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Originally Posted by battists
It's my belief that once Markus created the framework that allowed ANY other country...
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Point taken.
And I would agree that Markus probably wasn't specifically concerned about the inclusion of certain individual nations.
I suppose instead of belittling Bhutan and the like, a better way to illustrate my concern would have been to say this: All things being equal, I would have personally preferred to see international players show up as free agents and/or draftable amateurs, instead of Markus focusing his attention on actually
developing the baseball world.
In 6.5, we had Cuban and Japanese players popping up in the free agent pool. I would've loved to have seen a proliferation of players from other baseball powers (and yes, even the anomalous Bhutani every 500 years or so
) I simply question the importance of implementing such a framework at the expense of other more requested features.
Now, having said all of this, it's also occurred to me that the baseball universe idea may not have stemmed from Markus and SI's desire to make the game more international, but from an attempt to further develop the minor league system. Truly, many of us have hounded Markus for years about having fully-developed minor leagues.
If this is the case, I suppose my criticism is misguided. Perhaps it's just a matter of SI touting this new feature so much that it only
seems to have taken up more of Markus' time than was warranted.
Anyway, baseball universes notwithstanding...
I'm still very concerned about the decreased role of personality/popularity in the upcoming version.
