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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
I went there to check if that really was a current selling point sheet on the Diamond Mind web site. Really? Adding player nicknames is new and big? Selling a game in 2016 and they just added 2013 historical data? Pretty sad.
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That's a long story. Let's just say that DMB hasn't been regularly updated since Tippett sold it and went to work for the Red Sox. The underlying engine, which was absolutely the best in the business at the time (and is still right up there) hasn't been updated since, although there have been some cosmetic (like nicknames) and play by play improvements (for example, the nicknames are in the play by play). Season releases are separate from the changes to the main program, and they are continuing to do those.
Eventually, other games had to start catching up to the underlying DMB engine, which is close to a decade old now. OOTP may be the best example of a game which is being continuously improved. The statistical output is accurate, the play by play improves every year, and playing out a game just feels much more like baseball than it did even three years ago. My opinion three years ago was that OOTP was the world's best baseball simulation except for actually playing the games. Now I don't think I need the qualifier.