{"id":845,"date":"2007-03-26T00:54:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T04:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/03\/26\/ok-enough-already\/"},"modified":"2007-03-26T00:56:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T04:56:59","slug":"ok-enough-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/03\/26\/ok-enough-already\/","title":{"rendered":"OK Enough Already!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I think the folks at SportsInteractive deserve some sort of award for not completely snapping at the complaints in the Out of the Park Baseball 2007 forum about the user interface.\u00a0 They patiently answer their critics (usually people who played the game for 60 minutes, did not read the manual, did not visit the forums, did not post tech issues in the tech forum, etc.) and it all seems to roll off of them like water on a duck\u2019s back.\u00a0 Me, I would have been going berserk about now and tell the complainers that they don\u2019t deserve to own OOTPB 2007.\u00a0 So crawl back to whatever interface you came from and have a nice day!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">The game isn\u2019t perfect and can use some improvements.\u00a0 But two idiots (as of 11:40 PM CST) voted that OOTPB 2007 was \u201cvery poor.\u201d\u00a0 I can\u2019t remember when 132 people (roughly 84% of responders) rated any initial OOTP release as good or higher.\u00a0 Has never happened.\u00a0 But \u201cvery poor\u201d? \u00a0You have to be kidding me.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Maybe SI should add a disclaimer to the game before people purchase it?\u00a0 Something like \u201cThis is the most complicated baseball sim ever developed.\u00a0 If you are too STUPID to visit forums, read the very very long manual, and try to solve technical issues with the\u00a0assistance of the helpful tech support people, then do NOT purchase this game.\u201d<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I\u2019m just tired of reading this crap.\u00a0 I am the first person to pounce on a developer if the product is poorly designed or doesn\u2019t work as advertised.\u00a0 But I also give credit where credit is due.\u00a0 When even the spreadsheet lovers over at Front Office Football Central are having a hard time coming up with major complaints, then this is truly a remarkable product.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" \/><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Buy OOTPB 2007! \u00a0<\/font><\/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>I think the folks at SportsInteractive deserve some sort of award for not completely snapping at the complaints in the Out of the Park Baseball 2007 forum about the user interface.\u00a0 They patiently answer their critics (usually people who played the game for 60 minutes, did not read the manual, did not visit the forums, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/03\/26\/ok-enough-already\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OK Enough Already!<\/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-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}