Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ack-Ack on March 02, 2008, 06:34:39 AM
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China has become the "Promised Land" for the financially struggling MMO companies.
Today, Producer Geoff "Docdoom" Evans posted news about plans for the upcoming 1.29 version of WWIIOL: Battleground Europe. Changes to previously discussed plans have come as a result of a licensing agreement that will bring WWIIOL to the People's Republic of China.
On Thursday, we patched v1.28.3 which could be the final one for 1.28. This last patch fixed a few outstanding issues that we wanted to get out of the way before we move on and probably eeked out some more, very small performance gains (every little bit helps!). We still have a minor issue with RTB codes and are looking at those right now to determine how big a problem this is to fix.
Now it is time to turn our attention to 1.29.
As you may know, our preliminary plans for 1.29 were focused on some long-overdue features and fixes for the naval portion of the game. This plan must now come in a future release because of an important opportunity for CRS and the future of the game. We have entered into an agreement to license Battleground Europe for operations in the People's Republic of China. As part of that agreement, we must add a few features which are mandatory for that part of the world. These include PRC language support and a government mandated "anti-addiction" function which warns and stops scoring players after excessively long play sessions.
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Geof Rey Evans
Producer/CRS
Game Manager/WWIIOL-Battleground Europe
"this is rocket science, it just looks like a video game"
"Life sucks sometimes, being miserable NEVER makes it suck less"
ack-ack
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Cornered rat as a name was an omen.
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"and a government mandated "anti-addiction" function which warns and stops scoring players after excessively long play sessions."
:rofl :rofl :rofl
:noid
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It won't work. I tried it a month ago and its not anywhere near the numbers they had 3 or 4 years ago. They started losing players when they started nerfing the planes and the tanks to appease the infantry guys.
I remember when you could find a fight anywhere on the map. Now they have AOs where they funnel all the fights into 3 or 4 towns and even then you may not even see an enemy player.
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Sorry but this seems appropriate
(http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o109/AHmeatwad/cereals_001.jpg)
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I would think if someone wanted to succeed in China with a wargame,
it would be wise to start adding Chinese equipment to the inventory. For
WW2OL it wouldn't be very hard as the Chinese used alot of German
infantry equipment, as well as Soviet and US aircraft.
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Originally posted by Rino
I would think if someone wanted to succeed in China with a wargame,
it would be wise to start adding Chinese equipment to the inventory. For
WW2OL it wouldn't be very hard as the Chinese used alot of German
infantry equipment, as well as Soviet and US aircraft.
I'd agree, they have a hard enough time putting up with the whines of all the Yanks that it isn't a front that involved them. Chinese would have even less interest.
Killing Japanese now that might get them to sub.
...-Gixer
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Originally posted by Gixer
... the whines of all the Yanks that it isn't a front that involved them.
Except for B-29's, AVG P-40's, and flying the hump...
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There were a few yanks over there..14th AF, Stillwell and his crowd.
I'm not a frequenter of CR BBSs, so I have no idea how vocal Yankee
whiners are over there.
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Originally posted by Meatwad
Sorry but this seems appropriate
(http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o109/AHmeatwad/cereals_001.jpg)
I LOVE this picture!!! :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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HOLY butter THATS SWEET
the hordes of nooblets to mow down.
i think i'll resubscribe there a couple of weeks after it launches in china.
weee
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Originally posted by Tac
the hordes of LAGGY SLIDING nooblets to mow down.
Fixed.
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Originally posted by Tac
HOLY butter THATS SWEET
the hordes of nooblets to mow down.
i think i'll resubscribe there a couple of weeks after it launches in china.
weee
Forget it. They will be playing on a separate server all to themselves.
The only reason the Rats are doing it is to get some "much needed" money to keep the ship afloat.
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docdoom.. have any of you met the little drunken blowhard? I couldn't believe that anyone had hired that guy.. then I seen what kind of game he was involved in.
lazs
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Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
Cornered rat as a name was an omen.
after all it is the Year of the Rat :) (http://www.springsgreetingcards.com/catalogs/store.asp?pid=232024)
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Originally posted by Joker
"and a government mandated "anti-addiction" function which warns and stops scoring players after excessively long play sessions."
:rofl :rofl :rofl
:noid
It's sadly not a joke. Those in China found to be "addicted" to games are forced into psychiatric hospitals and subject to horrible treatment, while others are also sent to "re-education" camps (i.e. labor camps).
ack-ack