Interview With MLB 09: The Show Online Producer Jason Villa

[nathan118]

Re: Interview With MLB 09: The Show Online Producer Jason Villa

He said bringing in starters from the pen has been removed Mr over reaction

I'd give you a 1 of 10 on your latest comment if i could

And I quote:

"You can bring in starters from your bullpen, which we removed this year for online games because people would just bring in starter after starter in the past."

Which is it...you can bring in starters....or it was removed? Sorry if the poorly worded sentence in the interview was confusing. Thank you so much for the 1 out of 10.

[nemesis04]

Re: Interview With MLB 09: The Show Online Producer Jason Villa

And I quote:

"You can bring in starters from your bullpen, which we removed this year for online games because people would just bring in starter after starter in the past."

Which is it...you can bring in starters....or it was removed? Sorry if the poorly worded sentence in the interview was confusing. Thank you so much for the 1 out of 10.

From reading it, we had the ability to do this but in 09 we will not. I am not really agreeing with the decision. They are trying to put the users on rails to make sure baseball etiquette is followed. I understand their intention but all this does is frustrate the people who play the game properly.

There were times in our league where your starter went down in the first inning. We had a rule where you could use your 4th or 5th man in those special situations. Now that has been taken away.

[Hoos]

I sit and hope...and wonder if it is really fixed.

Same approach I'm taking............Even after reading the interview, I'm still worried. There were a lot of references to "we tried"...........WE TRIED to tweak this and WE TRIED to tune that. Trying and doing are two different things in my book. I would feel much better or hopeful if his answers were of the "Yes, we WERE able to fix the online issues" variety.

I don't buy into the internet lag issue as a whole. While playing 08, I had miserable laggy games against a friend who is abut 50 miles from me and we both have Comcast cable connections that work flawlessly for any other games we play (mostly on XBox Live).

Peer to Peer connections would have been a good idea here. Maybe make it an option on how you want to connect, either peer to peer for a game against a specific friend or through their servers for a ranked game against a random person.

I guess we wont know for sure until release and we get our hands on the game.

The offline play for this game is unbelievable. I just wish they could deliver on the online side as well. If 09 ends up being a complete mess online like last year, I'll be extremely disappointed.

[nathan118]

Re: Interview With MLB 09: The Show Online Producer Jason Villa

Saw this in the Gamespy preview....has this been mentioned anywhere else?

"The biggest change in online play is the advent of flex scheduling, where gamers can play games out of order."

[roolz]

Re: Interview With MLB 09: The Show Online Producer Jason Villa

Hopefully as long as the lag is 'minimal' the gameplay will shine through and give this game another gold star in its pocket

[sooner111]

A couple of cosmetic questions. Please tell me that The Texas Rangers road cap has the white "T" and not the red one from the mid 90'
s. Also the new alternate uni's this year are the Red outfits from the late 90's team. Has this been implemented in this year's game?

[slimcranky]

Disabling the use of starters as relievers is the Greatest thing ever done.It;sjust a shame to you have to force sense into people`s minds.

[Skyboxer]

Re: Interview With MLB 09: The Show Online Producer Jason Villa

Disabling the use of starters as relievers is the Greatest thing ever done.It;sjust a shame to you have to force sense into people`s minds.

As stated before by others, this, while understanding why they did it, sucks. What happened during the times in the post season when you are down to a win or go home situation and you want to bring in a starter as relief. Yes it got abused but they are taking away from total realism by doing this.
Again I understand why they did it but sometimes the ends don't justify the means.

[Knight165]

Re: Interview With MLB 09: The Show Online Producer Jason Villa

As stated before by others, this, while understanding why they did it, sucks. What happened during the times in the post season when you are down to a win or go home situation and you want to bring in a starter as relief. Yes it got abused but they are taking away from total realism by doing this.
Again I understand why they did it but sometimes the ends don't justify the means.

Well you could just set up your rotation as 4 man and put the other starter in the pen.
He would then be available.
Not perfect...but it would help.

M.K.
Knight165

[ChaseB]

Re: Interview With MLB 09: The Show Online Producer Jason Villa

I doubt leagues would have the same restrictions in terms of not bringing in starters, but I could be wrong.

[Artman22]

Re: Interview With MLB 09: The Show Online Producer Jason Villa

I'm really not too excited after reading that. I play games everyday on xbox live and some have almost no lag. It just does not seem like they fixed the lag from reading this interview. It's really sad to because i love running leagues and if the lag isn't fixed then i'm going to be very disapointed. ONLINE IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!

[Skyboxer]

Re: Interview With MLB 09: The Show Online Producer Jason Villa

Well you could just set up your rotation as 4 man and put the other starter in the pen.
He would then be available.
Not perfect...but it would help.

M.K.
Knight165

Yep that's what I plan on doing. I just really like having a 5 man rotation for flexability reasons but you got to do what you got to do..

[budro99]

A couple of cosmetic questions. Please tell me that The Texas Rangers road cap has the white "T" and not the red one from the mid 90'
s. Also the new alternate uni's this year are the Red outfits from the late 90's team. Has this been implemented in this year's game?

Sooner
the red "T" is to official road cap of the Rangers.... So I hope that it is in there. http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2626749&cp=1452369.1452920.707 860

Also, I hope the red uni's are in there, but they are not from the 90's... there was never a red alternate in the 90's, only the red color scheme with red cap.

[whammo11224]

I was wondering why you didn't ask why a lot of people couldn't even get online with certain routers. You should've asked if rosters were also going to be made available on the web.

Thanks

[letsgobucs09]

lol i found a guy named Jason Villa playing for the Red Wings (AAA) on MLB 09 The Show..guess these guys like to put themselves in the games they help make lol