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Originally Posted by Buccaneer
I still find it amazing how much FBCB has radically changed my view of text sim UI and gameplay. Some think that a simple interface = simple game but I think not only FBCB proved that wrong but Civ4 as well. I think SI, GDS and Solecismic need to play those games some more. 
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So true. I haven't bought a sports sim in over a year, and I think I might be done with the genre. All of these developers are obsessed with "features", because you can list those in bullet-point format in your press releases and web sites. But the features have far, far outpaced the actual functionality of those features, and the fun level overall. FBCB is pretty much a perfect game for the features it has - everything "works".
I think what the developers are doing is a big mistake. This is a niche market anyway, and now they're further narrowing their potential market to people who want to play a certain way - extreme micro-managing.