MLB The Show 17 Franchise Improvements Include Player Lock, Quick Manage & More

[Jeffrey Smith]

Quote: Originally Posted by merchant1874

If interleague schedule rotation has FINALLY been fixed that will be massive for me.

Somebody asked on twitter if schedule will rotate year to year and Ramone's response was to "watch the stream" sooooo....maybe?

[bcruise]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jeffrey Smith

Somebody asked on twitter if schedule will rotate year to year and Ramone's response was to "watch the livestream Thursday" sooooo....maybe?

He also answered a question about manage mode...it's still in.


(Knight would burn down the SCEA studio if they took it out )

[heroies]

Franchise mode is one of my main modes I play . Yes the video was underwhelming was really looking forward to it. But I guess I will wait for the vlog tom. I am hoping they changed a lot in franchise mode or the least atleast the final World Series winning presentation and ofcourse the 100 players that retire after each season.

Other then that I obviously will still buy it . And to all of you paying customers you have a right to like or dislike the video don't worry about the keyboard trolls who want to shut down your opinions

[tessl]

I'm sure deep dive will reveal more but it looks like the leaned in the direction of placating the sim community.

As a manage mode user there were people pushing for the ability to call every pitch in manage mode - more of a catcher mode than manage mode. I noticed in the "manage full game" option it said "manage every pitch of a full 9 inning game". That would ruin manage mode if I have to call every pitch. I believe the developers are too smart to implement something like that. We will find out later this week.

[Jeffrey Smith]

Let's not forget there is still the Front Office features to be revealed.

[thaSLAB]

Quote: Originally Posted by tessl

I'm sure deep dive will reveal more but it looks like the leaned in the direction of placating the sim community. As a manage mode user there were people pushing for the ability to call every pitch in manage mode - more of a catcher mode than manage mode. I noticed in the "manage full game" option it said "manage every pitch of a full 9 inning game". That would ruin manage mode if I have to call every pitch. I believe the developers are too smart to implement something like that. We will find out later this week.

It's really just another way to "play" the game. A kind of a text-sim approach. Also, keep in mind, that the traditional MoM is still in the game.

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[MetsFan16]

Okay video. Not much news here. Only explained Critical Moments which I feel is a great feature. Playing Critical Moments in a 30-team franchise could bring a lot of fun and excitment! Allow you to play big moments for every team you otherwise would be simulating through and not even know happened.

Pretty sure Player Lock in Franchise mode has been in the game for a couple of years now.

This video only touched on different ways to simulate games. No mention of Front Office, Launch Pad or other improvements. The Vlog tomorrow will be more and then the Twitch Stream on Thursday. I can't wait

[chc2100]

So I was definitely hoping for more but after thinking it over and reading some of the other comments I'm hopeful there's a good bit more to see. Most of what I want in franchise is small improvements in game logic, not necessarily the back-of-the-box features these gamestop videos show.

And even if this is the bulk of what we see this year I understand where SDS is coming from. As Ramone has been saying OS is <1% of sales and I bet even of us the people who play a full 162 is smaller than we might think. While we look at this as features that give you more ways not to play, to a lot of people it gets the more involved because the thought of playing anything near 162 games is crazy to them. They might be used to a madden 16 game season and even that added a similar feature.