Sony Partners and Content Creators Testing Beta

[TheKnack]

Some cool news and a small update for all you OS'ers.

It has been leaked that Sony has invited quite a few content creators and MLBTS influencers down to SDS to beta test the latest version of MLB: The Show 19 this week. The "Sony Partners" arrived on Tuesday and have been working with the team ever since to test the new game.

I don't know how much news we'll actually get out of testing process, as I'd assume these partners signed non-disclosure agreements to participate, but we can be sure the product they'll be testing is going to be reasonably close to the end product we'll all receive in March.

These guys and gals are as close as we can get to the development process, so let's hope they provide precise details to SDS as to what the community is looking for (or may find at launch).

A cast of folks have come out on Twitter and Youtube announcing they're at SDS, but from what I can tell, the entire week is likely going to be kept pretty secret. We may get a few leaks here and there on impressions of the game, but we are just 3 weeks from likely getting a Twitch schedule from SDS anyways.

[Caulfield]

Sony Show partners? I wonder if thats like equipment and shoes partners.

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by Caulfield

Sony Show partners? I wonder if thats like equipment and shoes partners.

It's content creators (twitch streamers) such as Millennium who is there.

[PPerfect_CJ]

The 2 guys they NEEDED to invite were Ridin and ShowTyme.

[underdog13]

Considering the down right awful and pitiful opinions I've seen about this game anywhere besides OS. I'm not thrilled about those people getting a better chance of their voices to be heard by devs.

I'm glad millennium got to go however.

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[tabarnes19_SDS]

I have seen a trend of community reps being drawn from twitch and youtube streamers.

Show used to draw off people here and would pull people from the boards with expertise in different areas.

Not blaming them, but they are going where money is. For awhile it was rtts. Franchise would benefit because the logic would transfer.

Now DD is king.

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[underdog13]

Quote: Originally Posted by tabarnes19

I have seen a trend of community reps being drawn from twitch and youtube streamers. Show used to draw off people here and would pull people from the boards with expertise in different areas. Not blaming them, but they are going where money is. For awhile it was rtts. Franchise would benefit because the logic would transfer. Now DD is king. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

My issue with twitch/youtube/twitter personalities for The Show, isn't that they play DD.

It's that they
A) Don't seem intelligent enough to understand the nuance of video game design.
B) Seemingly don't want any randomness in their baseball game. Very similar to the "competitive" crowd in Madden. And then any randomness that occurs and is a negative to their team is suddenly "rubber banding" or "comeback code".

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[Padgoi]

No offense to Mill, but I don't understand why they'd invite him and not someone like Ridin, who literally CREATES the roster than the developers themselves use!!!

Mill is a . . . twitch streamer. All SDS is doing is looking for popular twitch streamers to market their product for them to increase sales. Inviting someone like Ridin down to actually work on rosters beforehand or something of that nature would be more efficient and influential for the community, but once again SDS proves they're in it for money and nothing else. This is getting frustrating at this point.