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Originally Posted by robc
I'm not a fantasy baseball player. Funny but I'm not even currently a baseball fan. I stopped caring about MLB in about 1990. I was a big fan from about age 7 through some point in college.
I do think baseball games make for a good strategy game. That is why I like to play. It provides a different backdrop to the usual conquer the world games I play (like Civilization).
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You mention Civilization. I think there's probably a much greater correlation of OOTP fans also being fans of games like Civilization than of being interested in fantasy baseball. Maybe OOTP could find more direct ways of advertising to fans of strategy games.
DB is probably right. Fantasy baseball is more just about picking players based on how many points they might get you. OOTP is more about managing a real baseball team. Fantasy baseball isn't much like real baseball. Frankly, it's rather simple in comparison if you ask me. There's probably at least a small % of fantasy baseball fans who would be interested in OOTP, I just don't think it's a large %.
Some people have said they think dumbing down the game is the way to go to bring in more people and maybe it is, but boy I sure hope Markus doesn't take that to mean that he should leave out features and options. Wizards and quickstarts are great to get you into the game fast as is simplifying the interface, but I really don't want to see OOTP go away from its great strength of customization for when you're ready to go beyond the defaults. So options make debugging more difficult. Tough. Options are what make OOTP great.