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MLB The Show 17's Offline Franchise Offers a Slight Upgrade

06:20 PM - April 5, 2017 by RaychelSnr

While we wait for the The Show servers to continue to stabilize, it’s at least comforting to know there are some game modes where you don’t have to worry about games freezing or being sent to the queue to potentially be lost forever. One of these modes is an updated offline franchise mode that, as usual, has not received quite the amount of attention from the developers as the more lucrative and increasingly popular Diamond Dynasty mode that is keeping all of those servers overworked. However, that doesn’t mean that franchises have been completely ignored this year.

When it comes time to play what can be an intimidatingly long baseball season, The Show has given you a few ways to help you work your way through your team’s calendar. Naturally, you can just choose to play the full 9 innings for the entirety of your 162 games, but going that route will likely take you right up until the release of MLB The Show 18. So it may seem a little funny to say that one of the biggest changes to franchise mode this year is a feature that will actually keep you from playing more of the game itself, but that’s the truth when it comes to the The Show’s new quick manage option.

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# 21 335TDC @ 04/06/17 09:01 PM

I love the Show and will play it to death, exclusively in RTTS and Franchise modes, but I too am disappointed with the lack of improvements -- REAL improvements -- in Franchise mode. I like the idea of quirks, and I LOVE quick manage -- otherwise known as "multiple player lock" -- but scouting and player progression NEED to be addressed next year. It should say something that NO prospect created by the cpu will ever have a Corey Seager/Carlos Correa/Bryce Harper trajectory -- they're too damn old and progress too damn slowly. I've never gone decades deep into a 'chise, but I've heard that this ruins the player pool eventually.

Also, I noticed that my bank was overflowing at the end of a season, but it was wiped clean at the start of the next season -- are yearly funds use it or lose it? That would SUCK.

# 22 MakaveliLPC @ 04/06/17 10:03 PM

My dream game is a fusion of OOTP+MLB The Show. OOTP for the General Manager side of things and The Show for gameplay side of things. Oh man, just thinking about it makes me so sad because I know we'll never have anything close to that

# 23 LikMyNutz9 @ 04/06/17 11:33 PM

I would like them to take a lot of aspects from NBA2K. Mainly the start today feature (almost a must with how long the baseball season is), customizable draft classes, and the player card that lists all of the players accomplishments (all stars, league leaders, awards, etc).

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# 24 asu666 @ 04/06/17 11:47 PM

I always here the development team saying they have limited resources, but then they spend them on things like Retro Mode and more ways to not actually play the game. I would prefer they spend them adding in Owner and player interactions like 2K or putting back the Owner mode features stripped out after MLB 12, like ticket prices, etc., which since 2K, Madden, and NHL implemented. Even FIFA, which is covering hundreds of teams globally, implemented a version of per game financial tracking. Cash flow is okay, but it is pretty basic.

# 25 335TDC @ 04/07/17 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by asu666


	...more ways to not actually play the game...

Well said, my friend. A verbal judo flip of the highest quality.

For franchise addicts like me, it's sad but all too expected to see the dev team spend almost all its "mode efforts" on DD -- their big moneymaker. Perhaps now that we all have more ways to not play the game, the devs can address missing or substandard aspects of Franchise, like the following:

Finances (tickets, concessions, rebuild stadium, etc.)

Scouting (should be year-round, and most prospects are over-aged)

International Signings

Progression/Regression (I like how it's done in-season, but prospects MUST develop more quickly, and players who blow up should progress more)

Easier access to stats/analytics (especially R/L splits for batters -- seriously, have to scroll forever to the right to find these? For a sport that's stat-crazy, The Show needs to be better at this.)

A GM perk system like in 2K (buffs to fatigue, progression, etc.)

The Show is an awesome game, and in many ways the best sports title around, but Franchise is dying and needs a Cubbie-style rebuild. Who's gonna be the Theo of SDS and make us happy?

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