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Its funny how I start this post and just mention MLB The Show and people go nuts. When I mentioned MLB the Show I was hoping to gain customers from there. I do not want to copy MLB the Show.
Now lets think about this from a business point of view. I am going to list a few ideas and then state what the cost effictivness of them are.
Improved Graphics: Not possible with this small development team. I think we need to forget this idea. I just do not see it being possible.
Improved PBP/ VOICE PBP: This could work however I would worry that it would lag behind like old games did. Also some users like PBP fast and some like it slow.
ok now lets look at some of the other ideas that I brought up.
Multiplayer with VOIP: I read the post about using pc anywhere. I am not talking about that. I am talking about a full fledged muliplayer community. Below I will describe and breakdown this idea.
When you log into OOTP (As long as you have int) it would take you immeditely to the OOTPB lobby.
Inside the lobby you could have one of several choices.
1) Go to single player Main Menu
2) Browse Leagues connected to OOTPB. This would make it easy to see every league and who is currently online for each league.
3) League Bulliten Board to browse league openings.
4) Lobby's for people looking for exhibtion games or series challenges. This can be futher broke down into decades. For Example people looking to play teams from the 50's etc...
5) Open lobby for owners to chat with each other.
6) Leaderboards to see other OOTP owners records in single exhibition games and series challenges.
Other features that this online portal would have could be the following.
1) Built in IM
2) Ability to keep ootp friends in groups for example (League A) (League B)
3) Private Chat rooms for league meetings etc
4) Ability to right click a user and send him a challenge (Single Game or Series)
I think this would make the game fresh and exciting without taking away fromt he great features in OOTPX.
Matt
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