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Originally Posted by Ben E Lou
I've played FOF and been a part of its online community since late 1998/early 1999. The #1 complaint I've seen about FOF over the years--by far--has been the interface. Sure, there are always engine things that can be improved, but few who have dug deeply into the game have serious issues in that arena. Overall, the play resolution engine and the other pieces are quite solid. Those of us who have played FOF a long time, are into Multi-Player--and would thus like to see a lot of new blood brought into the genre--are thrilled with the possibilities here.
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I'm not a long time player like Ben is, I just joined the FOF community with the release of FOF8 a couple years ago.
Ben is spot on. Since I discovered the FOF series, and how freaking fun multiplayer leagues on it can be, I've been trying to get people to play it. I've tried several times on the NFL page on Reddit (which would mainly be people in their 20s, I suspect the average age of the FOF community is much older) to suggest the FOF series to people who seem like they would be interested. They will do five minutes of research on the game, discover that the interface is straight out of 1997, and won't really give it another thought. It's a shame, since Jim has made such a fun, quality product, but it's just the reality of the situation.
With Jim's ability to really capture the feeling of being an NFL GM dealing with all the nuts and bolts of your roster/gameplan and OOTP's ability to give the franchise a much needed facelift, I think us NFL fans will finally have the Football Manager equivalent for american football