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Originally Posted by TroyF
I first purchased OOTP when it was called OOTP. Yeah, before a number. When I got sent a CD.
So I hope that gives me my "loyal to the developers" card.
With that said, when someone comes into the forum and asks "Is it worth it to upgrade" respectfully, without being a troll, why not just answer the question? Why not discuss the new features you are excited for, or features you wished were in the game?
Why not ask how the person plays?. (Do you manage every game or do you sim seasons and team building is the joy?) Then tell the person what new features will match his style of play?
I mean, alternatively, you can just put him down and talk about how "cheap" the game is and how he should just be able to afford it if he wasn't such an idiot. I mean, I guess you could go that route. It discounts that for some people, they don't have a lot of disposable income and every purchase counts, but if you want to be rude, that's fine. I'm glad you are in a position where 40 bucks means nothing. Everyone is in fact, not, in your position.
If you don't like those posts, don't read them. If you are going to be rude to someone who posts those questions, I'd suggest not replying. Be nice. Be respectful. If you truly want to be loyal to the developer of the game, maybe try that.
Just my opinion. . .
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Respectfully, only the beta people have played the game, and respectfully, a lot of us treat the purchase as an annual fee for a game they're going to play hundreds to thousands of hours every year. These things do in fact factor in. Like, is your antivirus software so chock full of goodness that you're going to pay for it this year? I guess in some ways this isn't a fair comparison since McAfee will just stop working if you don't whereas you can continue to play <old version of OOTP> all you want, but it's somewhat similar inasmuch as it's kind of a subscription model to help to ensure that a very complicated game continues to make incremental improvements.
If you're not into that, then fine, I guess. Some people can only afford to buy a new version every other year and others don't like that perceived model. If you're in the second group though, just because you disagree with it doesn't mean that others don't operate under that line of thinking, and if you ask people and that's the response you get, it's still a valid response. Depending on what kind of game you want to play, there may even be alternatives out there - there really isn't for the way I prefer to play, not even in other sports, but YMMV.