MLB The Show 16 Twitch Stream - Franchise Mode & Gameplay (Archive Available)

[WaitTilNextYear]

Quote: Originally Posted by JTommy67

Linking progression to stats is redundant and creates a circular flow. Player performance is affected by ratings, but now ratings are affected by player performance. In real life, players don't get better because they bat .300, they bat .300 because they get better. Bad idea.

Quote: Originally Posted by eric7064

Agreed. Avisal Garcia went from 72 contact vs lefties to 62. That is drastic. He did hit .143 I Believe. While I wouldn't mind SOME regression, how is he ever going to get better? He wont, it will only continue to drop. I like some performance based progression but that seems drastic to me.

Yeah, the +/- 10 is way too drastic and shows little knowledge of sample size/regressing splits. Someone should mail them a copy of Tom Tango's The Book!

[Bobhead]

Quote: Originally Posted by JTommy67

Linking progression to stats is redundant and creates a circular flow. Player performance is affected by ratings, but now ratings are affected by player performance. In real life, players don't get better because they bat .300, they bat .300 because they get better. Bad idea.

The point is that the two are now correlated together, which wasn't the case before. You're right in that the concept doesn't make sense from a logical perspective, but if you take a step back you'll realize that doesn't really matter.

In real life, a player occasionally gets better AND has a great year. Regardless of the order, the point is that the two things happen concurrently.

Again, I agree with you on the semantics, but this observation of yours has no real functional effect on the game. Even if they did it the "proper" way (which would be far more labor intensive), the net result would be exactly the same: a system that produces busts and surprise superstars, and translates those occurrences into actual changes in performance..

[eric7064]

I do notice Ramone in this stream has said No Create a Stadium in "MLB 16". Many times. Emphasis on 16. I really think it will be in in MLB 17. The way he says it, it makes me think so.

[WaitTilNextYear]

The percentage of non-franchise mode questions they're taking and answering in the franchise stream is a bit annoying...but I guess it gets to be a downer to keep saying 'no' to the same franchise mode questions.

[OUSOONERS#1]

Quote: Originally Posted by eric7064

No a horrible game killed 2k. For MVP I cant speak on. I know it make them money. I'm not saying that its a bad thing. The minute one pack is bought by anyone it makes them more money then franchise does. These $100 dollar plus games only happen because of DD. That does not take away the fact that most improvements by far for 2 years in a row have gone to DD, yet OS is a very franchise dedicated fanbase and as you can see by many responses, people are underwhelmed. They have been teasing a franchise overhaul for 3+ years now, when is it going to happen?

Only reason MVP went away is because of exclusives not because it didn't make money .. MVP to me has still not been replaced as top console baseball game nit saying it didn't have problems but the Show only has it beat in Graphics only and that's sad really .. I agree DD is there money mode !!!

[bronxbombers21325]

I'm just not all that thrilled with the player morale thing. I just cat shake this feeling that players are going to be impossible to keep happy or satisfied.

[Boozers]

I can understand the viewpoint on DD but why would this mode take away hours of dev time?

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by Boozers

I can understand the viewpoint on DD but why would this mode take away hours of dev time?

Personnel ....which is equal to man hours...so same thing.
But....that doesn't mean that without DD....they wouldn't have less devs working on the game...which could be the same amount of devs on franchise anyway.

M.K.
Knight165