Yeah boxing was never against the rules, but only because accounts cost money. In a setting where they don't, it makes no sense to allow it. If the "classic experience" included some few people boxing (but not most, due to hardware limitations) it doesn't make sense to include it here given that the goal is the most classic experience possible. Today, both hardware and internet infrastructure allows any p99 player to box a full group easily, which was rare in 1999. So to just outlaw boxing entirely brings the net experience closer to what actually occured in classic than allowing boxing, which would result in a way artificially higher level of boxing than what existed in 1999.
TLDR anything that makes the game feel more single-player is inherently anti-thetical to the vision of brad
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