CalcioCalabrese
Weekend warrior
Calcio, the main problem is, from what I can gather, is that the Japanese culture and 'way of doing things' is very tunnel-visioned. The Japanese see outside help as a sign of weakness and will therefore fall on their sword than get the right people for the right job.
I mean Christ, I would have thought there should be a sub team dedicated solely to the stats and team styles, or am I totally in the dark about how sports games work?!?
People like Chimps know all about the stats and how they balance/imbalance a game, and people like Klash look at tactics; multiply these by like thousands of people that do a similar thing and you'll have an entire community dedicated to it. But if KONAMI don't want to do it themselves, they need to make the game as easily editable as possible, so that things like stats/tactics etc etc are just drag and drop.
But honestly, if I was Seabass, that would be the first job I would have issued long ago is a global stats guy/team, and his/their job would be to watch as much football as possible and see trends/form/tactics/individual stats etc, I see this as one of the most key job roles in KONAMI.
Yeah I know what you're saying and I was aware it's not very likely but I think if there was enough push from various forums for showing Konami there are people out there willing to help with researching player line ups, stats, formations, kits etc, then maybe they would consider using it to some extent.
Either that, or they really need to bring in an online editing system where we can make all the edits (option files) and import or share. I'd be happy to spend some time on my pc making a nice option file or correcting Konami's lack of effort on stats/player names but not on my console with 4 controller buttons lol