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, I would suggest that nothing was really pathetic with Mad Viking post.
Considering recent pressure against Yin on the forum, where lot of people start to diminish his early efforts for a better Civ III, just because his recent wave of doubtiful posts and (may be) delusion, I think it would be fair to understand that Yin can overreact a bit.
More in general, I feel how difficult is to spend two years of enthusiasm around a game: time pass, some of the best people leave the forum, some of the new (of course) can't appreciate why isn't always all "perfect and well" with Firaxis announce...
Is like some work projects, where you can't see the moment you can put an end and take some rest, but you still feel like you can do something "last minute" task to improve the final result (or simply save the boat
).
It's not still time to print the final report, but I know how urging is the temptation to polish and show the shiny (tin) box, while the dust and dirty must go under the carpet.
Into one of my post above I whispered that List and EC3 hasn't been enough, not because they where less than a greater effort (one of the best of the genre, if not really the only great example of fan interaction with developers).
In fact, I always underlyned it should be a source of more feedback and results. If not for the "conservative sequel design" planned decision, I'm sure many more ideas will have fit in.
So far that is the great pity with Civ III opportunity, IMHO.
But it is not fault of Yin, MarkG, Korn, Raingoon, DanQ, etc. etc., of course.
, I would suggest that nothing was really pathetic with Mad Viking post.Considering recent pressure against Yin on the forum, where lot of people start to diminish his early efforts for a better Civ III, just because his recent wave of doubtiful posts and (may be) delusion, I think it would be fair to understand that Yin can overreact a bit.
More in general, I feel how difficult is to spend two years of enthusiasm around a game: time pass, some of the best people leave the forum, some of the new (of course) can't appreciate why isn't always all "perfect and well" with Firaxis announce...
Is like some work projects, where you can't see the moment you can put an end and take some rest, but you still feel like you can do something "last minute" task to improve the final result (or simply save the boat
). It's not still time to print the final report, but I know how urging is the temptation to polish and show the shiny (tin) box, while the dust and dirty must go under the carpet.
Into one of my post above I whispered that List and EC3 hasn't been enough, not because they where less than a greater effort (one of the best of the genre, if not really the only great example of fan interaction with developers).
In fact, I always underlyned it should be a source of more feedback and results. If not for the "conservative sequel design" planned decision, I'm sure many more ideas will have fit in.
So far that is the great pity with Civ III opportunity, IMHO.
But it is not fault of Yin, MarkG, Korn, Raingoon, DanQ, etc. etc., of course.
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