[Go Tribe]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I haven't read this entire thread (most of it), so forgive me if this has been mentioned/questioned and responded to and I didn't see it, but regarding the real roster issue, I'm not sure I understand why the real rosters had/have to be an "outside job"?

This game is fully customizable and editable, and the team names and such are already in the game (and are editable anyway), so why couldn't the real players' ratings have been done in-house and those players given fake names, which the community could then edit to be the real player names? At the least, I bet that within 48 hours of release, someone would have gone through the trouble of editing the names and saving a template that people could use as a start. And after that, I'm sure that people would have then gone on to create an actual set of game files that could be used generally (if there's even a difference between a template and what people are working on right now).

Was this an issue of manpower among the people working on this game? Some legal issue I'm not aware of (in fact, I thought the intellectual property issue was decided against MLB, not for it)? No one with the expertise willing to be an "independent contractor" of SI in order to coordinate completion of the rosters for integration into the release?

I must be missing something, because as big of an issue as this is for some people (and I must stress that it is NOT an issue for me AT ALL - I likely will never play this game using the 2007 rosters, if/when they are completed), I find it hard to understand why at least "fake" real rosters weren't included with the game.

Again, if this has been discussed, I apologize for bringing it up again.

This is 100% true, ncaa does it in their football games since you can't have college football players in a game. People edit just the names after the game is released. NOTHING is stopping SI or Markus from including real rosters with fake names. There is no legality issue with having rosters in which the Tribe has a huge lefty named DD Sabath with CC's actual career stats, contract info, etc. I'd like to hear why they DON'T do this now? Or a commitment that they WILL do it for 2008. It's very easy for them now to say "hey we gave the game to the roster makers in December"