|
||||
|
|
Perfect Team Perfect Team 2.0 - The online revolution continues! Battle thousands of PT managers from all over the world and become a legend. |
|
Thread Tools |
11-06-2019, 02:40 PM | #1 |
Minors (Rookie Ball)
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: The D
Posts: 37
|
Loving Perfect Team - But I Have a Dumb Question About Card Designs
Actually, this has probably been discussed by others but I didn't see anything so I figured I would ask.
How hard would it be to use actual card designs on the older cards, is it a licensing issue with Topps? Seems like there has to be some way to take advantage of the old card designs we know and love, and more importantly at least have a face on the historical cards to add some realism. Maybe there is a mod for that? Sorry if this topic has been beat to death, I'm new so have mercy on me. |
11-06-2019, 02:47 PM | #2 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Germany
Posts: 11,903
|
OOTPD can licence the likenesses of the current MLB players through MLB / the MLBPA. There is no body that issues a licence to the likenesses of players that died 50 years ago.
Topps et al. have probably trademarked and copyrighted their designs so you'd ask for legal trouble and / or another huge licence bill to get that one too for no greater good.
__________________
Portland Raccoons, 83 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 * 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA | RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here. |
11-06-2019, 03:10 PM | #3 | |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Pack Robert Gibson; November 9, 1935 – October 2, 2020
Posts: 2,339
|
Quote:
That would be fantastic and I thought about it too but it's gotta be licensing.
__________________
|
|
11-06-2019, 03:15 PM | #4 |
Minors (Rookie Ball)
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: The D
Posts: 37
|
I wonder if Topps would see it as a marketing opportunity, rather than just trying to gouge for licensing fees from OOTP.
Because it would be really cool when I pull a 1984 Chet Lemon for it to actually look like the 1984 Topps Chet Lemon...game changer right there. |
11-06-2019, 03:27 PM | #5 |
Minors (Triple A)
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 285
|
Isn't there a way to allow for players to develop their own "mod packs" to avoid licensing issues ?
|
11-06-2019, 07:23 PM | #6 |
All Star Reserve
|
I wouldn't hold your breath or trust Topps' judgement. You're talking about a company that still thinks they have a working business model, even after all this time.
|
11-06-2019, 07:53 PM | #7 |
All Star Starter
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: Wichita Falls, TX
Posts: 1,328
|
There's also the possibility that an agreement with Topps, et al, may not be enough. The agreement between Topps and the players would have covered their cards but might not cover secondary usages, such as replicating those cards in the game.
Random analogy, but if this scenario were true, it would probably be similar to how DVD releases of Muppet Family Christmas are missing 3 songs that had to be cut entirely because the agreements with the writers/arrangers of those songs only covered the initial television broadcasts.
__________________
"And, Masters, do not forget to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an [censored]." (Much Ado About Nothing 5.1.255-256) Primary Team Collection Rewards (Cards & Packs) F2P Theme Team Movers F2P Theme and Adam Schlesinger Memorial Team |
11-08-2019, 12:30 PM | #8 |
Minors (Rookie Ball)
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: The D
Posts: 37
|
Someone pointed out to me that MLB Show has Dynasty cards (similar to PT I guess, haven't played so not sure) and they have Topps branding/licensing, so I'm not sure what the reason is now.
|
11-08-2019, 12:32 PM | #9 |
OOTP Developments
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Miramichi, NB, Canada
Posts: 1,021
|
We do not have the license to use reproductions of cards or use players faces other than the live MLB players we have currently. Licensing for baseball cards is not something we are currently exploring.
For those people mentioning Topps, they are officially licensed to another baseball game.
__________________
Out of the Park Baseball 22 is available NOW! Webstore - https://ootpdevelopments.onfastspring.com/games/ Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...k_Baseball_22/ Last edited by Kris Jardine; 11-08-2019 at 12:34 PM. |
11-08-2019, 04:14 PM | #10 |
Minors (Rookie Ball)
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: The D
Posts: 37
|
Thank you for that clarification. This game is awesome regardless, so thanks for all of your hard work!
|
11-09-2019, 09:25 AM | #11 | |
All Star Reserve
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Chicagoland
Posts: 702
|
Quote:
But I doubt there are many offers tendered, these days. |
|
Bookmarks |
|
|