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Originally Posted by Charlie Hough
I can tell from some of what you're claiming that you probably don't have enough familiarity with the game to understand how it works, how scouting works, and how to use the right settings to get the results you want. You definitely don't know how the game's finances work and how the AI makes transaction decisions accordingly, otherwise you could have already made some adjustments to teams or settings to fix some of the issues you're having.
If you want to have a mature conversion and talk about specific issues you're having, so you can get advice on how to get the experience you want, then feel free to do that. Otherwise, you're wasting your time with rants.
The developers have focused almost entirely on the management aspects of the game for years. Very little has changed with the 3D graphics for several versions, and for most of this game's history, there were no 3D graphics at all. I have no idea where you're getting this notion that there is a focus on graphics at the expense of the rest of the game. That simply isn't true. So maybe try learning more about the sim and do something constructive before trying to blame your experiences on graphics.
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Maybe some players would rather spend more time playing in their league rather than the endless setting up of their league, testing their league, and setting house rules for their league.
I have played this series for over two decades. I do know what I am doing.
And this series still has so many half-baked features and poor AI that has to be covered up
I have given constructive and detailed criticism for almost 5 years now and for the most part, it has been warmly accepted
But the sycophants do come out from time to time and they cannot endure to hear any criticism of the series.
They would rather blame it on the user or explain how if this and this and this is not checked off then of course there will be a problem.
How about an out-of-the-box product that just works?
I have been doing this for a long time. And the hours spent customizing a baseball universe is awesome.
But it has also become a bandaid to cover up a lot of lazy development, poor pre-release testing, and milking the power users of PT for every dime they can get.
So many times have I set up a complex league only to have it fall apart because no one in resting thought to test how leagues look in 5-10-20 seasons.
Or worse yet, they bring it up and are ignored.
Or even just a simple quick start can go wrong due to poor development and a lack of testing.
So feel free to tell me I don't know what I am doing or don't understand how the game works.
I am just one user and I don't spend any money on PT do I doubt they care. But I have been playing since version 5.
I will give OOTP 25 a chance. If I do not see a significant improvement.
Then I feel like it will finally be time for me to move on.
I am not intending this to be one of those "look at me" types of posts or "if I don't get my way I am leaving"
I want this series to succeed and become a better GM simulation.
I would like nothing better.
My criticisms are more out of frustration than anger at this point.
The anger comes from users who excuse lazy development practices by letting them get away with the least improvement possible and then shout down anyone who does not feel like each release is mana from heaven.