Franchise Mode Pointless?

[horrormaster]

Bare with me because this will probably be a bunch of rambling and nothing else.

Most of you I'm going to assume buy the game every year. That gives you 52 weeks to play a Franchise. If you play 3 games a day it'll still take you 2 months to do a season, which means you'll only cover 6 seasons total. This is of course you play every game of a 162 game season. 6 seasons is NOTHING.

In 6 seasons you'll just have begun to develop your prospects into great players and only a fraction of the current players would have retired. It gives you no time to try for all-time records or actually build a team. You can just stock up every year with the highest rated guys, no matter their age, and go for the title every single year. You don't have to worry about length contracts, planing your budget, or even stocking your minor league teams with great prospects.

To me the only real way to make franchise worth it is to set it to the lowest amount of games (50-something I believe). That means you can actually complete a season every 2-3 weeks (again playing 3 games a day) and a total of 20+ seasons. That actually accounts for more strategy and planing in a franchise, especially in terms of your minor league players and developing talent. The only thing it does do it make All-Time records impossible and shortens your pitching staff to 3 starters at most due to the time between games.

It's a shame really because a Franchise mode should really shine in football and college basketball games because you can complete so many more seasons in such a short amount of time. Heck, you can easily play an entire season in one week for football. But football games doesn't have the task of developing 75 players every season like baseball does.

Basically, franchise mode just seems pointless in a way because you only have to focus on the now and not the future of your team, which is what the mode is pretty much all about.

[liftheavy]

Short seasons...short innings son.

[Vince]

Or play 50 games and simulate 112

Sent from my SGH-I727R using Tapatalk 2

[horrormaster]

Quote: Originally Posted by liftheavy

Short seasons...short innings son.

I already mentioned that I believe playing the short 50-something game season to be the best. Short innings ruin the game in a way because it makes pitchers irrelevant in a way. You could easily use a MR or LR as a SP or just use only 3 SP and get rid of all other pitchers entirely. Finally, don't call me son you moronic imbecile.

Quote: Originally Posted by Vince

Or play 50 games and simulate 112 Sent from my SGH-I727R using Tapatalk 2

But then you aren't really contributing to your team if you're only going to play <50% of the time. Might as well just grab OOTP.

[liftheavy]

52 games games...nine innings... then multiply your stats by 3 at end of season. Load the bar up and lift heavy son.

[CRoman513]

I set it to 162 and just play one game per series.

Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using Tapatalk 2

[fearme504]

Quote: Originally Posted by CRoman513

I set it to 162 and just play one game per series. Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using Tapatalk 2

That seems like a good idea I may start doing that

Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk 2

[Yeats]

Quote: Originally Posted by liftheavy

Short seasons...short innings son.

Most of us here are probably as old or even older than you. And unless you're approaching 60, then I certainly am.

hm, I never buy games two years in a row. Still playing Tiger Woods 08 for goodness sake. And I'm still playing MLB 2K11, which was the first version of the game I bought since 2K8 or whatever the last version was that had zone hitting (sniff sniff ). There's plenty one can get out of the various game modes when you only purchase these games every three years or so.

[EAGLESFAN10]

nobody told them 2 make a 162 baseball season but I get what ur sayin

[TheNumber35]

Personally, I'm about 80 games into my franchise (I think its higher than that) and I'm feeling pretty good about it. I think its realistic to say I could be finished with season 1 in about 2/3 more weeks.

And just because you won't necessarily see those prospects evolve into studs, doesn't mean you shouldn't play like you would. I've always played as if I was running the team for the next 20 years, even if I was only playing 4 or 5 of those. Drafting well, not overspending in FA, and building a contender the right way are all very important to me having an enjoyable experience. I think its not pointless if you just play the way you described and not worry about how many seasons you'll end up playing, it makes the franchise worthwhile and enjoyable (for me at least.)