No one else has commented that WARP 10 is impossible? Even if MS pulls off WARP 10, it'll just turn them into some weird lizard thing. Though for Ballmer that could be a good thing.
Seriously. IMO pass/fail is far superior to any kind of scaled system which changes or gets curved so that the kids who failed can feel better about it.
They gave away too much contol, and were forced to ship early by other corporations. They tried to do too many things at once...
It's a damn shame, too - it was a decent enough game idea, that might have turned out well if they had spent enough time on it, and focused more on world design and content than technological infrastructure.
I can attest to that. My roommate got hired at EA to work on Hellgate last August, and nearly everyday he'd come home saying something like "This game is going to suck. It could be awesome, but EA wants it out by Halloween and it won't be good if we do that." One of his big sticking points was that in all of their marketing they were touting the multiplayer stuff, but the dev side hadn't even started working on the multiplayer aspect as of Mid-September, and the game was supposed to release a month later? Their solution was "We'll patch it in later."
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No one else has commented that WARP 10 is impossible? Even if MS pulls off WARP 10, it'll just turn them into some weird lizard thing. Though for Ballmer that could be a good thing.
Seriously. IMO pass/fail is far superior to any kind of scaled system which changes or gets curved so that the kids who failed can feel better about it.
They gave away too much contol, and were forced to ship early by other corporations. They tried to do too many things at once...
It's a damn shame, too - it was a decent enough game idea, that might have turned out well if they had spent enough time on it, and focused more on world design and content than technological infrastructure.
I can attest to that. My roommate got hired at EA to work on Hellgate last August, and nearly everyday he'd come home saying something like "This game is going to suck. It could be awesome, but EA wants it out by Halloween and it won't be good if we do that." One of his big sticking points was that in all of their marketing they were touting the multiplayer stuff, but the dev side hadn't even started working on the multiplayer aspect as of Mid-September, and the game was supposed to release a month later? Their solution was "We'll patch it in later."