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Originally Posted by f.montoya
I'm first!  |
And now my serious reply...
I'm not going to add to any hype but I will give you a little bit of a behind the scenes picture of what's been going on.
RonCo has been hammering Markus since November with charts showing where aspects of OOTP 2007 needed to match up better with RL MLB.
jarmenia jumped on performance issues and has Markus' ear, as this area is looking...well you can guess.
Battists has been organizing us into groups that have to focus testing on one specific area of the game and this has made for a different and extremely well organized beta this year.
Comedian2004 has provided comic relief along with his bug posts which has been proving a good combo in getting Markus' attention in a timely manner.
Last year, every beta tester was basically jumping "into the deep end", so to speak because we were testing a whole new monster. This year Markus has tamed the monster and most, if not all, of the beta testers already have a relationship with the monster's mother, OOTP 2006. This has resulted in much more focused, defined testing that was impossible last year. One example being the data dumps, where they weren't even functioning until late in beta testing last year. This year, RonCo and others have had the luxury of the data dumps from the get-go, enabling testers to find needles in a haystack with regard to aging, development, stat output, etc., and this is giving Markus headaches.
But good headaches, that will turn into a product I dare you not to buy.
That's it for my rambling. I held out and did not convert my 6.5 online league and I'm taking the conservative road again this year but...well you never know.
