Where is The Franchise/My Player Dev Diary?

[Xtreme450]

Well last week Ronnie said it would be released today and so far nothing has been released? hmmmmm...anyone know if at all it will be released

[munky1307]

I tweeted Ronnie about an hour ago but no response yet.

[Hajmyis]

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I been waiting all day for that. Makes me wonder if nothing changed from last year.

[Hajmyis]

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Tweet from Ronnie.


Will post as soon as I have it finished. It'll be valuable content whenever we post it.

[xunleashed]

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I wonder how long that will be? Doesn't it usually come out before release?

[BA2929]

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I wonder how long that will be? Doesn't it usually come out before release?

I'm sure it'll be sometime tonight, otherwise it'd be pointless to even release it. Ronnie says there's "a lot of text" so maybe it goes into great detail about what they added/fixed.

[xunleashed]

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Can't wait for it. I am a PC user and my only option is 2K and I am damn happy this year so far with the additions.

[Hajmyis]

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I hope they add ways to make a coaching staff matter this year. Other wise they are point less.

I would the see that in spring training you chose a player to do a certain work out for that day, Like work on power vs left hand picther or fielding range ie. And having a good staff would impact how will the player would improve the rating for whatever stat they work on for the season. I think they can really make the game by adding this training feature.

[Neolithic]

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anything new on this? I'm interested to see this thing before I head out for a midnight release, might pick up 2k11 if something in franchise peaks my interest

[BA2929]

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anything new on this? I'm interested to see this thing before I head out for a midnight release, might pick up 2k11 if something in franchise peaks my interest

Nothing yet. Looking more and more likely it's not coming out tonight. Here's some stuff Ronnie2k wrote about it:

We are trying. I just found out it's like 12 pages of pure text! There's a lot to say about those two modes.
But that info is going to be valuable before or after launch. So while I hear you, you'll gain a lot from reading this thing period.

That second to last sentence tells me it's not coming out tonight. Just my opinion, however.

[kraken613]

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Does text really take that long to upload.... Really....

[Neolithic]

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::sadface:: Still, nothing much to do till midnight anyhow, so maybe just maybe something gets out tonight. I agree with you though, based on that reply, my hope starts to dwindle. ::sadface::

EDIT: on one hand though, I am a little disappointed. Editing text for publishing is not something that takes an incredible amount of time. On top of that, you decide willy nilly to have a dev diary on the night before release when you have nothing prepped to release, or, you knew you wanted to have a dev diary the night before release, and didn't bother to prep anything till the day of said dev diary. Either way, it's a bit of a sloppy approach to it.

[jeffy777]

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Classic Ronnie.......sheesh, in the time he spent posting those twitter updates, couldn't he have uploaded the text or worked on proofreading it or whatever it takes to make it happen.....it would just be nice to see it be a priority to get this sort of thing done before launch.....but oh well I guess.

[p00p1]

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Yeah, seems like all their marketing efforts went into the Halladay/Wilson videos and hoping the million dollar contest will take care of the rest. Way to go guys

[Spanky]

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EDIT: on one hand though, I am a little disappointed. Editing text for publishing is not something that takes an incredible amount of time. On top of that, you decide willy nilly to have a dev diary on the night before release when you have nothing prepped to release, or, you knew you wanted to have a dev diary the night before release, and didn't bother to prep anything till the day of said dev diary. Either way, it's a bit of a sloppy approach to it.

Agreed. Somebody at 2k needs a refresher course of Marketing 101.

Seems to me if you have a product you were really confident of and were sure consumers are going to like, which I think they do, that you'd want to go on an all-out media blitz, telling and showing everyone and his uncle how great your game is going to be.