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Twelvefield · 01-08-2007, 06:05 AM

I'm not sure I follow your whole post. It's kind of late, and I am tired, and you have a lot of 25-cent words in play.

However, I am game to take a stab at this.

On a very big, overview level, I wonder at the direction OOTPB will take. I guess Duffy would be the best one to say. He's mentioned stuff like sound and enhanced graphics, which I think are great ideas. However, I personally think a lot of that is beyond Markus' pay grade. He's not really an audio engineer nor an animator.

I think that for OOTPB to really break out, SI will have to loosen the purse strings and hire some more professional talent to boost the game past the hard-core simmer crowd we all know and are.

Of course that would mean that OOTPB would become less of a Markus Heinsohn game and more of an SI/SEGA corporate game. Would that be of benefit to us, or would it make the product worse? Put another way, how long can we expect Markus, Aurelio, Andreas, Duffy and the rest to keep putting out OOTPB for us? 10 years? 5? 3? 1? God forbid, what if something happened to Markus (well, for the sake of argument, let's say he wins one of those El Gordo Spanish lotteries, with a jackpot big enough to buy an entire baseball league and play it like OOTPB), then what? Do we rely on the OOTPB community to get our sim baseball fix?

There are other baseball sims out there, and for that matter, there's a big wide world, too, beyond our digital Fenways and Polo Grounds. The end of OOTPB would not necessarily be the end of the world, although I would mourn the loss. Still, I would feel better knowing that steps are being taken to preserve the OOTPB line, and that real professional artists and programmers are ready to shoulder their burden in the ongoing development of our game, above and beyond the talented amateur mod community.

01-08-2007, 06:05 AM	#2
Twelvefield All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,188	I'm not sure I follow your whole post. It's kind of late, and I am tired, and you have a lot of 25-cent words in play. However, I am game to take a stab at this. On a very big, overview level, I wonder at the direction OOTPB will take. I guess Duffy would be the best one to say. He's mentioned stuff like sound and enhanced graphics, which I think are great ideas. However, I personally think a lot of that is beyond Markus' pay grade. He's not really an audio engineer nor an animator. I think that for OOTPB to really break out, SI will have to loosen the purse strings and hire some more professional talent to boost the game past the hard-core simmer crowd we all know and are. Of course that would mean that OOTPB would become less of a Markus Heinsohn game and more of an SI/SEGA corporate game. Would that be of benefit to us, or would it make the product worse? Put another way, how long can we expect Markus, Aurelio, Andreas, Duffy and the rest to keep putting out OOTPB for us? 10 years? 5? 3? 1? God forbid, what if something happened to Markus (well, for the sake of argument, let's say he wins one of those El Gordo Spanish lotteries, with a jackpot big enough to buy an entire baseball league and play it like OOTPB), then what? Do we rely on the OOTPB community to get our sim baseball fix? There are other baseball sims out there, and for that matter, there's a big wide world, too, beyond our digital Fenways and Polo Grounds. The end of OOTPB would not necessarily be the end of the world, although I would mourn the loss. Still, I would feel better knowing that steps are being taken to preserve the OOTPB line, and that real professional artists and programmers are ready to shoulder their burden in the ongoing development of our game, above and beyond the talented amateur mod community.