no y2y again
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my excitement and hopes for franchise gone again..sad man just sad
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They don't bring features back once they cut them. I don't play Franchise but it means I won't spend any real time on RTTS again this year.
I do believe that year to year saves helped drive some game sales when it was released. My only guess as to why it is no longer there is because they feel like the potential profit of people buying stubs to progress and max out their players outweighs the potential profit from extra sales of the game.
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Kick in the nuts to all stadium creators, player creators, and roster creators. SCEA is going to require that all stadiums, players, and rosters will have to be re-created again in MLBTS 22. Unacceptable!
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@biebig2010_psn said in no y2y again:
Kick in the nuts to all stadium creators, player creators, and roster creators. SCEA is going to require that all stadiums, players, and rosters will have to be re-created again in MLBTS 22. Unacceptable!
That is not exactly what they mean by year to year saves though. That feature specifically meant that RTTS and Franchise could carry over their saves and continue where they left off in the last version.
Players and rosters never had a carry over feature did they? And with stadiums in such a primordial state I don't see them keeping those. Hopefully they are doing work to add night lighting and better performance.
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@dolenz_psn said in no y2y again:
@biebig2010_psn said in no y2y again:
Kick in the nuts to all stadium creators, player creators, and roster creators. SCEA is going to require that all stadiums, players, and rosters will have to be re-created again in MLBTS 22. Unacceptable!
That is not exactly what they mean by year to year saves though. That feature specifically meant that RTTS and Franchise could carry over their saves and continue where they left off in the last version.
Players and rosters never had a carry over feature did they? And with stadiums in such a primordial state I don't see them keeping those. Hopefully they are doing work to add night lighting and better performance.
It’s already been confirmed that there can be night games for created stadiums in 22.
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@raylewissb47_psn said in no y2y again:
@dolenz_psn said in no y2y again:
@biebig2010_psn said in no y2y again:
Kick in the nuts to all stadium creators, player creators, and roster creators. SCEA is going to require that all stadiums, players, and rosters will have to be re-created again in MLBTS 22. Unacceptable!
That is not exactly what they mean by year to year saves though. That feature specifically meant that RTTS and Franchise could carry over their saves and continue where they left off in the last version.
Players and rosters never had a carry over feature did they? And with stadiums in such a primordial state I don't see them keeping those. Hopefully they are doing work to add night lighting and better performance.
It’s already been confirmed that there can be night games for created stadiums in 22.
Great! I have apparently missed some additional news and details.
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@dolenz_psn said in no y2y again:
@biebig2010_psn said in no y2y again:
Kick in the nuts to all stadium creators, player creators, and roster creators. SCEA is going to require that all stadiums, players, and rosters will have to be re-created again in MLBTS 22. Unacceptable!
That is not exactly what they mean by year to year saves though. That feature specifically meant that RTTS and Franchise could carry over their saves and continue where they left off in the last version.
Players and rosters never had a carry over feature did they? And with stadiums in such a primordial state I don't see them keeping those. Hopefully they are doing work to add night lighting and better performance.
Do you see somewhere that says that franchises can be carried over from MLBTS 21 to MLBTS 22? That wasn't the case from MLBTS 20 to MLBTS 21.
Roster could be carried over from MLBTS 19 to MLBTS 20. Not available in MLBTS 21 though.
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No. I am saying that is what is being referred to by Year to Year saves. It was taken out in 21 and I don't expect it to return unfortunately.
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@dolenz_psn said in no y2y again:
No. I am saying that is what is being referred to by Year to Year saves. It was taken out in 21 and I don't expect it to return unfortunately.
@dolenz_psn said in no y2y again:
No. I am saying that is what is being referred to by Year to Year saves. It was taken out in 21 and I don't expect it to return unfortunately.
Exactly. So SDS is making everyone recreate players, rosters, stadiums, and restart their franchise again this year. Again, unacceptable.
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@biebig2010_psn said in no y2y again:
@dolenz_psn said in no y2y again:
No. I am saying that is what is being referred to by Year to Year saves. It was taken out in 21 and I don't expect it to return unfortunately.
@dolenz_psn said in no y2y again:
No. I am saying that is what is being referred to by Year to Year saves. It was taken out in 21 and I don't expect it to return unfortunately.
Exactly. So SDS is making everyone recreate players, rosters, stadiums, and restart their franchise again this year. Again, unacceptable.
Rosters were never able to be carried over, and stadiums are new to this year so you can't really include that in the "again" portion.
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@eatyum_psn said in no y2y again:
@biebig2010_psn said in no y2y again:
@dolenz_psn said in no y2y again:
No. I am saying that is what is being referred to by Year to Year saves. It was taken out in 21 and I don't expect it to return unfortunately.
@dolenz_psn said in no y2y again:
No. I am saying that is what is being referred to by Year to Year saves. It was taken out in 21 and I don't expect it to return unfortunately.
Exactly. So SDS is making everyone recreate players, rosters, stadiums, and restart their franchise again this year. Again, unacceptable.
Rosters were never able to be carried over, and stadiums are new to this year so you can't really include that in the "again" portion.
That's simply not true. You certainly could carry rosters over from MLBTS 19 to MLBTS 20. You could also carry franchises over as well.
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@eatyum_psn said in no y2y again:
@biebig2010_psn said in no y2y again:
@dolenz_psn said in no y2y again:
No. I am saying that is what is being referred to by Year to Year saves. It was taken out in 21 and I don't expect it to return unfortunately.
@dolenz_psn said in no y2y again:
No. I am saying that is what is being referred to by Year to Year saves. It was taken out in 21 and I don't expect it to return unfortunately.
Exactly. So SDS is making everyone recreate players, rosters, stadiums, and restart their franchise again this year. Again, unacceptable.
Rosters were never able to be carried over, and stadiums are new to this year so you can't really include that in the "again" portion.
Incorrect. Rosters were transferrable from 19 to 20.
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From countryboy at OS
It was a difficult feature to maintain. We spent a lot of cycles to implement it with every release. When the design team was laying out their long term plans, engineering pointed some of the hurdles they would need to overcome and additional time it would take to accomplish those plans AND maintain year-to-year saves. Unfortunately, the additional resource/time costs coupled with telemetry (maybe a little dubious) indicating many users did not use the feature put the feature on the chopping block.
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@hustlinowl_psn said in no y2y again:
From countryboy at OS
It was a difficult feature to maintain. We spent a lot of cycles to implement it with every release. When the design team was laying out their long term plans, engineering pointed some of the hurdles they would need to overcome and additional time it would take to accomplish those plans AND maintain year-to-year saves. Unfortunately, the additional resource/time costs coupled with telemetry (maybe a little dubious) indicating many users did not use the feature put the feature on the chopping block.
Transferring a player or a roster is different than continuing a franchise. They are implying that they can't do any of the above because of the complexities of franchise enhancements and a limited number of resources to work on franchise mode.
Unless they change their stance it looks like we'll get none of the above.
We will get to transfer the logos though. Glad they put resources on this extremely useful and highly sought after feature. Yipee!
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Some more of the conversation
Y2Y saves wasn't the only factor, just one of them. When I asked if Y2Y saves hampered the ability to add features to franchise because of having to ensure that new features were compatible with previous saves, the answer received was:
It certainly factored into the equation, but the biggest bottle neck is usually limited engineering resources. We are working with a very large, complicated set of code/tools. So, it takes a while, even for an experienced programmer, to come up to speed on our title. When you add in frequent design paradigm shifts and a very limited development cycle (< 9 months), it is difficult to gain traction. Good news is that the engineering staff for Franchise grew by ~300% this year.
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@hustlinowl_psn said in no y2y again:
Some more of the conversation
Y2Y saves wasn't the only factor, just one of them. When I asked if Y2Y saves hampered the ability to add features to franchise because of having to ensure that new features were compatible with previous saves, the answer received was:
It certainly factored into the equation, but the biggest bottle neck is usually limited engineering resources. We are working with a very large, complicated set of code/tools. So, it takes a while, even for an experienced programmer, to come up to speed on our title. When you add in frequent design paradigm shifts and a very limited development cycle (< 9 months), it is difficult to gain traction. Good news is that the engineering staff for Franchise grew by ~300% this year.
I have no doubt they decided to not put resources on transferring players or rosters from last year's game to this year's game. No doubt whatsoever.
I'd be interested to hear their overall strategy on the game.
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They have a fairly extensive player editor and they add new equipment options every year. This allows the consumer to customize their experience to meet their own needs.
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They also have a player vault and a roster vault that is used extensively every year for consumers to save their custom creations.
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They also have a stadium creator that allows the consumer to customize their experience and a Stadium vault to save their custom creations.
Is their strategy to really support the ability to let the consumer customize their own playing experience but make their consumers have to redo their customizations every year? If so then they are missing the mark by a long shot. It would be like a Bank allowing me to deposit all the money I want in a given year but not letting me withdraw it if it's been in their bank for more than a year. That would obviously be ludicrous.
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@hustlinowl_psn said in no y2y again:
Some more of the conversation
Y2Y saves wasn't the only factor, just one of them. When I asked if Y2Y saves hampered the ability to add features to franchise because of having to ensure that new features were compatible with previous saves, the answer received was:
It certainly factored into the equation, but the biggest bottle neck is usually limited engineering resources. We are working with a very large, complicated set of code/tools. So, it takes a while, even for an experienced programmer, to come up to speed on our title. When you add in frequent design paradigm shifts and a very limited development cycle (< 9 months), it is difficult to gain traction. Good news is that the engineering staff for Franchise grew by ~300% this year.
Would like to know how many FTE that 300% is. Could have been last year was 0.33 and now we get one person.
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@red_ted_is_back said in no y2y again:
@hustlinowl_psn said in no y2y again:
Some more of the conversation
Y2Y saves wasn't the only factor, just one of them. When I asked if Y2Y saves hampered the ability to add features to franchise because of having to ensure that new features were compatible with previous saves, the answer received was:
It certainly factored into the equation, but the biggest bottle neck is usually limited engineering resources. We are working with a very large, complicated set of code/tools. So, it takes a while, even for an experienced programmer, to come up to speed on our title. When you add in frequent design paradigm shifts and a very limited development cycle (< 9 months), it is difficult to gain traction. Good news is that the engineering staff for Franchise grew by ~300% this year.
Would like to know how many FTE that 300% is. Could have been last year was 0.33 and now we get one person.
Lol said the same thing and apparently 2 to now 8
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@hustlinowl_psn said in no y2y again:
@red_ted_is_back said in no y2y again:
@hustlinowl_psn said in no y2y again:
Some more of the conversation
Y2Y saves wasn't the only factor, just one of them. When I asked if Y2Y saves hampered the ability to add features to franchise because of having to ensure that new features were compatible with previous saves, the answer received was:
It certainly factored into the equation, but the biggest bottle neck is usually limited engineering resources. We are working with a very large, complicated set of code/tools. So, it takes a while, even for an experienced programmer, to come up to speed on our title. When you add in frequent design paradigm shifts and a very limited development cycle (< 9 months), it is difficult to gain traction. Good news is that the engineering staff for Franchise grew by ~300% this year.
Would like to know how many FTE that 300% is. Could have been last year was 0.33 and now we get one person.
Lol said the same thing and apparently 2 to now 8
When I read that on OS it sounded more like a guess by countryboy than confirmation. Although 8 FTE would be pretty darn good.
Having said that, it could be creative wording again by SDS. For example, it could still be one FTE total but three devs allocated 0.33 of their time each, to avoid the whole ‘single point of failure’ issue. Or with addition of Xbox and Switch, the same increase of staff across all teams.
As you can see, I’m cynical, jaded, and bitter after seeing franchise mode have things gradually removed year after year and the card collecting take front and centre.
Editing, because it’s not the card collecting itself I’m frustrated with. It’s the ‘win at all costs’ ‘gotta get the next card’ attitude and the fact that the year after year hype for the game is just repetition of the same basic thing.
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I am scrambling to finish my 3 yr Orioles series on Youtube because I play on gamepass on PC. As soon as 22 drops they will probably kill the servers meaning my franchise goes away, but I bet I can still buy packs
