MLB 14 The Show Online Servers Closing on June 18th

[garyjr33]

I am all for this if the 15 servers are noticeably better. Allocate the resources where they should be. I understand some people will be upset with this. But IMO there is no reason not to buy this years version. It does suck for the people in the middle of an online franchise though.

[saturn2187]

I'm still upset, as I'm in the middle of season 3 of an online franchise, however after doing some research I guess I have nobody to blame but myself for assuming they'd be up longer. See below

• MLB 09 servers down 03/17/2010
• MLB 10 servers down 03/22/2011
• MLB 11 servers down 05/10/2012
• MLB 12 servers down 09/15/2013
• MLB 13 servers down 11/06/2014
• MLB 14 servers down 06/18/2015

I assumed the later decommissioning date was the norm, and I guess really it is if you look at the dates historically. Still sucks.

[HustlinOwl]

Quote: Originally Posted by saturn2187

I'm still upset, as I'm in the middle of season 3 of an online franchise, however after doing some research I guess I have nobody to blame but myself for assuming they'd be up longer. See below MLB 09 servers down 03/17/2010 MLB 10 servers down 03/22/2011 MLB 11 servers down 05/10/2012 MLB 12 servers down 09/15/2013 MLB 13 servers down 11/06/2014 MLB 14 servers down 06/18/2015 I assumed the later decommissioning date was the norm, and I guess really it is if you look at the dates historically. Still sucks.

huh??? 3 of the last 5 years the dates were earlier than 6/18

[saturn2187]

Quote: Originally Posted by HustlinOwl

huh??? 3 of the last 5 years the dates were earlier than 6/18

Exactly. That's what I said. The later decommissioning date still seems to be the norm compared to what it used to be, but still sucks that its not as late as last years.

[aliashecman]

Everyone knows the servers shut down at some point, I don't think that is the point. I know Online franchise/Online leagues aren't that popular just from reading the boards - anytime anyone poses a question about online franchise improvements in 15 or complains about issues with it in 14, it is ignored or gets very little play.

I get it. The majority of players do offline franchise - that is fine. I am an online franchise player in order to play with a friend who lives quite a long distance from me. Offline franchise doesn't do it for us because we like to compete against each other and by competing versus each other it keeps our interest in a 162 game season and we are able to make it through the "dog days" that usually lead most to abandoning the season. We are 30 or so games into our 3rd season 162 game season. With this news, we likely will not finish the 3rd season.

From a previous post it looks like servers were shut down even earlier than last years 11/6 shut down. But I just think SCEA screws online franchise players. I think it idiotic that they touted online franchise at 14's launch but do nothing to improve it in 15, virtually offer no support for it in 14 (at least on the PS3 side not sure on the PS4), are not offering a way to carry forward online franchises started in 14 to 15, and now are shutting down the servers early. I would think with this feature being newly introduced in 14 they would EXTEND the server time to prolong the online franchise experience. Isn't that the point of a franchise? To carry it forward as many seasons as possible?

I am also a pure analog hitter so right now I have very little motivation to buy 15. I know I likely will at some point and upgrade to PS4 but buying the console, the game, paying $50 bucks for online access doesn't seem worth it to me right now.

[misterkrabz]

The game is unplayable online (due to lag/poor performance). I gave up on about 4 weeks after the game was released. I really don't understand why this would upset people. Online play has been the only wart on this franchise. In 13 I felt like they made a playable game online and it wasn't too bad, then 14 dropped and the franchise went backwards in this regard in a significant way. I'm holding out hope that "Shareplay" works with this game, I have limited confidence in their ability to code a playable online game and don't really expect much.

[Clarke99]

I wonder if the logo vault gets transfered to the 15 server there was some good stuff in there

[HustlinOwl]

Quote: Originally Posted by misterkrabz

The game is unplayable online (due to lag/poor performance). I gave up on about 4 weeks after the game was released. I really don't understand why this would upset people. Online play has been the only wart on this franchise. In 13 I felt like they made a playable game online and it wasn't too bad, then 14 dropped and the franchise went backwards in this regard in a significant way. I'm holding out hope that "Shareplay" works with this game, I have limited confidence in their ability to code a playable online game and don't really expect much.

I asked the shareplay question a couple times in the streams and did not get a response, for 14 currently its horrible and would be neat to play a friend with some OSFM minor league teams as an alternate to online