While never coming out and making a fully functional World Cup or World Baseball Classic feature, Markus and the team's other improvements have gotten the game to the point where I'm having more fun than I've ever had running a World Cup.
-The new national origin settings are key as I have all kinds of different leagues across the globe and want them to produce precise amounts of players from countries, now this is reasonably easy to do.
-the ability to change baseball quality for nations and the sabermetric PCM's allow me to tweak the quality of player a nation produces
-the ability to easily export rosters to a new game where I can set up the 32 teams in the World Cup after following my World of Baseball for 5 years to get to know the big names and superstars
-the ability in the new game to set up 32 teams with no foreigners and just sim to opening day and they will sign all the players from their nation
-and by far most importantly is Real Time Simulation. With 16 games going on each day, I can start out watching South Korea and Japan battle for the 1 seed out of group 3, then when that finishes switch over to Colombia/Mexico who are fighting for the final spot to the knockout rounds then see if Ivory Coast can upset Iran to end the day. Each day is an addictive experience that is more fun than anything else I've ever done in OOTP.
So thanks OOTP team, not just for a great game this year but the constant improvements you make every year!
And if anyone is thinking about making a World Cup style competition with their global leagues it's absolutely worth it, so much fun. Ask me any questions if you are having trouble.
And the current group standings (4 series out of 7 into the group stage, 4 from each group move along):
