If all goes well the game will be released April 4th. Here is the final feature list: Real 2013 rosters! Every player on every major league team is available, along with the top 20 minor league prospects for each team. Major league player ratings are based on PECOTA by Baseball Prospectus, the best player projection system today. Unlock exciting achievements Import custom ballpark images through iTunes Redesigned interface Improved play-by-play commentary and news stories Brand new trading AI Recoded & much more realistic player creation New player development system Improved roster & contract negotiation AI Historical career play with real rookie import each season (requires successive years via in-App purchase) Universal build, the iPad HD version is included for free! Plenty of small tweaks & improvements Here are a few screenshots from the new GUI: One of the new features are custom ballpark pics. They are easy to use (no 3rd party tool needed, just iTunes!) and make the game much cooler (Disclaimer: the used ballpark pic below is not part of iOOTP 2013, I just used one from a OOTP user-created ballpark pack!): Sebastian OOTP Developments
Seriously excited for this one. Makes me super excited for the season to start! I am going through iOOTP 2012 again just in anticipation. Thanks for the new features. I've been wanting a few of those, and the ballpark images on top of being able to customize icons is awesome! Can't wait to import all of that and play it while listening to the At Bat app.
Between the other two versions of this game i have put in over 500 years of baseball. Instabuy for me....my only hope is that the red sox prospects have been rated well. I always hate when my favorite prospect is only a 3 star potential. Bogarts, bradley jr, and middlebrooks all better be at least a 4 hopefully a 4.5
Unfamiliar with this franchise, but the game certainly looks right up my alley considering it has real baseball teams with real players! I'll definitely buy it!
Love the historical play with draft classes, but where's the online league play? Seems strange not to offer this on a mobile app.
probably 4.99 like the others began at. its a must by at that price.....the amount of time i spent with this game, i would have paid 15-20 for the new version
my feelings exactly. The amount of hours I have dumped into the game is immense. I pretty much sim everything and just do the outside managing, trading, drafting, signing etc.. Nothing feels better than getting that 20 year old 5 star pitcher from another team. I wonder with the new trading AI how hard that'll be.
Any chance we'll see an update to this year's game so we can have two separate save files Manual AND Auto? I'd love to load my Manual save from three games ago right before I lost due to some accidental bunts. But the current 2012 version's Auto save prevents me from being able to access my last Manual save due to only having one save file.
The game is through the Apple Review process and should be available tomorrow (4/4/2013). As the last two years: we will prepare a Opening Day roster update shortly after release. We had to submit the game early so the initial ones are slightly out of date. Another info: we have planed a player editor for one of the early updates. It is a complex feature to add and most likely only a few hardcore user want to use it so we decided to add it after release. Sebastian OOTP Developments
Sounds good. You will be receiving 70% of $4.99 from me as soon as the game comes out. Look forward to the player editor and looking forward to seeing how this game projects some of the red sox prospects like jackie bradley jr and xander bogartes.
Keep in mind that the roster included is a few weeks old due to the Apple Review process that takes so long. Over the weekend we will prepare the Opening Day roster set and submit the first update to Apple! Once the Editor is available you are able to rate the players as YOU think they should be rated as. Btw., we are available in New Zealand now. Sebastian OOTP Developments