I just got this game yesterday...had the other game. I am on ps3 and have downloaded the patch. Are there any bugs in the living rosters tha I should be aware of? Should I use the default rosters or the living rosters?
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Re: Starting a franchise what do I need to know?
I tried using the latest rosters, and they get screwed up as soon as the franchise starts. I saw about 20 starters in AAA who should be in the majors, I can call them back up to the majors, but have no way to insert them back in lineups or rotations. -
Re: Starting a franchise what do I need to know?
What do you need to know?
Franchise mode is broken. That's all there really is to know. There is no staying power with it and playing multiple seasons is nearly impossible due to some glaring issues.
I'm not being rude, either. Just honest.Comment
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Re: Starting a franchise what do I need to know?
I took the Pirates from 73 rating to 91 rating on pure trades. I got Carlos Zambrano for Ken Duke and a 66 minor league pitcher. I got Roy Oswalt for nothing. Got Lance Berkman cheap. Got Scott Rolen, and Orlando Cabrera for a bag of baseballs. Got Wandy Rodriquez for an average reliever and a minor leaguer. Got Ian Kinsler for Jermaine Dye and Pat Burell. Got Joe Blanton and Johnny Cueto also. My pitching rotation is 1. Roy Oswalt, 2. Carlos Zambrano, 3. Wandy Rodriquez, 4. Joe Blanton, 5. Johnny Cueto.
Also, Roy Halladay starts at a 98 or something and after a year he went down to 88. The game is fun but, franchise is tough. You have to start a lot of them because after 4 years you made your team stacked my trading minor leaguers who never see the field. Players don't get better but, get way worse. I made the playoffs with no trades like the ones before. In 3 years I had maybe one or 2 biggish trades. After 4 years I had to stop. The CPU doesn't get better at all. They don't make good trades with each other.Comment
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Re: Starting a franchise what do I need to know?
I just encountered something very bad in my 2nd year of Franchise. I am in my Amateaur draft and after I finish selecting my players, it just freezes when I go to place the new draftees. I had to shut off the PS3 by the power button because nothing responded. I then restarted it and went back to the draft. I finished the draft, this time selected for the CPU to place the draftees - same thing occurs.
This might be a game killer for you, but not for me because I am just going to let the computer do my draft. Not every game is perfect, but I still love MLB 2K10.Comment
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Re: Starting a franchise what do I need to know?
I don't do the draft because players don't improve and become good. The best minor leaguer I've seen became a 77. I traded him and another 70ish player for an 87 starting pitcher. The minor league prospects hold a lot of value in trades with the CPU but, they never do much.Comment
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Re: Starting a franchise what do I need to know?
Oswalt and Berkman are going for cheap in Real Life. Rolen and Cabrera are aging and I think you got ripped off if you traded a whole bag of balls for them. Wandy is one bad outing from working at Wendy's. So its not that bad bro, stop bashing the game.Get in the zone: the izzone.Comment
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Re: Starting a franchise what do I need to know?
The players I traded will never see the field in the game. I took the worst team to a 91 rating in 10 minutes. Rolen and Cabrera had pretty good years when I used them in my last franchise. The game is fine, I like to play it. I play a lot of franchises but, they just can't last.Comment
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Re: Starting a franchise what do I need to know?
Read what other people have said.
What I'll add is this...
Simulated stats are broken. I don't know what the patch did to improve this, because my game won't play (freezes) with the patch downloaded. Some of the game's youngest, brightest players, especially starting pitchers, had horrid stats. We're talking guys like Lincecum, Carpenter, Beckett, Hernandez, Greinke, Jimenez, Wainwright, etc having ERAs above 5. One season I simmed, the Cy Young winner went 14-12 with a 4+ ERA and a K/BB ratio of like 1.3/1. It's just bad. Guys like Mauer and Pujols hitting .260, yet guys like Luis Castillo, Juan Pierre and Scott Podsednik hitting 20+ HR each.
Progression/regression is completely and hopelessly broken and maybe that's a result of the sim stat engine. It was mentioned here once but, top notch players, even while in their primes, will regress greatly after the first year. I simmed two seasons earlier and Lincecum was down to an 81 overall. This happened to other stars as well. Lincecum wasn't an isolated case, rather, it was all over the game.
Free agency... Just read up on it. Free agency does not work.
The only way to enjoy a franchise is by controlling all the teams, editing attributes each year to ensure they stay realistic and spending more time tweaking the game than playing it. That's really the bottom line. There are more franchise issues but I don't want to get into them.
If you want a somewhat realistic franchise, nothing even close to perfect, then you're going to be greatly disappointed. My Player is the only mode worth playing IMO and I won't lie, I've enjoyed it - but I'm a franchise guy and playing a franchise with this game is damn near impossible.
This is all just my opinion, of course... but I am a guy that likes a somewhat realistic franchise mode. I don't ask for or expect perfection but what I do expect is for game killing bugs to not make it through the cracks. That's what you have here and you'd be hard pressed to find too many guys who disagree with me, because what I say is what has been said before by countless others.Comment
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Re: Starting a franchise what do I need to know?
I stopped playing my franchise a while back in hopes that Patch 2 would fix some of the things broken within, primarily the free agent issue and the budgets. Sounds like the patch didn't fix these and added a few more problems.
*gag*
I'm a 360 owner, and am desperate for a positive baseball experience on my console.Comment
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