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Reading this has actively made me hope that OOTP never gets as big as FM. I've never played FM and have no interest in soccer, but all of features that have been highlighted as the key to FM being bigger or better hold no appeal to me and remind me of all of the frustrating new "features" that they stuck in NBA 2K several years ago that made the game less enjoyable for me.
OOTP is miles ahead of any other text based sim of any American based sports and all of the examples of more successful text based sims are all sports that are significantly more popular in Europe than in North America. Basketball in huge in North America and fairly popular in the rest of the world and there have been almost no attempts to even make a basketball sim (the DDS games are probably the most notable and they have very small player bases and are incredibly buggy). I just don't see where there is the room to significantly grow OOTP's player base without fundamentally changing what it is into something that would hold little to no appeal to the current player base. Are people really looking for a management game that has a baseball themed skin instead of a baseball sim with some management aspects?
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