MLB 14 The Show News Post

MLB '14: The Show Just Saved Thousands of Careers

11:48 AM - November 6, 2013 by RaychelSnr

Owen Good of Kotaku has the story on how MLB 14: The Show's new feature of allowing saves from this year to carry into future editions of the game saved thousands of promising, budding careers.

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	"What MLB The Show said last night is, I only have to do that one more time. I can create Owen Good in MLB 14 The Show, make the majors, and never look back. I could play out the rest of my seasons in real time and, assuming the series lasts this long, hang up my uniform in MLB 34 The Show on the PlayStation 7.P Why did it take this long to get this breakthrough? People assume there's some sort of dark publisher motive behind it, to keep each edition distinct and drive people to buy the next one in the series. I have no idea how allowing a gamesave to carry forward disincentivizes the purchase of the latest edition of the series. If anything, knowing that I can take my lapsed "character" and still play him in the best-looking, best-playing edition of the series gives me even more incentive to get back on the wagon and pick up the new $60 game when it releases."

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# 41 rymflaherty @ 12/31/13 05:36 PM

I feel like this is directly aimed at people such as myself, so I have to say this is a smart move by Sony.

I've said many times the only negative of the Show Franchise is that the game can be so great, and you can become so engaged in your Franchise/Career there is never a need to upgrade or even want to start over again.

This was the case with me and the Show09 - Only moving on from a multi-year franchise because my system died and I lost the save file.
And it's happened again now with TheShow12.
My Franchises became my alternate Red Sox reality, and I enjoyed it so much there was no need to move on.

With this move it looks like they'll get more money from me this generation. I just hope this feature can be seamlessly integrated and isn't going to lead to issues each year.