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March 9th, 2005, 12:49 PM
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Re: (Shocking) News!!!!!
Actually David, I now fear, that with Aaron going to SF, what happens to every other game on the market will happen to SEV
Aaron is pushed into releasing before its ready
How many publishers have we seen do that? about 90% of games today are released well before they're ready
I hope this won't be the case and Aaron has full control of this aspect
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March 9th, 2005, 12:54 PM
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Re: (Shocking) News!!!!!
I would say it is fear.
Beta still needs to happen. So that release date has not been set yet. Assume Aaron has full control still.
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March 9th, 2005, 12:56 PM
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Re: (Shocking) News!!!!!
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March 9th, 2005, 04:26 PM
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Re: (Shocking) News!!!!!
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Actually David, I now fear, that with Aaron going to SF, what happens to every other game on the market will happen to SEV
Aaron is pushed into releasing before its ready
How many publishers have we seen do that? about 90% of games today are released well before they're ready
I hope this won't be the case and Aaron has full control of this aspect
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Actually, SE IV was published before it was ready. I don't think the game was complete until the Gold edition. And that was only Aaron and Richard making the decisions (I didn't hear anything about Tim Brooks leaning on them if he did...  ) This seems to be a general problem with software, not just games. Proper development takes LOTS of testing, and that means lots of time. Very few people, or companies, are financially secure enough to finish the development of a major software project in one go. I fully expect that SE V will be incomplete in some major ways when first release. If I don't get in on the beta team and get a 'free' copy I'll probably wait till SE V Gold to buy it.
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March 9th, 2005, 05:04 PM
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Re: (Shocking) News!!!!!
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DeadZoneMDx said:
Actually David, I now fear, that with Aaron going to SF, what happens to every other game on the market will happen to SEV
Aaron is pushed into releasing before its ready
How many publishers have we seen do that? about 90% of games today are released well before they're ready
I hope this won't be the case and Aaron has full control of this aspect
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Actually, SE IV was published before it was ready. I don't think the game was complete until the Gold edition. And that was only Aaron and Richard making the decisions (I didn't hear anything about Tim Brooks leaning on them if he did... ) This seems to be a general problem with software, not just games. Proper development takes LOTS of testing, and that means lots of time. Very few people, or companies, are financially secure enough to finish the development of a major software project in one go. I fully expect that SE V will be incomplete in some major ways when first release. If I don't get in on the beta team and get a 'free' copy I'll probably wait till SE V Gold to buy it.
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March 9th, 2005, 05:38 PM
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Re: (Shocking) News!!!!!
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Actually David, I now fear, that with Aaron going to SF, what happens to every other game on the market will happen to SEV
Aaron is pushed into releasing before its ready
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Truth be told, both SEIV and Starfury were released before they were really ready to be released... Both of them had big bugs lurking about and that were not yet fixed, as well as some lacking features. Certainly, they were patched within a few months, but still... |
March 9th, 2005, 11:29 PM
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Re: (Shocking) News!!!!!
To echo the sentiments of some other people:
A: Calm down, wait and see. We can all predict the possible possibilities, but life has a strange way of defying prediction.
B: Did anyone else notice the "over 1 million demo downloads" for SEIV!??! Thats huge! I wonder what percentage of that actually bought the game.
C: I'm in agony! Can I afford to buy another copy on the budget of a 17 year old? 
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