MLB 14 The Show Blog - Online Franchise

[Curahee]

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The game is out in about two weeks so the PS3 version is done by now.

The game could be in some stores as early as this week

[baseballphanatic]

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Its already been stated by the devs that the changes did not make it into offline. The game is out in about two weeks so the PS3 version is done by now.

y not confirm if save franchise will carry over or not tho?

[NAFBUC]

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The issue is there are exclusive features to offline franchise (like contract logic, editable potential, hire/fire manager, notifications) and exclusive features to online franchise (like lineup logic, trade logic, stored player stats) and every year the gap will increase between the two modes and they will both have more and more exclusive features. For the Human vs CPU franchise guys we are getting screwed because we have to choose between which features matter the most.

Personally I am still going with offline franchise but I will miss the CPU lineup and trade logic as well as stored player stats. IMO the best situation is to have offline franchise eliminated and have it all online so we benefit from the expanded player stats as long as it has the ability to have custom rosters and save states. I would feel better if the devs gave us their plan for the future right now it seems like they are doing half and half on each mode I don't feel good about the future if that is their method.

Good post BrianU ... I would have liked your post, but for some reason I can no longer like posts. With the greater number of franchise players being offline users, it is hard to understand why the offline franchise users have to use a 'minor league' version.

[tabarnes19_SDS]

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Good post BrianU ... I would have liked your post, but for some reason I can no longer like posts. With the greater number of franchise players being offline users, it is hard to understand why the offline franchise users have to use a 'minor league' version.

I do not believe that is true. There are inherent differences to offline and online. There are advantages and disadvantages to each, depending on what and how you prefer to run your franchise.

Some things that offline franchise does, would not necessarily make sense to do in the same fashion online. The Off season comes to mind here.

People will have to evaluate the modes and see where they find the most value to the way they desire to play the game.



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[HustlinOwl]

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Good post BrianU ... I would have liked your post, but for some reason I can no longer like posts. With the greater number of franchise players being offline users, it is hard to understand why the offline franchise users have to use a 'minor league' version.

vice versa online has had NO franchise for the last 6 years

[MrOldboy]

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vice versa online has had NO franchise for the last 6 years

Again, the issue is not that people are upset that work went into Online Franchise, I'm sure many are happy for it as I am and will use it. I've already joined a league with you in it as well. But it has created a situation where people need to choose between two versions of single player franchise with different features (some core to the experience like how the CPU interacts with the player).

[NAFBUC]

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Again, the issue is not that people are upset that work went into Online Franchise, I'm sure many are happy for it as I am and will use it. I've already joined a league with you in it as well. But it has created a situation where people need to choose between two versions of single player franchise with different features (some core to the experience like how the CPU interacts with the player).

Well said MrOldboy. Hustlinowl needs to relax and embrace all the online franchise upgrades, (great news for online players ) and let the offline users voice concerns.

[tessl]

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Its already been stated by the devs that the changes did not make it into offline. The game is out in about two weeks so the PS3 version is done by now.

Some of the changes made it into offline but not all. I do agree, the ps3 is finished and I doubt they are adding any features to the ps4 at this point. They are testing gameplay and finishing the stadiums.

[NAFBUC]

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90% of all the games played in MLB 13 were played in RTTS.

I thought franchise players played the most games in The Show, according to Russell less than 10% are franchise. I will give RTTS a shot this year and see what I have been missing.

[HustlinOwl]

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I thought franchise players played the most games in The Show, according to Russell less than 10% are franchise. I will give RTTS a shot this year and see what I have been missing.

wonder what online % is???

[MrOldboy]

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I thought franchise players played the most games in The Show, according to Russell less than 10% are franchise. I will give RTTS a shot this year and see what I have been missing.

That number is a bit misleading though, he said of all the games played that were tracked 90% of them were RTTS games.

Think about how many more games a RTTS player gets through compared to a Franchise or online player.

I know that RTTS games are by far the largest % of my games, but that is because you cannot sim them and still get enough training points. You have to play the games and they go very fast. Especially when you turn off fielding and baserunning. With franchise and DD there is a lot more time managing your team, much longer games and no penalty for simming games.

If I think about it I've probably spend about 50% of my time in franchise, 30% DD and 20% RTTS. Not counting editing rosters, etc.

But if I think about the # of games I play, RTTS is way more than the other two combined and probably does look something like 90%, but its only a small part of my time.

Now with player lock and more training points for simming in RTTS I wonder how far that number will skew this year.

[Russell_SCEA]

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I thought franchise players played the most games in The Show, according to Russell less than 10% are franchise. I will give RTTS a shot this year and see what I have been missing.

Franchise is the second most played mode.

[Knight165]

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Manage only Mode is the second most played mode.

EXCELLENT!
I expect the full treatment next year!
(I wonder if I fooled him?)

M.K.
Knight165

[NAFBUC]

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EXCELLENT!
I expect the full treatment next year!
(I wonder if I fooled him?)

M.K.
Knight165

Good one M.K.

[redsox4evur]

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Ok so I just read through the entire thread and have come to a decision, I will give online a try because I hated the trade logic that used last year. I always saw the Indians trading Lindor for some random major league player and it pissed me off. I do not like using the 30 team control because I do not like having to read through every email for every team and the blinking lights aggravate me. But what I really like offline is the ability to change players potentials that is one thing I have really been looking for in MLB games. So for me it is a toss up on what on which one I play. But if I do actually need PS+ for online on PS3 which would make sense imo, because I think you need it for online on the other 2 systems. But if changing player potentials is in online then I will use that and just do me vs 29 cpu teams.