Thu Feb 18, 2021 11:38 am
Lots of young people play OOTP, I think those people would like Strat if Strat wasn't so awful about price gouging.
Look at what you get when you buy OOTP (which you can get for $10 on sale or like $30 when it's first released IIRC). You get every season in MLB history, every season in *minor league* history, NPB and Negro Leagues, *everything.* Every year the new edition comes with *everything.* With Strat you're spending $50 for one season, then to add insult to injury $20 for the ratings file and $30 for "hi-res" ballparks that are so shitty you have to go out and find your own. All of this to play on software that is basically exactly the same as it was in the 1990s. With OOTP there's a whole community that creates mods like player photos, uniforms, ballparks. You can download those for free and add them to the game.
Now the catch, obviously, is that OOTP is a black box. Strat's transparent engine makes all the difference. Give me Strat every day of the week. But if you're not someone who does much card analysis in Strat (or even you love card analysis but just don't have the disposable income Strat requires), why on earth would you NOT spend your time playing OOTP for a fraction of the price?