[quote]Originally posted by MetsRon2002:
<strong>50 steals should not happen at 39 years old for a slow player no matter what the ratings. I hope ootp4 TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE AGE FACTOR!
HH does and according to someone on this board it sucks as a sim!
And I like to start off with ml players so that I can take over my team of today and see if I can build a dynasty. Plus, you know more of the players if there stats are entered correctly.
This is getting into the wrong territory. Both HH and OOTP are both excellent games. HH will always sell more due to its ML license and that is what players want. for this reason only, OOTP is a minor league game out of the box and needs add ons to make it major league caliber. But lets not forget there are also addons for HH as well to make it better.</strong><hr></blockquote>
OOTP does not take into account age at all, it uses ratings (for Steals/Speed) to determine SB. You could have an 80 yr old steal 50 bases if you gave him A/A SP/ST ratings. In all likelihood, this was just a case where the conversion from the Lahman database assigned an incorrect CURRENT rating based on CAREER statistics.
And I can absolutely guarantee you that the MLB/PA licenses are NOT the reason that HH sells more than OOTP. There are several factors that have already been mentioned - 3DO's marketing budget, multiple platform releases, and probably the most important is that most people prefer Arcade games to Text-sims. I'm not knocking HH at all, in fact I enjoy arcade games for PS2 and will probably buy HH2003, but OOTP is not a minor-league game because of the license situation, especially when a much more dynamic and accurate roster set is available than HH at the touch of your fingertips.
[ March 14, 2002: Message edited by: Hammer755 ]</p>
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