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Originally Posted by Cole
Key points to keep in mind...
Harsh, but likely true, from a purely sales/numbers perspective. Here's the thing though - people can't look at it like OOTPD is TRYING to get rid of/replace the MP community. That's simply not the case. I can guarantee all the devs want MP in the game and I can also almost guarantee it will be in the game at some point, whether that's initial release, a future patch or a future version.
I feel like people who get angered by these types of things have it in their head that developers are choosing superfluous details/additions ahead of adding MP like "hmm we could add MP now but let's go with 3d end zone logos instead!" This is not the case.
As Andreas has made clear and as I have seen in the past when working for OOTPD, ensuring a stable, workable game is always the key priority before any "extras" are added outside the main feature set. As you can imagine with a combining of these two franchises there are probably more kinks to iron out than say a normal FOF or OOTPD realease.
What good is the addition of MP if the game is buggy or unstable?
I was the PR/marketing director for Franchise Hockey Manager for a while and that game experienced the same thing - online wasnt able to be included right away because developer resources needed to be focused on stability and the core of the game. It was certainly not optimal and there was a lot of grumbling but it worked out for the best in the long run.
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As we have said before if we have to wait for a good while for a MP version there might not be a MP community left to play it, leagues are not full and it gets harder each day to find people to fill the empty teams mainly due to people not liking FOF8. I would also guess without the ability to covert FOF8 to FOF9 some leagues will stay with FOF8 anyway because of the many years of history that would be lost.
I don't feel the MP community thinks that MP will be replaced by flashy end zone logo's, we probably think the game is being pushed out without it (if that happens) so OoTP get sales quickly. Jim cared about us when he was Solesismic, i quite understand now that the decision makers at OoTP probably care about making money!
As for you saying what is the point of making a game that is buggy or unstable, just delay the release and please get MP in correctly, I doubt the game will be out before Christmas so it's not like huge sales will be lost by a delay of a month or so.
As for Hockey Manager i guess there was no MP community prior to the game release unlike with FOF, so if that is correct your point is irrelevant I am afraid!