spitfire wrote:Putting a mod together is a ton of work. And obviously everyone is going to have their own opinion on ratings, attributes etc. Personally I think everyone who takes a shot at putting together a mod is doing the community a favour and has earned our thanks, whatever I might think of the results. If the mod in question doesn't do it for you, why not try taking on the project yourself and putting together an historical mod? I'm sure everyone would enjoy seeing the results.
Or the dev team can actually put in a little work in doing this themselves. I'm sure everyone would enjoy that even more, if you want to play that game.
I don't mean to sound crass, but they put in the ability to play with historical rosters, but randomize it and leave it up to the community to fix it? It doesn't really sound fair when you're charging people $40 for a football simulation. When it comes to TEAM mods, I get it. Putting real-life teams, colors, logos, and other stuff can't be done because of rights issues... but when it comes to stats and semi-accurate ratings, it should be expected for the developer to do the work. It shouldn't be up to the customer to put in hours upon hours upon hours upon hours in improving the little things that the people charging them to play their game should be doing. Even when it comes to the bare-minimum things like accurate salary caps and contract values, they just set it at a default $100M (a full $100M less than the actual value) and a maximum of $10M per contract and leave it up to us to do the rest.
They give everyone a demo, but only a week to try it out which isn't nearly long enough to fully try it out in its entirety. I've had to play this game AND the college football game for over a month now before I've started to realize just how empty and lifeless the games are. I've tried my best to give them a chance because this type of niche in sports games is dearly needed, but now I'm starting to understand the complaints from people on OOTP's forums about them.
I've been visiting OOTP's forums waiting on the news when the new Front Office Football will be released and Gary was constantly pimping these games out up there, so after a while -- and despite my original skepticism -- I decided to try them out. Played the demo first and it seemed decent and -- again, despite my original skepticism -- decided to buy the full version hoping it would offer a little more than the demo did. But it doesn't.
It's extremely misleading, to say the very least and genuinely feels like the devs are trying to trick people. Which is infuriating because I bought into what was being touted as a deep simulation, but I guess that's my fault for buying it.