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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
I’m really curious what you think is impeded by the lack of baseball being played. Are you talking about rosters? There are people who work on that but that’s a really, really small amount of resources required to spin up. Adding animations has nothing to do with the season. Neither does working on the UI or adding in new features or… pretty much anything else. Am I missing something here?
If anything if it’s like 2020 at all then sites like Baseball Reference may use OOTP to simulate the season that’s not being played, which will give them free advertising, which will in turn give them a huge incentive to push out 23 before Opening Day, perversely especially if Opening Day is pushed back.
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I think the issue would be if there are major changes in the CBA. OOTP tries to replicate the real life roster rules. If those rules change, the game would have to change.
On the other hand, not to speak for the developers, but I think there is a simple solution to this. Release the game and then release a patch later with the updated roster rules. Then, like you said, you get the publicity during the lockout, and you get to have any news rules too.