franchise and one key game now gone too????

My understanding is that we also have something confirmed to be replacing the newspaper, as an information source, in franchise mode.

[slickkill77]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

LMAO I love how most of the people on here are disappointed............that's what you guys get for ASSUMING it was going to be intergrated like it was in Madden. Nonetheless, still a pretty cool feature in my book as I never expected it to be like Madden anyways.

Or maybe it just shows that they added something that no one really asked for and could of implemented it in a way that would of made people happier. Kind of like the mascot games in NCAA Football. If it is in RTTS or Franchise awesome, but I doubt many people are actually going to care about this feature. If people do like this, then good for the developers

[sydrogerdavid]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

My understanding is that we also have something confirmed to be replacing the newspaper, as an information source, in franchise mode.

I really want to see what this new info source is. I assumed it would be a generic webpage up until I saw this Twitter thing. I then guessed Twitter could have been the new source, but at the same time kept a skeptical mind until it was confirmed. Now my curiosity has risen again since it's not going to be Twitter.

[dran1984]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

It will be interesting to see what they use to replace the newspaper now. It sure seemed like the integration of twitter would replace it.

[Scott]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

Very cool feature..

[Bobhead]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

Maybe we can storm the Franchise CD thread and tie tabarnes down until he tells us!

[Galvatron]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

This will turn out to be a cool companion feature for The Show Live mode, so this is nothing short of awesome as far as I'm concerned.

Why would anyone want to read fake made up tweets anyway? During a 162 game season this would become immediately irrelevant!

[Bobhead]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

Why would anyone want to read fake made up tweets anyway? During a 162 game season this would become immediately irrelevant!

Exactly. Of course it works in Madden. How many football games does one play in an NFL Season? It gets old and irrelevant over the course of an 82 game basketball season in NBA 2k... this is practically twice the games, and what, 10 times as many games as the NFL? It'd get old incredibly fast. Plus there's only so many one liners you can pre-create about a baseball game. (Remember, 160 characters or less).

[yanksdaniel99]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

Certainly not what was expected, still an interesting feature if your interested in that type of thing.

[Falcon999]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

this feature to me sounds like wasted dev cycles !

[merchant1874]

Re: Dev Journal: Twitter in The Show

LMAO I love how most of the people on here are disappointed............that's what you guys get for ASSUMING it was going to be intergrated like it was in Madden. Nonetheless, still a pretty cool feature in my book as I never expected it to be like Madden anyways.

It's not that funny.

Yes it can get repetitive in madden and NBA2k but it could of been a good way to announce trade rumours, trades, roster moves and a whole bunch of other stuff.

It's definately going to be interesting to see what they have up their sleeve regarding the replacement of the newspaper now.