The future of MLB 2K and you?

[baa7]

Re: The future of MLB 2K and you?

A precense with the community would do wonders for this game and it suprises me that with SCEA and EA now doing this for their flagship games that 2K isn't taking note.

With all the flak they'd take if they ever showed up here, I completely understand why 2K developers would stay away.

[Trevytrev11]

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With all the flak they'd take if they ever showed up here, I completely understand why 2K developers would stay away.

Maybe, but they've got to suck it up and take one for the team once. They'll get some flack initially, but once people see that they are truely putting forth the effort to make a good, solid baseball game, people will change their tone quickly...it's not like most of us have another game to turn to.

Plus it's their first year on the job and depending on who you ask, they were able to kind of/semi/vastly/majorly improve this series (again, depends on who you ask) and I think people are willing to let year one slide because it's their first year and maybe they didn't have a full year to develop it and maybe also because they made a quick attempt to fix some of the major issues of the game with a patch showing that they actually are paying attention.

[kashmir28]

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I truly think the community would give 2K the benefit of a doubt if 2K showed some interest in a relationship, or at the very least addressing what went wrong in this year's installment.

The biggest problem I have regarding 2K is the lack of acknowledgment from 2K regarding how flawed 2K9 is. I listened to a post release interview of 2K's Jonathan Riveria by Major Nelson, and not one mention of bugs, flaws or glitches. I understand promotion and get that may not have been the best forum to discuss a flawed product, but something from 2K would, as a consumer of their products, be greatly appreciated. I guess that's what two patches in less than a month after release translates to.

[rudyjuly2]

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I truly think the community would give 2K the benefit of a doubt if 2K showed some interest in a relationship, or at the very least addressing what went wrong in this year's installment.

The biggest problem I have regarding 2K is the lack of acknowledgment from 2K regarding how flawed 2K9 is. I listened to a post release interview of 2K's Jonathan Riveria by Major Nelson, and not one mention of bugs, flaws or glitches. I understand promotion and get that may not have been the best forum to discuss a flawed product, but something from 2K would, as a consumer of their products, be greatly appreciated. I guess that's what two patches in less than a month after release translates to.

I posted this in the Show as well. This is a good read from a Naughty Dog PR guy about how interacting with the community is a good thing.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23175

[wsu_gb23]

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2K had one decent year with MLB 2K7. I don't know how they got to where they are now. I think 2K needs to hang up their cleats and put their glove away with the 2K baseball series.

[dano]

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it is always "wait until next year" because they changed their developers. a monkey could have tested this game and saw huge issues. how can they not see it? the real thing is that they do see it but know that we will buy it anyway after some idiot from 2k tells us how great it is. now, we have to wait another year for the "best" version. or, will they change the development team again and say 3 more years?

i play nba 2k9 and think it is the best game ever. but games 5 years ago were better: look at what mvp had in 2005.

- ability to see cpu pitch count w/o going into stats
- ability to see cpu batting order w/o going to box score
- ability to see pitch history
- far superior fielding and running
- home runs w/o some stupid red arrow
- sliders for fielding arm strength and diving

what do we get now

- 10 sliders for pitching?? are all of these really needed?
- hot/cold steaks -- wow
- top prospects - who cares
- stick figures running the bases - intellivison??

[ckarlic]

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A lot of people keep blaming 2k, but this is VC's first year with the game. If VC can't do anything to help this game I don't think anyone can.

I expect next year's version to be a lot cleaner, and I think VC can do what Kush couldn't do with the game and make it worth the purchase every year.

I agree. I think next year's iteration will be tighter and cleaner. It has to be. I can't see it being any worse than it is this year. Can it be??

[umd]

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I sat out MLB2k9 because I though 2k8 was pretty terrible compared to past baseball games across all series and consoles. I did play it for a few hours when a friend picked it up and was underwhelmed at first glance.

Instead of slugging through another mediocre baseball year I went and bought my PS3 and The Show. Worth every penny. I consider 2K baseball a broken franchise like NCAA Football is. I plan to sit out NCAA 10 also. Unfortunately there is no where else to go for college football.

VC/2k should definitely take a page from SCEA for baseball and EA for Madden (who knows if it will deliver anything but there sure is a lot of grandiose talk) and at least get some solid interaction and feedback going.

[Trevytrev11]

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A lot of people keep blaming 2k, but this is VC's first year with the game. If VC can't do anything to help this game I don't think anyone can.

I expect next year's version to be a lot cleaner, and I think VC can do what Kush couldn't do with the game and make it worth the purchase every year.

To me, a large part still depends on whether or not they have people making this game that know and understand baseball. The best programmers and developers in the world will still make a flawed game if they don't understand the basic nuts and bolts of the sport. They may make the animations realistic and the graphics pretty, but if you still have bad AI making for unrealistic baseball, it won't matter to many.

[albsur2003]

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I actually was one of the people that enjoyed 2k8 post final patch. I played the 2k9 demo and rented it, and I did not like the game at all. IMO 2k8 played like a real game of baseball, it was just buggy. 2k9 doesn't play like a game of baseball to me. It just doesn't feel right. 2k9 has horrible outfielding, everyone has a rocket arm, the fielding cam takes away from the depth of the outfield, etc... In the franchise you can't even edit stances (which is very important to me) and there are a ton of bugs.

I'm a big franchise guy so I stuck with 2k8 this year and just kept playing my franchise. I wasn't gonna spend $60 on 2k9. Some people thought 2k8 was horrible, the gameplay was a little herky jerky but I enjoy it and the franchise isn't broken and is still great for me now. I will give 2K one more year for 2K10. If the game isn't improved and, most importantly, heavily pre-tested before release, I'm done and I'm buying a PS3.

On a sidenote, 2K has some balls to ask it's customers to pay $60 for a game that needs a heavy patch two years in a row. What pisses me off is the arrogance that 2K has. They shroud the game in secrecy for up until release week basically, the release the game with bugs galore like we're too stupid to notice problems with the game. It's the arrogance that has pushed me to the brink. This is the ONLY baseball game on XBOX360. Are you kidding me? They are doing what we all thought EA was gonna do with Madden a couple years ago, buy the license rights and then get lazy as ****. Turns out we had the wrong company and game all along.

[Ckhoss29]

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I will buy it again next year just because it will be my only choice, god I wish the wife would let me fork out $400 for a PS3 or I would have waited. This game has not been what I thought it would have been after 2k7 was released.

[Boozers]

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I cant believe this Ben Bishop was one of the guys of MVP franchise can do such a crap job

[sixtydashone]

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To me, a large part still depends on whether or not they have people making this game that know and understand baseball. The best programmers and developers in the world will still make a flawed game if they don't understand the basic nuts and bolts of the sport. They may make the animations realistic and the graphics pretty, but if you still have bad AI making for unrealistic baseball, it won't matter to many.

Agreed, and that's why I'm writing off the MLB 2K franchise from here on out. If I don't get myself a PS3 and a copy of The Show here within the next few weeks, I will definitely have one by next year and there will be no looking back.

There's a saying in Tennessee. I know it's in Texas, I think it's in Tennesseee... that says fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me, can't get fooled again!

[JayBruce32]

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I'll never buy this game again.... they're not fooling me a third time.

Sad thing is I played the Show demo and it was wacky too. There truly isnt a good baseball game out there anymore

[SFGiantsPBA]

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I'll never buy this game again.... they're not fooling me a third time.

Sad thing is I played the Show demo and it was wacky too. There truly isnt a good baseball game out there anymore

Your an idiot that's all!

I mean you stunk up my slider thread as I made a valid attempt to make a decent pre patch 2 game and actually succeeded now your comment on The Show just proves your a moron.

I bet you complain about good sex too don't you!