MLB Baseball Community Press Release

[Cubfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA

Due to the number of pms I'm getting and some of the reply's in this thread let me clarify a couple of things. mlblover15, ericjwm, Psychobulk, jim416, nemesis04, Rod_Carew29, Knight165, Pared and Pastapadre Are the Community Leaders for MLB The Show for the foreseeable future. We may add one or two people before March, but It's not something I would bank on. Everyone of the guys listed above fits the criteria we talked about in the press release. Which is why they are your representatives. They have been a tremendous help the team over the years and we are really exited to have all of them on board. Also I'm not the one you need to convince or ask to get into the program. The next person or group of people that are added to the roster will be picked by you (the community) not us. Our intentions is for the program to run and operate as organically as possible. We won't step in as "Big Brother" unless it's absolutely necessary. If you know of someone who might not be on our radar or who's at another site please by all means pm me. I hope that clears some things up. If you have any other questions ask away.

All the right people have been picked to represent OS as it concerns MLB The Show. I will be very jealous of you guys if you are invited out to San Diego to check out 09 The Show.

[Pared]

Guys,

I wouldn't expect much from the program this year. I can guarantee you everything in the game is pretty much set at this point and the work is being done.

Next year is the year you might see an impact.


But one of the most important things people need to remember is this: We are only there to give our feedback and suggestions. If the staff do not take our comments/info/concerns to heart, there's not much else we're going to be able to do.

With THAT said, I believe that they will take our comments to heart and you will see a difference. This opens the door considerably for consumer-developer interaction, something I've pushed for many years.

Exciting time to be a baseball... and The Show... fan.

[sask3m]

so what exactly is the difference between this and listing bugs etc. in the forum, seems to me if scea comes here and reads the forums they see all this anyways.

[Skyboxer]

I'd love to donate anything baseball to the group but I'm probably overly critical of my baseball games...
Any way I could help though I would. Of all the sports, baseball is my "religion"

[green94]

Might not be a bad idea to include Razr to this list. I believe there was another person he worked with to edit the stances in the Knight Roster. They both did a fantastic job.

[DodgerFanatic2K3]

Quote: Originally Posted by ericjwm

Are you kidding me? The accuracy of the batting & pitching animations have been one of my main concerns for years now. Chris & the rest of the Sony mocap team have done a pretty great job in the past, but its time for them to take it to another level. I'm confident that 09 will be a step in the right direction.... no worries here.

Good.... hopefully you guys can also pitch the idea to totally scrap the way that difficulty levels are constructed in this game

They need to take a page from ASB and the 2K series and totally re-write the code to make the difficulty level setting only effect the computers A.I. and not have anything to do with the "batting style" your comfortable using

I'm confident that this and other glaring issues like

* No real full control manual fielding

* Non or rare triggering catch animations when fielders are moving sideways

* Ability to have another fielder pick up the ball after it's deflected off your glove

* Rarely triggered head first or hook slides at home plate in critical situations when using auto base running

will all be addressed and fixed for MLB '10

[Crash Davis]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

Guys, I wouldn't expect much from the program this year. I can guarantee you everything in the game is pretty much set at this point and the work is being done.

It seems as though this comment comes up every year with almost any sports game, I get that maybe in January perhaps this would be true, but I mean I saw uniform changes last year be fixed as late as LATE january for the show, (game came out late Febuary) Pared I dig your posts youre a smart guy and I mean no disrespect its just that it seems false to assume the games all but done at this point.

[GTjeff519]

Quote: Originally Posted by sask3m

so what exactly is the difference between this and listing bugs etc. in the forum, seems to me if scea comes here and reads the forums they see all this anyways.

i have to agree with sask3m on this.
also, the people that have been selected have a great feel for the game. they have actively participated in making a great game even better. ie. rosters, fixes, work arounds, caps, etc.
i'm sure they have a good idea about what needs to be fixed/improved and lets hope their voices are heard.