still very eager to play the new (upcomming) build

[wolf14455]

any news? Up to Apple I guess, looks like the 2 weeks target as predicted, eh.

[wolf14455]

Well its more than 2 weeks now. Any glitch, hick ups etc at Apple side? Would be nice to finnaly get started.

[wolf14455]

Well I asked similair in the steam forum and no reply there either. Today I presented a querry in the slitherine forum about the lack of support in these two forums butno reply yet. Ofcource I did it after lunchtime and now its time for them to end the days work and I guess the dev dont check that forum either on day to day basis. Well I bought the game and really want to be playing again.

[toddtreadway]

I am really interested in playing the new version also. It has taken a while, but I hope it comes out soon.

[Lord Zimoa]

The new 1.6.2 PC and iOS CTGW is a while now on the Matrix FTP, I hope they send it to Apple next week.

[toddtreadway]

Oh, is it available for the PC currently, or are you waiting for it to go up on Apple before releasing it to the PC/Steam?

[Moltke71]

ORIGINAL: Lord Zimoa

The new 1.6.2 PC and iOS CTGW is a while now on the Matrix FTP, I hope they send it to Apple next week.

Never mind. I got it.

[Lord Zimoa]

Sadly we found a bug caused by a missing file , so we had to rebuild and check all again, they are now signed off and I hope Slitherine will send all to Apple next week and get approval asap, so we can finally release the official patch cross-platform.

Oh, is it available for the PC currently, or are you waiting for it to go up on Apple before releasing it to the PC/Steam?

We have to await Apple`s approval and release cross-platform or the cross-platform MP will not work...and we still did some other fixes compared to the 1.6.0 Beta.

I will post a full 1.6.2 asa the patches are out.

[AdmiralSarek]

Sounds good, looking forward to the new version

[chemkid]

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[wolf14455]

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[wolf14455]

I really thought it was done now and finally I could start playing this weekend. I gonna remind my self to think twice before getting an interest in game involving different platforms where Apple is the mediator. Badwill for Apple this time, I say.
My interest and eagerness to even come in here and check is dwindling.[:-]

[operating]

I've been of the thought: That it may not be the fault of Apple, perhaps an in house screwup of some kind.. The bogus Steam update sends another signal that all is not right.

[wolf14455]

Hmmm, yup can be so too. I hope they sort it out soon as it a very good game. Long overdue to be played again.

[Lord Zimoa]

Beta testing is over and we expect Slitherine are preparing for the official cross-platform 1.6.2 patch.

Guessing here as we were not informed ourselves.

[wolf14455]

Ah, ok. Thanx for responding. Can you shead any light on your own opinion about this crossplatform issue? For me belonging to the old school PC gaming feeling a little sidestepped of sort. cheers

[Lord Zimoa]

Of course technically when you go for cross-platform development, it is unavoidable really to keep all versions on all platforms the same.

Logistically it is a nightmare for us as well.

But the benefit for the MP players is you can play against a lot more people and also play on any device you prefer.

A solution would be to take out the MP part of the game completely as it is less than 5% of the players that play MP, 95% or more only play SP.

For us we need the revenue of the extra platforms to stay afloat, a PC only game is even harder to handle commercially.

Games like CTGW hardly make a profit if you look at how much time, effort and development costs we spent building a custom engine and porting it, is not something we would do again.

Nowadays with initiatives like eg. Unity and Unreal commercial and community supported engines, we at least have a much cheaper and well supported alternative, that drastically reduce our cross-platform development costs, porting costs and time.

Simply put, a one platform PC only game, for us at least, would be commercially not viable enough to consider doing.


Cheers,

Tim aka LZ

[wolf14455]

Understandable. Thanx for clearing that out. Its a learning process I know. As you are making this pearl and propably will do it again. And I propably gonna buy it too, I hope the cross platform issues is mastered. [;)]
cheers

[operating]

LZ,

Correct me, if I am interpreting your post to mean this is the end of Commander style games as we know it?

Bob

[lparkh]

Speaking as a would be developer for Matrixgames I am hoping you mean "we ourselves will no longer develop PC only games" as opposed to "we will not accept PC only games."
I've been working on a PC only game for a long time and seen many PC only games at Matrix. Will you still accept such?
Otherwise this is going to be a very bad day

p.s. I understand that there are further criteria than this for accepting games but I want to know I haven't doomed myself by developing for PC only.