We have to do more
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Can’t continue to copy and paste things, make the contract mean something add more to RTTS mode…
Actually hire some voice actors or something instead of simply words. Make it more of an immersive mode where we can do more and our money matters, our relationships matter on the outside as well, add sponsorships.Add a phone where we can call up our agent, there’s just so much we can do to easily improve this mode for players and stop being so lazy to the MLB fan base please;
I hope this reaches the right people because you guys have baseball in a chokehold but don’t have to do us wrong just because we have no/few options.
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You've touched on something, but I'm not sure you understand the cornerstone problem at work. First off, I think your ideas are excellent and should be implemented.
But, the cornerstone is control. SDS has a control problem in that they direct their code within their video games to operate in a linear format that is very hard for the customer to deviate from. For example, your very easy to implement idea of a "phone" where the RTTS avatar player (via customer directions on the gamepad) could initiate a phone call to his agent at any time in the game, and have a laundry list of menu options present.
Again, an excellent idea, and would go a long way to ending some of the complaints voiced by so many each year. Goodbye to not hearing from your agent. The game code operates on the fallacious notion that the player doesn't know his agent's phone number and the agent has to initiate all calls!
So, what's the control issue? SDS doesn't wish to let the customers control how the game operates. What's missing is customer customization. For example, the STANCE socks used to default to the team's livery, but in MLB 24 that was changed so that the STANCE sock's default livery is the actual version shown in the game, even though most of the time that STANCE sock fails to match the team's basic colors. In short, the socks stood out like a sore thumb -- just looked stupid. So, a lot of customers just unequipped the STANCE socks, but vice the avatar player wearing the STANCE team sock everyone else on the team wore, he just wore a plain monotone sock without any team livery.
My suggestion to SDS years ago was to either go back to the MLB 23 method, or have a customer option where the customer could select whether to use the default STANCE sock livery, or have it adopt to the team's livery. That suggestion from a year back has been ignored.
Stadium Creator is another huge example. SDS controls the basic layout of the stadium. Ninety percent of the stadium's dimensions cannot be altered from the layout present in the Basic Template, even though it puts the bullpens on the field of play down the lines and features a squared off jewel box design. No modern ballparks feature that basic layout. Instead, the baseline walls are pinched in down the foul lines to facilitate the seats in the outfield corners rotating orientation to face home plate, vice force fans to twist their necks to see the infield. Then, as those seats in the corner down the baselines rise stairstepped vertically, the baseline wall matches the height of the outfield wall at the foul line and then the seats flow with the vertical height of the outfield stands adjacent the foul poles. In this way, the fans are not blocked in their sightlines.
Yet, no one can convince SDS to let us alter the walls down the lines so that we can replicate that basic stadium design. And there has been a bug with the stands for years where if the wall forms an acute angle (such as at the foul poles with the baseline) then the code detects seat intrusion when there is no intrusion. SDS refuses to fix that bug because they don't care about customers exercising control.
Custom uniforms have not once been upgraded. Again, the customer control is only offered in a very rudimentary way, and not once has been upgraded in five years now. SDS has fallen way behind its competition in the sports video game market by wanting to retain too much control over how their game is played at set up.
@SDS_JoeK_PSN is the SDS person who has been most active here, and by using his tag he can see this thread. You make excellent points, and to conclude it all revolves around control. SDS wants to retain the control vice let the paying customers have any.
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Well, I agree with most of this. What struck me was the mention of the contract. I admit that I have not yet gotten as far as arbitration but, the negotiation of the first contract or any contract seems almost completely irrelevant. We get nothing for the money so what is the point other than to solidify your spot on the team? I was also thinking last night how much I really love RTTS, and it looks like there was an update to graphics...? I hadn't played in about a month or so and last night came back and was really impressed...much more so than on release. I might have been to critical at first because almost everything was so reminiscent of 24 but, I noticed more and appreciated all of the subtle changes and additions. Our game could be better, yes but, overall, I have to say I still love this game at times and it truly scratches that itch. I would like to see RTTS "presentation" and game play (style) as an option in Franchise. For me this would open up franchise into a format and allow a connection to my team and players that it doesn't offer...me in it's current format. For all of its shortcomings or faults we all point out or wish for, this game is beautiful and enjoyable for what it is. A game for baseball lovers that can be whatever you want it to be. I have decided that this year is definitely an improvement and I hope they take all the feedback and make 26 even better.
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@XxCOPITO91xX_PSN sorry but no for me. I want to play baseball, don’t care about an AI girlfriend or a virtual car.
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@XxCOPITO91xX_PSN -- Really appreciate this feedback. I've made a note of it.
Thanks!
