International leagues in OOTP 24

[Markus Heinsohn]

Dear OOTP Fans,

you probably all remember the controversy about a pro league removal from OOTP a few weeks ago. This was a very hard time for us as a team and also for me personally. But unfortunately, for legal reasons, it was a necessary step. Now, in order to minimize any risk of something similar happening ever again, we have decided to remove all non-licensed international leagues containing real data from OOTP 24.

This means, OOTP 24 will only include the MLB, MiLB, US Indy Leagues and the KBO as options when you choose to start a new standard game. Existing saved games that you import from OOTP 23 are not altered and fictional international leagues are still available, though.

I know for some users this is not good news right now, but we continue to try to secure the official licenses of pro leagues around the world and I am certain our modding community will come up with international league templates / quickstarts that will work at least as well as those we used to ship the game with.

Markus & the entire OOTP Team