Invention questions

CoinSpin wrote:
> "Richard Clayton" <pockZIGetnZIGerd RemoveThis @verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:GrEIi.7904$A72.7109@trnddc08...
> | Xocyll wrote:
> |
> | > EVE is the only space based one I know of.
> |
> | I'm looking forward to Jumpgate: Evolution and the still-as-yet-unnamed
> | game from Spacetime Studios.
> |
>
> Hopefully Jumpgate will have a better time of it than Auto Assault did (same
> developer). I'm just praying that whoever ends up publishing Jumpgate
> actually lets them FINISH the game before impatiently pushing it out into
> service...

The gaming market is a harsh mistress. There are a lot of games that
are merely good, but could have been GREAT with a little more time in
dev... take /Knights of the Old Republic 2,/ for example. LucasArts
arbitrarily chopped six months off of the development schedule to get it
to the shelves in time for Christmas, and it shows.

> That was a big nail in the coffin of AA right from the start,
> and NCsoft was swingin the hammer - nothing turns off players (and
> reviewers) to a new MMO more than a horribly buggy and severely imbalanced
> debut. Only the die-hards stayed, and that wasn't enough to keep AA alive,
> even after most of the balance issues were fixed.

I tried it and found it interesting, but not enough so that I wanted to
subscribe. It was fun, but it just didn't hook me.
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Richard Clayton
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