Stadium creator is great. I built a fantastic stadium
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I understand the frustration for those who would like to see more and here's why I think SDS isn't spending developer resources on it.
I'm a franchise exclusive player. The game used to have year to year saves. It no longer has that and the explanation is not enough people use the feature. I think they are wrong because it's a feature a person only uses one time a year. For stadium creator I create my stadium and I'm done aside from an occasional tweak.
They don't think enough people use the feature for it to deserve developer time. I'll likely skip MLBTS 26 due to no year to year saves and I'm not along among franchise users. Don't want to have to throw away my franchise and start over.
It's frustrating because in the case of Y2Y saves and stadium creator it's doable but they are unlikely to budge.
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@sullivanspring_MLBTS said in Stadium creator is great. I built a fantastic stadium:
They don't think enough people use the feature for it to deserve developer time.
This is a fair thought, but the SC is a lot more popular than many care to give credit for. A lot of streamers will make their own stadiums, although they're more concerned with DD overall. I'd wager if they started pushing for upgrades they'd be done PDQ.
The creator for Franchise players is a lot easier to choke down because in Franchise you don't need to worry about asinine restrictions
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@sullivanspring_MLBTS said in Stadium creator is great. I built a fantastic stadium:
I understand the frustration for those who would like to see more and here's why I think SDS isn't spending developer resources on it.
I'm a franchise exclusive player. The game used to have year to year saves. It no longer has that and the explanation is not enough people use the feature. I think they are wrong because it's a feature a person only uses one time a year. For stadium creator I create my stadium and I'm done aside from an occasional tweak.
They don't think enough people use the feature for it to deserve developer time. I'll likely skip MLBTS 26 due to no year to year saves and I'm not along among franchise users. Don't want to have to throw away my franchise and start over.
It's frustrating because in the case of Y2Y saves and stadium creator it's doable but they are unlikely to budge.
I respect your point of view. But, in the business analysis, if what you say is indeed true -- that Stadium Creator, Logo Editor, and Uniform Creator are just too much a niche part of MLB The Show's customer interest to justify development time over the last six years -- then it would have to be equally true that these modes should be discarded entirely.
You see, I don't believe that is the case. Else, SDS would have done exactly that. The historic reality is that Stadium Creator was universally demanded by the customers years back, and given that rival sports games had such customer created content options, SDS decided to create it to much fanfare.
I have spoken with a person very much in the core who developed SC and his insights also drive my own commentary and criticism of SDS.
No, the truth is far uglier than a simple business calculation. It is driven more by a desire to appease the egos of employees and management within SDS. These customer created content modes are very much in demand and if they were withdrawn then SDS knows they would face an avalanche of criticism. But, SDS has determined they will only exist as degraded modes, entirely incapable regardless of customer talent, to create anything that can rival what's in the game.
Anyone who has played the SDS created legacy stadiums can easily recognize there are many props used in those stadiums that are included in Stadium Creator. One example among dozens is the scoreboard used in their Crosley Field. In SDS's version however, that scoreboard is fully supported. It features an illuminated clock and backlit manual scoreboard pieces. So, it is effective at night. But, the version in SC lacks this illumination. Now, the only way that degradation can happen is if the SDS team choses to disable the code that supports the scoreboard illumination.
Want more proof? OK, let's return to not only Crosley Field, but also the myriad of other SDS stadiums used for the high school and collegiate games. They feature smallish stadium seating options plus chain link fence options that have been asked for over many years to be added to SC. But, they have not been. For those who need more proof, there is the always existing code that allows for full customization of the entire perimeter of wall panels -- outfield, baseline and backstop.
This option has always been present in SC, but was deliberately locked out by additional code layered into Stadium Creator. We know this not only because SDS has their own internal version of SC used to create all their stadiums with, but also because somehow, some way, this lockout code was bypassed and suddenly we custom stadium creators could finally customize the entire layout of our stadiums.
The ONLY time SDS got off their collective duffs and actually coded anything that changed how SC works this year was when they discovered this expanded customer option, and they got busy locking it back down, only they did it in such a ham-fisted manner that they left the back door wide open for nefarious people to abuse it, causing an avalanche of protests from DD players due to the cheat stadiums created to spite online play.
No, this isn't a business driven decision, it is an ego driven decision, and that's why there will never be any upgrades to these three customer content game modes. Until this current leadership at SDS is replaced, customer content creation will be barely present in the game, but always deliberately degraded.
