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Originally Posted by Solty
This is a game that will eventually be great, but is currently a rushed, incomplete, mismanaged beta version of that ideal. All of the messageboard monitoring in the world is not going to change that, though don't get me wrong; I commend Mark, Markus, and especially Battists for that much.
This has been mentioned in several threads, but needs to be fixed. The 40 man rosters and waivers are not working correctly. After a player clears waivers you ought to be able to do the following, but you cannot:
1). Demote him from the active roster to the minor leagues (assuming he accepts that assignment if he has the right to refuse).
2). Remove a player from the 40 man roster, *even* if he has a major league contract.
These are two basic things that were correct in OOTP6.5, and are now not working.
Don't give us this garbage about "we'll determine later if there needs to be a patch 1.0.3." I ordered a complete game almost 2 years ago from you guys, and after that long a wait I get a beta version, which apparently was on sale just a month ago for less than I paid. The bugs that are still in the game need to be fixed. Period. I have a Computer Science degree, and unless you wrote absolutely garbage code the vast majority of them are 1 hour of work to fix or less. These are relatively easy to fix errors that should have been handled when there was still snow on the ground.
I think Markus and Co. wrote a brilliant game beginning many years ago. If this game was called OOTP7.5, carrying with it all that implies, I would have been thrilled. If the pattern going forward for SI games is: "Release an unfinished, un-tested baseball game in June, man the messageboards while delivering a few hurried patches, and then go on vacation before moving on to Hockey season/the 2007 version of the game" then I don't see how you can expect your loyal fans to remain that way.
Again, I would like to emphasize that I believe that Markus and company wrote a whole lot of great code. But even brilliant programmers need management that can support them. Even the greatest beta games need to be tested. And baseball games need to be delivered complete by Opening Day or not at all. That's just good business, symptomatic of a company in whose products we should all be investing next season.
I understand that as a company you made an investment, and that you needed a return on that investment. Well you made a poor investment (in the short term), and so did we. I'm not saying this because the cost of the game will break any of us. I'm not saying the game isn't playable or even fun. I say this because noone should stand for business practices like this when something we all like so much is at stake. I say this because you can do better as a business, and I hope you do so before we switch to another game...or write our own.
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I'm in agreement here. No point in being nasty about these issues (not saying the poster above is)- but this game to me has literally DOZENS of AI isssues alone that keep it from being fun for me. I'm happy for all of you out there who are satisified.
I promise to not go into detail here- but one thing I don't understand- that seems like such a glaring oversight that I ask myself if it wasn't intentional (and is largely indicative of several AI issues that were surely clearly identified before release):
WHY, WHY, WHY!!!!!!!!!! does the game allow the computer off the hook on mega-million dollar contracts? What I mean is- if it is stupid enough to sign a 40 year old Mike Piazza to a 5 year 60 million dollar deal- it should at least have to live with that decision. In this particular case- the Padres released him 4 months later without ever playing a game (and without being saddled with his ridiculous contract). None of this makes sense- particularly in light of the fact that a human manager is ALWAYS on the hook fo a player's contract (as it should be). I am not going to mince words here: That these type of AI issues exist in OOTP's current state (2 year release- 3 patches later)- is absolutely appalling- and I, frankly, question whether there is any desire to remedy them at all.
I've always loved this series- but I am bitterly disappointed in this year's iteration if this is "all there is".....