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I remember coming home after a tour in southeastern Iraq in August 2009 and thinking to myself after spending eight months with a crazy Yankees fan who was our battle NCO in charge and an even crazier Royals fan who went in with me in purchasing Baseball Mogul and while I thought Mogul was ok, there had to be another baseball program that I could enjoy more.
So, I walked around our local Best Buy and found OOTP 11 and bought it on a whim (it also helped it was on sale for $20) and I was intrigued, installed it on my laptop of that time and fell completely in love with it, joined a few online leagues and went from there.
Fast forward to now and I still am completely impressed by what is out now and every year, the features, the thought processes, and the absolute intensive work that has been put into this game still completely blows my mind away.
And it keeps getting better each and every year.
Markus and his team also work not only to improve the product year to year but also continue to improve and add to the OOTP product within each year. And I give the team credit for taking the time to review and listen to all of us and our ideas, critiques, suggestions and discoveries (of bugs, cosmetic things and more) and use that to continually improve OOTP.
To those who expect a perfect product at time of release? All I am going to say is be patient. Nothing is perfect and the OOTP team gives it all they got and things will be found that will result in bugs, and believe me, they keep looking for the issues and work diligently to fix what bugs are there and eliminate them. Build 1 is not going to be bug-free and neither will be build 30, 60 or whenever the last build is released...but believe me when I can say Markus, Matt and their team work everything that is shared with them.
So, this is not honestly an initial impression, but a continually evolving impression about OOTP, the team, the fans, and the interaction between all and that this is still a great product, nearly 14 years later, even despite some setbacks and moments of pure frustration.
Markus and team....thank you.
To all the fans out there....thank you.
And to Edgar Fuentes and Brock Combs, thank you for taking Baseball Mogul off my hands and getting me to find something better...something called OOTP.
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