{"id":579,"date":"2006-06-19T19:20:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T19:20:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-06-19T19:20:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T19:20:25","slug":"double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/06\/19\/double-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Abner is taking a close look at PureSim 2007 over at <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsgamer.blogspot.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sportsgamer.blogspot.com\/', 'the Blog for the Sports Gamer');\">the Blog for the Sports Gamer<\/a>.  He\u2019s making some good observations about the game\u2019s mechanics, but the most interesting thing he writes is:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, if this were OOTP people would be screaming from the rafters. To me, this is equally as messed up as what OOTP does. To outright cut this guy is completely bonkers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m glad I am not the only person that notices a double standard that seems to be applied to everything called Out of the Park Baseball within the text gaming community.  If something is broken in OOTPB, people are outraged, hair is pulled out of scalps, teeth are gnashed, and the world seems to be coming to an end.  Similar problems crop up in other text baseball games, and good old [insert Shaun, Clay, Tom, etc.] will fix it. <\/p>\n<p>There just isn\u2019t the same level of stupidity associated with the reactions to other text baseball games.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite idiot is the one who feels that he would have made the difference over the incompetent OOTP beta testing group.  This special idiot is the one with magical powers.  His list of problems would force Markus and Sports Interactive to bend to his will, for his problems would NEVER be ignored when a gaming company was choosing between releasing a game and fixing all of the bugs.<\/p>\n<p>Where were these idiots when PureSim was in earlier incarnations with all of its fun AI issues?  Where are they in the Baseball Mogul forums?<\/p>\n<p>The lunacy and volume of OOTPB complaints is just something I cannot understand, given the state of other less complained about products.  I\u2019m happy that I am not alone in this confusion.<\/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>William Abner is taking a close look at PureSim 2007 over at the Blog for the Sports Gamer. He\u2019s making some good observations about the game\u2019s mechanics, but the most interesting thing he writes is: \u201cNow, if this were OOTP people would be screaming from the rafters. To me, this is equally as messed up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/06\/19\/double-standard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Double Standard<\/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-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}