In, out or waiting?

[LegendKillerOne]

Re: In, out or waiting?

It is almost Friday, Already told the wife let's keep the weekend free I have achievements to hunt

[thescoop]

Re: In, out or waiting?

While I'm frustrated with the focus going to areas that I don't feel are important. (My opinion, not debating if you love the shifted focus to other areas.) I'm in.

Bottom line is I love baseball and baseball video games. The Show still puts out great gameplay. I like the addition of injury rosters for Franchise. But man I wish they'd focus on more things for us legacy players. But like others have said, they know they got our money so we're just not as important as trying to appeal to others.

I just find it frustrating that stadium creator remains relatively untouched (as far as what we've been shown.), Franchise got minor tweaks, RTTS's biggest additions are removing in its tie from DD and a women's mode (that I'll never touch.) and graphics still don't seem to have much of a bump from the PS4 out side of hair physics this year.

[Armor and Sword]

Re: In, out or waiting?

Waiting.

I waited almost a year to purchase MLB 23 and am so immersed in my 2024 franchise and ATG 1990 Franchise....I can wait.

Understand I played MLB 20 for 4 straight years. So MLB 23 is very new to me.

I will wait to see what the ATG crew does this cycle and then pick up 24 in January of 2025 most likely.

But I will pick it up at some point....so I guess Waiting/In is my answer. I just don't need/desire to purchase it on release.......being late to 23 is the reason.

[Madden08PCgmr]

Re: In, out or waiting?

I'll buy for the nostalgia piece of the Kingdome alone, but its a bargain bin purchase for me.

Year-to-year saves are the only thing that will make this a day-1, must-have purchase again.

[Armor and Sword]

Re: In, out or waiting?

I'll buy for the nostalgia piece of the Kingdome alone, but its a bargain bin purchase for me.

Year-to-year saves are the only thing that will make this a day-1, must-have purchase again.

I am with this 100%.

Why?

I get deep into my franchise play and it typically takes me at least 6 months to complete a full 162 game season playing every pitch.

I simply do not want to start over again and again.

Y2Y spoiled me forever. I love getting into year 5-6-7-8 and seeing my prospects develop and play as well as all the others around the league.

It was literally the greatest feature ever made for hardcore franchise players and SOTS was second to that.

So I can wait........and hopefully one day Y2Y will make it's glorious return.....but I am not counting on it anytime soon...if ever. So we can play the waiting game until I see some real leaps. I did that with 23 and yeah the leap is real and profound in gameplay and presentation from 20.

Nostalgia will have me pick up 24 next year as like many here....I collect baseball video games. I have dozens of them LOL!!!

[tessl]

Re: In, out or waiting?

I love the game but I'm out in 2024 for the first time. I disagree with the path they have taken in franchise. I'll continue playing my mlbts 23 franchise.

[LegendKillerOne]

Re: In, out or waiting?

I am seeing with a lot of the out people the lack of franchise updates is making them stay with 23 due to the amount of time and effort they put into that franchise, that makes sense to me. Some of you have 3 to 5 seasons into it you need something major to leave it behind.

[tessl]

Re: In, out or waiting?

I'll buy for the nostalgia piece of the Kingdome alone, but its a bargain bin purchase for me.

Year-to-year saves are the only thing that will make this a day-1, must-have purchase again.

With y2y saves I'm in waiting for gamestop to open their door. Without it I'll take a pass.

I have a hard time believing y2y is impossible as some claim because it was previously in the game.

[LowerWolf]

Re: In, out or waiting?

I am seeing with a lot of the out people the lack of franchise updates is making them stay with 23 due to the amount of time and effort they put into that franchise, that makes sense to me. Some of you have 3 to 5 seasons into it you need something major to leave it behind.

If you're a franchise player, it really does make more sense to buy every other year or so - with all sports games, not just MLB.

I more than got my money's worth with 21 after skipping 22. If I had ever found my groove on 23, I'd probably skip 24.

My plan right now is to just roll with Madden 24 and MLB 24 for the next couple of years.

[Madden08PCgmr]

Re: In, out or waiting?

With y2y saves I'm in waiting for gamestop to open their door. Without it I'll take a pass.

I have a hard time believing y2y is impossible as some claim because it was previously in the game.

I understand and respect the issues they had porting the game over to Switch and XBox.

At this point I do not see how it would be impossible to re-implement roster ports. If rosters can port across all platforms in all 3 vaults, why can't they port across to newer versions? Especially since they've done this before (directly 19 to 20, even having added 3 roster spots in 20)

[logan456]

Re: In, out or waiting?

I'm in. I have purchased the show every year since 07, not backing out now. Looking forward to Friday.

[tessl]

Re: In, out or waiting?

I understand and respect the issues they had porting the game over to Switch and XBox.

At this point I do not see how it would be impossible to re-implement roster ports. If rosters can port across all platforms in all 3 vaults, why can't they port across to newer versions? Especially since they've done this before (directly 19 to 20, even having added 3 roster spots in 20)

I mistakenly called them lazy in a previous post. I think's it's a choice as to what to spend developer hours on and they have chosen other things as a priority. It's probably coming from the top.

If I buy 24 hoping they will bring back y2y in 25 then I'm Charlie Brown convincing myself that Lucy won't pull the ball away. If the see a significant decline in people playing 24 franchise mode then they might decide to spend developer hours on y2y.

[speels]

Re: In, out or waiting?

I mistakenly called them lazy in a previous post. I think's it's a choice as to what to spend developer hours on and they have chosen other things as a priority. It's probably coming from the top.

If I buy 24 hoping they will bring back y2y in 25 then I'm Charlie Brown convincing myself that Lucy won't pull the ball away. If the see a significant decline in people playing 24 franchise mode then they might decide to spend developer hours on y2y.

Or if they see less and less people playing Franchise mode they may decide that catering to such a small portion of users isn't achieving the ROI they require to keep Franchise in their game. Oooooo, Devil's advocate!!

[countryboy]

Re: In, out or waiting?

I mistakenly called them lazy in a previous post. I think's it's a choice as to what to spend developer hours on and they have chosen other things as a priority. It's probably coming from the top.

If I buy 24 hoping they will bring back y2y in 25 then I'm Charlie Brown convincing myself that Lucy won't pull the ball away. If the see a significant decline in people playing 24 franchise mode then they might decide to spend developer hours on y2y.

Y2Y saves had a significantly low usage percentage amongst the community.

Lower user engagement in franchise mode isn’t going to convince them to bring it back


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Stucatz]

Re: In, out or waiting?

It was mentioned that there would be post release updates or improvements to franchise. So there's that