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Originally Posted by dashby
I don't believe any of the ppl you mentioned in this comment could legally pay you to work on MLB rosters. Believe me, there are probably many talented ppl that would be willing to jump on these rosters and invest the time neccessary to create some good ones if there was a salary involved.
In fact, I'm thinking they would probably just as soon have someone in the company do it as you if they were going to offer a contract. I think the fact of the matter is SI doesn't want to invest in a license in order to legally use MLB rosters. That is really too bad because it will eventually bring the downfall of this game. I think I speak for most of the folks out here, w/o real-life player rosters this game (despite it's wonderful design) is not fun. There are, I'm sure, ppl that would still play w/o MLB players but, they are the exception.
I personally would be willing to pay $5 or $10 more for the game if it was packaged with the current year rosters. On the other hand, if future releases do NOT have MLB rosters or, no one competent is willing to spend the time to release them some short time later....I'm through with OOTP. There are other options.
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The good news is that this year I had to re-rate virtually every player in the majors and minors. I'm hoping that I can get Markus to just put me together a roster file combining this year's ratings with 2006 statistics that are imported from Lehman in Feburary sometime so that all I have to do is some tweaks at the MLB level and put in new salaries that have been signed in the past year.
(if this isn't the case there's no way I'm re-doing all of this though)
But hopefully with that as the way things I'm hoping will be handled, you will no doubt have an opening day version next year that is VERY complete. This year things were just so new with salary structures, countries of origin, new ratings, etc, etc, etc that we found another new thing to handle at every step of the way.
Hopefully that makes sense and at least eases some concerns about next year's game.