[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by Sweed

MLB is still the dominant driving force that sells the game and I'll stand by that statement. But if you only read these forums you might come away with a different point of view. Look at the post Habfan linked and it shows ~55% playing fictional and as Markus told us that's not true when it comes to all users. That's a hell of a difference!

There have been many over the years that have threatened to never buy the game again if their feature didn't make it into OOTP. No women? Then I'll take my money and go home! No relegation? I'm being ignored I'm never buying again! etc. etc.

Nowhere have I said 1/4 of users, fictional players, should be ignored. Nowhere have I said 1/3 of users, historical and fictional players, should be ignored. And thankfully with Markus at the helm they are not being left out. But can we please quit playing the "fictional players are being ignored even though they are in the majority of users" game? When it's simply not true.

I'm certainly not, and I don't think anyone else is, saying fictional\historical play should be ignored. But just maybe we can have a little more understanding about why Markus makes the decisions he does about what is high on the to do list and what is not.

Now IF Markus was forced to make an either or decision, MLB or fictional, than I think it's obvious what that choice would be. 1/3 may be a sizable number but 2/3 dwarfs it and there would only be an MLB game. Lets be glad that's not the case and we can all have the game we want within the limitations of coding time, and how many users might use any feature that is added.

Amen. Fictional play is a badly outnumbered minority, and not a majority.