I absolutely agree!
But can/will Konami go to those lengths to add the faces of (what I consider) the greatest generation of football players?
I'd love to see Baggio back at Juventus, Batistuta at Fiorentina etc.
Well each individual team as a total of at least 10 faces in it; so, 30 faces and names would be like including 3 additional teams into the game, it's easy and it is very cheap.
The question is: would Konami bother doing it?
I think they will not do this in the next 2 to 3 years, perhaps in 5 years when they get bored of doing the same thing over and over again, who knows; the truth is that only a minority seems to be interested in Licensed Classic Players.
That minority are probably the football fans who actually got to see Roberto Baggio and Zinedine Zidane, etc; the football gaming fans who know that there was life before Messi-CR7 and that there will be life after Mess-CR7.
I have been asking for this for the last 3 years now, instead, it was FIFA who started including Licensed Classic Players in their game...
I just think it would be a practical feature, as it would add some much needed variety into the game, as well as it would be possible to assemble Perfect XI teams; which is one of the fantasies of every football fan, assembling a Winning XI with their favorite players.
In my opinion, it's just common sense, as a football fan I think Licensed Classic Players are simply logical, the best players are all retired and we only have a handful of truly world class footballers today; Licensed Classic Players would have been one of the very first things I would have done with PES if it was in my power.
My ideal PES team, would be a team with 7 hard working average players, but with Roberto Baggio and Carlos Valderrama and Romario in it; and a very vintage uniform.
Also,
I think Licensed Classic Players could be added into the MLO as DLC content. It's one of those things that can be done even after release, as it has nothing to do with gameplay tweaks and it should require barely any time as it's just a couple of faces and stats.