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Originally Posted by The Wolf
It's common knowledge. Read the Wikipedia article on Earl Weaver Baseball or talk with Eddie Dombrower about it online. There are other examples.
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It's never a good sign when someone refuses to provide direct citations to support their claim. It's an even worse sign when they offer a backhanded reference that, when found and actually examined,
does not support their claim in any way whatsoever. There is
nothing in the Wikipedia entry for
Earl Weaver Baseball which supports the notion that the addition of graphics caused the downfall of the game. The claim doesn't even make sense since the first edition of the game
already had graphics in it, which immediately renders it inapplicable to comparisons with OOTP.
No, the problem with
Earl Weaver Baseball 2 was that, according to the Wikipedia entry, it was released prematurely by EA and then not patched to fix issues in the release. In other words, the same publisher behaviour that all too often plagues the video/computer game industry.
That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. As The Wolf has provided no evidence at all to support the idea that the addition of graphics is directly attributable to a baseball computer/video game's failure, the claim is, for now, dismissed.