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Originally Posted by The Wolf
The fact that graphics caused or contributed to the demise of the Earl Weaver series, the Front Page Sports Baseball series and the High Heat series doesn't bother you? You are a brave man.
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I'd say that the fact that Earl Weaver Baseball had reasonably good graphics on top of a good sim engine almost 25 years ago leads a lot of us to believe that something similar for OOTP isn't rocket science, nor will it inevitably lead the the downfall of the game.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if Earl or those other games didn't have graphics we wouldn't even be talking about them because their total sales would have been in the low thousands. It's not unreasonable to think that it's only because of the internet and the ability for forums like this to collaborate on suggestions and market by word of mouth that a viable market for text sims exists at all. A text version of Earl in 1988 would have been a micro-niche product.