OOTP 8 released!

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by Elendil

Is there a list of bug fixes included in OOTP 8? I'm a beta tester and I don't know.

That would be two of us.

[Russ]

I don't understand how they can take the game and retitle it and release it, but they can't release just a patch. So on that note, I'll make my exit.

[Tony M]

Originally Posted by Russ

I don't understand how they can take the game and retitle it and release it, but they can't release just a patch. So on that note, I'll make my exit.

Not being a lawyer, I'd guess that the IP rights remained with Markus but the publishing rights were with SI/Sega, thus when split, the code stayed Markus's but he had no lien on the already published product.

[Russ]

Originally Posted by redsoxford

Not being a lawyer, I'd guess that the IP rights remained with Markus but the publishing rights were with SI/Sega, thus when split, the code stayed Markus's but he had no lien on the already published product.

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Thanks bud.

[pseudofool]

Does the Roster have full minors with draft picks from previous year?

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by pseudofool

Does the Roster have full minors with draft picks from previous year?

Rosters have the 2006 picks. The set does not have the 2007 June draft picks. This set starts six months before the draft.

[pseudofool]

Originally Posted by Raidergoo

Rosters have the 2006 picks. The set does not have the 2007 June draft picks. This set starts six months before the draft.

Thanks for the reply. So it's a 2007 roster set? So the start date is 1/1/2007?

[Bonedwarf]

Originally Posted by Elendil

Is there a list of bug fixes included in OOTP 8? I'm a beta tester and I don't know.

Oh now that gives me confidence in the beta testing program...

[magnet]

Originally Posted by Raidergoo

It'd be grounds for a lawsuit.

What is wrong with my solution?

Originally Posted by magnet

Simple. OOTP 2007 users get OOTP 8 for free (the patch), OOTP 8.5 is the patch + new features and costs money. Problem solved.

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by pseudofool

Thanks for the reply. So it's a 2007 roster set? So the start date is 1/1/2007?

It is a 2007 roster set. It starts on Jan 2nd. It plays pretty close to what played out in 2007. I played it about 30 times or so. The usual suspects win their divisions most of the time. Tampa has a nasty habit of becoming a mini-dynasty by the end of the decade.

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by magnet

What is wrong with my solution?

Markus goes out of business.

[magnet]

Originally Posted by Raidergoo

Markus goes out of business.

Really? I find that hard to believe. Enough people would pony up the coin for new features, I'd think.

[avwjase]

Here's my question and I hope one of the beta testers close to Markus could ask him this and get a straight answer. If I buy OOTP 8 will it be a stand alone game or will it require OOTP 2007 like OOTP 6.5 required OOTP 6? I own OOTP 2007 with two licenses... would I get an additional two licenses for OOTP 8, then? How does that work for those who upgrade?

[treedom]

It's a standalone game and you get a separate licence.

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by avwjase

Here's my question and I hope one of the beta testers close to Markus could ask him this and get a straight answer. If I buy OOTP 8 will it be a stand alone game or will it require OOTP 2007 like OOTP 6.5 required OOTP 6? I own OOTP 2007 with two licenses... would I get an additional two licenses for OOTP 8, then? How does that work for those who upgrade?

You get two new licenses. The games use a different installation path, and both can be run on the same PC. OOTP 8 does not require OOTP 2007.

How does it work for the upgrade? That's a mystery to this point.

[Matter2003]

Originally Posted by Andreas Raht

"SION" is not only the graphics, it's in the text everywhere and in the code. We'll use another name in OOTP9 I guess. But I really absolutely don't understand why you bother about that abbreviation of a fictional "online network"?! It's called SION in OOTP8 because we wanted to fix some bugs instead of doing cosmetical stuff. I hope that's okay for you

Perhaps you should have set it to a static variable so only one variable would have had to been changed instead of numerous lines of code...That kind of stuff always seems to come back and bite you in the butt at some point

[battists]

Here's some cato converter information!

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar....php?p=2367243

[Mike D]

Originally Posted by magnet

Really? I find that hard to believe. Enough people would pony up the coin for new features, I'd think.

OOTP 8 is a separate game. If they were to issue licenses to each person who has OOTP 2007, Steve has already said they would lose money on each license. Steve has also said that releasing it for $5.99 or whatever the coupon will make it is the lowest they can offer it for and not lose money. If, for example, they lose $5.00 for every license and for example, 10,000 copies, they would lose $50,000 dollars. Now, they need to sell almost 3,400 hundred copies of "OOTP 8.5" just to break even with those 10,000. Is that really a smart business move?

[magnet]

Originally Posted by Mike D

Is that really a smart business move?

Depends how many people are turned off from OOTP 9 because of this, I guess.

[Kaitiaki]

Originally Posted by avwjase

How does that work for those who upgrade?

Raider answered your license questions. I'm not quite sure what you mean by that last sentence, but assuming you're asking about moving an OOTP2007 league to OOTP8, all you do is copy/paste your .lg folder from the OOTP2007 \saved_games folder to the OOTP8 one.

- Kai