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My post regarding the MLB 2K12 freezing issue has been seeing a lot of traffic lately. Thankfully there's an easy workaround for this gamebreaking bug, but the utter lack of support from 2K Sports surrounding this game has been pretty depressing. It's clear that they completely cut the cord after release knowing that this would be the last MLB 2K game in the series.
2K Sports makes me a little sad.
This is likely the end of the line for the MLB 2K series since Take-Two's agreement with MLBPA expires this year. Post-release support for MLB 2K12 has been pretty awful, with the PC version left completely untouched and consoles last seeing a patch in June. This year's title isn't terrible, but the game isn't without its bugs and shortcomings.
Sports gaming on the PC has been more or less universally terrible for the last three to five years. EA Sports all but abandoned PC gamers after Madden 08, NHL 09, and MVP 05. The latest Tiger Woods PGA Tour game is basically an extension of the F2P Tiger Woods Online and has a fantastic score of 43/100 on Metacritic. The only universally-acclaimed titles available for PC today are EA Sports' FIFA series and 2K Sports' NBA2K series, both of which will be releasing 2013 versions in the next 3-4 weeks.
In 2005, Take Two Interactive signed an agreement with the MLB Players Association that gave them exclusive third-party rights to MLB games and effectively shutting out EA Sports. 2K Sports didn't bring a baseball game to the PC until 2009's Major League Baseball 2K9, but since then they've released a followup on PC every year.
2K's latest offering in the series is Major League Baseball 2K12. I've put a ton of time into the game over the past six months, and with baseball's actual pennant races heating up I figured there's no better time than the present to talk about MLB 2K12.
MLB 2K12 was released on March 6th, 2012 for just about every platform available: PC, all of the current consoles, the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, and even the Playstation 2 for some reason. From that list it should be pretty obvious that the PC version is a console port.
| Minimum | Recommended | My System | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Single-core P4 2.4 GHz (2.8 GHz for Vista) | Dual-core 3.0 GHz CPU | 4.0 GHz i5-2500K |
| GPU | 128 MB DX9.0c | 512 MB DX9.0c | 1 GB 560 Ti DX11 |
| RAM | 512 MB, 1 GB for Vista | 2 GB | 8 GB |
| HDD | 9.5 GB | -- | -- |
The game's installation folder currently weighs in at just under 8 GB, though there is some modding in play with my version of the game which I'll address in a bit.
