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Season Mode Not Included in MLB The Show 18

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Season Mode Not Included in MLB The Show 18

It appears that Season Mode didn’t make the cut in this year’s game, joining online franchise as cuts for MLB The Show this year.

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As initially detailed by OS’er My993C2 in the forums, it appears Season Mode isn’t in this year’s game:

No Season Mode? Are they serious? I had a Season saved file from MLB 17 that I was getting into but it cannot be transferred into MLB 18 because Season Mode files are not compatible with Franchise Mode. It would have been nice if they were honest and told us ahead of time that the mode was being dropped. What else was dropped … besides Season Mode and Online Franchise.

Victor from Sony responded and confirmed the news:

Hi folks. While the option for Season mode is no longer available, there are steps you can take to create a similar experience to it within Franchise mode.

1.Set the GM Contracts option to OFF in the mode entry options list.
2.On the Franchise Responsibilities page, set Player Development & GM Tasks to AUTO.
3.From there, you can control how much or how little you want to control by visiting User Settings > Mode Specific Options to tailor what additional areas you want to control.

Analysis

The lack of a season mode hasn’t gone over well with OS’ers (see the comments) and it is a bummer for sure. This is sadly part of the growing trend of sacrificing development resources from traditional single player experiences and putting those into other areas that are more profitable (read: card type of modes). It feels unfortunate in many ways, but it is an understandable path for Publishers to want their titles to take even though I personally am more of a single player person myself.

For better or worse, that’s kind of where we are in sports gaming at the present time and this is just another sign of this trend becoming further entrenched.

 

 

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