Jumpgate: A Betatester's Postmortem

RazorsKiss

Diver012

Great read!

Sums it up for me rather nicely.

RazorsKiss

Thanks!

crackrat

Good read definately I could add a few things but well some things I cant discuss(NDA) and others were before your time....but yea you hit on alot of the things I have seen. I do believe 3do did not help as much though, mainly the problems started by 3do were money related at the time ND took Jumpgate back over they didnt have the funding backing them that they should have and alot of the design problems since have really suffered because of that. The old adage that you cant make money without money really comes home in the early jumpgate phases of retail and still plague the game to this day... would you mind if i pass this on to istvan, i'm sure that he would really like to read this and from all my talks with him prolly would heavily agree on alot of its content.

RazorsKiss

Yeah - it's not "finished", but the finished version will be up at the url above, and will eventually be submitted to at least one site as a "formal" article.

crackrat

the 2 ironies of this so far is the game isnt really dead (us server suffering definatly from lack of proper funding and only one developer atm yes)yet....and well ist has been working on alot of the things that are wrong....and well you know i cant think of a single game yet that hasnt had flaws even doom 3 has some errr flaws and how many generations of fps have gone into it....still a good read though

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	RazorsKiss Member Pilot Name: RazorsKiss Joystick: Saitek X-52 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Gulfport, MS Posts: 148	Jumpgate: A Betatester's Postmortem Clicky here, if you're interested.
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	Diver012 Moderator Pilot Name: Diver012 Faction: non-aligned Joystick: Cyborg Evo Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ocean Isle Beach Posts: 290	Great read! Sums it up for me rather nicely.


	crackrat Cadet Pilot Name: crackrat Joystick: x45 Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: golden, colorado Posts: 36	Good read definately I could add a few things but well some things I cant discuss(NDA) and others were before your time....but yea you hit on alot of the things I have seen. I do believe 3do did not help as much though, mainly the problems started by 3do were money related at the time ND took Jumpgate back over they didnt have the funding backing them that they should have and alot of the design problems since have really suffered because of that. The old adage that you cant make money without money really comes home in the early jumpgate phases of retail and still plague the game to this day... would you mind if i pass this on to istvan, i'm sure that he would really like to read this and from all my talks with him prolly would heavily agree on alot of its content.
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