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Originally Posted by BruceM
It may increase sales, but it will also increase comapny costs and workload, so that has to be taken into account as well.
Some leagues didn't convert to 2006 because of the loss of their CATO history, a lot of leagues didn't convert because of the UI, and because of all the problems and flaws with 2006.
How many 6.5 and previous leagues are out there now? I don't know, but I am willing to bet with or without the CATO conversion there will be a lot less at this time next year.
At some point every game advances to where it has to leave some things behind. With OOTP 2006 a lot was left behind, but with 2007 a lot of that has been brought back.
Everyone has a right to their opinion, and mine is that if CATO doesn't get converted it won't hurt sales noticeably. Now that 2007 has brought the fun back, OOTP will continue to grow in popularity. If it's too time consuming and costly to get CATO in, both in $$$ & time wise, then it isn't worth it.
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I agree that fewer and fewer pre-OOTP2006 online leagues will be around as time moves on, but the addition of this feature would ensure that many of these leagues continue and convert to a new version of OOTP rather than disband outright. I think any effort made to help long-term OOTP online leagues survive will be a very good move for OOTP/SI, because for new users there lots of different online play options out there besides OOTP. Seeing many OOTP leagues that have been around 5+ real time years gives these new users much more confidence in this game title, and that in turn increases the game loyalty base (Geez I sound like Carl Rove here). Note that many purchasers of OOTP don't intend to ever play the game in solo mode.
It sounds like you would prefer that Markus not spend time on this feature, if that is accurate, why would you feel that way?