Sports Mogul's Next Game

[koufax1955]

DINO PARK WAS FUN
T-REX WAS MY FAVORITE
DINOS EAT PARK STAFF

[Steiny]

Baseball Mogul cool,
Football Mogul not so much.
Next time better yes?

[SFSteveG]

Are we such big losers
That we post Haiku on here
During the season

[robinhoodnik]

(in my best Dr. Smith (you know, Lost In Space.) voice) OHHHHH the painnnn!

[jonnymo]

Stuck at work 'til nine
To home, I must rush posthaste
Baseball Mogul Zen

[cassius84]

does Take2's exclusive deal with the MLBPA affect the next versions of Baseball Mogul?

[nysteinbrenner]

Originally posted by SFSteveG
Are we such big losers
That we post Haiku on here
During the season

Yeah.

It's not a haiku. Just reality...

[boomboom]

does Take2's exclusive deal with the MLBPA affect the next versions of Baseball Mogul?

no because Sportsmogul does not use a MLBPA Licence...mogul uses the Lahman database....

for more information go to

www.baseball1.com

the game already has this database included.

[Goldberg]

I cant believe so many people are talking about a basketball mogul. the market is so satuarated.

theres sooo many good college and pro basketball sim available with people who have as many years of experience with basketball sims as Clay as with baseball sim. greydogsoftware.com is a good example of a good basketball sim.

hockey, best I've heard was "GM Hockey" and thats about it... market is wide open. (I shouldn't say that since i am not a hockey fan at all) baseball only has OOTP and this game. football and soccer i neither know, nor care about it. then again a basketball sim engine is the easiest to build so it would be easy money for this company.

How about a Nascar mogul? Fastest growing major sport in america. You buy a number for the right to run a team, you hire a driver, crew chief, mechanics, sign sponsorships and engine deals, etc. Football mogul had 16 games plus 3 playoff games... Nascar has about 30-35 event per year. Lots of management involved. Today driver account for 30-40 percent of a team success... team owner has to build it all from scratch...maybe then attempt to build team #2... the two team help each other.... then a rivalry between the two team might become a problem. feedback from crew chief on development, etc. Market is wide open for this genre too and building the sim engine for it would probably be easy.

A network game similar to Hollywood mogul except you are the president of XYZ broadcasting and must make or buy shows, deal with actors, sign a sports deal with NFL, deal with sitcom stars ego, etc. so many things to do there also. Instead of 25 baseball players on your team, you have 25 tv shows on your schedule. Move the shows slots from 8:30 to 8:00 to capture the full ratings, change the writers... you compete for ratings and manage the budget that goes with it. low ratings will mean lower budget for the next season, etc.

just some ideas - basketball has been done some many times and there are sooo many good basketball sims on the market, i just dont undersand why people would want one more when they could have something unique.

[SFSteveG]

I cant believe so many people are talking about a basketball mogul. the market is so satuarated.

theres sooo many good college and pro basketball sim available with people who have as many years of experience with basketball sims as Clay as with baseball sim. greydogsoftware.com is a good example of a good basketball sim.

hockey, best I've heard was "GM Hockey" and thats about it... market is wide open. (I shouldn't say that since i am not a hockey fan at all) baseball only has OOTP and this game. football and soccer i neither know, nor care about it. then again a basketball sim engine is the easiest to build so it would be easy money for this company.

How about a Nascar mogul? Fastest growing major sport in america. You buy a number for the right to run a team, you hire a driver, crew chief, mechanics, sign sponsorships and engine deals, etc. Football mogul had 16 games plus 3 playoff games... Nascar has about 30-35 event per year. Lots of management involved. Today driver account for 30-40 percent of a team success... team owner has to build it all from scratch...maybe then attempt to build team #2... the two team help each other.... then a rivalry between the two team might become a problem. feedback from crew chief on development, etc. Market is wide open for this genre too and building the sim engine for it would probably be easy.

A network game similar to Hollywood mogul except you are the president of XYZ broadcasting and must make or buy shows, deal with actors, sign a sports deal with NFL, deal with sitcom stars ego, etc. so many things to do there also. Instead of 25 baseball players on your team, you have 25 tv shows on your schedule. Move the shows slots from 8:30 to 8:00 to capture the full ratings, change the writers... you compete for ratings and manage the budget that goes with it. low ratings will mean lower budget for the next season, etc.

just some ideas - basketball has been done some many times and there are sooo many good basketball sims on the market, i just dont undersand why people would want one more when they could have something unique.

I actually despise Nascar but think it might be fun to run a team. I don't know if the base for this game would be so great though bercause od the demographics of the sport.

[robinhoodnik]

I cannot watch a race from beginning to end though I've tried. A friend of mine is a HUGE NASCAR fan and I know that he'd buy a NASCAR sim in about a nano second. He'd probably lose his job for not showing up. NASCAR fans seem to be nearly as bad as baseball fans like us (I'm assuming I'm not alone at this site as an obsessive compulsive baseball addict.). I'd probably buy it just to see how it works . I think that this would be at least a break even product and probably would show a tidy profit if it were supported like BBM with a message board and everything else. My buddy buys a lot of racing games, and he buys a lot of merchandise, I think it would be a great idea.

[jonnymo]

How about a Nascar mogul? Fastest growing major sport in america. ... Market is wide open for this genre too and building the sim engine for it would probably be easy...

I don't like the Hollywood idea, because once you get away from sports sims, Sports Mogul joins the illustrious ranks of Lemonade Mogul and Babysitter Tycoon and all the other throwaway sims.

However, while I would hesitate to buy it, I agree w/ Steve and Robin that NASCAR Mogul has a lot of potential. Now, if there was a way to do some type of cross-over, in which the #34 car, driven by David Ortiz, could pull off a last-lap win at Daytona, then I might come around...

[SFSteveG]

Now, if there was a way to do some type of cross-over, in which the #34 car, driven by David Ortiz, could pull off a last-lap win at Daytona, then I might come around...

Well That's simple enough to solve. They just use 2 universes, one with real drivers/teams and one with baseball players with fictional stats.

[Clay Dreslough]

well couldnt football be two words itself...if you thinkabout it...

"My FOOT to your BALLs."

You're right. It IS 2 words.

[Clay Dreslough]

I cant believe so many people are talking about a basketball mogul. the market is so satuarated.

How about a Nascar mogul?

We started creating NASCAR Mogul back around 1999 -- at the request of our publisher (Atari). Then they decided there wasn't a market. I think they're right. The NASCAR games (the last one I remember well was from EA) already have a ton of options for building a garage and tweaking your car.

As for hoops, I've played Total Pro Basketball. It looks nice but it drives me nuts. I'm not a fan of the interface (some pages are like those old adventure games where you had to guess what to click on), and starting a new game with random players without any stats. This can be a fun change-of-pace, but the default rosters should have a great defensive team in Detroit, and a superstar who skipped college in Cleveland...

Does anyone know of a better NBA game?