[Giants44]

You would be hard pressed to find a bigger fan of OOTP then myself and like I have said before I can't think of another product that I buy that I get my moneys worth as much as OOTP.

and I have certainly not been a big MD fan in the past, I don’t understand anyone (and they are all over the internet) that feels thier post count, time with a board, etc bestows them with the right to insult, berate, name call, etc.

However I do agree for the most part with this letter (especially the part about the message board problems and lingering bugs) - for whatever reason, whether it was ITP, the .400 fiasco, this new deal with SI, the move to London, a larger customer base - for whatever reason the OOTP team seems less responsive to the community as a whole then they were in years past.

Perhaps that is just the nature of the beast with a more mature product, but I find the general attentiveness to customers and details down from the past.

Having said however, it must be said that this level of attentiveness is relative to the achievements of the past which were quite high. We were spoiled my Markus and the gang in the past and even today this level is far higher then you would ever get from a company like EA or Microsoft.

I can also sympathize with the fact that it seems virtually impossible to get an consensus on an issue these days – for every issue raised there are usually a great deal of posts both for and against – I can see how it would be very difficult to decide what exactly it is we as a community want. And completely impossible to please everyone.

In closing – hopefully something can be done about the board problems, we can see a new patch soon and once the dust settles from the merge and move we will see a return to previous levels of communication and updates.