What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Needs?

[Edmond]

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Runners getting back to base have a very slow reaction time. When you press L1 for them to lead off, the reaction is just about instant. But when you press R1 for them to get back to base after leading off, they don't even move! How about fixing that?

Also, why are baserunners having to go around fielders when taking an extra base? My baserunners take a huge detour around a fielder mindlessly jogging over to cover a base. That huge detour ends up taking up valuable time.

[dbacks_Nation]

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I think it would be awesome if the playoff atmosphere included the fans of the home stadium all wearing relatively the same colored shirt, such as an Angels sea of red, or Arizona's "Black Out."

[Jordan93]

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Realistic Contracts it would make franchise running a small budget team so much more realistic. Can't stand nick Swisher making 1.2 million in the game when he makes nothing close to that and every team in the game bidding on and being able to afford Cano when only 23 of the 30 mlb teams can even afford to pay him in real life. Cano will not sign with the A's for 5 years and 60 million.... not realsitic at all. You guys need to make player contracts reflect real life contracts or at least be close. You guys have the length right bit not the dollars no idea why, every other sports video game does Fifa, Nba 2k, Nhl,Madden. Maybe it's your license agreement wich I've read on here. Although I don't see it since every website, Newspaper, sports channel release the length and amount of contract. Even the MLB site releases it and Baseball teams actually hold Press confrences, confrence calls and have agents, Players, GM"s and Owners telling media and public of the length and full dollar amount of players said contract even the yearly breakdown and signing bonus so it's public knowledge.
It would only require paying a guy for one day and researching the actual contract length and amount using sites like cot's and Team press releases.

Thank you for creating a great baseball game and hearing the public wants. Another quick note Franchise would be so much more worth while if you actually had real team budgets where the Rays no matter how many games they win can't spend more than 60 million on payroll and have to try to compete agaisnt the Yankees 190 million: whcih would work in your game with real player contracts. Also Bullpen, Bench coach in game and Coaches pictures in game simliar to Madden not a big deal but you have their nameing rights so why not their face.

[Jordan93]

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@ ME I meant only 7 of the 30 MLB teams can afford Cano in real life sorry fake MLB the Show Rays you can't make the playoffs one seaosn and sign this guy not happening.

[jsou4646]

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Fix the frame rate issues in night games, ruins the game.

[DJ]

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Fix the frame rate issues in night games, ruins the game.

I have never had an issue with this. How often does this happen for you?

[Bobhead]

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I have never had an issue with this. How often does this happen for you?

It happens every so often with me. I think it might be more of a PS3 issue though (and The Show just pushes the PS3 far enough to trigger it).

Doing that rebuilding the database thing helps temporarily, but within a month or two it starts to happen again. And it progressively becomes more frequent from there. It's really weird.

[tnixen]

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please nix the RING AROUND THE BAT

What is this ring around the bat you speak of?

[monk31]

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Fix the Forkball!!!!! Currently, it looks like a changeup. No historical roster is complete without an accurate forkball. It is should look halfway between a curveball and the splitter.

Dont confuse what the the japanese call a forkball (sometimes a fork, sometimes a split or change) and what has been a forkball for decades.

The forball has a slow topspin when thrown correctly which would lend itself to a mostly downward break. Why would it move down and in in game???

[jsou4646]

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I have never had an issue with this. How often does this happen for you?

It happens during every night game, the pitchers animation has issues, which causes major problems when trying to hit the ball. Other than that the game is beautiful, but such an obvious and huge flaw ruins the game. It's not in the 09 version, but is there in 11 and 12. I tried everything imaginable before giving up on 12.

[Chin273]

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Two words:
Jay Bell

[pingponggame]

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Is it me, or does it seem like off-line throws from infielders to 1st appear to be the norm, and accurate (chest level) throws happen rarely. Seems a bit silly as most major leaguers, when not rushed, are fairly accurate in their tosses across the diamond.
This may have been discussed before, not positive but figured i'd throw it out there as a simple observation i've noticed throughout the last few years. Getting this looked at would certainly be satisfying lol.

[BenGerman]

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With The Show coming out in a couple months, and the info rolling in even sooner than that, I figured I'd get my final shots in as to what I'd like to see. Let me preface this by saying I understand some of my ideas aren't incredibly realistic, but I thought I'd put them on here anyway. I thought of ten things that I'll put in order for least to greatest interest I have in them being in the game.

Honorable Mention (RTTS Sim Line/Stats):

Okay, I lied, I actually have 11 things I wanted to mention. The first of which (and probably least important) would be adding a Sim Line for your RTTS when you're simming part of the game. I've always hated being pulled from a game for a pinch runner or a relief pitcher and then not knowing how your team is doing until after the game is over. 2K did it very well for a while, I'm not sure if they still do it or not.

One more thing for the Honorable Mention. Please add more Sabremetric stats!

10 (Winter Meetings):

It was nice to have a week where baseball is back in the spotlight in the middle of winter this past week, and it got me thinking that maybe MLB The Show could add something like a Winter Meeting kind of deal. Take one week of the offseason to choose a few players or GMs to meet with and then get a select number of shots to deal with them exclusively. Not likely to happen, but might add some spice to the offseason.

9 (Stadium Edit):

One of my biggest pet peeves is not being able to change the style of grass that my team is playing on in The Show. I'm not typically one of those guys to care about this kind of stuff, but I hate turning on my TV for a day full of baseball and seeing all of the fantastic yard work done on the fields and know that when I boot up my Franchise, I'll be playing in the same old grass style every game. On top of this, wouldn't it be great to be able to edit things like field size (make a really small ballpark or Petco v2?) and background?

8 (Be a Coach):

Obviously, this is something that has been mentioned before, so I won't get too into it. But I'd love to see a Be a Coach mode where the ability to be hired, fired, promoted, etc. is available. It would be neat if they stole a page out of NCAA's book (as long as this was the only page they stole) and made hitting and pitching coaches, or even the ability to be a minor league coach and just have it similar to RTTS in a sense you only have to play when you're needed.

7 (New Swing Animations):

This is something I call for every year, and am ignored almost every year. Finally, they added a few swing in last year but for the most part, it was just a few different sets of swing types. They have too many players using both hands on a follow through (especially to opposite field). Just 10 or 15 would be fine.

6 (Better Playoff Atmosphere):

This kind of ties into a few ideas I'll mention later, but it would be nice to have different commentary and perhaps different overlays for the playoffs.

5 (Round Up Show):

I've never understood why Round Up Shows kind of found there way out of sports gaming as soon as the new consoles hit. I've always found it hard to become immersed in my Franchise (outside of my team, that is) because I never really know whats going on in the league. Add just a five minute segment at the end of every week to review stats, moves made, and records/standings.

4 (Rework Drafting):

I suspect this will change next year after all of the griping this year, but the draft is the worst part of The Show, and I think SCEA knows it. Not only is it difficult to find anyone of any kind of use in the draft, more often than not, these players are picked at complete random. Not once did I see in my five year Franchise a guy have an impact on a team after being drafted. Most first rounders ended up with either D or F potential.

3 (Better FA Logic/Budgets):

Free Agency is kind of a bore in Franchise, because unless you do it all yourself, the CPU usually makes one offer and you can do whatever it takes to top their offer and be done with it. This especially hurts when there are no ramifications for over spending, because players seem to be largely underpaid and budgets rarely come into effect. I'm not sure I had a team hit their cap once.

2 (Trading/Trade Deadline):

The trade system needs to be completely overhauled. Not only does the CPU often accept/offer up bizarre trades, but there also is no back and forth. One of the best things about baseball is that every GM is trying to win with each and every single move. So when I offer up a guy like Will Myers, I want to be able to soak every last player out of the organization that I possibly can. As I've said before, even using 2K Basketballs trading system would be better. Have counter offers, and a trade finder.

Another thing would be to add drama into the Trading Deadline. Most years, there are only one or two moves made on the deadline in my Franchise. Teams should be more willing to make moves. Add more to the "buying" and "selling" idea that they've implemented.

1 (Dynamic Commentary):

It always hurts to be 3/4 of the way through the year, be in the middle of the playoff hunt, and not hear the announcers mention it once throughout an entire game. Or how about a player who is having an MVP type year? Was there a single game in the second half of the season where there was no talk of Mike Trout being a candidate for the Angels last year? Probably not. Commentary in general needs to get better next year, but since SCEA has promised to improve it, I feel pretty confident things will be better for '13.

[starryclub]

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Overall atmosphere needs to be fixed. Ie, Play-off atmosphere. Teams that are way out of the play-offs have lower attendance should be reflected in the stands more.

I'd like to see Rain Delays whether before games, or mid game.

Line drives off the pitcher is too frequent, happened at least two times a game in MLB 12.

Maybe a Franchise overall, just a presentation change.

Manager arguments with the umpires. (Edit, apparently MLB won't allow)

Contract negotiations during the season*

Real updating scoreboard in Boston would be a nice touch.

Just a few things, I'd point out.

[dutch4404]

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fixing the hit and run glitch in RTTS would be nice. also the pitch out glitch