So thought i better respond….
btw, it's an open forum and everyone's entitled to their opinions. And yeah, definitely there are some things that we should probably clear up.
So let's start by clearing a few things up.
i) Despite the 'myth' that seems to have been created by our little project called The Art Of Cricket, some people must have gotten the idea that it was a full ‘community’ project or perhaps even ‘open source’? It was always being developed primarily by myself, with aid from community members - a call was put out at the beginning for help and we got all sorts of great responses from people.
Do you know that to date we have not received one completed stadium from any stadium maker that put up their hand? Im not complaining, just saying that it's hard to find good, reliable people who have time to spend (in their own free time) to work on something like this - for NO PAYMENT mind you. Having said this, i have received some great input and code even from people such as Lazy Chestnut (Tom) and AbBh and others, and this has been very much appreciated and will likely be used in the final product.
ii) TAOC will be released. We do not intend to release a product that is less that great or has major bugs. This does however take an awful lot of time to develop. If you can wait for us then excellent, otherwise I apologise but we will not be releasing a buggy version that does not live up to the name.
iii) We are not driven by money, we are not being paid. This is the fundamental difference between us and our ‘competitiors’. I have lost count of how many hours I have spent on this over the last 4.5 years!
iv) TAOC
will be the best cricket sim ever released. This is fact
v) Once the game is in a BETA stage, i.e. is actually
playable, it WILL be released to a large number of BETA TESTERS. Let me clarify BETA stage – this means the game is still far from completion – it is not a DEMO – BETA means the playtesters will have a long time to play the FULL version (at least a month) in which I’d expect they can refer ALL bugs and requests for improvements to us.
vi) The ‘Community’ aspect of the game will be realized at the BETA stage and on release when you will discover that almost EVERYTHING is unencrypted and sitting right there to be edited as you wish, bar the core code.
vii) What can I say to everyone that doesn’t sound like more and more lies like the other big guys have said? Well, I trust that the fact we have been transparent from day one (people following the progress from 4.5 years ago will understand this) is proof enough that we mean business.
viii) If the game does cost anything on release it will be a small amount that would go towards recouping our losses.
Anyhoo, I got stuff to work on, cant spend all day posting lol
Oh yeah, and the big annoucement is gonna knock some of yer socks off
