Any hope of a new football sim this year?

[JimboJ]

So is this the year we finally get something new? I haven't really hard anything specific about a new football sim coming out this season. I would really love to see something for Android.

Anyone heard any rumors?

[Ben E Lou]

Jim announced a new FOF fairly recently, though he did not specify a timeframe.

[Julio Riddols]

When it happens it happens, at least its happening. I don't care if Jim goes Duke Nukem on us and releases it in 2025 as long as I know we will once again be given the gift of awesome simulation football.

[SegRat]

I am hoping something comes out for iOS.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

Jim announced a new FOF fairly recently, though he did not specify a timeframe.

I must have missed that.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

I must have missed that.

First mention was 4/9/2013:

Originally Posted by Solecismic

As for the future of Front Office Football, there will be a new version some day. I don't know when because I'm not the same insane 100-hour-a-week person I was 15 years ago, but I'm getting a lot of good work done these days.

Then on 7/2/2013:

Originally Posted by Solecismic

Love the ideas.

It's FOF 7. If I could get the Bond license, it would be FOF 007.

[Danny]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

Jim announced a new FOF fairly recently, though he did not specify a timeframe.

This will sound mean, but It would be cool if a football sim that looked and a presented like a 2013 release would come out. I'm just not personally interested in a new spreadsheet style game, even a very well designed one.

A streamlined and attractive ios implementation would probably be the best way to entice me on playing a sim game again

[Ben E Lou]

Yeah, to each his own. There's no way I'm going to spend the kind of time and attention I like to spend on text sims fooling around with the small screens of a phone or even an ipad. If I have a couple of hours to play a game, I'm going to want to sit down at my desk to play it.

[Super Ugly]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

Yeah, to each his own. There's no way I'm going to spend the kind of time and attention I like to spend on text sims fooling around with the small screens of a phone or even an ipad. If I have a couple of hours to play a game, I'm going to want to sit down at my desk to play it.

+1

[Noop]

Funny I was just sitting here thinking wouldn't it be nice if I had a football sim to play. I hope Jim can do something similar to what the guy for TEW does with a developer's blog. I'd love to know what the new game will feature.

I know he is cautious of hype because of what happened years ago, but I don't think it would be a problem this time.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

First mention was 4/9/2013:

Didn't see that one. Huh. If he's going to go the Steam Greenlight route, I'm going to have to think that graphical polish is going to be necessary at least to a degree; I think Greenlight requires both number of votes and also ratio of yes-to-no votes. Having everybody on FOFC vote 'yes' is a good start, but then there's also the people who will just see the game show up in their voting queue who maybe don't know what FOF is.

Then on 7/2/2013:

This one I saw, but dismissed it as goofery.

[Scoobz0202]

I'd be curious if a game like FOF would succeed on Greenlight. I have my doubts.

Did OOTP get put on greenlight or was I dreaming?

[SackAttack]

13 was, yes. I don't think it got Greenlit.

[Mota]

Most likely on Greenlight you'd get a lot of "NO GRAPHIX THIS SUXX" unless you built up a ton of momentum in advance.

[DaddyTorgo]

To each his own, but I don't see "There will be a new version someday" as an announcement of a new version.

I mean..."There will be flying cars someday" isn't an announcement of flying cars being released.

"I will get married someday." - Well sure...but I'm not even dating anybody right now and haven't been on a date in months. I'm not expecting any of my friends to start considering bachelor party plans.

That being said - I hope we do see a new version, but I'm not holding my breath that it's going to be this year, or next year, or even two years from now. "Someday" is just too vague a word to get worked up over at all IMO. And yes, I know that's how Jim operates, and that's his prerogative obviously, and given RL and all I certainly don't begrudge him that at all, so this post shouldn't be read as a slam on that at all.

Just don't see "someday" as any sort of announcement of a new version.

[Noop]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

To each his own, but I don't see "There will be a new version someday" as an announcement of a new version.

I mean..."There will be flying cars someday" isn't an announcement of flying cars being released.

"I will get married someday." - Well sure...but I'm not even dating anybody right now and haven't been on a date in months. I'm not expecting any of my friends to start considering bachelor party plans.

That being said - I hope we do see a new version, but I'm not holding my breath that it's going to be this year, or next year, or even two years from now. "Someday" is just too vague a word to get worked up over at all IMO. And yes, I know that's how Jim operates, and that's his prerogative obviously, and given RL and all I certainly don't begrudge him that at all, so this post shouldn't be read as a slam on that at all.

Just don't see "someday" as any sort of announcement of a new version.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Mota

Most likely on Greenlight you'd get a lot of "NO GRAPHIX THIS SUXX" unless you built up a ton of momentum in advance.

You'd get that anyway. The question is whether you can build up enough momentum to overcome that.

[FBPro]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

First mention was 4/9/2013:

Then on 7/2/2013:

I missed these as well.....

[dawgfan]

Maybe someday we'll get a TCY2...