Originally posted by PierreThomas
It might be a hint that this game is too much work when I get three text messages and two calls between 12pm and 1am about GLB and people rage quitting.
Your comparison to Madden fails on so many fronts it is even funny. This game owners are dealing with REAL people not cpu players. This game we can't trade with cpu's for trades that are lopsided as hell. In this game talking one person into signing is a full day's work and a team effort.
To be honest, I've cared less and less about this game over the past 5 seasons. It became so complicated that I couldn't handle all the duties and merged. It took all of three seasons with two of the most dedicated owners in the game to decide it was still too much work for two people and merge again. Now these changes come out and I'm tired of merging and having one or two teams that can compete is just not very much fun because everyone else has already quit.
I'm not rage quitting, way too much thought has gone into this to call it that but this will be my last season on GLB. I don't look forward to logging on, I haven't even had time to watch a game in two seasons and my time spent on GLB is dealing with managing players, VAs, AEQ, money and training players. I rarely get to post on the forums, chat it up with friends I've met through this game and watch games which are the reasons I started playing in the first place.
For many seasons I've warned that this game is getting too much like work and you guys continue to pile it on. You can justify the changes by saying this will only take a couple more hours in the offseason but you just don't get it. You've been adding a couple hours to the offseason for ten seasons now, you've been adding hours to the gameplanning for seasons. It isn't the one financial change or training change that is making people mad, it is the piling on of constant bullshit that has everyone pissed. I literally spend a couple hours a day on the game and in the past spent about 12 hours a day on the game and I DON'T EVEN KNOW ALL THE RULES. Half the VAs don't work, half the SAs don't work, the sim still has simple glitches that haven't been fixed, there is still a large amount of randomness between like players and there is so much that can be improved on.
However, in the name of parity you have added VAs, added AEQ, revamped training, added tagging, added custom depth charts, added defensive playmaker, added progressions and what has it gotten you? A declining player base, massive team mergers and aliances, blow out games, gutted teams, gutted leagues, financial unbalance and unhappy ever shrinking customer base.
I've been reading this thread for over an hour now and nothing more has made more sense to me than this post. You have to make people want to play this game, not turn them away from the game. Until you make the majority of the people happy or content, you will lose more in the long run.
