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Originally Posted by D Love
Just thinking out loud... but a public beta next time might not be a bad idea... I mean, having a global network of testers would be ideal and would also avoid the disaster of selling a beta version to people.
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See, I actually think this would be more harmful than helpful. A public release beta would be great if the only problem were bugs. But the problems are design flaws, so a public beta would just invite wayyyyy too many cooks into the kitchen.
OOTP2007 needs a small, <10 person design team that includes at least 3-5 people who have had baseball in their blood since they were kids. This team needs to be in on every design decision for the game, and they need to focus on 3 things:
1) keeping the fictional and historical elements of the game;
2) modelling MLB rules baseball correctly;
3) building an AI that can successfully manage a team with all of bells and whistles available in the game; if the AI can't handle a feature, don't have it in the game.