FOF Update from Jim

[ezlee2]

www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/showthread.php?t=292679

[nick]

Doesn't really tell us much does it? A lot of ifs, buts and maybes. I will forget about the game until it is ready to roll with MP. Could be garbage anyway.

[ezlee2]

I actually see it a different way to be honest. The big thing I took away is that he'd still like to have the ability to convert existing MP leagues.

[nick]

Sept 21, 2018 6:54:26 GMT -5 ezlee2 said:

I actually see it a different way to be honest. The big thing I took away is that he'd still like to have the ability to convert existing MP leagues.

IF there was MP in FOF9.

[ezlee2]

I think it'll be there after reading Jim's post. That gives me some hope that the franchise will continue with MP.

[flexd]

I don't see much from Jim's post. FOF9 is getting an overhaul. Jim says "Id like to be able to convert existing FOF8 leagues", I think there's a good probability that it doesn't happen. OOTP is going to milk customers for 1, maybe 2 versions before they add MP. Day to day stages to me means simming the next 7 days, just like OOTP. I've played MP OOTP since OOTP5, I see the same blueprint on the way for FOF. They will roll out a new game every year, bet on it. I didn't realize just how arrogant the team at OOTP was until I saw their reaction to the recent post in the OOTP forums and locked the discussion thread on MP leagues. Jim posted a bunch of mumbo jumbo, no nuts and bolts to his post at all. MP customers are on the low end of the totem pole, get used to it, it's that way in OOTP, and I'm sure it will be more so in FOF..

[thefatcat]

I think it's very clear from his post MP will not be in the release, they are laying down the excuses now so we get used to the idea so we don't get to negative upon it's release. This line from Jim post i think tells us all we need to know "The only correct answer is to say it's something we would like to provide, but it's not something we can work on at this stage of development and it's not guaranteed to be in the initial release He also mentions this "Moving forward, OOTP games have automatic conversion routines built in. So we've added the basic support for this when we go from FOF9 to FOF10" so I would very likely say they have penciled it in for FOF10 which i guess will be released a year after the initial release, that's a long way away for us.

[nick]

Honestly I don't know what to think....to the point I am not thinking about it.

I really have no negative feelings about OOTP or Jim. Business is business. Loyalty is largely a myth in business. The customer and the company will only stay loyal as long as it suits them to do so. I think we should lower our expectations and just get on with what we have now.

[thefatcat]

Sept 21, 2018 9:59:55 GMT -5 nick said:

Honestly I don't know what to think....to the point I am not thinking about it.

I really have no negative feelings about OOTP or Jim. Business is business. Loyalty is largely a myth in business. The customer and the company will only stay loyal as long as it suits them to do so. I think we should lower our expectations and just get on with what we have now.

Agree they are there to make money like every company in the world is.

[thefatcat]

I kind of disagree with the wait and see approach Redzone and i'll explain why. I think leagues like the RZB will survive if there is no MP in FOF9 because the league is amazingly strong. I think other leagues that have 6 or more openings and have little posting will lose further GMs to the point that some leagues may close down.

[ezlee2]

Sept 21, 2018 11:47:31 GMT -5 @redzone said:

If you register on a forum and you posts are censored, you just join a different forum.

Thus, the reason Front Office Football Fanatics was born! #speakyomind