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Originally Posted by Falstaff
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Luthier, your replies would qualify as a guilty pleasure if you were only a junior developer. As things stand, they are magnificent...a kind of traditional New Orleans jazz funeral dancing down the street, trombones blowing....
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Thank you, wonderful analogy. This is exactly how I feel.
I see no reason to be polite to people who are going out of their way to be rude to me.
The game sold two and half copies in the last month and had 74 returns (I just pulled those numbers out of thin air by the way). Honestly, if I just replied witha picture of me mooning and flipping off the questions thread, the net result would be pretty much the same.
The situation sucks. I see no reason to sugarcoat it with bull. I don't want to go make empty promises or try to prove that black is white. We released a faulty game. We did more than even seemed possible to fix its faults and add improvements, but in the end it was not enough. There has to come a point where we begin to focus on the future, and Cliffs of Dover just becomes something we can all learn from.
I am sincerely very sorry we didn't do enough to keep you guys happy. Everyone in the team feels exactly the same way.
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Well since you replied directly twice, and it is welcome, I will jump back in briefly.
Firstly, we FINALLY have a sort of realistic assessment of where things were (mostly always) at. It has taken a long time...it is only a real shame we didn't have this much, much sooner, and without the sarcasm and window-dressing. I used to work in a highly pressured dev house with large financial backing, mile-stones, the whole nine yards...and these sorts of responses are fine...in-house and on internal email systems. But I don't know of a single project manager - who wants to keep his job - who would let them out into the wider world. 'What goes on in dev stays in dev', or words to that effect. I'm amazed. Personality, yes, credibility...I don't know. That's your call. Personally I'd have a big recent hit under your belt before I took that line.
As for your more technical responses, I am truly baffled by some. They fall into slack-jaw territory. But it doesn't really matter - that game is dead anyway. You said so, and a handful of us knew it from the beginning.
(and boy do the rabid 'usual suspect' element now look silly. Upended on facts, rapidly shifting the goalposts to personalities. Good luck with that one!)
But above all it's just nice to hear some answers to the criticism, and that alone. The effort of replying is worthwhile, believe it or not.