{"id":498,"date":"2006-04-09T16:15:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-04-09T16:15:41","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T16:15:41","slug":"text-sim-tiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/04\/09\/text-sim-tiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Text-Sim Tiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Harris took <a href=\"http:\/\/dubiousquality.blogspot.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/dubiousquality.blogspot.com\/', 'ten or so paragraphs to say');\">ten or so paragraphs to say<\/a> \u201cdon\u2019t release games before they are finished\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t bad mouth your customers\u201d but was an interesting read anyhow.  I would not put Out of the Park Baseball or Eastside Hockey Manager on the same tier as PureSim.  I think both SI products are a bit more refined and have much longer shelf lives than PureSim.  Shaun Sullivan\u2019s game is more in line with some of Grey Dog Software\u2019s basketball products \u2013 good games that get better with each new iteration, but with much smaller fan bases.  I imagine (with no numbers to back this up) that OOTPB and EHM do much larger sales numbers than either PureSim or Total Pro Basketball.<\/p>\n<p>And to be honest, there is no other text-sim at Football Manager\/Championship level, so tier-one is very much an exception and an exclusive club.  Maybe if we throw Total Club Football in the mix, but they\u2019ve had their own patch-related issues this year.  And I imagine there are quite a few copies of TCF sold around the world.<\/p>\n<p>I also think that while Mr. Harris describes a linear relationship in the ranking and I don\u2019t think that\u2019s necessarily the case.  A game like Baseball Mogul has been around for a long time, but I would put it solidly in the third tier, or if we create a PueSim\/TCB third tier, Baseball Mogul is in the fourth.  You can be a long established text-sim and crank out broken game after broken game, or one that doesn\u2019t evolve with the times.  And as far as I can tell, Baseball Mogul fans are so loyal, that they purchase the game in enough numbers to keep the franchise going for all of these years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Harris took ten or so paragraphs to say \u201cdon\u2019t release games before they are finished\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t bad mouth your customers\u201d but was an interesting read anyhow. I would not put Out of the Park Baseball or Eastside Hockey Manager on the same tier as PureSim. I think both SI products are a bit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/04\/09\/text-sim-tiers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Text-Sim Tiers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}