Everyone talking about how AFL Live 1 was so much better and it should be made because it will sell more are forgetting the other side of the equation. What is the cost.
If AFL Live 2 cost an eighth of what AFL Live 1 did, and they sold half as many games as AFL Live 1 did then your profit margin is going to look a hell of a lot better. even with selling half as many games. Anyone saying True Blue should ignore this has no idea about business.
Not only does that mean they have to use fake names/likeness and call it "Aussie Rules" instead of AFL. But it also means that they are going to in the progress piss off their biggest (only current?) publisher by releasing a competitor to one of their licenses.
Yeh ok , but, they aren't even making the AFL games now anyway, so what other option do they have except crowd funding, Tru Blu decided not to use their best developers.