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darkcloud4579 · 09-30-2016, 10:21 AM

So Finnish baseball is a variant of baseball. There are some quirks to the game. The sport is the national game of Finland. Over the past few years, I've become a huge fan of the sport.

Here's a link to the NYTimes story on it from this week.

I bet the Superpesis (major league of Finland) would be receptive, too, because it'd expand the game's reach.

But if there was any way to create DLC to play Finnish rules - I know it'd be a lot of work - you could essentially create Madden for Finnish baseball fans. Not a huge audience, but it'd be captive and there's surely no alternative.

The World Cup of Pesapallo happens every other year, obviously dominated by Finns.

Which sounds nuts and obscure, but then, the game was made by a German to begin with, so it's a lot less weird than if the game were made in Kansas somewhere.

The Wall Street Journal did a story on #pesis a year ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_navSFGj0I

Anyway, this is a crazy idea & I know how things go around here so this will likely go to die. But...the OOTP PR guy on Twitter suggested a thread, so I figured I'd put on the radar. Probably not worth the effort, but given the wackier things that OOTP has inside of it, this wouldn't even be the craziest suggestion.

09-30-2016, 10:21 AM	#1
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,712	Pesapallo (Finnish Baseball) DLC/Add-On Mode So Finnish baseball is a variant of baseball. There are some quirks to the game. The sport is the national game of Finland. Over the past few years, I've become a huge fan of the sport. Here's a link to the NYTimes story on it from this week. I bet the Superpesis (major league of Finland) would be receptive, too, because it'd expand the game's reach. But if there was any way to create DLC to play Finnish rules - I know it'd be a lot of work - you could essentially create Madden for Finnish baseball fans. Not a huge audience, but it'd be captive and there's surely no alternative. The World Cup of Pesapallo happens every other year, obviously dominated by Finns. Which sounds nuts and obscure, but then, the game was made by a German to begin with, so it's a lot less weird than if the game were made in Kansas somewhere. The Wall Street Journal did a story on #pesis a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_navSFGj0I Anyway, this is a crazy idea & I know how things go around here so this will likely go to die. But...the OOTP PR guy on Twitter suggested a thread, so I figured I'd put on the radar. Probably not worth the effort, but given the wackier things that OOTP has inside of it, this wouldn't even be the craziest suggestion.