MLB '10: The Show - Player Potential Fix Coming in Next Roster Update

[nuckles2k2]

Quote: Originally Posted by Abnormal101

Is there an official day the roster update will be released? I know people keep throwing out Monday but there hasn't been a developer on here confirming it which kind of worries me that it will drag on past Monday.

To answer your question.

Quote: Originally Posted by KolbeSCEA

Here is our list of the current known issues that we're looking into for immediate attention: Player Potential: Looks like a fairly bad miscommunication ended up with us having some seriously out of whack potentials. This will be corrected with the next roster download (Monday) * UPDATE - Lorne is taking care of this - will be fixed with a roster update. -K

[theotherguy619]

Why are people still posting potential ratings? I thought it was a real issue, and not SCEA just misrating everybody?

Are they going to take our opinions into consideration even though they know what the problem is?

[Abnormal101]

Quote: Originally Posted by nuckles2k2

To answer your question.

Thanks I guess Quick games and exhibitions until then, no franchise for me.

[sectiona21]

I'm not a huge ratings guy, especially with the potential rating mainly because I'm still a little cloudy on the exact definition of the potential rating. But I think there's a few things we need to keep in consideration here.

Should a player that's in his mid 20's that maybe once was a top prospect but has strung together a few subpar seasons be still considered for a rating such as a B? I've seen many of those be proposed in the previous pages.

Also, what about a player that still may have time to improve..say 26 or 27, but has given us enough of a stat sample size to imply that possibly that player has hit a plateau in his career and while he may of hit 30-35 HRs 2 or 3 years ago, there's more of a chance that player's numbers will regress in the near future.

My point is I think we should just really look at the numbers and not the names of these players when trying to adjust their potential rating, especially before we just handing out B's even A's like crazy. Also remember when this is all said and done and the update is released, in the end, the potential rating is just an opinion. And that means you will not have everyone in agreement with each and every rating. Does that mean the rating is wrong? No, because it is an opinion...plain and simple. This is just another baseball arguement, just like the millions of other baseball arguements that have taken place over the last 100+ years. This is what makes baseball so great.

The one thing we should remember in this whole thing that less than 24 hours after this game was released, the people of SCEA were on here working on solutions to fix some of the bugs and problems with their product. The game is already one of the best sports titles every to be released, the early reviews of the game have been nearly perfect...9-9.5 I've read so far. It's obviously going to turn some big revenue for Sony and be a huge seller. Really, SCEA could've released this title yesterday and that could've been the last we heard of them till Dec or Jan when the talk of MLB 11 starts stirring. And we are a small community of Show players, and sick baseball fans that notice things like potential ratings. The average fan will pop in the Show and fall in love with the game and not even notice or care about things like potential ratings or some of the silly other comments I read on here that people complain about. Yet, these guys with SCEA care about their product and obviously care about you and what you spend your money on. This game is already the best and they continue to go out of their way to make it better. I won't name names but some other companies in the industry better start taking notes on how SCEA does business, because people are sick and tired of spending a lot of money on garbage, when they have the resources to do so much better.

So thank you once again SCEA...you have put yourself in elite status in your industry and others should be envious of your work.

[franch1se]

Adrian Gonzalez - D, A
Everth Cabrera - D, B

[El_MaYiMbE]

I have a question,

If a player is obviously not getting any better but he is an All-Star should his potential be A?

Example:

Pujols is the best player in the universe, but he cannot get any better he is obviously going to be a force for the next few years but as he ages he will only slow down (4-5 more yrs?). Should his potential be A? Shouldnt it be a B or mayb even C because althought his overall rating is 99 (or what ever it is) he is only going to get worst not better. Even if he drops 1 point every year for the next 6 yrs he will still be 93 overall...

Is this how it works? Or if your the best your potential will stay at A?

[jebediah]

Does potential have any effect on your players if you are only playing a single season? I want to start a Season now, without having to wait for the roster update to fix the only potential issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[El_MaYiMbE]

Quote: Originally Posted by jebediah

Does potential have any effect on your players if you are only playing a single season? I want to start a Season now, without having to wait for the roster update to fix the only potential issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

No, it will only effect you in Franchise because it is how players progress season to season.