Will There Be One More Patch?

parabolize · #1 March 2nd, 2004, 06:24 AM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:

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Originally posted by parabolize:
Its called SE5 and for the love of strategy let him work on it.

Ah man, SEV will be out in about a year or two, in the mean time... if he could find the time, a Last Last patch would be sweet right?

Look at it this way:
You (Atrocities) are always posting about ways for MM to make more money right? Patchs dont make money sequels do. The combat for se really needs to be redone with smarter AIs.

Paul1980au · #2 March 2nd, 2004, 06:25 AM

Im sure there are enough people at MM to do both.

The fans have so many suggestions that could be worked into SE4 and to leave it at 1.91 is making it unfinished potential.

Oh well im sure some will agree and others disagree on this but im still going to try and get email campaign to aaron going here.

Paul1980au · #3 March 2nd, 2004, 06:27 AM

You know that perhaps charging $5 for each major upgrade - say every 2 months would satisfy all camps - those that want upgrades would be willing to pay for it - MM would have an income stream while developing SE5 which it wont have as much if it just leaves SE4 dead in the water and 2 years on development will hit hte profit margins.

Its a dual solution - work on SE5 - work on SE4 and charge $5 for Users to download each major patch say 4 or 5 more patches 1 every 3 months would give us a year of upgrades. Average of $25 per user over that period.

Fyron · #4 March 2nd, 2004, 06:28 AM

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Originally posted by Paul1980au:
If we were looking at 6 months away from SE5 i would say leave it but 1 -2 years is a bit long - im sure sales would hold up of SE4 in the interim if we were to see at least 2 monthly patches until the SE5 comes out. Even minor patch fixes and fiddling around the edges - im sure sales would hold up more.

We should get a petition and email campaign going here folks to put some good old fashion pressure on MM to keep us happy - we will be more likley to buy SE5 that way. There are still many game aspects i would like to see enhanced etc.

Leave the man alone! He has supported this game for 4 years now. It is time to move on.

Fyron · #5 March 2nd, 2004, 06:32 AM

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Originally posted by Paul1980au:
Im sure there are enough people at MM to do both.

No, there are not. MM is a one man operation. Aaron Hall hires people for graphics and sound, but all of the programming is done by him.

Imperial · #6 March 2nd, 2004, 07:12 AM

i would rather have some decent weekly or monthly progress reports on SE-V than another patch from shrapnel or Aaron --heh

Atrocities · #7 March 2nd, 2004, 07:15 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by Paul1980au:
Im sure there are enough people at MM to do both.

No, there are not. MM is a one man operation. Aaron Hall hires people for graphics and sound, but all of the programming is done by him.

And this is why pirating his games really does hurt him and why many of us, if no all, seriously frown upon pirates of his games.