ATTN: SCEA Staff - A 3rd Patch IS NEEDED!
I'm making this post because sadly, it's become necessary. I've waited patiently for the past month to hear word on a third patch, to hopefully fix the "Sounds of the Show" song limit problem once and for all (anyone not aware...while you can now add over 245 songs to your playlist, any song you ASSIGN to a player over that number will not play, and a random song will play instead).
And to also address the many issues with online leagues (standings do not display correctly. The standings screen shows something completely different from the main league screen and the league website, free agents are duplicated in fantasy draft leagues, and the draft itself is a complete mess, scheduling neither the date nor time correctly...and not displaying the draft order correctly during the draft).
I've diligently reported each of these issues in the "bugs & glitches" thread as instructed, but have read nothing in terms of coming fixes or even an acknowledgment that the issues exist. In the meantime, I've played the game, worked on my player walk ups sound pack, and ran a league as best I could given the current limitations. Simply put, I've tried to enjoy the game.
But over the past two days, as I shifted attention back to my franchise, I ran into a problem that I cannot and refuse to overlook. At the beginning of an inning, usually late in the game, I'd press "select" to check my pitcher's pitch count. Three times in the past 24 hours, doing this has caused my system to freeze, requiring a hard shutdown by pressing the power button on the front of my PS3.
Obviously, you can tell me "don't do that". But for one thing, it's habit. Late in the game, I want to know where my pitcher stands and if I need to get a reliever warming. More importantly, this is a glitch that SHOULD NOT happen...especially at almost two months since the game was released. We really should be far beyond the point of having system freezing bugs in this game. The fact that we're not is both embarrassing and pathetic. Clearly, this is a good baseball game...and it always gets good reviews. But with all these fundamental problems in the programming, it seriously makes me question whether the development team has grown arrogant and/or complacent with what it means to create a good video game.
You can have all the frills and modes and statistics and graphics you want, but when the two places to view league standings inside your own game don't match up, or pressing a button at the "wrong time" locks up the entire system, something is drastically wrong. In my honest opinion, I feel like SCEA's priorities are completely out of whack because I, for one, would much rather have a more stable game instead of Rule 5 Drafts and a Home Run Derby. I really hope these issues get fixed. But as of right now, I'm disappointed with the direction this team has taken, and won't be supporting this game next year.
Hopefully, no one in the OS community takes offense to this. I tried to be as objective and respectful as possible. And the biggest thing to remember, I'm not making any of these issues up. Thank you for reading.
And to also address the many issues with online leagues (standings do not display correctly. The standings screen shows something completely different from the main league screen and the league website, free agents are duplicated in fantasy draft leagues, and the draft itself is a complete mess, scheduling neither the date nor time correctly...and not displaying the draft order correctly during the draft).
I've diligently reported each of these issues in the "bugs & glitches" thread as instructed, but have read nothing in terms of coming fixes or even an acknowledgment that the issues exist. In the meantime, I've played the game, worked on my player walk ups sound pack, and ran a league as best I could given the current limitations. Simply put, I've tried to enjoy the game.
But over the past two days, as I shifted attention back to my franchise, I ran into a problem that I cannot and refuse to overlook. At the beginning of an inning, usually late in the game, I'd press "select" to check my pitcher's pitch count. Three times in the past 24 hours, doing this has caused my system to freeze, requiring a hard shutdown by pressing the power button on the front of my PS3.
Obviously, you can tell me "don't do that". But for one thing, it's habit. Late in the game, I want to know where my pitcher stands and if I need to get a reliever warming. More importantly, this is a glitch that SHOULD NOT happen...especially at almost two months since the game was released. We really should be far beyond the point of having system freezing bugs in this game. The fact that we're not is both embarrassing and pathetic. Clearly, this is a good baseball game...and it always gets good reviews. But with all these fundamental problems in the programming, it seriously makes me question whether the development team has grown arrogant and/or complacent with what it means to create a good video game.
You can have all the frills and modes and statistics and graphics you want, but when the two places to view league standings inside your own game don't match up, or pressing a button at the "wrong time" locks up the entire system, something is drastically wrong. In my honest opinion, I feel like SCEA's priorities are completely out of whack because I, for one, would much rather have a more stable game instead of Rule 5 Drafts and a Home Run Derby. I really hope these issues get fixed. But as of right now, I'm disappointed with the direction this team has taken, and won't be supporting this game next year.
Hopefully, no one in the OS community takes offense to this. I tried to be as objective and respectful as possible. And the biggest thing to remember, I'm not making any of these issues up. Thank you for reading.
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