| Legend11 said: How pissed was he over this: http://softrockhallelujah.blogspot.com/2008/01/disaster-you-guerrillas-have-created.html |
About as happy as you were to post that.
| Legend11 said: How pissed was he over this: http://softrockhallelujah.blogspot.com/2008/01/disaster-you-guerrillas-have-created.html |
About as happy as you were to post that.
I really think people should see games before they judge them. I am more suspect about the lying of schedules that seems to be fairly rampant in the industry.
How can a game that was supposed to be last summer, move to December, then out a full year after that and possibly more? Don't tell me no one knew... We are are talk $10's of millions in shifted costs. I think devs like this, MGS4 devs, Too Human devs, etc. know how long it will take and the big publishers Sony and Microsoft, just feed us a line of BS on release dates.
I don't believe anything until I see it dated at Gamestop (and not the first of the month)...
He should save all his energy for after it's release and is a confirmed failure.
| NeoRatt said: I really think people should see games before they judge them. I am more suspect about the lying of schedules that seems to be fairly rampant in the industry. How can a game that was supposed to be last summer, move to December, then out a full year after that and possibly more? Don't tell me no one knew... We are are talk $10's of millions in shifted costs. I think devs like this, MGS4 devs, Too Human devs, etc. know how long it will take and the big publishers Sony and Microsoft, just feed us a line of BS on release dates. I don't believe anything until I see it dated at Gamestop (and not the first of the month)... |
Your position is understandable, but having been in software development for over 25 years, I can tell you that even well-understood problem domains can get tricky sometimes. Game development is much worse as you're pushing the envelope of what can be done.
Imagine doing basic research at a drug company and your manager asks, "so, when can we expect to have a major breakthrough in your research?" It can be enough to drive some people to other industries. Sometimes companies hit the nail on the head, sometimes the nail wins and the thumb loses.

| DMeisterJ said: How did he lose his cool? |
Same question. He answered it nicely I thought, no swearing, not vulgarity. What was wrong?
Also I do believe the trailer is real
coolestguyever said:
Same question. He answered it nicely I thought, no swearing, not vulgarity. What was wrong?
Also I do believe the trailer is real |
I don't believe he lost his cool as in lost his temper. He lost his cool as in lost his detachment and vented his frustration--in a fairly polite way--at the poster of that rediculous message.
Where I work, we would get crucified if we took it upon ourselves to respond in a public forum in anyway but a very detached, unemotional manner. Difficult to do, but companies usually don't want to embroil themselves in public arguments of that sort.
On the other hand, they did decide to allow a programmer to actually come in contact with the public, so they had to know they were doing something risky. 

^ see thats the thing. Its his JOB to respond to questions on this forum.
| outlawauron said: ^ see thats the thing. Its his JOB to respond to questions on this forum. |
It's his job to respond to "legitimate" questions, not rants about how the game is going to phail.

PooperScooper said:
Mr Burns did it... |
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks