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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn
*lol* ... If OOTP would generate half the sales of FM (which are over 1 million copies per year), then I would drive a Porsche and a Ferrari, have several flats in sunny countires and would employ 10 programmers and 5 graphic designer who'd do my job  |
Amen, bro . . . .
The major difference between FM and OOTP is that FM details a game that is much, MUCH more popular worldwide.
The other difference of significance is that FM is, and always has been, a game that attempted to simulate the action of a soccer game. OOTP began life as a text and strat sim. It is a matter of no small significance that baseball actually has very little action in it, for the amount of time you spend watching, while soccer is nothing BUT action and motion. That makes modeling the two games very different.
FM 2010 is a terrific game. It does everything well -- on-field action, financials, contracts, and transfers, even player mentality and personality. I have taken my Bath team all the way from from the lowest depths of league play -- the Blue Square North League -- all the way to the Championship League (that's just one step below the Premiership, for you non-soccer fans). But now I'm stuck, because my board won't build a new stadium, and without more ticket revenues I can't sign the stars I would need to get into the Premiership.
I have to try to hang in there until perhaps they change their mind. I hear it does happen.