MLB '10: The Show - Franchise Issues Update

[ckarlic]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigtiger

the biggest problem is when the CPU will trade players from the user controlled team unless you use a work around, that completely destroys franchise mode because if you take time to draft and develop players the CPU can just trade them away if you sim more than 1 day at a time.

Im sort of confused about the franchise bug. Let's say I choose the Yankees and have "ckarlic" as the profile but choose to control all the other teams with no profile set. Would the CPU try to trade players from my team, the Yankees?

[BobSacamano]

Stars do get traded, no doubt. However, when stars get traded, it's either due to:

1. Money - team can't afford to resign a player and field a competitive team.
2. Rebuilding - reason #1 is usually involved as well, but a struggling team decides to turn one star into 2-4 potential stars.

This is not happening in the game right now. Stars are being dealt seemingly willy-nilly by rich teams and competitive teams. I'm still seeing Jon Lester dealt mid-season by the Red Sox. This is likely due to the combination of loads of high-potential guys in the minors and faulty trade-logic and team-management engines. Combine the wonky trades with an AI that does not promote or demote players and you have a pretty unplayable franchise mode. You can try to justify the computer's decisions all you want but there's almost no doubt that franchise is not working as the developers wished it would.

You guys would probably hate it if, when actually playing the game, you could turn triple plays at will or if every pitcher threw 120 mph, right? That's the in-game equivalent of how franchise mode is playing right now.

I do appreciate that you guys are defending the game and the developers, because there is a lot to defend. I love how the game plays when it's playing right, and franchise mode in '09 was a total blast. However, please do understand that our frustrations are based in reality. I WANT the game to work, I really really do. It's just not happening right now.

[Dreifort]

Quote: Originally Posted by ckarlic

Im sort of confused about the franchise bug. Let's say I choose the Yankees and have "ckarlic" as the profile but choose to control all the other teams with no profile set. Would the CPU try to trade players from my team, the Yankees?

In MLB09, NO TRADES would ever be made without you, the user, making a trade for any team. What fun is that? lol...

So if you have to set everyteam to Human control (diff profiles or not) just to avoid having your own players traded off your team -- how is that playable -- in a fun sense?

[Skyboxer]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dreifort

Can't play a full game in Tropicana Field. Yes you can. Just can't hit select button when playing there... Can't intentionally walk someone online. I have been vs houtz, He int walked Mark Teixeira... Always worrying about a game freezing up sometimes late into a franchise season. Hasn't frozen on me yet... Can't perform some actions in RTTS without worrying about if the game will freeze or not? No RTTS freezes with me yet... And some can argue that the aspects created by some of the bugs & glitches detract from this game so much so it is no longer a baseball game....just some odd sports game.

Yeah there are "those" people in every game thread..so...

[ty5oke]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dreifort

In MLB09, NO TRADES would ever be made without you, the user, making a trade for any team. What fun is that? lol... So if you have to set everyteam to Human control (diff profiles or not) just to avoid having your own players traded off your team -- how is that playable -- in a fun sense?

If you set it to manual for all the other teams you still see trades, you just have to accept them yourself.

[Dreifort]

Quote: Originally Posted by Skyboxer

Just can't hit the select button when playing there...

again....the avg buyer will not know this and it will freeze. And even knowing this...prohibits you from enjoying the game as it was meant to be played.

[Dreifort]

Quote: Originally Posted by ty5oke

If you set it to manual for all the other teams you still see trades, you just have to accept them yourself.

If all 30 are human, how come there are still trades being offered?

[Skyboxer]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dreifort

again....the avg buyer will not know this and it will freeze. And even knowing this...prohibits you from enjoying the game as it was meant to be played.

I'm enjoying it just fine, thank you very much.
I always enjoy my VIDEO GAMES....