Developers Discuss MLB The Show 21 Road to the Show Upcoming Fixes & Improvements

[Steve_OS]

The developers for MLB The Show 21 have been digesting all the Road to the Show...

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[Sportsfan28]

Well this is great news! Also it’s reassuring that they still listen and read peoples complaints/suggestions on the forums.


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[nuckles2k2]

The players spoke. They heard it. Got right into their backlog & started planning responses to the issues.

Props all around.

Gonna roll with a player-lock franchise until these fixes drop, but def feeling a bit better about The Show's direction.

We'll see tho.

[fuhrsy]

The real question....how long does it take for them to implement these changes?

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[TheDarkKnightRises]

I know we can do a pitcher/batter like Ohtani this year in RTTS.

Does anyone know if you can be a closer/batter? Or do they force you to be a SP?

[dalger21]

I still don't understand the decision to even have every mode be connected to each other in some way.

[Fuimus Troes]

Our goals this year with the changes to the mode and with centralizing the Ballplayer were rooted in our established philosophy that The Show should provide an interwoven harmony of experiences that reward play in as many ways as possible and leave the choices on where to play up to the gamers and their personal preferences. We absolutely want players who only want to play RTTS to be able to feel like they can progress in and enjoy the mode without having to touch anything else. For players who enjoy multiple modes, our hope is that they’ll discover a more interconnected system where everything is feeding into everything else.

This is a ridiculously self-contradictory statement. If the "established philosophy" is one of interconnectivity that emphasizes rewarding players who play the game "in as many ways as possible," then by definition RTTS players are being screwed. And that's what's happened.

And not just on progression. Jesus, they took out the combine...

And that last sentence should end with "Diamond Dynasty" instead of "everything else."

This game plays unbelievably on PS5 and I am enjoying DD, but the disrespect to RTTS and Franchise this year is very real. Shame on SDS for funneling everything into DD.

[Dolenz]

Nice to see they are addressing it.

There is so much confusion and misinformation about this mode out there. The fact that progression is bugged for so many did not help.

I am still not the biggest fan of the current iteration of RTTS and I still believe it needs a lot of work but people posting that you had to play DD to advance and that made it seem like the two way player thing was some long drawn out affair were just wrong.

Part of that is on SDS for not explaining the new progression system of the mode and Ballplayer features better. Part of that is on players who are reposting misinformation without trying it. I had a lot of opinions about the mode myself but I still forced myself to sit down and play it so that I my opinions would be from first hand experience instead of simply word of mouth.