An offline gamer gives his input way too late
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25 was a great game.
Here are my thoughts
I played less the 25 online(multi-player) games in 25
I completed Every Conquest Map, Completed mini-Season 50 Times, finished every program, and P5ed Every Reds player in the game, even the ones I cussed at Tito everytime they played in a real game, so yeah I enjoyed the game.
I quit doing Diamond Quest after the Summer program was released, Showdown was just irritating to me.
Here is my feedback
Expand Miniseasons, for longer games if the user likes playing 6 or nine inning games. Even consider adding more teams to the GBL
Make user created stadiums available to play in Miniseasons, and not just the cookie cutter stadium, ball parks with 'unique' dimensions
In miniseasons, your own progress should not be used against you. If you work to P5 a player, if that player appears on another team, he should not have that progress. Or simply make it so cards can only appear on one team. Fix the Championship celebration when you win the first round of the playoffs; there is a celebration, but nothing when you win the championship.
More pitching moments.
More diversity of teams in conquest
I don't care what you do in showdown, as I find it irritating; by extension, Diamond Quest is irritating because of the showdown integration.
Bring back sounds of the show and put some resources into Franchise.
Fix Stadium Creator.
Leave Team Affinity Team Based, I can't be the only one who wanted their favorite teams' players but doesn't care about their rivals.
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The current model of TA has not been popular, but that was more do to do with the boring missions and the vouchers being pretty anticlimactic. Color Storm and Neon drops were ok, but the rest of the year TA felt like it didn't exist
I'm all for another shot at team specific, but there needs to be a lot more meat this time around
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@Teak2112_MLBTS said in An offline gamer gives his input way too late:
The current model of TA has not been popular, but that was more do to do with the boring missions and the vouchers being pretty anticlimactic. Color Storm and Neon drops were ok, but the rest of the year TA felt like it didn't exist
I'm all for another shot at team specific, but there needs to be a lot more meat this time around
I liked that TA went back to being team specific and not grouped into divisions, but the stats were pretty boring and there was literally nothing to offer after Finest unless you really wanted that #1 Fan icon.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS I like team specific. I also like that it was captains. I’d like to see the first TA be for 2 captains , hitter and pitcher, that remain the team captains for the whole year. Pick players that fans will want to use. Then, each TA following the first, do a cornerstone captain program for each making them better as the year goes along. Then give us other players in the TA drops. This would be a big improvement for theme teams.
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@victoryphoenix_PSN said in An offline gamer gives his input way too late:
Here is my feedback
Make user created stadiums available to play in Miniseasons, and not just the cookie cutter stadium, ball parks with 'unique' dimensions
Bring back sounds of the show and put some resources into Franchise.
Fix Stadium Creator.
I wanted to focus on these three inputs. The theme of all three is ways to allow customers to insert customer-created items in the game. In particular, the idea of customers being able to create "unique" dimensions in created stadiums that still fall in line with baseball stadium rules, is the greatest single deliberately neglected part of MLB The Show.
If SDS wants to tightly regulate online competition by requiring totally uniform criteria, including stadiums, then I'm fine with that. But, there is no reason at all for them to extend that hyper control to offline play. It's just dumb. In fact, it's worse than dumb, it is self-destructive malice.
There is a version of Stadium Creator already out there, already being used, to create stadiums with unique layouts. It is the version used by people SDS hires to create stadiums for the game. SDS does not want the customers to have that version, so the customers get the deliberately degraded version that forces the jewel box layout that frankly no stadium in history has matched due to the way the sightlines down the baselines are unfriendly to how the game of baseball is watched. It's more at home to a football stadium than a baseball venue.
A year ago, I believed it was possible for enough people to pressure SDS so that they would acknowledge the desire and make their internal version of SC available to the customers. That disappeared when I saw what they did this year to SC, just to stick a deliberate finger the eye of customers. Now, I fully comprehend the level of malice guiding SDS leadership.
Your suggestions are all easy to implement. None of them will be, not in MLB 26 and not ever. It would require leadership who genuinely care about pleasing customers vice sloganeering.
