Guys, I'm kind of jumping in here as a total newbie... but... this being my first season and all, after reading all of the comparisons between the new and old engine, I think I'm lucky that I can't compare. Otherwise, I may be as frustrated as alot of you are.
I actually had never heard of anything like GD. I'm an avid player of games like Baseball Mogul and Football Mogul. Have played them for a while. And while they were fun, they seemed kind of hollow. I was actually searching for a college football version of something similar to the Mogul games when I found this. And boom... I jumped in.
Now, I'm just in the recruiting period of my first season, so I can't really critique the game or speak about how good or bad it is. However, I can tell you that it APPEARS to be the type of thing I've been wanting to play for a while. And, of course, when I found it... I told others. All of them avid college football fans and armchair coaches, had never heard of anything like GD either.
There are probably 20 people I've told about this whom are now waiting to hear from me after my first season to decide whether they are joining or not. My point is that if I'm experiencing this with new eyes (never playing the old game) and love it, thus sparking 20 more people to join... and if there are some more people playing it now with same enthusiasm to tell others... then maybe there's hope for growth in the future.
I, for one, definitely don't want to be stepping into something I'm going to love only to see it start going downhill. I would much rather be playing in a full world against other human controlled teams on a regular basis.
So... here's to hope!
Thanks, guys.
The ATLien