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Well, lets see what can be advanced in reply to endgame's post . . .
No doubt a lot of reported problems with the game - hangups, crashes, weird screen displays, problems with on-line leagues and the rest - depend on detailed info about the system(s) running the game, complete with dxdialog reports and so forth.
But there are also gameplay bugs that, one supposes, would actually benefit from having a separate listing and feedback from Markus or a beta. I don't want to suggest that Markus should personally reply to every single listing of this sort. Plainly that would be a waste of his time. On the other hand, if the tech support forum were organized so that one could see more or less at a glance what kind of bugs had been reported and whether they have been acknowledged, players would have a source of useful information about what they should be on the lookout for in their own games.
For purposes of argument I'll go back to the bug I reported: the a.i. won't use a pitcher who has been designated as a pinch hitter under any circumstances. That's an obvious gameplay issue which doesn't require detailed knowledge of my system, error logs, or anything else. Now, it seems to me that that's the sort of report that could generate a rapid reply from someone, on the order of "in line for the next patch," or "won't be fixed in OOTP14" or something like that. Or maybe other players could post replies confirming the issue, or contradicting it & saying that my original claim is mistaken, that pitchers ARE used as pinch hitters. As things stand now, however, it's impossible to know what's what.
By the way, I do not see this as a major problem with OOTP. Not at all. By whatever magic it happens, each new release of the game is remarkably unbuggy, crash-free, and fun. All I'm trying to do is suggest a small improvement.
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