SE5 gets some... "recognition"

[DingBat]

What does being a one man show have to do with waiting until a game is stable before releasing it?

You know, I actually have no problem with someone making a business decision to release a poor quality product. What I do have a problem with is not informing the consumer that they are taking a chance when purchasing said product. Aaron made a business decision. Unfortunately, he withheld information that would have allowed me to make an informed consumer decision.

Being a one person shop has nothing to do with quality. I would, instead, observe that being a one person shop should, perhaps, reign in the design a bit. I would have preferred fewer, but completed, features to the current plethora of half-completed features. Rather than issue patches after release, he could have released new upgrades with those missing features.

As I said, I think it was an ill-advised move to release the game in this condition. The true believers will obviously stick with the game, whatever the condition. I just hope that stalwart group doesn't find itself shrinking with each release.

[Combat Wombat]

DingBat said:

What does being a one man show have to do with waiting until a game is stable before releasing it?

You know, I actually have no problem with someone making a business decision to release a poor quality product. What I do have a problem with is not informing the consumer that they are taking a chance when purchasing said product. Aaron made a business decision. Unfortunately, he withheld information that would have allowed me to make an informed consumer decision.

Being a one person shop has nothing to do with quality. I would, instead, observe that being a one person shop should, perhaps, reign in the design a bit. I would have preferred fewer, but completed, features to the current plethora of half-completed features. Rather than issue patches after release, he could have released new upgrades with those missing features.

As I said, I think it was an ill-advised move to release the game in this condition. The true believers will obviously stick with the game, whatever the condition. I just hope that stalwart group doesn't find itself shrinking with each release.

There was the demo for one thing... The there was all the talk of bugs by people playing the demo even if you didn't play it. Then there are reviews. Many ways for you to find out about a product before you purchase it.

[Xrati]

With all the bad reviews and a "House Divided" here on this site. We will just have to wait to see if poor sales forces SF to pull the product. SF's in business to make money. Lost revenue to poor sales due to bad reviews can be enough to kill the product. Keep in mind that not all the customers frequent this site and don't have the patience to wait for patches.

[Phoenix-D]

Have you looked at SFI's back-catalog? Compared to most of those games even 1.00 SE5 is a perfect little gem.

[Xrati]

Maybe that's why people stay here at this site, better games?

[Phoenix-D]

SFI's definitely an odd publisher, and I'm really not sure what MM got out of going to them. I haven't seen SE5 on the shelves at all, for example..

[Baal]

I've seen it at The EB games just down the street from me.

[Fyron]

I've seen it at EB Games too.

[capnq]

Phoenix-D said: SFI's definitely an odd publisher, and I'm really not sure what MM got out of going to them.

Enough money to continue development (according to at least one interview).

Speaking of odd, can anybody explain to me why attempting to load that Metacritic site would cause a soft reboot?

[Atrocities]

Any time a web site causes a soft reboot means web site bad!