MLB 2K8 patch still not up to bat |
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BY Mathew Ballard April 6th, 2008 |
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Let me start this off by saying that I am a big baseball fan and that I have been buying baseball games since the days of gaming on my PSX. And in all that time I have never seen a baseball game with a more tabloid worthy story then MLB 2K8. Don’t really have any idea what I’m talking about? Let me take you on a little trip, I promise I’ll keep it short.
Last month 2K Sports, part of Take-Two, released MLB 2K8. Because Take-Two has exclusive third-party rights to make MLB games, every baseball gamer who has an Xbox 360 and some PS3 gamers (most will go for MLB 08: The Show) flocked to get this game, me being one of them. Yes, I did read the reviews and saw the comments about some bugs and glitches, but from what I read the good outweighed the bad. Besides, 2K Sports had said they would be releasing a patch to fix the issues. Being someone who has played PC games for many years now and downloading many patches I said to myself, “Thats ok, been there dealt with that.”
After a few weeks and no news of a patch, and discovering for myself just how many bugs the game had (check a review that I wrote), I decided I would take a look at 2K’s website to see what I could find. This led me to the MLB 2K8 forums where I found many people talking about problems they were having with the game. I then found a post from a moderator stating: “Patch 1.1 is down but should be available shortly upon notification from Microsoft for Xbox Live and Sony for the Playstation 3. Microsoft has contacted 2K Sports to inform us that Xbox Live is experiencing problems, but they will have the patch up as soon as they deal with those issues.”
I, like many others, was sympathetic, after all I had noticed Xbox LIVE being a little weird that day. A few more days went by and still there was nothing. So, I went back to the forum on Friday and found this from the same moderator: “According to my call at Microsoft, the Patch should go live on XBOX 360 tonight. We are currently in the process of checking with Sony about there patch release, and I would say to check tonight about that but that’s looking more like a tomorrow release. Thank you for your patience and I am glad to provide this to you as I was hopeful of doing so.”
It’s been two days since that post and still there hasn’t been a patch. Since then, the new CoD4 maps have been released on Xbox LIVE and 2K Sports themselves have released packs of gamer pics for their special event that was this weekend. Which I will add, has not been attended by many due to the broken online play.
So, for now many Xbox 360 MLB 2K8 gamers will continue to play and try to ignore the myriad amounts of bugs and glitches that plague this otherwise solid baseball game. As for PS3 gamers, the word is that 2K Sports hasn’t even been working on a patch for that console and Wii gamers are in even worse shape. All that’s left to do now is end this rant, keep my fingers crossed, and wait and see what next week brings.
April 6th, 2008
at 10:10 am
*Sigh, that’s definitely unfortunate. I don’t know if attributing this to the fact that they have the sole rights to make MLB games is right or not, but I think competition would probably have made this service / game better.
April 6th, 2008
at 7:28 pm
thanks for the Wii comment! Wii users are totally getting screwed!
April 6th, 2008
at 7:56 pm
I have been an active member of the 2K forums since the launch of 2K8. In all my years I have never seen a company be so unprofessional and treat their fan base the way they are treating people in the forums over there.
I started a thread a few days ago asking “Have you lost respect for 2K?”, giving the community a fair chance to vote, yes, no or unsure. I was banned within a few hours of that post…but more importanty…the mods at 2K even changed the poll numbers in their favor.
I don’t think its too much to ask for a game that is suppose to work properly. Do you?
I can’t help but feel like the 2K fan base has been lied to and strung along for days at a time. People are just disgusted as am I.
April 6th, 2008
at 10:42 pm
Yes, 2K has a major customer relation problem going on with that forum. They must not realize 97% of the people there are customers. They should treat them with respect.
It all started when this guy named Ronnie showed up as an administrator and removes all bad things about the game, including posts/threads that link to articles such as this one. I have no doubt they edited poll numbers like JNC said.
Basically right now the forums administrators approach on the forums is to IP ban anyone who says anything bad about the game and or 2K.
April 7th, 2008
at 12:12 am
More people need to know about this situation, share the link with as many people as possible!
April 7th, 2008
at 12:57 am
Yes they do. I tried to post this on digg but it told me that the link was reported by people as spamming the site.
April 8th, 2008
at 6:31 pm
i hate this game
April 10th, 2008
at 12:08 pm
Well the good news is that the patch was released on the 8th to xbox live users. I tried it out and definitely noticed a difference in gameplay. The framerate issue seems to be fixed (especially on the cut scenes…and online play is dramatically improved…don’t have to guess when to swing anymore.
April 10th, 2008
at 3:15 pm
That’s terrible (about the treatment of users over at their forums). I had been a fan of 2k Sports when they released the $20 sports version to fight against EA’s sports collection but man, I don’t have any respect for them now. I will definitely try my best to not support their studio as long as stuff like this continues.