MLB The Show Server Issues: Detailing the Saga So Far

[MLB14]

Quote: Originally Posted by Speedy

That's just nonsense, my friend.

Why does it seem so impossible? Their primary reason for creating the game is to make money.

If the game starts making them less money, then they can't afford to pay the people hired to make the game and that could lead to what I said.

And to support what I said about selling the game to another company, SDS needs a bigger crew workin' on this game. It's obvious at this point.

They stopped creating it for the Vita last year. I know it's basically a dead piece of hardware, but still.. I think it shows they're overworked.

[335TDC]

Quote: Originally Posted by djep

As much as this is hurting us, they are hurting even worse.

I think I'm pretty balanced in my take on this whole fiasco, but who is "us"? Because I'm an offline Franchise guy who bought the regular edition. I highly doubt SDS would be "hurting" more than me if I bought the $100 version to play DD exclusively, bought a whole bunch more stubs, and got disconnected from lots of my games, losing HOURS of my life.

Just saying.

[335TDC]

Quote: Originally Posted by MLB14

Why does it seem so impossible? If the game starts making them less money, then they can't afford to pay the people hired to make the game and that could lead to what I said.

Impossible? No, but 99% unlikely to happen.

"Less" money in this case probably still means a HELLUVA lot more than they were ever making a few years ago before DD blew up. The revenue paradigm has shifted massively and irrevocably, and they'll be able to ride this out, bad press and all, while the stream keeps flowing, and almost all of us will STILL buy the game next year.

[MLB14]

Quote: Originally Posted by 335TDC

Impossible? No, but 99% unlikely to happen. "Less" money in this case probably still means a HELLUVA lot more than they were ever making a few years ago before DD blew up. The revenue paradigm has shifted massively and irrevocably, and they'll be able to ride this out, bad press and all, while the stream keeps flowing, and almost all of us will STILL buy the game next year.

Yea, I just noticed that when DD became popular, their sales shot up from that, which is good. I don't want the game to fail. I want them to continue developing it.

I'm not gonna pretend like I understand how a game company operates it's finances. I'm just sayin' that if they fall below what they projected to make.. It's not good for them.

It doesn't matter how much they make in a year. If they developed the game with a projection of 10 million in mind but only pulled in 6 million, that's probably gonna hurt 'em.

The whole idea of them having in-game purchases now is sayin' they need more money to keep developing the game, right?

[mikeq672]

Quote: Originally Posted by seasprite

Pretty crazy, I haven't had a single game against the CPU get dropped or not count. Including play CPU and Conquest. Don't take that as me saying I don't believe you or whatever, just posting my personal experience with it. Sent from my SM-G935V using Operation Sports mobile app

Yeah its extremely frustrating, my buddy doesnt experience half the issues I do either.

[335TDC]

Quote: Originally Posted by MLB14

I'm just sayin' that if they fall below what they projected to make.. It's not good for them. It doesn't matter how much they make in a year. If they developed the game with a projection of 10 million in mind but only pulled in 6 million, that's probably gonna hurt 'em. The whole idea of them having in-game purchases now is sayin' they need more money to keep developing the game, right?

That's a different argument -- falling short of projections vs. losing money. And sure, if they fall short of projections, it's not good, but I don't know about "hurting" them. This is a hiccup, and people who play DD and collect cards will continue to, especially now that they've massively expanded "missions" to last months and months. I would predict that they'll make MORE money than they did last year, by a good margin. Really smart of them.

No, I don't think that's what they're saying at all. I don't think any developer or any intelligent gamer thinks that microstransactions exist to keep an already profitable game afloat. It's just pure, red-blooded capitalism.

Not trying to be argumentative, but the general idea that MLBTS is "in trouble," that they'll take a huge financial hit because of this, and that SDS will pay a price for it is just too...

...dramatic?

[WaitTilNextYear]

Last year was their highest selling effort to date. It would be silly to think they'd stop making the game because of a month of bad servers and bad publicity.

[mikeq672]

Another play vs cpu game lost in the queue. This game is a joke. My stats count from the games for all the players, but the game is lost and nothing counts for the missions. This will be the last time I give these people a penny for this game.