Friday Official Update, July 27, 2012

[klem]

Originally Posted by Force10

So this is what it's come to eh Blackdog? Be-littling gamers because they wan't a sim to work instead of becoming a developer themselves? I don't know about others, but I work for a living and barely have time to actually play my sims let alone learn C# scripting or start poking around for work arounds.

For the people that have done this....I applaud them for taking the time to try and find workarounds for this mess...but time isn't a luxury all of us have. If 1C was up front and marketed this as a "buy in Beta program" then you might have a better point. Telling us to be good little lemmings and just take it in the shorts for the $50 to $70 isn't gonna fly with everyone. People are frustrated...and have every right to be IMO.

I don't think BD is belittling anyone. He is simply taking a pragmatic approach to the situation.

What many people don't want to accept - understandably - is that there appears to be either a serious lack of expertise among the devs or they are facing coding problems that are extremely difficult to overcome or a combination of both.

Well, this is how it is. We bought damaged goods but no amount of complaining is going to make things go faster if either of the above are true and MG certainly aren't going to throw a massive new dev team at this.

Its all very well some people saying "I've been programming or creating games for years" but they don't know the specific problems the devs have so all their expertise may be irrelevant.

Appointing a new project manager won't improve the devs skills or suddenly throw light on the coding solutions.

Bottom line? We're stuffed. Get over it. We may not like it but we have a choice, either stick with it and hope for solutions as soon as possible or ditch it and go away. My patience is wafer thin too but I know I can only wait and hope. Sometimes life is just like that.