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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
But I will stick to my original points of a game needing to be marketable to a mass audience in order to be viable, which mytreds echoed.  |
This feels like a fair point but I would suggest that much that is already included in the game, not the least the various international professional baseball leagues, would suggest that what is marketable isn't necessarily what is widely considered popular. Adding another option to an already expansive game, at no expense to what already exists in the game, hardly seems to me like something that would make the game less marketable, but rather a step that would just enhance marketability all the more. My personal sense is that we may be underestimating the growth of baseball's fanbase among women and girls and that finding a way to have the game represent them more fully could be highly marketable indeed.
Not to mention for old cisgender men like myself who believe that the future of the sport will be more gender inclusive and who would love to have the option of having his fictional league evolve in this direction over time.
(Edit: And you sort of made that point yourself in a post that went up while I was typing this one.
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