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Hard Sarge,

Is the game anywhere near release ?

I appreciate you and the team working on it are all part time so we have no right to ask such questions but here is the the thrust of my arguement.

If it has taken you this long to get it to release why on earth should i pay good money for what will be supported be that same part time team ?

There comes a point where you must realise that your never ending 'Add your name to the pilot list/AAR Reports' are just papering over the cracks in a flawed software project.

I say again, realise you cannot complete this project, sell the code for $10 and let the community complete it and turn it into the game it could become.

Thoughts ?

I love "Time Team",  Tony Robinson is the bomb. I watch it when I'm not coding EDBTR

I will buy it when it's time...I promise, and not a second before it's time.
 
The anticipation, oh, the anticipation....

I never buy this game! Why? never finished..................

ORIGINAL: sauro

I never buy this game! Why? never finished..................

your choice, if I had my way, I would ask them to block your account from buying it, if that is the way you feel, but I don't think they would do as I ask

sennettcj

to be honest, I think we looking pretty good right now

If it has taken you this long to get it to release why on earth should i pay good money for what will be supported be that same part time team ?

again, your view, but then again, we may be the better supporters, remember, we don't want to get this game out today, so we can get started on Bombing the Steppes for next year, or Bombing the Rice for 2011 (of course, it may be 2015 before either of those would show up)

There comes a point where you must realise that your never ending 'Add your name to the pilot list/AAR Reports' are just papering over the cracks in a flawed software project.

how, why, where ?, if the game was released last year, that post would still be up, and I would still support it, what is it papering over, I think it is better then having Gary Grigsby, or David Heath in every squadron or Group (and they are in there, but I also put them into units that take very heavy losses)

I say again, realise you cannot complete this project, or so you say, David and Gary seem to think we can sell the code for $10 and let the community complete it and turn it into the game it could become, think it going to take a bit more then 10 bucks to buy the code, and if you could pay for the code who is going to do the work ?, don't know your skills, but overall, I would take Harley over you any day, politest way to say it, I guess is, it not going to happen.

Everytime one of these "When" threads starts up I get this feeling that I've heard all this before. For the longest time I couldn't put my finger on it. But, after reading this thread it finally came to me.  It was all those Christmas eve conversations I had with my kids and grand kids over the years.
 
"Can we open our presents Tonight?"
 
"No, you have to wait until Christmas."
 
"When will Christmas get here?"
 
"Soon"
 
"You always say that"
 
"That's because it's true."
 
"Can we open just one present tonight & then the rest in the morning"
 
"OK, but just one"
 
"This isn't what I thout it was, can I open another one?"
 
"No, you asked for an early present and that's what you got."
 
 

Nice Avatar, I like that

ORIGINAL: sennettcj

Hard Sarge,

Is the game anywhere near release ?

I appreciate you and the team working on it are all part time so we have no right to ask such questions but here is the the thrust of my arguement.

If it has taken you this long to get it to release why on earth should i pay good money for what will be supported be that same part time team ?

There comes a point where you must realise that your never ending 'Add your name to the pilot list/AAR Reports' are just papering over the cracks in a flawed software project.

I say again, realise you cannot complete this project, sell the code for $10 and let the community complete it and turn it into the game it could become.

Thoughts ?

I first read this, and thought "You know, there's some valid points in here about knowing if you've overreached yourself, which is just a good life lesson, never mind BTR. Or if a part-time team can provide quality support."

Then I read it again.

And you know, those good points?...not so much. It takes a real schmuck to write such an incoherent complaint. You don't know why you should buy the game because you assume with no basis the support team won't support it, which you think it will clearly need because you know it's "flawed" even though you haven't seen it, and think it would be less flawed and delivered sooner if the rights to the game were given up by the people who don't own the rights and developed by the "community" with no one responsible for it?

You should have just stuck to the usual "Why is this game so late? You guys suck!" You would have made more sense.

laugh!

oh, you've got to laugh...

thanks, tb, you've made my day...

Well if you want to see what happens if a game is rushed to production look no farther than the WWI forum here or on the AGEOD site.
The overall feeling among those who brought this game (including me) is "Wow, this COULD have been such a great if only....)

For the record I am sure the problems in WWI will be fixed, but if EDTBTR were released half arsed all you do is ruin the reputation of the game and P-off all the customers who would have supported it.

Why is this game so late? You guys suck!

Well crud Uedel.  I was gonna say that!  The setup tblersch was too good to pass up.
 
 

Hi Harley and Hard,

From one of the old school I say "tell him to bog off! You take aslong as you need to deliver what will be a great end product".

If you moaning guys don't want to wait thats your choice although I would take bets that when this product does surface you will all buy it, no matter what you say now!

Keep up the good work

I just love reading these topics when they popup just to get a laugh & see how HS/Harley are going to reply (if at all) [:'(]
 
Wasn't the old Earnest & Julio wine commercial (or was it Bartles & James)??? - "We will sell no wine before it's time"
Patience is a virtue & will be rewarded.

Uedel


Justascratch
shame on you for thinking that

PetGod
how it going mate, thanks

JCJ
How it going mate II, you got tests to run, shouldn't you be out testing ? oh, me too (I need to finish off some battles for Gil)

overall, I do try to be polite, but how many times can you say the same thing before you get testy, most times, the issue is not really that somebody is lazy, or don't know what they are doing, there are alot of issues going on in the background of these games, that nobody ever hears or knows about

and as I have said before, if you got a complaint, aim it at me, not Harley or Waynno or Matrix

and another just in case, I say alot of things tounge in cheek, so read with a smilie added on

before I get a cool sig like Ron's?

ask Dixie

Okay guys, can I just apologise for what came across as a poorly written and bombastic post.

No excuse but as an ex RAF, board wargamer type chap who is desperate to see this game fly, and had too much red wine when he posted I hope I can solicit your forgiveness.

Hard Sarge, I will be buying this game and I hope you get all the support you need from the community.

BTW Can I add my name to list of Pilots for the RAF ?

Edited because I have just read some of the 'Filler Names' thread.

Some of those requests on there are from people wishing to honour and remember family members.

I was flippant when I used that thread in my original post. I really do apologise.

Good for you sennettcj,

Take's a man to admitt fault and apologise like that and credit where it is due. You have just shot up in my books.

Well done.

Me testing - the only tests I've got are for prostate & cholesterol level [:'(]

I know you kid around too, just like me or am I just going senile???? [&:]