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Originally Posted by jimmysthebestcop
Honestly ootp probably needs a huge revolutionary step.
I would seriously consider just doing the yearly versions as paid dlc as well as doing perfect team as separate dlc. For say the next 2 years.
Then the idea would be to do a big Kickstarter campaign for the next generation ootp. That Kickstarter money is to hire staff or outsource or any combination of staff requirements.
Many small to big Indy devs these days do Kickstarter. If it's not for the entire budget of the game the larger devs just do Kickstarter for extra things.
The Pathfinder kingmaker guys had enough finance to fund the sequel but they went to Kickstarter to get some extra content. They only needed 200k and raised over 2 million!!!
Kickstarter also drives media and fan buzz and if successful increases sales.
I could also see ootp becoming more perfect team and results based driven and getting rid of the gm experience because it's not done well.
I guess ootp is focusing on perfect team because it speaks to casual gamers, fantasy guys and daily betters. And that's the type of people to have lower end computers.
Ootp certainly doesn't focus on the real gamers to drive sales. If they wanted to expand the gaming segment they would have to make gm mode a real thing.
Only 2 things can carry ootpb into the future, gamers or the daily guys. Which means ootp will just keep doing what they are doing. 5% improvement to base game each year, roster updates, bug fixes, and more customization options.
That's why ootp has played the same for 5 years at least. At least with perfect team it probably won't be going anywhere. But it'll just be for perfect team players or baseball fans that want to run the game to see results or results in their dream baseball world. It won't actually be a game for real gamers. Maybe the truth is it never was??
I'm not bad mouthing ootp or the devs. The things ootp does well it does well it's just the things it dies bad it does really bad.
I just find it sad that it'll never become a real true video game. So much potential in gm baseball. But I have to accept reality until a future version of the game prices me wrong.
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The broader the audience, the more games you sell. The only competition, as far as GM baseball is concerned, is Mogul, and OOTP pretty much buried that game years ago. They seem to have since set their sights on the single-season replay crowd, which is where I come from, and have been pretty much conquering that market by offering a comparable level of realism, and many more options, at a fraction of the price. Unless someone else comes along and creates a better GM baseball sim, well, OOTP is as good as it gets.