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Offline Mini D

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« Reply #15 on: July 10, 2003, 07:56:53 AM »
Analogies to a hurried WB3 release?  Puhleeze!

WB3 was released about a year late.  There was nothing hurried about it... it may not have been ready, but "hurried" is the wrong word to use.  Perhaps "innevitable"?

I trust that HTC is working on AH2 and will release it somewhere around when they claimed they would.  It would just be nice if there were a little news posted with updates and perhaps a screenshot or two.

I haven't seen a "DAMMIT! WE WANT AH2 NOW! post anywhere.  How you can read "please give us some news" as to read that is beyond me.

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« Reply #16 on: July 10, 2003, 10:10:02 AM »
Maybe there is a major problem with the progess, and they are afraid to say so, because they fear a mass defection of those simply keeping their accounts open to see how AH2 turns out.

My fear is if there was anything good to report, they would have already.

How long does it take you to type the following sentence:

"AH2 is approximately 50% completed."

Or

"AH2 is on schedule for the announced release date".

No one is rushing them. I'm still enjoying AH, and eagerly await AH2, but I'm not rushing. A simple one sentence remark would be a nice gesture from HTC

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« Reply #17 on: July 10, 2003, 10:24:18 AM »
No News=Good News


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« Reply #18 on: July 10, 2003, 10:30:11 AM »
Its 1 week to the CON ... If there is nothing divulged during or after the CON, then let the moaning begin. Until then, I would suggest a little more patience.
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« Reply #19 on: July 10, 2003, 10:38:28 AM »
HTC is way too busy meeting with Microsoft, dicussing a selling price, to spend time coding another game for you spoiled brats to cry about in 6 months...
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« Reply #20 on: July 10, 2003, 11:18:52 AM »
Maybe everyone is approaching this the wrong way...Bribery may be the solution?! Try sending several pizza's to the HTC office
 and see if that gets some insider information.
 Or a good bottle of Scotch might loosen up the info...

I don't think the whining is getting anyone anywhere....

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« Reply #21 on: July 10, 2003, 11:22:30 AM »
Heres some news, I can wipe my own ass. Be happy for that to hold you over for a few weeks. ;)

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« Reply #22 on: July 10, 2003, 11:50:40 AM »
I don't know what to say...:(   thanks :p

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« Reply #23 on: July 10, 2003, 01:26:03 PM »
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Analogies to a hurried WB3 release?  Puhleeze!

WB3 was released about a year late.  There was nothing hurried about it... it may not have been ready, but "hurried" is the wrong word to use.  Perhaps "innevitable"?


If it was released before the developers fixed enough bugs to make it a functional, stable software package, then it was rushed out the door, regardless of whether or not it was released after its projected release date. The reasons for doing it are legion, running from greed ("We're past our release date, still paying developer salaries, and we're not getting any ROI on our development expenditure") to callousness ("It's still beta quality; release it anyway. We're Microsoft; they'll buy it, and 5,000,000 people paying to beta-test the software will find the bugs faster than 5,000 regular beta testers").

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« Reply #24 on: July 10, 2003, 01:28:41 PM »
Haven't you been reading your weekly email updates? You know the ones that HTC sends to their preferred customers?
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« Reply #25 on: July 10, 2003, 01:31:25 PM »
It has been a wery long wait for AH2, I know you have a lot on your mind, but I believe that you really should give us something about AH2.

Even if there is something wrong, a problem that has made any progress stuck for a while, anything !!

Any news is good news at this stage, I see lots of " I am tired of AH/Waiting for AH2" types of posts.

I believe this is simply because the lack of any news at all.

So please, throw us a bone, we really need it because we are starving here ;-)

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« Reply #26 on: July 10, 2003, 02:01:36 PM »
Con in 1 week (Bah can't say 2 weeks)

He can't go the whole time without dropping some kind of hint.  ;)

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« Reply #27 on: July 10, 2003, 02:28:43 PM »
Since the announcement of AH2 we've had.......

1)  A screenshot of the new hanger.  Which....while nice and all, shows us absolutely bugger all aside from a slightly different layout.  The overall graphics engine and terrain hasn't changed at all in the pic posted so doesn't satisfy the hunger for more details.

2)  A discussion about remodelling of the flight model.  Well yeah, this was great.  However, nothing concrete has come out of it.  Ok, we know that HT is modelling more lift areas to the wings but that's about it.



In fact that is it.



Now when people first read the announcement saying "3rd quarter" there was a lotta whining which was silenced by people like me saying that they'll be screenshots and news and new stuff to mull over and a BETA TEST that'll keep us all busy and interested while we're waiting for 3rd quarter to roll around.

Ahem.

It's 3rd quarter HT.  We've had 1 screenshot and a little bit of info about wings.

There's threads all over asking for more info, more threads saying we're starting to get bored and even some threads saying people are cancelling accounts and wont come back until AH2 is out.  Now sure, only you know the figures but surely this is an indication that all is not well with the customer base.

throw us a bone![/B]

Please.



P.S.  yeah yeah, a whine has been recorded and all that crap.

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« Reply #28 on: July 10, 2003, 02:30:40 PM »
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« Reply #29 on: July 10, 2003, 02:31:05 PM »
Where is that screenshot? Missed that one.
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