Why do You play Franchise?
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@xX_1w1NgAnGeL_xX_PSN said in Why do You play Franchise?:
So I am honestly curious why you all play Franchise mode instead of Diamond Dynasty?
I realize there are some common answers like DD is somewhat pay to play, you don’t like multiplayer, or you like simming - - so try and keep your answer off those obvious ones if possible.
I am old enough that franchise modes used to be the pinnacle of a sports game, then multiplayer took over, and now its ultimate team….I am curious because i have never spent a dime on microtransactions ever for any game and thoroughly enjoyed the diamond dynasty mode on every game i tried it…fifa, 2k and the show are all pretty good totally free to play. I do confess to coin/stub grinding on certain years for trophies - - i have platinums on the show 17, 21 and 23 - 2k16 and 20 - and one each on madden and fifa
Having had to dabble in modern franchise modes for trophies i have wondered what i am missing by not getting into it more
Enlighten me…
I play both. For me I look at franchise as normal baseball and DD as fantasy baseball. I also have nothing but free time since I retired early and am a borderline recluse so all I do is play this game 8 hours a day until my girlfriend get home from work.
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I don't play it anymore, or barely, but sometimes I get that itch if my team (or another team) is young and exciting, surprising, or sometimes just for the fun of taking a garbage organization and trying to make them relevant. Also, the stats. Which baseball fan doesn't like stats? DD is lacking in that regard, because you don't get a true "season" worth of stats, only cumulative from multiple game modes.
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The stories that a full season or multi-year world creates. Endless possibilities to keep you interested.
Driven by (as yankblan said) the stats that it generates.
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@Red_Ted_is_back said in Why do You play Franchise?:
The stories that a full season or multi-year world creates. Endless possibilities to keep you interested.
Driven by (as yankblan said) the stats that it generates.
To share a story of my longest franchise which I took from year to year when they had the feature. I started in 2018 and ran through 2020 and completed 18 seasons. I broke Barry Bonds all time homerun record with Cody Bellinger of all players. I never hit 50 with him but he always had over 40 and started high enough rated off his rookie season.
Like I said above, I’ve been retired since selling my accounting business and don’t like going out without my girlfriend. And play this game 365 days a year.
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I don't play online regardless of the game genre so DD doesn't appeal to me. I like to use custom teams in Franchise mode (the NL is 15 Canadian teams & the AL is 15 American teams).
-Jagg
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As someone who played nothing but Franchise forever until maybe MLB 18 or 19, (whichever one had the immortals), I loved DD and got engulfed in it that year. Played it every year up until this year but always found myself not playing the game anymore after the all star break. The 99 overalls ruin it for me every year. There’s too many and it ends up being too much to grind for and when you work, you fall behind and don’t feel like grinding for it every single day anymore.
When MTO was introduced a couple years ago, I loved that, plus it helped earn rewards towards DD. Only issue I had with that mode was that the trades were always pretty unrealistic.
So this year I’ve hopped back to Franchise exclusively again. Played maybe 5 games in DD and that’s it. Almost to the postseason in a franchise that I plan on starting over anyway when the rosters get one or two more updates. So I’m treating this one like just “one season mode” instead.
Someone else said it perfectly, STATS. I love seeing the season long stats play out. Sometimes I try to play all 162 but I find the most fun I have is when I play one, sim two, play one, sim two. Etc etc etc. allows me to play with every starter and a different one every five games. And I get to influence those season long stats even just a little bit meanwhile, 2/3 of the season are those oh so satisfying sim stats that every franchise guy loves. I use to always start one, usually play it through as far as I could before the rosters got really good after a handful of updates, then start a new one and really dedicate myself to it as much as possible. DD took that away from me for about 4 years and burned me out by the all star break and it bummed me out because I love baseball. Franchise mode and stats have reignited my love for this game again.
Also, dynamic difficulty is the greatest thing to ever exist in sports video games. Every game is a new experience when you play on dynamic. Don’t even have to touch the sliders. Leave em on default and play dynamic and the stats are just so pure. -
@SneakyPasta92_PSN said in Why do You play Franchise?:
As someone who played nothing but Franchise forever until maybe MLB 18 or 19, (whichever one had the immortals), I loved DD and got engulfed in it that year. Played it every year up until this year but always found myself not playing the game anymore after the all star break. The 99 overalls ruin it for me every year. There’s too many and it ends up being too much to grind for and when you work, you fall behind and don’t feel like grinding for it every single day anymore.
When MTO was introduced a couple years ago, I loved that, plus it helped earn rewards towards DD. Only issue I had with that mode was that the trades were always pretty unrealistic.
So this year I’ve hopped back to Franchise exclusively again. Played maybe 5 games in DD and that’s it. Almost to the postseason in a franchise that I plan on starting over anyway when the rosters get one or two more updates. So I’m treating this one like just “one season mode” instead.
Someone else said it perfectly, STATS. I love seeing the season long stats play out. Sometimes I try to play all 162 but I find the most fun I have is when I play one, sim two, play one, sim two. Etc etc etc. allows me to play with every starter and a different one every five games. And I get to influence those season long stats even just a little bit meanwhile, 2/3 of the season are those oh so satisfying sim stats that every franchise guy loves. I use to always start one, usually play it through as far as I could before the rosters got really good after a handful of updates, then start a new one and really dedicate myself to it as much as possible. DD took that away from me for about 4 years and burned me out by the all star break and it bummed me out because I love baseball. Franchise mode and stats have reignited my love for this game again.
Also, dynamic difficulty is the greatest thing to ever exist in sports video games. Every game is a new experience when you play on dynamic. Don’t even have to touch the sliders. Leave em on default and play dynamic and the stats are just so pure.Amen to that. Dynamic difficutly ensures that you don't get lazy when it gets too easy, or have to tinker with sliders all the time. Prevents you from beating all kind of records with random A potential prospects.
Does it still loop around after Legend +? Used to be that if you got all the way up, it started back at rookie... So you'd have 2-3 games of 1-0 and 2-1 games followed by 3-4 double digits wins as you worked backup from Rookie to Vet and so on...
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@SneakyPasta92_PSN said in Why do You play Franchise?:
As someone who played nothing but Franchise forever until maybe MLB 18 or 19, (whichever one had the immortals), I loved DD and got engulfed in it that year. Played it every year up until this year but always found myself not playing the game anymore after the all star break. The 99 overalls ruin it for me every year. There’s too many and it ends up being too much to grind for and when you work, you fall behind and don’t feel like grinding for it every single day anymore.
When MTO was introduced a couple years ago, I loved that, plus it helped earn rewards towards DD. Only issue I had with that mode was that the trades were always pretty unrealistic.
So this year I’ve hopped back to Franchise exclusively again. Played maybe 5 games in DD and that’s it. Almost to the postseason in a franchise that I plan on starting over anyway when the rosters get one or two more updates. So I’m treating this one like just “one season mode” instead.
Someone else said it perfectly, STATS. I love seeing the season long stats play out. Sometimes I try to play all 162 but I find the most fun I have is when I play one, sim two, play one, sim two. Etc etc etc. allows me to play with every starter and a different one every five games. And I get to influence those season long stats even just a little bit meanwhile, 2/3 of the season are those oh so satisfying sim stats that every franchise guy loves. I use to always start one, usually play it through as far as I could before the rosters got really good after a handful of updates, then start a new one and really dedicate myself to it as much as possible. DD took that away from me for about 4 years and burned me out by the all star break and it bummed me out because I love baseball. Franchise mode and stats have reignited my love for this game again.
Also, dynamic difficulty is the greatest thing to ever exist in sports video games. Every game is a new experience when you play on dynamic. Don’t even have to touch the sliders. Leave em on default and play dynamic and the stats are just so pure.So what does dynamic difficulty exactly do ? I currently have been playing on All star for couple of years and just a few days ago switched to hall of fame I feel like I needed that next step a little bit more of a challenge. The only thing I feel is All star has been great tough games here and there and I feel like I get a good amount of hits and home runs but then since playing hall of fame I feel like I get hits when their perfect they’re always seem to go to a fielder and I feel like home runs aren’t easy…. Long story short I feel like I’m looking for something in between both
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@LookAt_MeNowww_PSN said in Why do You play Franchise?:
@SneakyPasta92_PSN said in Why do You play Franchise?:
As someone who played nothing but Franchise forever until maybe MLB 18 or 19, (whichever one had the immortals), I loved DD and got engulfed in it that year. Played it every year up until this year but always found myself not playing the game anymore after the all star break. The 99 overalls ruin it for me every year. There’s too many and it ends up being too much to grind for and when you work, you fall behind and don’t feel like grinding for it every single day anymore.
When MTO was introduced a couple years ago, I loved that, plus it helped earn rewards towards DD. Only issue I had with that mode was that the trades were always pretty unrealistic.
So this year I’ve hopped back to Franchise exclusively again. Played maybe 5 games in DD and that’s it. Almost to the postseason in a franchise that I plan on starting over anyway when the rosters get one or two more updates. So I’m treating this one like just “one season mode” instead.
Someone else said it perfectly, STATS. I love seeing the season long stats play out. Sometimes I try to play all 162 but I find the most fun I have is when I play one, sim two, play one, sim two. Etc etc etc. allows me to play with every starter and a different one every five games. And I get to influence those season long stats even just a little bit meanwhile, 2/3 of the season are those oh so satisfying sim stats that every franchise guy loves. I use to always start one, usually play it through as far as I could before the rosters got really good after a handful of updates, then start a new one and really dedicate myself to it as much as possible. DD took that away from me for about 4 years and burned me out by the all star break and it bummed me out because I love baseball. Franchise mode and stats have reignited my love for this game again.
Also, dynamic difficulty is the greatest thing to ever exist in sports video games. Every game is a new experience when you play on dynamic. Don’t even have to touch the sliders. Leave em on default and play dynamic and the stats are just so pure.So what does dynamic difficulty exactly do ? I currently have been playing on All star for couple of years and just a few days ago switched to hall of fame I feel like I needed that next step a little bit more of a challenge. The only thing I feel is All star has been great tough games here and there and I feel like I get a good amount of hits and home runs but then since playing hall of fame I feel like I get hits when their perfect they’re always seem to go to a fielder and I feel like home runs aren’t easy…. Long story short I feel like I’m looking for something in between both
Dynamic will give you exactly what you’re looking for. It’ll probably start out really easy cause I think it only prompts you the first time you load up the game what you want your dynamic to start on but just play 1-2 quick play games and it’ll be up to all star in no time and you can jump back into franchise. What it does is basically balance itself for you. When you’re raking, it’ll start to climb towards the next difficulty. When you’re struggling, it slowly regresses. Once it gets to a point where you’re hitting or pitching well above or well below the difficulty, it’ll will jump to the next level.
The best part about it is that is has “+” levels.
So say you get it all star, the next level up is “all star+”
You get through that THEN it’ll go to Hall of Fame. And it has that “+” level for every difficulty along the way.
Truly the best way to play the game. Allows for some good streaky-ness which baseball is always known for. -
To add to my comment above: the best BEST way to play franchise is dynamic difficulty, classic pitching, and timing hitting. (And buttons throwing). True test of patience and every attribute matters on the players.
My pitching bounces between Legend and Legend+ and my hitting bounces between Hall of Fame, HoF+, and Legend. Gotten to Legend+ hitting maybe once or twice with timing hitting but it QUICKLY falls back down when I get shut down at the plate lol. -
@SneakyPasta92_PSN said in Why do You play Franchise?:
To add to my comment above: the best BEST way to play franchise is dynamic difficulty, classic pitching, and timing hitting. (And buttons throwing). True test of patience and every attribute matters on the players.
My pitching bounces between Legend and Legend+ and my hitting bounces between Hall of Fame, HoF+, and Legend. Gotten to Legend+ hitting maybe once or twice with timing hitting but it QUICKLY falls back down when I get shut down at the plate lol.Word word bro I appreciate it you explained it pretty [censored] well so I’ll give it a try. Seems like that’s what I’m probably looking
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@LookAt_MeNowww_PSN said in Why do You play Franchise?:
@SneakyPasta92_PSN said in Why do You play Franchise?:
To add to my comment above: the best BEST way to play franchise is dynamic difficulty, classic pitching, and timing hitting. (And buttons throwing). True test of patience and every attribute matters on the players.
My pitching bounces between Legend and Legend+ and my hitting bounces between Hall of Fame, HoF+, and Legend. Gotten to Legend+ hitting maybe once or twice with timing hitting but it QUICKLY falls back down when I get shut down at the plate lol.Word word bro I appreciate it you explained it pretty [censored] well so I’ll give it a try. Seems like that’s what I’m probably looking
Awesome. Glad I could help. I think you’ll love all star+. And if you do love it and never want it to change once it gets there, you can lower the slider setting for dynamic difficulty sensitivity all the way down and it’ll stay there.
Only issue is it lowers the xp you earn if you do play DD on the side.Wish they’d come up with a way for xp to stay at the normal rate when adjusting dynamic difficulty sensitivity, gameplays/simulation injury frequency, and trade frequency…but that’s a topic for another day lol
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@xX_1w1NgAnGeL_xX_PSN said in Why do You play Franchise?:
So I am honestly curious why you all play Franchise mode instead of Diamond Dynasty?
I realize there are some common answers like DD is somewhat pay to play, you don’t like multiplayer, or you like simming - - so try and keep your answer off those obvious ones if possible.
I am old enough that franchise modes used to be the pinnacle of a sports game, then multiplayer took over, and now its ultimate team….I am curious because i have never spent a dime on microtransactions ever for any game and thoroughly enjoyed the diamond dynasty mode on every game i tried it…fifa, 2k and the show are all pretty good totally free to play. I do confess to coin/stub grinding on certain years for trophies - - i have platinums on the show 17, 21 and 23 - 2k16 and 20 - and one each on madden and fifa
Having had to dabble in modern franchise modes for trophies i have wondered what i am missing by not getting into it more
Enlighten me…
I play franchise to simulate real life. Never been into card collecting modes because I've never seen the point. There's always some new card or pack drop that makes your roster irrelevant unless you have it and I'm not a fan of incredibly overpowered cards being basically required, therefore forcing you to grind endless hours or spend real money after you've already dropped $70 on a game
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Franchise mode is the closest thing to the real world of being a GM and a player. I always said to myself "man if I were in charge of my favorite team I'd make these moves or those moves." Franchise mode allows me to do that, and control nearly every facet (or at least what the developers provide) of a franchise and then play out those decisions on the field. Diamond Dynasty as some have mentioned is more like fantasy baseball, which isn't my cup of tea. Don't get me wrong you can still have the fantasy baseball aspect within franchise mode given there is a fantasy draft and if you manipulate the game in such a way can get results of a fantasy style of play. I know you said to stay away from the multiplayer thing, but given the fact that the way I play franchise is 100% not the way EVERYONE plays franchise is definitely why I stay away from DD. Multiplayer online also tends to be a toxic environment, so there's that too, which is why I was devastated when they removed online franchise b/c that was how you could play actual Franchise mode in a private league with friends who played with similar philosophies making it non-toxic and super fun.
But if you're talking about how to get more enjoyment out of franchise mode as it is now, I would suggest trying to keep your play in line with how a real life club would operate. For me I try to stay within the realm of realistic decisions and keep things on the hardest difficulty to mimic how hard it is to actually run a club. Just for example, when it comes to the amateur draft I could easily create a save point prior to the draft and see what players end up with high potentials and overalls and then go back and reload that save point and draft those players to totally load up my team. But I totally stay away from that type of play because I want to be rewarded for sticking to my guns and living with the decisions I make and getting better at the game. As another example my team right now is ranked, I think, 3rd or 4th in terms of the 5 overall ranking categories: Pitching, Speed, Defense, Power, and Contact. My power rating is 25 or 26 and it shows as my team has a very low number of homeruns. So I have to play to my strengths in order to be successful. I could easily manipulate the game and inflate my budget and trade and acquire a ton of power hitters but I know that's not in the realm of realism.
Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to give you a solid in depth answer. Hope it helps, and hope you get more enjoyment out of franchise mode.
Cheers!
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@xX_1w1NgAnGeL_xX_PSN said in Why do You play Franchise?:
So I am honestly curious why you all play Franchise mode instead of Diamond Dynasty?
I realize there are some common answers like DD is somewhat pay to play, you don’t like multiplayer, or you like simming - - so try and keep your answer off those obvious ones if possible.
I am old enough that franchise modes used to be the pinnacle of a sports game, then multiplayer took over, and now its ultimate team….I am curious because i have never spent a dime on microtransactions ever for any game and thoroughly enjoyed the diamond dynasty mode on every game i tried it…fifa, 2k and the show are all pretty good totally free to play. I do confess to coin/stub grinding on certain years for trophies - - i have platinums on the show 17, 21 and 23 - 2k16 and 20 - and one each on madden and fifa
Having had to dabble in modern franchise modes for trophies i have wondered what i am missing by not getting into it more
Enlighten me…
I play franchise mode because playing against other users almost everyone is cheating and or not playing the game right like it's supposed to be played. I like competing and people don't compete anymore.
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I play franchise mode because it’s the closest thing to season mode. I enjoy playing a season with my favorite team and playing with the current rosters for each team.
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@ViatorLion10_MLBTS said in Why do You play Franchise?:
@xX_1w1NgAnGeL_xX_PSN said in Why do You play Franchise?:
So I am honestly curious why you all play Franchise mode instead of Diamond Dynasty?
I realize there are some common answers like DD is somewhat pay to play, you don’t like multiplayer, or you like simming - - so try and keep your answer off those obvious ones if possible.
I am old enough that franchise modes used to be the pinnacle of a sports game, then multiplayer took over, and now its ultimate team….I am curious because i have never spent a dime on microtransactions ever for any game and thoroughly enjoyed the diamond dynasty mode on every game i tried it…fifa, 2k and the show are all pretty good totally free to play. I do confess to coin/stub grinding on certain years for trophies - - i have platinums on the show 17, 21 and 23 - 2k16 and 20 - and one each on madden and fifa
Having had to dabble in modern franchise modes for trophies i have wondered what i am missing by not getting into it more
Enlighten me…
I play franchise to simulate real life. Never been into card collecting modes because I've never seen the point. There's always some new card or pack drop that makes your roster irrelevant unless you have it and I'm not a fan of incredibly overpowered cards being basically required, therefore forcing you to grind endless hours or spend real money after you've already dropped $70 on a game
The DD grind is horrific. It is a waste of time and mentally overwhelming. The in game card collection is just stupid IMO and nothing in this game is fresh.
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