ORIGINAL: TonyE
The text says new version, ANW 3.10 is a large update and most certainly a new version since the old one was 3.9.x. HCE wasn't a huge step but it brought the game from 2008.044 to 2009.050, the database updates for HCE were more impressive than the game updates imho. In any event that was a new version. So no lie there on Matrix's part.ORIGINAL: ruixilyy
1. Paragraph 2: 'Harpoon: Ultimate Edition will include both a new version of Harpoon 3 Advanced Naval Warfare and a new version of Harpoon: Commander's Edition.'
--Are these two game in HUE 'new'? They are the game most of us already owned for several years. The so-called 'new version' is actually the addition of the 3.10 patch and 2009.44 patch for HCE. They should be released as free updates, like all the previous updates for these two games. And now the patched version of the game becomes a new game. What a 'new' version it is! I spend the money on the orignally free updates! I did use the beta updates of these two games months before the release of HUE and i find no real difference.
2.Paragraph 6: 'We believe that continuing to improve the fidelity of the simulation and continuing to advance the state of the art for computer Harpoon is the best way to serve our customers. Harpoon on the computer should always look forward and continue to improve along with the latest improvements and updates from the system models, rather than look back. We give credit to Harpoon's past on the computer, but its future is not in backwards compatibility, but rather in continuing to improve along with the authoritative state of the art models from Bond and Carlson that are simply not available anywhere else. '
-- What a good announcement! So where is the latest improvement and future updates since the release of HUE?
You've seen them if you have been grabbing updated databases from HarpGamer for HCE and if you've been trying out the beta builds. On the ANW front you can look forward to ANW 3.11 and already sample the HUD-4 database improvements. You can see in ANW 3.10 the beginning uses of the Harpoon 5 models.
3. The last paragraph: 'We believe the new features and content in the upcoming Harpoon: Ultimate Edition...'
--Anything new apart from those already in the beta updates? Do not tell me the old versions of harpoon games are the 'new content' mentioned here.
That statement was posted before HUE was released so the statement applied to the release of the game, not future updates. So that content would be the digital military art, ANW 3.10 improvements, database updates,...
The title of this thread is 'what should Matrix be doing with Harpoon', not other sites such as HarpGamer. As far as I know, it is totally free of charge to download new database from HarpGamer so it is irrelevant to 'the things that Matrix should do'. Also, making use of free things to charge customers is not a right way. Both 3.10 for H3ANW and 2009 update for HCE should be released free of charge but now it became a 'new feature' of HUE.
Then you mentioned of 3.11. I don't know whether it is a beta update but in the Members Area on Matrix Games there is no download for such a beta update. I recall in H3ANW era members who registered their purchased game are accessible to the beta update prior to the formal release of the update. This is not the case for HUE. So according to your logic, customers of HUE have no choice but to visit HarpGamer to get 'improvements' such as updated database and beta updates. In my opinion, this is what Matrix should do--to keep customers informed of the improvements on Matrix site, not a third party site.