gazfun
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ORIGINAL: pzgndr Erik Rutins recently posted this: quote:
Hi guys, In response to the many requests late last year, I just wanted to let you know that we are very interested in continuing to develop and improve TOAW, including the possibility of a TOAW IV in the future. We've been in contact with Ralph, who we would really like to be the developer going forward as he has been in the past. Ralph is going through some tough times and I think it will be some time before he is ready to start a new project or invest significant development time. Our preference is to give Ralph some time and hope that he will be available in the medium-term, but I know a lot of you are impatient for faster progress. Unfortunately I don't have better news right now than to say that whatever may come, it is not our intention to "retire" TOAW, it's our goal to continue and improve it. We appreciate very much the work of all members of the TOAD team and the community in helping us improve TOAW to date and we're also interested in your feedback on where we should go with TOAW in the future. Regards, - Erik Which is great. But it would be nice to get some official updates from Matrix on other games that are not on the "Discontinued Games" list; i.e., still sold and supported. Lots of games seem to hit a plateau and die in place, when perhaps a little more TLC would help a lot. For Liberty!, Commander Napoleon at War, and Empires in Arms come to mind, among others. This begs a question, and I know it's a sensitive subject regarding developer's priorites and propriety rights and such, but can't Matrix/Slitherine do a little bit more to encourage its developers to continue game improvements or, at some point, promote 3rd-party developers to help keep old games alive? A good example is the Grand Strategy mod for Commander Europe at War. If the original developer cannot or will not continue to improve a game, then let someone else work on it. We at TGHQ have a lot of players who love this game, we still are getting increasing membership to Play EiA "Empire in Arms" which probably one patch away from fixing this, so then there will be no bugs to speak of. But the other issue is that this should be updated so that the use of new Tablets and Smart phones can play this, because the game is quiet popular, once people get the idea, they stick around with this game.
< Message edited by gazfun -- 2/25/2013 9:56:15 PM >
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