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For those of you who keep apologizing/defending Markus, et al:
ITP was never advertised as a "pet project" or a "science experiment" or "an add-on to OOTP" or "ahhh...just somethin' we thought we'd throw out there to make some extra gas money," or any of those other cop-out descriptions with which you label it in order to rationalize the disappointing support shown by the company. It was advertised as a game in itself, as the "first role-playing sports game," in fact, and that's why I bought it. And, by the way, just because it "only" cost 20 bucks doesn't give the company carte blanche to make omissions as egregious as forgetting a damn manual. I know at some point I (and others) have asked what in the world good it does to "pitch inside" vs. "pitch outside," or if a pitcher can actually gain ability by picking just the right workout, etc....things like that...and nobody seems to know the answer, or if they do, care to give it, or, what one might expect if a game's programmers just up and "forgot" a manual, they know that there is no answer, that these features touted do nothing at all, but just don't care. Sorry, but I just can't shake the sense of phone-it-in cynicism that, to me, hangs over ITP.
I'd say the game is pretty good, yes, and wouldn't be upset if I hadn't been offered anything above and beyond its true value.
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