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Originally Posted by Braden
I assume you are talking about PT. If so, I agree because PT is a cash cow, i.e. pay to win. That would be why there is minimum concern about historical accuracy options, e.g. on field umpires & coaches, option to change to historical gear like caps before helmets were used, catchers gear, etc. Also, although there are many good historic park mods like SilvaM and others, maybe OOTP could make some with the same software as used for their modern parks so that the old ones would have more detail like shadows. Another way could be a way to import a current historical modded park into the 3D park construction kit so we could make the changes. Anyway, those are my thoughts about the current OOTP situation.
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I've never played PT and I never will, but I'm glad it's there. Doesn't PT use the same 3d engine to watch their games? If so, wouldn't they also get the rewards of the 3d improvements? If your answer is "nobody actually watches their PT games" that's fine. But wouldn't that mean that the 3d improvements we get every year are a waste of time for a developer that doesn't care? Why do them at all?
They put a ton of effort into historical games over the last two versions. At least the impression I get from posts by historical players the game improved
a lot in that time. The added pBABIP and expanded the whole underlying rating scale to improve historical play. Historical is not the redheaded step child.
Where do you get a license for Metropolitan Stadium that was the home of the Twins in the 60's and 70's, or the dollars to pay for it? For any historical stadiums? What is the cost, how do they recoup the cost? A modder distributing stadiums for free doesn't need a license. A game development company can't just grab whatever it wants and put it into a game. A lesson users here should be well aware of, but seem to forget rather easily.
People act as if all of this coding is done in a vacuum. If PT wasn't there all of those dollars and coding time could have done x,y, and z. When in fact if PT wasn't there those dollars wouldn't exist. This shouldn't be hard to understand. As someone that has played the game every year since v4, in that time saw ecah new version come out? The game progress from v7 to v8, pre PT, is on par with the progress seen from v24 to v25. Push come to shove the game improves more now version to version than it did pre PT.
I know, but... but... but...
There's a whole list of buts and there always will be. Check out the suggestion thread or the nice list in this thread
https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=360412
PT dollars will do more to make those things happen than an OOTP company that doesn't have PT. It is what it is.