Bare with me because this will probably be a bunch of rambling and nothing else.
Most of you I'm going to assume buy the game every year. That gives you 52 weeks to play a Franchise. If you play 3 games a day it'll still take you 2 months to do a season, which means you'll only cover 6 seasons total. This is of course you play every game of a 162 game season. 6 seasons is NOTHING.
In 6 seasons you'll just have begun to develop your prospects into great players and only a fraction of the current players would have retired. It gives you no time to try for all-time records or actually build a team. You can just stock up every year with the highest rated guys, no matter their age, and go for the title every single year. You don't have to worry about length contracts, planing your budget, or even stocking your minor league teams with great prospects.
To me the only real way to make franchise worth it is to set it to the lowest amount of games (50-something I believe). That means you can actually complete a season every 2-3 weeks (again playing 3 games a day) and a total of 20+ seasons. That actually accounts for more strategy and planing in a franchise, especially in terms of your minor league players and developing talent. The only thing it does do it make All-Time records impossible and shortens your pitching staff to 3 starters at most due to the time between games.
It's a shame really because a Franchise mode should really shine in football and college basketball games because you can complete so many more seasons in such a short amount of time. Heck, you can easily play an entire season in one week for football. But football games doesn't have the task of developing 75 players every season like baseball does.
Basically, franchise mode just seems pointless in a way because you only have to focus on the now and not the future of your team, which is what the mode is pretty much all about.
Most of you I'm going to assume buy the game every year. That gives you 52 weeks to play a Franchise. If you play 3 games a day it'll still take you 2 months to do a season, which means you'll only cover 6 seasons total. This is of course you play every game of a 162 game season. 6 seasons is NOTHING.
In 6 seasons you'll just have begun to develop your prospects into great players and only a fraction of the current players would have retired. It gives you no time to try for all-time records or actually build a team. You can just stock up every year with the highest rated guys, no matter their age, and go for the title every single year. You don't have to worry about length contracts, planing your budget, or even stocking your minor league teams with great prospects.
To me the only real way to make franchise worth it is to set it to the lowest amount of games (50-something I believe). That means you can actually complete a season every 2-3 weeks (again playing 3 games a day) and a total of 20+ seasons. That actually accounts for more strategy and planing in a franchise, especially in terms of your minor league players and developing talent. The only thing it does do it make All-Time records impossible and shortens your pitching staff to 3 starters at most due to the time between games.
It's a shame really because a Franchise mode should really shine in football and college basketball games because you can complete so many more seasons in such a short amount of time. Heck, you can easily play an entire season in one week for football. But football games doesn't have the task of developing 75 players every season like baseball does.
Basically, franchise mode just seems pointless in a way because you only have to focus on the now and not the future of your team, which is what the mode is pretty much all about.
). There's plenty one can get out of the various game modes when you only purchase these games every three years or so.
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