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Register Time: 19 Nov 2012, 08:32 AM
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The one complaint I might have, is that you have only acknowledged one player (from a small group) who kept vCoH in the forefront of posters' minds - you have signally omitted Complexity, Woggie, Koda and XCom. They have strimmed almost incessantly, whilst most of your guests were absent.......
Ofc, I do understand that you want to keep up your previous high standards, but you should nevertheless (IMO) try to attract the new viewers to your tourney, who will not recognise many of those who you have invited. They will know the names I have mentioned.
As an aside, what is this big deal with NDAs. I've been knocking about gaming, betas and following dev cycles since the late 1990s and I've never seen it being such a big deal as it is with Relic.
Admittedly, I am / was more of a CRPG fan but if you hang out at Bioware / Obsidian / Bethseda you get a load of feedback. OK, at Bioware it's about having sex with aliens but you get my drift.
I'd guess it may be part of the corporate culture .i.e. 'this is how we did it before, it worked for us then and we will do it again, bcs it works for us'
Which is, as you and several others here have observed, potentially total cr@p.
Relic remind me of the Morgan Car Company.
Did you ever see the BBC program - approx. 16 years ago - where the late Sir John Harvey Jones took Morgan apart in 'the Troubleshooters'? Morgan were - still are - a successful sports-car company. They were using out-dated manufacturing techniques (see the vid).. still do ....and importantly, their sales team consisted of one person....whose only task was to explain to customers, why their car might be delayed in production!!
Harvey-Jones observed that they had survived the full wheel of car manufacture, and still kept going, whilst the rest of the car world in UK had fallen, or gone global. He was non-plussed
Updated version made because I had an accident with Vodka
Between the pair of you, Fichten and Steel made one of the most droll and side-screaming posts I have to read
I cannot recall the exact words ( I wish I could), when Fichten read the meaning of 'talking into the Great White Telephone' in the Shout Box: he wrote that what happened on the previous Saturday evening (with Vodka) was not talking into the telephone, but rather, his bed....and Steel came in with some dry comment as a follow-up - and it was so deadpan, I cannot recall it exactly, and to guess would spoil:...but it was comedy gold
Pro tem I think the thread has gone far enough -patient explanations by Inverse - (thnx Inverse ) only pursued by a small posse of blinkered horsemen, who will not accept reason