Franchise Baseball Reviews

The worst of the series, by a wide margin. Game is dramatically over-complicated, yet your decisions don’t make a difference. Shifting batting order doesn’t help. Changing the playbook doesn’t help. Season tasks are so wildly specific (I.e. your second baseman must hit 40 RBIs) that you get stuck infinitely, without a way to improve. Expect to take five-plus seasons to advance for every one season the other games take. The only game of the franchise I’m close to deleting.

I’ve played the football and basketball versions and both games are fun and the challenges are reasonable to advance...then there’s the baseball version. The algorithm this game uses is completely flawed. My teams lineup is far superior to anyone I play, and most players are fully trained and equipped. With that being said every season I still lose half my games to opponents with lineups not even remotely close to as stacked as mine. I could reason with a loss here or there, but it’s always half the games at least and some in absolute comical fashion. Just today I was beaten in a series where I scored 2 runs total and gave up 56! How is that even somewhat realistic? Just a poor effort overall and certainly a waste of time. Much like consoles, the basketball and football games are alright, but FranchiseBaseball for America’s past time? Hard pass and I’d advise you to do the same.

I feel like the principal from Billy Madison, nothing about this game is any fun, I would award it zero stars if I could and I hope that God has mercy on the soul of anyone associated with it.

CBS should be ashamed of themselves for slapping their name on a buggy and awful game. I don’t know how they bribed this many people to write a review any better than mine, I am literally underselling how awful this game is.

I took the time out of my life to leave this review as a warning for all others, DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME. Play any other game, go outside, slam your phone down on the ground and break it, any of those are better than subjecting yourself to the worst game in the history of time. I cannot think of what they could do to make this game any worse than it is, so to that fact, congrats!

I’ve played CBS franchise games (FB, BB & BskB) for a long time. I quit playing a few years ago as I did not like the direction the games were going. I tried again in 2018, did not care for it. 2020 brings a “new version” of the game. Looks & acts exactly like the 2018 game. But I was still willing to try it out. My 2018 team is still there, can’t delete it or start over. Customer support confirms that I can’t start over. They say I HAVE to create a new account with CBS or Facebook. Ain’t gonna happen. This game has been going downhill for a while now and without the opportunity to try it from scratch. I will never know if there’s any improvement.

FranchiseBaseball itself is set up well, but the mechanics of simming games is just broken in my opinion. When it’s based on ratings and I constantly struggle to compete in leagues unless I buy higher cards. The checklist to advance leagues is broken on mine where certain tasks won’t advance through games. FranchiseBaseball has been frustrating more than fun. Maybe next years model

It does not work. In the past deleting app and shutting iPad worked. But not know. Really enjoyed that version. Ticket to support have resolved nothing

Game was down for over a week plus, but it was finally fixed. Went back to developers for help in getting daily bonuses I missed and they obliged. Been working well since. Still have shut down iPad every so often, but it is better. Missed several coins due to this blip, but it got fixed,so thanks

Some of the aspects of the game just don’t work how they should Like they do in the other franchise games. They don’t show who the equipment is available for so you have to look into every player to see who has it. The goals like qualify for playoffs don’t work either. I have been in the franchise finals and according to the goal I still didn’t qualify for the playoffs.

I have been playing this game every day since I downloaded it and it has been fun, I haven’t had any issues until today as I cannot open the game. Every time I try it just stays on the loading screen. If I can get this fixed my rating will go to 5*, but until then I can’t give an unplayable game no matter how enjoyable it was a full rating.

I really enjoy this game. It’s fun to pass the time. Its not complicated, easy to read and understand. It’s not really something you can play all day because everything is on a timer which restarts every 24 hours. You will probably only check the game once a day and then not have anything to do until the timer resets. But it’s a lot of fun to build your team and slowly go through each level and series and watch your team grow and get stronger.... My only complaint... The developers make a new game every year and non of your progress transfers. I played the 2016 & 2017 app games and had to completely start over each time. And here I am starting all over for 2018. This is the last time for me. Even if they make a 2019, and they will, I’ll just stick with this one. So if the developers are reading this: PLEASE! Make a game where we can transfer all our progress. Please keep in mine some of us do spend money on games and it’s frustrating all of that is lost each season.

Many of the advances in the game require in-game cash to purchase training, equipment, etc. and make your team better. The problem is that cash can only be acquired by playing exhibition games that also give almost worthless team tokens the majority of the time. Ironically, you need cash to spend team tokens. I’m sitting on a stockpile of about 50,000 useless team tokens and almost no cash. The developers need to find a way to make cash more accessible or this game won’t be worth your time.

I do play every day and have for years. My issue is that to collect your ultimates it gets very expensive. I needed Pedros Martinez special edition card to complete his ultimate as an example. I had to collect 48 cards before getting it. I also needed his legend card at the same time. Had to collect 47 cards for that. I have spent close to $1000 in this game, and have only 4 tier 5 ultimate players to show for it. All that money has been spent on coins. It should be set up like football where you can purchase the cards you want for a couple extra coins each.

I like all the franchise games and all have good and bad points but the biggest problem is over charging for upgrades in some cases you could easily pay 20 bucks to upgrade one player which would need it again in a few levels. It’s better to charge less and get more people involved For instance instead of selling 3 tokens for 7 dollars and get one in say 25 to buy it sell the same for 1.99 and you may get at least 5 players to buy and you pull in 20 dollars or 3 dollars more. Do this across the board and you may increase sales by a very large amount My suggestion would be to try it across the board on one game say hockey or football 2017 advertise what you are doing tell the people you are comparing it to the others And if it works you will be considering doing it to other franchise games you could also add door prizes during the test period say free upgrades or free men this will encourage people to spend more.
Thanks
Gary

This game is actually really fun and feels somewhat like a real general manager simulation. The training is very realistic as well as other aspects of obtaining new players. The two things I’d like to see changed though is the time between new seasons 16 hours seems a little excessive to me especially for someone who would play this game non-stop if I didn’t have to wait so long. Also, the prices of obtaining new players gets pretty expensive pretty fast maybe just lower the cost of player packs.

Let me be fair, this is a collection game. But man I love to crack packs. This game has a very long history and is well supported. There is a grind to get to the end, but the trip is fun, if frustrating on occasion. It’s when you get your favorite player, it will be worth it.

I love this game. After prayer and Bible reading, it’s the next thing I do most days. I can spend lots of money when I want to advance, but I don’t have to spend if I choose not to. Been playing for several years

Great game. Don’t have to spend if you don’t want to. Check in twice a day and you can meet all your goals and finish activities. Nice mix of old and current players. I like the older players better so it’s kinda cool to get a Koufax or or Larson on your team. Leveling up is up to you basically. If you are willing to spend twenty or thirty minutes a day on a game you can make a great team. But trust me, especially in the beginning you won’t have any problem devoting more time than that if you want to

Just downloaded, can’t even get past signing in!! Keeps saying loading for almost 10 minutes

It has been fun to play. Some of the options are not available unless you pay(something I am unwilling to do)

I’ve been playing this game for about 6 months and have played it every day since downloading it. I’ve made a few purchases and didn’t receive them, but the CBS Interactive staff were so cooperative and fixed this problem for me within in hour of emailing them. I don’t know if this glitch is fixed because I haven’t bought anything in a bit. You definitely don’t need to buy anything to play the game but it is very beneficial for your team. I encourage all to download and play FranchiseBaseball. 5/5 Stars!

It’s fun. Not too time consuming. Has a lot of the greats from my time. Mattingly! Lol finally....... a game that has Mattingly!!! Babe, Puckett. So many greats u can own. It progresses slow if u don’t want to put any money in it. But if u have the tine its a great fantasy game for baseball lovers