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Fascinating thread, at least til this page.... I commish the longest running league in OOTP history, the MLBCentury. We started with OOTP2 in 2000 simming 1905 and are now simming 1966. We sucessfully advanced from OOTP2 to OOTP3 to OOTP4 etc... up til 6.5. We are still using 6.5 and will continue to do so til the league folds. Twice I have polled the league as to whether they want to switch over to 2007/8 etc. Both times all but 3 or 4 owners wanted to stick with 6.5 and the 3-4 were open to either choice. Also if we had switched to 2007/8 we would have lost a number of owners... I too share all the reservations about the versions that came after 6.5 that Cooley expressed....I commish the MLBC and I play historical solo and that is it. I also feel that 6.5 was the pinnacle of OOTP. If 6.5 had the option to turn off player developement and to use the historical player adjustments that can be done in 1 or 3 year increments I would never stop playing 6.5. Personnally I believe 6.5 came one version short of being a true classic.

I have never felt 'comfortable' with 2007 never bought or played 2006 and am not sure if I will buy 2008. I have reached the point that several others have expressed, if OOTP can put out a version that returns the game to the ease and feel of 6.5 I will spend my money, if not then I can be very patient.

OOTP6.5 was a brilliant combination of a very in depth baseball game with a simplistic and user friendly interface, everything was quite easy for all to understand and mod whether you were a computer genius or computer idiot like me.

You guys that are ignoring the numbers Cooley produced regarding the traffic on this site are just fooling yourselves. OOTP has lost a lot since the advent of 2006 and unless Markus and Co bring back what made OOTP so accessible and appealing to so many of us then OOTP's future is murky...