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Originally Posted by mytreds
Bingo. Instead of catering to the few, reliable, faithful fanatics, a company that turns its focus to graphics and gambling mechanics (PT) is catering to the masses. See under “EA Madden” for an example of how that turns out.
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Record sales?
The trouble with Madden, to my eye, is they removed franchise features instead of keeping what they had as they upgraded graphics and added MUT. Unlike OOTP that has made small changes to front office, continued to add more stats yearly, while at the same time making big changes graphically, and doing a lot of under the hood changes to other modules in the game. I haven't loved what Madden has done, but OOTP is not Madden.
I don't see graphics being anything like gambling mechanics. PT is an on going money generator over the life of the product. Graphics are paid for with a simple purchase of the game, not a perpetual money generator. Apples and oranges.
Yeah OOTP has generated money with PT, Madden with MUT, and FM joins the
money grab requiring those that want to play their mobile version to have Neflix. Which one of those can you play for free, if you so choose?
One can be a reliable, faithful fanatic about OOTP, and have graphics higher on their wish list than a deeper front office. It's not one or the other. For some of us that manage every game the on field, graphics are as, or maybe more, important than expanding the front office side of the game. As a "front office" user sees graphics as "eye candy" a "on field manager" can see "FM like financials/front office experience" as mind numbing stuff that would be handed off to a front office AI staff. Having said that, if Markus decided for v25 it was time to slow down on graphics and make a huge upgrade to the front office, you wouldn't hear a complaint out of me. I'd take it and find something in it that made the game better for me. I've always been fine with how he's steered the ship.