[One Post Wonder]

Marcus or someone else from OOTP was quoted on Steam as saying,

OOTP says most of its users base starts a new save each year with their favorite team. That is the most common play through. Then its Perfect team. With online, historical and fictional falling way way to the rear. Those 3 are in the super minority.

So 5 categories. Do the people in those last 3 categories sound like the same people who would spill over into the first 2?

That 'most common playthrough' sounds exactly like the type of person who would play FM touch over the standard FM. That's the demographic which OOTP is focusing on at this point. That wooing has clearly come at the expense of the last 3 categories and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

We don't currently have 2 separate games. We've got half a game in PT and 1.5 games in OOTP. PT would need an OOTP lite to go with it, to appeal to players who just want to get a few seasons in with the 2019 Yankees or something.

If you have two separate games, each team will have a distinct market and they can tailor each game for them. Then some of those suggestions you see in the big thread just below this one will actually make it into OOTP 21. Perhaps coaching and minor league managing would even get fixed. And with game #2, they could make the product as streamlined and modern as they want to appeal to the broader market. All of that isn't so much about the coders as about the designers.

As is, I'm betting that OOTP21 will be more 'accessible' and have a broader PT game and will attract more new players, but not offer any more to traditional players than OOTP 20 did. I'm concerned the traditional game will atrophy over time without a split.