OOTP and Perception

[tward13]

Can't he get on one of the MLB TV shows that focuses on fantasy games? A segment on another way of managing baseball? And yes, the fact that he's not American or from a big baseball country would be a quirky draw.

[RBPD5015]

Markus,

Come work out of my office in Jupiter, FL during spring training

Matt

[mirrf]

Originally Posted by mirrf

Delegate! You're the head honcho and can take a vacation anytime you want.

Originally Posted by The Wolf

Those two facts are theoretically true but in practice are mutually exclusive unless you are a hands-off owner. If you're hands-on, you work crunch time and take off, subject to immediate recall, during slack times. But crunch time always means all hands on deck.

Yea, it depends.

If he's still coding, then yea, he has to be there. But I wouldn't think there are any substantial design decisions going in at this point. The feature list, the look and feel of the UI, ect have all been set. And he probably is the guy who decides which bugs are "shippable" and which are "needs to be fixed before shipped".

I would think the higher level stuff like, getting the game on steam, marketing, ect would be eating time as well.

But this is all speculation, I have no idea how his company is run.

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by kq76

I agree 100%. I think Markus just going to Spring Training with a small posse spreading the OOTP gospel would be a great boon to the game. I've never met him in person, but he's pretty photogenic and comes off, at least online, as a quirky guy. I have to imagine that a number of Spring Training goers would get a real kick out of meeting the German guy who made the greatest baseball game ever.

And Spring Training is a great place to do it as you could hit a number of parks in a short period of time at a fair price. Of course, you'd have to leave people at home to work on the game in crunch, but it'd be a huge opportunity.

Well, whoever meets me would have to have plenty of beer and booze with that crazy German software developer

[rjl518]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Well, whoever meets me would have to have plenty of beer and booze with that crazy German software developer

Man!
I am so THERE!

[PhillieFever]

Originally Posted by tejdog1

I will say that it must absolutely suck to be a baseball fan in Europe. I'm not sure if baseball coverage has gotten any better since the last time I was in London (2006), but if it hasn't... yeesh.

I'm a huge fan of European football(soccer) so I absolutely get the frustration of not being able to see the game live. Sure we have MLS here, and its great, but its certainly no substitute for a big European match.