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MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Franchise Mode, HDR Confirmed (Archive Available)

  05:00 PM - March 9, 2017 by Steve_OS

The franchise mode Twitch stream has started for MLB The Show 17. Once the stream has finished, we will post an archive link.

HDR mode has been confirmed, as seen in the screenshot below. More details on that, along with all of the graphical improvements will be shown on the Twitch stream on March 23.

For those of you asking "What is HDR"? Read this.

Make sure to post your thoughts!

UPDATE: Here is the archive link.


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Member Comments
# 261 ty5oke @ 03/10/17 01:24 PM
Slightly disappointed in the news for franchise mode. I was still hoping for more immersion in the game mode I spend 100's of hours in. I love the quirks though, that's a big addition to add more personality into the game.
 
# 262 thaSLAB @ 03/10/17 01:25 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by jgb3
SCEA is not catering to us, they are catering to the casual player.


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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolenz
Who, whether you or I like it or not, make up the overwhelming majority of the player base, and is responsible for the majority of the revenue.
And as a result of this approach, they are now making Franchise more accessible to the majority of their audience.

If it works, and Franchise becomes the major mode, it will then see more requests, and in turn more improvements. There's no electoral element in this process.

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# 263 MoneyMan17 @ 03/10/17 01:29 PM
Pardon my ignorance, but what is HDR? My guess would be high def resolution but I'm not sure what that means for the game, if it is that.
 
# 264 Jon Arbuckle @ 03/10/17 01:35 PM
Not much new in the stream that hadn't been explained already but at least it was well organized and presented. Big improvement over the previous streams in that department, hopefully the trend continues. I did think that Nick's quiet aside that the people watching the stream weren't likely to care about one of the (many) novice elements they were talking about at the time was... amusing.

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Originally Posted by rspencer86
Instead of trying to program all of the scheduling rules and guidelines it would take to dynamically build the future year schedules, would it be feasible to just pre-set something like 5 years worth of schedules using the past MLB schedules and then have those cycle?

So the Franchise Season 2 schedule could be preset to be what the 2010 (for example) real MLB schedule was, Season 3 could be 2011, etc. etc.

That way we would be able to have variety of interleague games without the massive effort of getting all the dynamic scheduling logic right.

I'm sure this is the equivalent of someone telling NASA "why don't we just build a bigger rocket?" to build a manned mission to Mars, but the point is, this is a HUGE drawback to franchise mode currently and maybe it's time to take a different tack in order to achieve it.
I appreciated Ramone's explanation of the team's choice not to include dynamic rotating IL schedules. An explanation for why something as straightforward as your suggestion can't be implemented would also be nice. Unless I'm mistaken, don't they already start repeating schedules after a few years into multi-season modes? Or was it just a freak occurrence for me when I felt like I was repeating my first year's schedule about five years later?

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Originally Posted by Scott
Just stop it right there. If you don't like it, don't buy it, simple as that.
I suppose the post you were responding to could be construed as attacking the developers but that doesn't excuse the fact that yours isn't even close to being a constructive post. It's the equivalent of the political insult 'America: love it or leave it!'

I rather doubt the developers want unsatisfied forum members to just stop buying the game. They wouldn't bother posting on here if they didn't consider member feedback useful. Whether it outweighs the needs of their focus groups is another matter. Hopefully this year's new franchise interface and play options resolve the casuals' issues during this year's focus groups so the team can feel comfortable focusing on more meaningful upgrades in this area for '18.
 
# 265 TotesMaGotes @ 03/10/17 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by MoneyMan17
Pardon my ignorance, but what is HDR? My guess would be high def resolution but I'm not sure what that means for the game, if it is that.
High Dynamic Range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-d...-range_imaging
 
# 266 Dolenz @ 03/10/17 01:38 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by MoneyMan17
Pardon my ignorance, but what is HDR? My guess would be high def resolution but I'm not sure what that means for the game, if it is that.
High Dynamic Range
 
# 267 underdog13 @ 03/10/17 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by jgb3
Do his ratings reset YOY? Like, my guy (The Big Lebowski) is a 99 OVR. Will he revert?


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No ratings stay the same.

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# 268 jgb3 @ 03/10/17 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by underdog13
No ratings stay the same.

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Whoa now. This will be interesting. My guy is maxed out, so if I notice a bit difference in his yearly stats, I can probably attribute it to the change in physics, etc. that should be interesting.


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# 269 NDAlum @ 03/10/17 02:00 PM
Man I really feel like people are harping on the major thing or two they want but didn't get and completely dismissing the great things the team actually did do.

If they didn't make such huge strides in other areas that are relevant to every single game mode then yea I am more understanding of complaints.

It's just my opinion that they had a solid mix of improving features that everyone can enjoy.

Please remember that I've been one to hammer home my wants in threads too but some of you come off as complete jerks. Chill with that


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# 270 NDAlum @ 03/10/17 02:06 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon Arbuckle
Not much new in the stream that hadn't been explained already but at least it was well organized and presented. Big improvement over the previous streams in that department, hopefully the trend continues. I did think that Nick's quiet aside that the people watching the stream weren't likely to care about one of the (many) novice elements they were talking about at the time was... amusing.


I appreciated Ramone's explanation of the team's choice not to include dynamic rotating IL schedules. An explanation for why something as straightforward as your suggestion can't be implemented would also be nice. Unless I'm mistaken, don't they already start repeating schedules after a few years into multi-season modes? Or was it just a freak occurrence for me when I felt like I was repeating my first year's schedule about five years later?


I suppose the post you were responding to could be construed as attacking the developers but that doesn't excuse the fact that yours isn't even close to being a constructive post. It's the equivalent of the political insult 'America: love it or leave it!'

I rather doubt the developers want unsatisfied forum members to just stop buying the game. They wouldn't bother posting on here if they didn't consider member feedback useful. Whether it outweighs the needs of their focus groups is another matter. Hopefully this year's new franchise interface and play options resolve the casuals' issues during this year's focus groups so the team can feel comfortable focusing on more meaningful upgrades in this area for '18.


I just think what is green names try to elude to is this: if you don't like it please respectfully voice your opinions.

People seem to get overly emotional and come off as disrespectful and create a hostile environment.

I enjoy watching the stream and seeing OS mentioned. I enjoy having the SCEA guys here. I am going to give them credit when due and post disappointments when I have them.

But the manner in which some go about it is terrible and I'm not going to let it overrun this place and push away SCEA interaction.




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# 271 Ranger Fan @ 03/10/17 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Armor and Sword
Agree 100% I would be lying if I said I was not disappointed in the overall additions to Franchise Mode. But again perspective is always key and I am eternally the "glass is half full" kinda guy.
I like most the community am really dissapointed. The game other then graphics is the same as last year. Franchise mode basically wasnt touched except for this quick manage thing. Very dissapointing. 12 years of the Show and still with all the inovations in software we can't get a rotating interleague schedule. Ill get the game but to me this is a big let down for franchise players. Its the same game with new menus
 
# 272 Speedy @ 03/10/17 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA
Because it's astronomically difficult, again we are a small dev team relative to other sports titles. We have one programmer for Franchise mode 1. And he's amazing but its one body.

The first thing we looked at this cycle back in April of last year for franchise mode was rotating schedules I want this feature, Luis, wants this feature Daniel the programmer wants this feature.

He looked at the code and told us we can't do this in 8 months it's too much code, too risky, and that would be the only thing we got. So we choose to work on Quick manage and critical situations. We love these features, our SVT wants these features and they took all 8 months to implement correctly.

Nothing is as easy as it might seem on the outside.
I find the bolded to be astounding; I'm not sure if this has been the case all along so if so, kudos to this dude.

Off-topic side note:

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# 273 breakfastcat @ 03/10/17 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Speedy
I doubt Sony will ever make a game for XBox...wonder if they'll ever go down the trail of having a PC port to expand revenue?
Unless Sony starts making PCs with their own OS, that will probably never happen.
 
# 274 WaitTilNextYear @ 03/10/17 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by jw9036
I understand the development team. But I miss MLB The Show 12 - franchise mode.

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I know where you're going with this and I'd like expanded front office/owner mode tools just as much as anyone, but what struck me most about this is how much better the menus look now. Those MLB 12 menus looked.........not as good.
 
# 275 johnnyg83 @ 03/10/17 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Willis135
Let's not forget that all the game play and attribute changes effect franchise. Ball physics, human AI, secondary position attribute hits, graphics, and so many other things. There are things that I too would have liked to see in franchise, but I don't feel disappointed in the least. 17 is a huge upgrade from 16 if you ask me.

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It's better every year and worth supporting every year. The ability to keep your franchise going is the greatest "game changer" feature I have ever experienced in a year-to-year game.

I am shocked more developers haven't included it. Also the ability to completely control and edit your experience in franchise was something San Diego figured out long before the rest of the universe.

I would buy this game every single year even if it just had some additional stadiums and some graphical tweaks. But it's always more. Always.
 
# 276 Armor and Sword @ 03/10/17 02:54 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger Fan
I like most the community am really dissapointed. The game other then graphics is the same as last year. Franchise mode basically wasn't touched except for this quick manage thing. Very dissapointing. 12 years of the Show and still with all the innovations in software we can't get a rotating interleague schedule. Ill get the game but to me this is a big let down for franchise players. Its the same game with new menus

Obviously none of us have the game, but simply watching the videos the new gameplay you can easily see it looks like it is going to a new level of realism in terms of animations, humanity AI for the CPU and killer new life like ball physics.

Again that will be huge. Just huge. I play this game to simulate baseball on the field first and foremost and I for one am really happy the development team continues to push the envelope of their mantra "So Real It Is Unreal"

I too spend hundreds of games and hours in Franchise Mode. Hundreds upon hundreds. Franchise get's incremental new features each and every cycle. It just so happens this cycle we did not get some stuff we all want and talk about. But we got some great new features which can really enhance the overall game. The big picture folks. Franchise mode works well, functions well in comparison to every other sports game on the market and has plenty to do. Perfect? No. Can use improvement? Always. And each cycle it does get attention. But it will never get more than gameplay.

Ramone coming in here to let us know why we have not gotten the inter-league rotating schedule is because the development time for that would take up all of their development time with code writing because you know they only have one guy who works on franchise and yes only one on Diamond Dynasty (so that DD is the priority argument can go fly out the window) and it is a highly complex issue.

I can live without it (rotating inter-league schedules) if it means sacrificing the enhancements we got with Quick Manage Mode, Critical Situations, Player Quirks, Player Morale (last season), enhanced ball physics, humanity AI, 1000's of new player animations, a new MLB Network Broadcast Package, and on and on and on. Don't you think they would have already had rotating inter-league schedules in years ago if their was not such a major programming issue with it? Come on man. That is not even a feature set. It obviously is a programming/code issue. I for one am giving that a permanent rest. Ramone explained it. Case closed for me.

But hey next season.....I can see it now. They get the Inter-League schedule thing working but nothing else added due to the amount of man hours involved.

Then the pitchfork and torches will come out about we only got that?

They (SCEA SD) can't win for losing. Just think about the buggy mess some other sports games are released in.....seriously think about that for a moment?

The Show is the finest tuned game out of the box in sports gaming. Astonishing considering the size of the development team, the sheer amount of modes and codes going on. Simply awesome.

Screw it....these guys need some love. They bring it every year.

All hail The Show!!!!!!
 
# 277 WhiteM5 @ 03/10/17 03:20 PM
Maybe I'm the only one curious about it, but I have to assume Retro mode will not be available to play in Franchise? Retro will be completely stand alone as a one game at a time mode, no stat tracking or season?

I was actually curious about tinkering with sliders and playing a franchise in retro mode. Am I the only one? I like the batting style camera so long as I could dial in the stats using sliders to be somewhat realistic.
 
# 278 tsbmolina @ 03/10/17 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by WhiteM5
Maybe I'm the only one curious about it, but I have to assume Retro mode will not be available to play in Franchise? Retro will be completely stand alone as a one game at a time mode, no stat tracking or season?

I was actually curious about tinkering with sliders and playing a franchise in retro mode. Am I the only one? I like the batting style camera so long as I could dial in the stats using sliders to be somewhat realistic.
Big time disappoint for me. What's the point if you can't use the mode in a season setting and for that reason why not?
 
# 279 knich @ 03/10/17 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by thaSLAB
In short, IE takes into account real-life stats, while your offline franchise is typically thought of as its own unique universe. Now if there was some type of LIVE Franchise, then yeah. Makes sense for it not to have an effect on an offline mode, IMO.
Perhaps I am missing something? 2k used inside edge religiously. See franchise game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s_YVQqmW48. And based on that thinking then why isn't IE in play now or season mode? I would love to hear explanation from SCEA.
 
# 280 Still2REal @ 03/10/17 04:09 PM
I don't even know what rotating inter-league schedules mean. Of course Once I start a franchise I may switch teams every 4-5 years in the same franchise so the schedule never gets stale.
 


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