I’ve purchased this game yearly from 2019-22. In 2022 they switched all versions to the dark UI, which I loathe and can’t stand. So I skipped ’23 and downloaded the demo for 2024.For comparison I still play 2021 regularly as it’s the last game with white UI.
+New recruiting improvements are nice and make sense.
+They’ve made some changes to the UI layout that I like. The ticker, the schedule/dashboard but it still feels very similar as well.
-The dark UI. Yes yes I know that’s a personal preference, I’m sure some love the dark UI and I don’t mind dark as long as it’s like the blue in OOTP and not pitch black and gray. This dark UI…I can’t stand.
-IMHO the new player pages look bad and it has since the 2022 version. The player picture is the same as it has been for ages but there is so much wasted space to the right and left of the player. Where the player picture should be more landscape or square and not portrait. As it is now, they are just cutoff weird at the shoulders when there’s plenty of room to continue the shoulders down like in OOTP. In 2021 the team logo was to the left of the player, the player photos and then his info. In 2024 the team logo is now behind the player and the player has been shifted to the center of the space available which just looks….bad.
-Still not as easy as OOTP to setup fictional or fully customized universes. It must all be done via xml files and not in the game.
I’m a 100% simmer so I can’t comment on the in game action. But overall while a few nice improvements still way too many things holding it back to warrant the $40 price tag.