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Originally Posted by HonusWagner
I appreciate the opinions of the not-fan-bots that have posted here.
OOTP: you want to play in the bigs? Take the hits. That's my advice. Fan-bots will spoil ya, the John Henry's notwithstanding....
Look- I know a few thing about software. So, this is a very marginal, extremely marginal field - text-driven baseball sims. I get it. And you really utilize the freeware available (hence the decision to pursue, of all things, 3D graphics for a text-based sim.... *smh* :-) ).
Whokay. Were this the late 80s then adding a 3D engine to a text-driven sim might seem cool. It isnt though. So now if feels like silly. Have you seen your competitors in graphics?
Look, from a gamer's experience in an extremely niche field, you may feel like superheros. I understand that. But look at it from a simple software perspective. And by the way: if John Henry's financial software or online racing sim software ran like this you'd never hear of him.
And that is my point. There are things here that are fundamentally busted. And I feel like I am talking about a friends "special needs" brother who seems to put out the effort on the job site but... just isn't getting it.
In short, I agree with a post above: I think you've taken this series as far as you can. I'll add to that and suggest you aren't actually programmers. Maybe that's what Henry was alluding to. That you were able to make this without programming backgrounds. You are pouring more time into configuring freeware software than doing something about the game basics. To me, that is a major clue. 3D graphics is freeware. Fixing how stats windows are sorted and those types of bugs and issues is 101 programming.
Re "special needs" comment - take it for what it's worth. Were I to load this sw up for spreadsheets or db etc I would howl fraud. Not trying to be mean. But there are so many things busted and bent.
And I say this without having purchased 20. I did buy 19 though. And after a few weeks or so I gave it up.
No doubt though, you are the best of class. I don't doubt that. I only write this due to the money spent so far. But more than that, the many hours spent, trying to get something to work that was, and remains (I'll bet) broken out of the box.
Best of luck.
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You’re using a derogatory ‘special needs person’ analogy to describe your discontent for this game? Wow.
Also if you feel this way towards OOTP, why are you even on these forums? Just to simply be a troll. I don’t get it. I could see if you were trying to make the game better for future releases or like be aspects of it and it leaves you disappointed. But just to come on here and toss insults around to people that work their arse off on the game every year just doesn’t make any sense.
I’m not one to respond to trolls often on forums, as they are everywhere and easy to ignore. But you sir are indeed a special breed.