Keep in mind the new, potential audience. What we, as existing customers, see is a lot different than the 'guy just thinking about getting into a baseball game.' OOTP, for some time has marketed to the existing clientle and additions and strides forward have almost become expected and often evolve step-by-step and the impact can be diminished.
Okay, here's what I'm saying. When I first started looking for a PC Baseball game, I had a lot of trouble finding one that said "Conduct your own fantasy draft! You choose who plays for you and in what position!" Really. It just wasn't out there for me until I found a copy of Season Ticket Baseball and saw that I wasn't just stuck with a pre-set team or a pre-set roster that I could make trades with later and change. The 'fictional' aspect of it grabbed me right away. To think now that the game ships with a Lahman database, I would have then seen, "Conduct your own fantasy draft from today's modern players!"
These are simple things, along with its customization, that the game has had all along, but just hasn't HAD to market because we all sort of . . . grew up with it in OOTP, but a casual game shopper doesn't see the possibilities unless we magnify what we already do but now kind of take for granted. They're not any less "back-of-the-box" features, they just haven't been portrayed in that light.
All right, no essay. Just writing aloud a little again. There's a lot to be said for this game and some it just needs said the first time, the right way, to the right people.
