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One Post Wonder · 01-16-2013, 05:21 PM

So, after posting on this thread and defending the franchise, I went offline, continued to play OOTP, and won a World Series. First one in a while, so I was happy about that. Then during the post season process, OOTP crashed to desktop.

I loaded my game back up, and yep... my World Series ring is gone, 3 hours of RL play time is gone (I do a lot of minor league roster moves at the end of the year), and my interest in playing OOTP is gone. I'm likely done with it for the next few months at least.

This is a great game, but that stuff kills my interest in OOTP... every... damn... time. Since OOTP8 or so, it's been the same thing every year. I get really into the game, either buying a new version or reverting to one of my old ones, spend hours building up an organization, then wham... a crash, a corrupted file, or a e-licensing problem sends me flying back to Football Manager/Mount and Blade/WMMA3 land for a while. Backing up every season doesn't do it for me, because even if my league doesn't get obliterated, I'm not the type of person who can replay a few hours of the same stuff over again. Especially in this case, since it's questionable if I'll be able to win the WS even if I redo the whole play session.

I've been playing the Championship Manager series for 9 years, and I have never lost a league or a significant block of time because of a crash. With OOTP it's always just a matter of when. I know that this is part of the OOTP experience, it isn't something that's going to go away with any new version, but still... I'd give up any number of new features if I could just wholeheartedly get into this game and play a league without the inevitable upcoming crash in the back of my mind. I almost wish it would happen more often, just so it would make me give OOTP up. But it's not quite frequent enough for that - it gives me several weeks of enjoyable play, making me think that this time, it might be different. Then it yanks the chain. Bleh.

Sorry to hijack the thread. But you've gotta admit, KentCol, it was a fairly good basis for a rant.

01-16-2013, 05:21 PM	#4
One Post Wonder All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 538	Well, there's Karma for you... So, after posting on this thread and defending the franchise, I went offline, continued to play OOTP, and won a World Series. First one in a while, so I was happy about that. Then during the post season process, OOTP crashed to desktop. I loaded my game back up, and yep... my World Series ring is gone, 3 hours of RL play time is gone (I do a lot of minor league roster moves at the end of the year), and my interest in playing OOTP is gone. I'm likely done with it for the next few months at least. This is a great game, but that stuff kills my interest in OOTP... every... damn... time. Since OOTP8 or so, it's been the same thing every year. I get really into the game, either buying a new version or reverting to one of my old ones, spend hours building up an organization, then wham... a crash, a corrupted file, or a e-licensing problem sends me flying back to Football Manager/Mount and Blade/WMMA3 land for a while. Backing up every season doesn't do it for me, because even if my league doesn't get obliterated, I'm not the type of person who can replay a few hours of the same stuff over again. Especially in this case, since it's questionable if I'll be able to win the WS even if I redo the whole play session. I've been playing the Championship Manager series for 9 years, and I have never lost a league or a significant block of time because of a crash. With OOTP it's always just a matter of when. I know that this is part of the OOTP experience, it isn't something that's going to go away with any new version, but still... I'd give up any number of new features if I could just wholeheartedly get into this game and play a league without the inevitable upcoming crash in the back of my mind. I almost wish it would happen more often, just so it would make me give OOTP up. But it's not quite frequent enough for that - it gives me several weeks of enjoyable play, making me think that this time, it might be different. Then it yanks the chain. Bleh. Sorry to hijack the thread. But you've gotta admit, KentCol, it was a fairly good basis for a rant.