Posted by d_rock97 on 8/25/2016 1:34:00 AM (view original):
Posted by DoctorKz on 8/24/2016 10:59:00 PM (view original):
Many are still here on the site. Some have moved over to HD. Others just don't play as much as before. It got boring for some, with years of no updates. Some have given it up. This game doesn't provide anything close in revenue like before. We are the JV team...
Well like, what type of updates would this site need? And also, when did FOX buy this website. I haven't seen one advertisement?
As has been said, a big reason WIS gave us for the dearth of updates since about 2007 is that they need to change languages a/o database structures, a/o... something. If I recall correctly, some brief time after Fox bought the site, they did a major update, but then they got rid of some of their changes, because it made the games too complex/slow.
Actually, market priced salaries is a great change, though I can see how those who (wear conical paper hats and sit in corners to ;-) play only high-cap teams with big name players don't like it. I have no tears for them.
One change they did make "late" (or is it
early? -- around 2006 or '7, I'd guess) was to artificially bump batting "by 10%," whatever that means. That was fairly infuriating then and is causing more pain now, since the market-based salaries, because it's more costly to put out a good pitching team. It's really showing up now in OL's and lots of Themes, as it always has in progressives.. They need to reverse that lame change.
Other sim-important updates they should do have been requested in their old forum for it. They include modifying algorithms so that the statistical curves of dead ball pitchers during each of those early seasons don't so absurdly limit the home runs of more modern batters (while keeping dead-ball era themes including progressives what they are). Same, to a more limited degree with WWII seasons. That can be done in any two or more ways.
SLB used to be state of the art and the programmers justly took pride in refining the simulation according to the most advanced statistical analyses. I don't know what S-o-M and others are putting out nowdays (though I intend to find out) but SLB could bounce right back to the top and continue to be a real, popular moneymaker, if they just invested in it.
As for animation graphics so you can see Rollie Fingers' grinning under his proud handlebars on the mound, or Reggie Jackson's open collar flapping in his own breeze -- good grief, if you want that, hope you can find it elsewhere. Don't put that kind of burden on these guys.
9/11/2016 8:59 PM (edited)