MOO3 officially moved to Q3 2002

[Richard]

For those of you (like I) waiting for this game here is the official announcement...

http://forums.prospero.com/masterofo...es/?msg=7324.1

[Master Belisarius]

I have entered into the forum, and saw that someone was asking for a 4x game, to wait until the Moo3 release... Then, I wrote a reply suggesting SEIV Gold (of course) with a link to MM. A few seconds later, the whole topic was deleted!!!!!

[Rollo]

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Originally posted by Master Belisarius:

I have entered into the forum, and saw that someone was asking for a 4x game, to wait until the Moo3 release... Then, I wrote a reply suggesting SEIV Gold (of course) with a link to MM. A few seconds later, the whole topic was deleted!!!!!

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Pfft, how open-minded...

[Alpha Kodiak]

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Originally posted by Master Belisarius:

I have entered into the forum, and saw that someone was asking for a 4x game, to wait until the Moo3 release... Then, I wrote a reply suggesting SEIV Gold (of course) with a link to MM. A few seconds later, the whole topic was deleted!!!!!

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That thread is back, including your post, so maybe there was just a glitch.

[Master Belisarius]

Very strange!
In fact I did several "Refresh" to be sure that the topic "disappeared", before write here!

[Richard]

It also "seems" to be a publisher decision for marketing purposes.

This is what happens when you sign up with a large publisher, you have no control over certain things about your game.

[Baron Munchausen]

I've been reading (and posting in) the MOO III forums for a while now. The general consensus from active members on the forums seems to be that they'd rather have a finished program a little later than an unfinished one rushed out just to meet deadline and then have to wait for patches. The moaning and groaning about the delay seems to be coming from lurkers who haven't been speaking up during the requests for ideas and opinions.

Also, I was in chat the day before this was announced, when Alan Emrich appeared and talked about events at the QS offices that day. He said that there was a top person from Infogrames visiting and checking up on the progress of development. While I didn't specifically ask what the QS staff told him they wanted to do, I got the impression that the Infogrames exec was listening to them rather than just arbitrarily 'giving orders' that the game be delayed. Alan said that he expected the release date would be pushed back further and didn't seem upset about that, nor were the people in chat very upset about it because they understood that the delay must be necessary. MOO III is a huge original development project, not some boiler-plate business program, and it often happens that development schedules on such projects are over-optimistic.

Also, Master Belisarius, there are several threads discussing SE IV as well as Stars! Supernova and other games on those forums. I have posted to them, and once even refered people to the PBW site. They only delete a thread if it gets into Banned topics (politics or religion) or deteriorates into personal flame wars. If the topic was deleted there must have been a reason other than the mention of different computer games.

[ 29 March 2002: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[vonManstein]

One or two month ago, i saw a thread in the MoO3-Forum, discussing SEIV. I wrote some Posts (good ones :-)).
I don´t think, that they will delete such infos. As you can see, the MoO3 forum has more OT-Posts than MoO-Posts. Funny thing, they don´t show any screenshots of spacecombat.

I don´t thrust them at all.

Greetings from Germany
vonManstein

[Richard]

Might be, and I do like the QS guys, but I don't trust Infogrames as much as I can throw them. They have done some TERRIBLE things as a publisher that I am slow to forgive.

And Infogrames has a history of telling developers to put a game out now versus later, so while I am sure the game does need tweaking I am also sure that fit into the marketing plans of the Infogrames folks.

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
I've been reading (and posting in) the MOO III forums for a while now. The general consensus from active members on the forums seems to be that they'd rather have a finished program a little later than an unfinished one rushed out just to meet deadline and then have to wait for patches. The moaning and groaning about the delay seems to be coming from lurkers who haven't been speaking up during the requests for ideas and opinions.

Also, I was in chat the day before this was announced, when Alan Emrich appeared and talked about events at the QS offices that day. He said that there was a top person from Infogrames visiting and checking up on the progress of development. While I didn't specifically ask what the QS staff told him they wanted to do, I got the impression that the Infogrames exec was listening to them rather than just arbitrarily 'giving orders' that the game be delayed. Alan said that he expected the release date would be pushed back further and didn't seem upset about that, nor were the people in chat very upset about it because they understood that the delay must be necessary. MOO III is a huge original development project, not some boiler-plate business program, and it often happens that development schedules on such projects are over-optimistic.

Also, Master Belisarius, there are several threads discussing SE IV as well as Stars! Supernova and other games on those forums. I have posted to them, and once even refered people to the PBW site. They only delete a thread if it gets into Banned topics (politics or religion) or deteriorates into personal flame wars. If the topic was deleted there must have been a reason other than the mention of different computer games.

[ 29 March 2002: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

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[rextorres]

Does anyone know if MOO3 will have some sort of way to play other humans aka PBW. PBW makes SEIV better than any other 4X game by far. Playing against the computer gets old FAST.