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I have decide to write this against possibly better judgment due to the fact that I feel this has been said a million times and might just go unnoticed.

This is going to be in reference to marketing and OOTP and where it stands.

I look at sports video games in these areas.
Very Easy and Casual to Very Geeky just like you wrote in your post Battists.
Lets look at the sports spectrum

Bigs (Baseball Game) – Very Arcadish – I doubt owners of these would enjoy OOTPB
MLB The Show – Arcadish and Sim Style – We could and should get these types of owners
Puresim – Since going the struggling Wolverine Studios they have given their game a face lift – maybe a bit more graphical then OOTPB
OOTPB – We all know what we got here


As baseball games go unless you want to go to a dos based txt game OOTPB is the least casual game out.


Ok my ideas that would put this game on a different level and begin to get more fans of MLB the Show.


#1) Hum vs Hum internet play, for the love of god I don’t know why this is still not in the series when Dave Koch has had it in for over 8 years. This is amazing; you are asking how to sell more copies and haven’t even touched this feature yet. Madden NFL is going to have this before you (Online Franchise that is). This would include VOIP of course.
#2) Make OOTPB a bigger community kind of like Steam did. I think you should load up the game and it becomes an icon on your desk. You then have an option to browse any of the leagues for openings, browse anyone online to try a hum vs hum series or single exhibition game. OOTPB could also have ladders and online tournaments in these lobbies. You of course would be able to easy see who is on and not on OOTPB at any time. You can add buddies IM, PM etc.
#3) I know you had inside the park baseball before. This is essentially Road to the Show in MLB the show or Road to Glory in NCAA football. You need to include it in the game and have leader boards.
#4) Browser based, so I can play on any computer at work, home or at a friend’s house. I know Tiger Woods online is trying this and it is working great. I know that this would require a lot of server space, but I feel it would be worth it in the long run.
#5) Official OOTPB leagues, where you could possible give prizes out like pay to play fantasy sports leagues do. You could charge 35 a team per year then do a fantasy draft and play the season out and Issue prizes to all playoff teams and of course World Series Champs. You could do this as a real league or single season league. Could you imagine how much you would work on your team if you could win let’s say 450 or 500 dollars on a 35 investment. You could also have different prize level leagues maybe you could find 12 guys to do 100. Then make a 12 man fantasy draft 162 game season etc.

I am not saying I don’t enjoy the new tweaks and features that you have put through each year, however I feel these are features that would put your game over the top.

Matt