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I haven't bought this years version for a few reasons...economy, new baby, wife taking away my credit cards, not that much free time, but I will eventually!
I've bought for quite a few years in a row until now, but...
Here's my problem, every year I buy and dabble, and spend much more time fine-tuning my league parameters, creating uniforms, getting add-ons, stadiums, etc. There is just so much **** to play with I hardly spend time playing the game, itself!
I feel that I just keep buying it every year, because I want to support something I wish existed when I was a kid and had the time to play it! I love OOTP and hope it prospers.
But with a family, work, coaching sports, there is precious little time left for pursuits like this. What computer time I do get, (outside of work) is spent playing football manager, (which isn't much).
Fantasy baseball works because people can log in at work - that's much harder to do with OOTP - most bosses would be less than enthused with an employee installing something on the work computer, like OOTP.
I think you need to continue working on/with the ultra-geeks. The sabrematric crowd, these are the people that really 'get it'. The whole potential behind the program.
I keep coming back to these forums becasue of some really interesting discussions on them about sabrematrics.
could you not partner up with some of these sites, and incorporate a copy of OOTP into their membership fees?
The more you get that community talking about OOTP, the more the mainstream guys will try it, in time.
Of course, this means you'll have to try to incorporate as many of the new sabrematric 'models' that come out explaining the real game - into OOTP. As you already seem to do.
I think the ultra geeks are your core audience - and you should pander to them - and in time (just like they did with real baseball) they'll drag the mainstream fans into OOTP.
thats my two cents
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