Off Topic: Front Office Football 7.0 Now available!

[Nefaro]

"While I'd love to have it on Steam, I don't think it's necessarily a game they'd be interested in publishing"

i guess this guy hasnt visited steam lately. they got so much crap on there not even sure why they have greenlight anymore. already have SAT for playing football games but would love to have something that simulates the front office.

I, too, doubt it would ever make it to Steam.

While there is a shit-ton of craptastical platformer assery on it, there's not been many Steam-approved cerebral indie games approved in the past, and even many of the nice indie strategies many of us would enjoy ,on Greenlight, don't have enough votes.  I've begun to think Greenlight is just overly infested with voters who only want to play platformers or stand in one spot and blast wave after wave in 'tower defense'.

The sports management text sim genre has never really taken off here in NA, that I know of.  I just happened to actively go seeking some options awhile back, otherwise I'd still be clueless as I had been for years.

I do think the guy could probably find an indie publisher for his game.. maybe even someone like Matrix.  It'd certainly beat the activation DRM that he had on the last one.  But perhaps he'd rather deal with the marketing stuff instead of having a smaller third party in the mix? I dunno.

[Nefaro]

Also.. I gleaned a couple important points from that interview, which makes me a bit happier:

1) Improving the AI will be a big focus.

2) That eLicense crap has disappointed him as much as everyone else, and he doesn't want to use it.

[Arctic Blast]

If the interface is the same, sadly I'm just not interested.

And I don't really get why he's sinking so much time in to rosters when he could easily bring in someone from the community to do those. Tell them what format it's in, maybe send them a bare framework example they can fill in, and let them do the heavy lifting.

[Grim.Reaper]

Until there is any serious American football competitors, the incentive to change is small.  Closest competition is pfs and football mogul and they are light years behind.

[Nefaro]

If the interface is the same, sadly I'm just not interested.

And I don't really get why he's sinking so much time in to rosters when he could easily bring in someone from the community to do those. Tell them what format it's in, maybe send them a bare framework example they can fill in, and let them do the heavy lifting.

I was thinking the same thing.  I've d/l'd a nice user-created roster before and thought it better done than the vanilla ones. 

Perhaps he just enjoys doing the rosters? 

[PanzersEast]

I'll be watching... but more importantly, will the UI get an upgrade  :o


PE

[Grim.Reaper]

I'll be watching... but more importantly, will the UI get an upgrade  :o


PE

I think he pretty much said no major upgrade to the UI.....graphics is not his strong suit.

[Arctic Blast]

I'll be watching... but more importantly, will the UI get an upgrade  :o


PE

I think he pretty much said no major upgrade to the UI.....graphics is not his strong suit.

I don't need it to look prettier, I just need it to be a Hell of a lot less of a clumsy mess to maneuver through.

[PanzersEast]

I don't need it to look prettier, I just need it to be a Hell of a lot less of a clumsy mess to maneuver through.

Yep, was thinking the same thing....


PE

[Grim.Reaper]

I don't need it to look prettier, I just need it to be a Hell of a lot less of a clumsy mess to maneuver through.

Yep, was thinking the same thing....


PE

Time will tell but I would be surprised if it changes in anyway drastic.  Just didn't give the impression he was changing a lot in regards to the ui, but who knows.

[Grim.Reaper]

Looks like we could be only 2 weeks away from the new release....

http://www.solecismic.com/frontierblog/

[Nefaro]

Looks like we could be only 2 weeks away from the new release....

http://www.solecismic.com/frontierblog/

Gig-gig-giggity-Squee!


You gonna host an NFL Grogheads multiplayer league?  :P

I really hope the guy at least fixed up the AI for this one.  I've only single-player'd the 2k7 version.  While I enjoyed it quite a bit, there were some obvious flaws in the AI's decision making - the biggest being that they would completely screw up their contract bargaining so much that they'd start releasing large chunks of their players because it blew so much on one star player.  The AI got mauled by the salary cap as if it didn't even consider the thing, at times.  :o

I also thought the rate of Fumbles was a bit too high.  The average number of "fumbles" in each of my games was sitting around 2 or 3 just for the starting running back.  While they didn't all end up in turnovers, it was still shocking that they were such butterfingers.  It happened with most RBs.  I asked about this on the unofficial forum and a couple old-timers told me they thought it was "realistic" and shouldn't be changed.  ???  Hmpf.  I'd expect a starting running back to lose his job if he's fumbling the ball 3 times every game.

[Grim.Reaper]

Unless they have changed the tedious way you setup game planning, not sure I am actually going to pull the trigger on this one yet...might be a little wait and see on the improvements.

[Nefaro]

Unless they have changed the tedious way you setup game planning, not sure I am actually going to pull the trigger on this one yet...might be a little wait and see on the improvements.

I didn't get the impression that he is changing the weird pages upon pages of percentages for various situations.  I doubt most people like it, but there are always some who do.  I thought there was mention of refining it, however, because people playing multi-player seasons were able to set it for some ridiculous playcalling and pull it off because of the way the play results were calc'd.   Such refinement would probably just be under the hood, though.  :-[

I tried playing out the games, calling my own plays, but the in-game interface was pretty damn spartan and not very engaging.

[Grim.Reaper]

Getting closer...a new screenshot of the draft history screen....some are hinting to a release in the next week or so.........who am I kidding, likely will be day one purchase for me;)

http://www.solecismic.com/frontierblog/?p=653