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@JBESTJR24_XBL said in New Under Armor Cleats:

@rsimm23_MLBTS I would love for EA to make a baseball video game again. I think they plan on making a college baseball video game in the future. Not quite sure but if they do I also expect them to make a mlb video game as well as there is no exclusive rights agreement between sds and mlb. I see them releasing a college baseball video game first then a mlb video game after to go along with the college baseball video game.

Nothing stopping them except themselves. They chose to make Mega Baseball 4 instead of making a real baseball game. Perhaps the NBA Live return being such a miserable failure has taught them not to bother.

Regarding any minor league player who didn’t play in the majors before this game started. They were not union members until they played and this game wouldn’t have the right to have their face. Cam would have to get himself to San Diego and get scanned. Contact him through social media and ask him nicely and maybe he’ll do it for you. Keep in mind it might not matter in an already started franchise. Dalton Rushing didn’t update in my first franchise. Not very long ago, and if the Cam complainer actually played 6 years he would know, real minor league players DID NOT even exist non this game so he should relax a little and be grateful Cam is actually there at all.

@PolKrout_XBL said in Another debut….:

CAN WE PLEASE GET SOME FACE SCANS OF THESE TOP PROSPECTS THAT HAVE DEBUTED!!!!

Chase Burns debuted today!!! He had a historic start and Struck out his first 5 batters. Top 3 pitcher prospect with Electric stuff. He should’ve been added before this game was released along with Jac Cagliogne, Nick Kurtz, Christian Moore, cam smith, Cole young, Kristian Campbell, Kyle teel, drake Baldwin, chase dollander, Jacob misiorowski, chase meidroth, AJ smith Shawver , etc…. Have all debuted! These aren’t just random prospects filling in for IL spots . They are the future of the MLB! TOP PROSPECTS!!!! Please add some players!!!!

Bubba chandler is gonna debut soon so will Noah Schulz and brandon sproat can we please get some of these guys. Ethan Holliday, max clark, Charlie condon, walker Jenkins, and Aidan miller would be great too!

Btw We’re still waiting for Jose Soriano, Colt Keith, Hayden birdsong, Jordan beck, hunter Goodman, etc….. and what is going on with Josh H. Smith???

Also, Can someone please let us know what the process is with this? Are we waiting til after the all star break? Why was every top prospect in the game a few years ago and now we’re still waiting for players who have been playing consistently for a year or a few years? Even last year wasn’t great but you added a lot of players. This year you barely added anyone when the game was released and it’s still almost the same rosters. So many top prospects still haven’t been scanned even after debuting. Just wanna know what to expect and why it’s so hard in 2025 but 2022 the game was loaded?

It’s on the players to decide when their face is scanned not SDS. Mike Trout didn’t have his actual face in the game until either 2017 or 2018.

I’m not really sure it matters to be frank. Max Muncy has garbage clutch rating and I mash with him in clutch situations.

@Mr_Helison_PSN said in Player portraits:

This year's game has to be the worst ever! Player portraits are gone and are all fake faces, UI is everywhere and annoying I personally think MLB the show 24 is way better than this game franchise mode is still very boring save your money and don't buy this game it's horrible!

This is the craziest thing to be upset about. If it saves some space to keep the game from being the same size as NBA2K and lets them add more to the player models it doesn’t matter. The deeper you go into franchise the more scattered around everyone becomes and those player portraits go away anyways. I was 5 years into the franchise in 2024 and most players had switched teams by then except for pre-existing long term contracts and some of them had swapped teams too.

@bleachfro_MLBTS said in Haven’t started my franchise yet. Anyone else?:

I usually wait a couple weeks after buying the game to start my franchise in hopes that new players will have their models updated. I thought after last weeks update, and all the models added (even though I would’ve loved to see Kristian Campbell), I’d finally be able to start. Then I saw all the glitch place holder faces (Josh H. Smith, Hyeseong Kim, Addison Barger, Spencer Jones, etc). I couldn’t start it looking at those faces lol Then this week comes and goes and none of them are updated.

It’s now June. So, my question is, how many of you franchise people have been holding off on starting and what do you need to see before you start?

I started when the game came out. Everyone got updated except Hyeseong Kim. Which is odd since he had the correct scan in DD on launch.

@bleachfro_MLBTS said in Face scans - existing franchise:

If someone already has a face scan it’ll be updated even if you’ve started your franchise. But players that receive a face scan for the first time won’t be updated if you started when they were editable. I don’t know why they do it that way, but that’s how it’s been.

I’ll call them out for some terrible coding on this one. Hyseong Kim had the correct scan in DD but not in franchise. He doesn’t get updated. Roki Sasaski never had a face scan and was updated in the existing franchise.

@DDT21_PSN said in Start Today feature needed!:

This should be a bare minimum in sports games today, especially baseball with so many games. Being able to start a Franchise with current standings and stats would make the mode so much more viable. At least add it to March to October, that’s literally what the mode is about.

Not in franchise. The point of franchise is to assume the role of GM and play out that team from 2025 into the future on your own with zero attachment to real life baseball world.

The old ones are also still there. When I hit one with Freddie Freeman it was the no doubt animation from behind him that was there previously.

It won’t be the 2025 version until the 2025 version gets released.

Here to make this one post then I’m deleting this app. I see you mocking people for calling the game scripted but it totally is in franchise at least. I win pretty much every game after this happens but it happens and it’s not real baseball. Example: up by 2 runs late in the game and with 2 outs the CPU becomes unstoppable until they score 2 and then you can throw it right down the middle and strike them out to end the inning. Insert the number of runs scored they need and they’ll score it no matter who you pitch and what you do. This usually happens in the 7th inning. Like the CPU doesn’t believe starting pitchers can go past 6.

Note: This is franchise only not any other mode. I don’t play other modes.