[RonCo]

Markus works hard to fix bugs, and he does a very good job listening to his customer base. I suggest his biggest issue is that he listens to a customer base that is too wide, actually, and tries to do enough to please everyone rather than focusing on only a single primary market segment.

So to say that OOTP does not respond to user's complaints is a mis-representation of the truth.

Saying you will move on is proper. Saying Markus is not responsive or is not interested in user's issues is inapproriate, and IMHO a shade on the boorish side. Markus's business plan is to make a wide, comprehensive game. I suggest he's doing just that, and he's doing it in a fashion that has been quite successful.

Of course, I do wish he would focus on some specific things. But that's because I have some personal things I think are important--and I tend to back those up with solid data on why they are so. I admit that my opinions are also based on my belief that the game should be most heavily weighted to on-field accuracy in the "fictional" world, entertaining development over the course of a fictional player's career, and simple, but fun GM tools. In other words, I favor an online player's mindset. I understand that.

Honestly, mass capture would be fine, but it doesn't even come close to my top 100. If he spends a month writing mass copy-n-paste routines, but doesn't do things I want, then I'll be highly disappointed. So this puts Markus in a tough place. Does he make the mass-capture guys angry, or does he make me angry?

It is not wrong to hold a developer accountable for his game. But it is wrong to misattribute an essence of neglect to his approach where that is not the case. This game has been strongly influenced by forces outside Markus's mindset, and I expect it will always be so as long as he's its owner.

I have had a couple fairly public disagreements with Markus's choices at times. This is because I will almost always support the user-base in any developer/user debate. But I highly respect Markus's fundamental approach to the user base, and to suggest that he is not one to listen is completely missing the essence of what he has been about for as long as I've been hanging around here.