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In the realm of unlicensed sports titles, I'd love to see Hardball come to GOG. As far as I know, all teams and players were fictional, but you could totally create your own teams and leagues, which, if you had the time, you could theoretically create the MLB and every team with their current roster.
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LiquidOxygen80: In the realm of unlicensed sports titles, I'd love to see Hardball come to GOG. As far as I know, all teams and players were fictional, but you could totally create your own teams and leagues, which, if you had the time, you could theoretically create the MLB and every team with their current roster.
I was thinking of this exact series of games.
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LiquidOxygen80: In the realm of unlicensed sports titles, I'd love to see Hardball come to GOG. As far as I know, all teams and players were fictional, but you could totally create your own teams and leagues, which, if you had the time, you could theoretically create the MLB and every team with their current roster.
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pimpmonkey2382.313: I was thinking of this exact series of games.
Great minds, man. ;)
Now that I'm thinking about it, I believe that Accolade also had a football series called 4th and Inches or something, that may or may not be NFL licensed. (I can't remember.)

Hell, even Sierra had their Front Page Sports series that they published.
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pimpmonkey2382.313: I was thinking of this exact series of games.
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LiquidOxygen80: Great minds, man. ;)
Now that I'm thinking about it, I believe that Accolade also had a football series called 4th and Inches or something, that may or may not be NFL licensed. (I can't remember.)

Hell, even Sierra had their Front Page Sports series that they published.
Oh man, would love some of these games again. Especially if you can edit the default teams/rosters like hardball. Means the publishers/rights holders can just edit the real things out if they wanted, still released them say here, then we can do whatever we want as players also.
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happyaboutlife: One of the best baseball games ever made, has a huge following still. You can edit teams, players, etc. to create some fantastic seasons. Please GOG make it happen to work with windows 10 :)
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Wishbone: Don't get your hopes up, for two reasons:

1. It sounds very much like a licensed title. Usually, licensed sports games have time limited licensing deals (often around 5 years) which, once expired, mean that the games can no longer be legally sold anywhere.

2. Given that it's a baseball game, it is probably almost exclusively of interest to Americans, and only to a subset of them at that. GOG is a Polish company with an international customer base, and are probably unlikely to throw resources at a game that they already know only a small fraction of their customers will be interested in. Games are frequently rejected by GOG as being "too niche". A baseball game certainly ticks that box.
1. You are right about the license issue.

2. However, calling baseball too niche because it is too American is incorrect for several reasons.
A. Baseball is also played and hugely popular in Japan, South Korea and several Latin American nations along with Canada.
B. The American market would be enough all by itself. America's economy is larger than the entire EU economy. Americans spend huge sums of money on games (and even though Madden only really appeals to Americans and Canadians it still sells 10-million-plus copies every year).
C. Japan is the third largest economy in the world, a massive gaming nation and baseball is hugely popular there. And as Ichiro Suzuki and other Japanese baseball players (Yu Darvish, etc). continue to play in MLB it will appeal to more Japanese players.
Post edited May 08, 2017 by MajicMan
Is there an echo in here? :P
Here...here...here. lol