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ORIGINAL: KG Erwin
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I said yes, the gamers will understand...

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ORIGINAL: hellcat

not out in June? UNBELIEVEABLE
you guys suck

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ORIGINAL: Orzel Bialy


With all due respect the questions being asked now by some community members should be answered by those above Gunny if you ask me.

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ORIGINAL: hellcat
well personally speaking I don't think this forum gets much moderation at all, questions go unanswered everywhere especially about MG bugs.

Yo Hellcat,
Moderator is not supposed to answer every question, and again your anger is misdirected. As Ken said...you're going after the head messenger. As for others higher up, I agree some inkling of higher up thinking would be appreciated but I think they worry if someone in MG explains the wait and says all they did on the project, someone else will add.. "wait, you didn't add the Ethiopian army OOB---please hold up everything and add the Ethiopians!" or "Well how come an AT gun can't move more than one hex? In five minutes I can completely stop firing, pick up a 75mm AT Gun and carry it 800 meters, even with someone shooting at me---heck, I'd be faster if someone shot at me. Then I can unlimber the gun, AND fire, all in the same time. Get a stopwatch, I'll prove it to you....make that AT Gun move 40 hexes and still fire in a turn!"
Comments like that discourage the OOB guys from posting and discourage others from even going for the game("oh, it doesn't have Ethiopians, it's incomplete, so says richcat, why would I want to play that").
Personally I don't understand why we need an 8.2 but then when it comes out I will use some of the goodies, just like I use the Norway 1949 OOB in creating some scenarios---neat additions from 8.0. So I can't complain about "waiting" for 8.2, although I am waiting for it to create new scenarios. I'm also waiting for CL and a few other games to be released so I can try scenario building with those games. Not the end of the world either way.
I check once a day, not 20, and now I know not to expect it until July--My bday is July 28th, which around that time last year they released the MC Desert Fox by download(after 4 months of me begging for it!), so if 8.2 is not released this year until July 28th, I guess I will be the only happy person! :-)
Oh, and HC, I saw your post on another forum---it's free and I love you, man!(er, the game is free, but I'm joking about the love! )

BEST WISHES,
STEELER

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ORIGINAL: hellcat

and what a great job you've done - NOT

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ORIGINAL: KG Erwin

Steeler, I noticed you were online, too. Remember the sense of anticipation when MCSE was about to be released? With 8.2, that anticipation is here again. It's exciting, like the night before Christmas, but I was one of the elves that worked to get it here. I'm sitting on edge, waiting for it to happen, and I hope you'll like it.

Yo KG,
I don't doubt I will like the 8.2. I know Resisti did a fantastic job with updating scenarios and I've read some posts by the guys working on the OOBs. But what does sadden me is that more than likely there will be no more MC's. I don't know how much money they bring in to MG, but is it possible it brings in enough to get someone to retool the engine(as both Wild Bill and Grenadier have complained about it) and make the Stalingrad Mega Campaign a reality? I think this would bring mucho money to MG and really do more to breath life into SPWAW than another OOB patch by itself would. 8.0 WITH MCSE made January a great month and I am sure MG wasn't hurting by the sales.
As for your role of mod, I regret the early warnings you gave, as they have hurt you and MG. BUT...I do understand how it happens. In the business world, similar things happen. We had a new product line to sell two years ago, and the containers were held up first by production problems and then as our one overseas factory sent the goods we went on Orange Alert, then the Dockworkers Strike, THEN the freaking Consolidated Trucking went bankrupt giving us a trucking company that lost our one container! Talk about nightmares...our customers were pissed as they missed their ads, and I was the guy calling them every week telling them that we had yet another delay.
BUT when they did get the goods, they sold like hotcakes--we are still selling the line hand over fist now, two years later. $#!+ happens.

BEST WISHES,
STEELER

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ORIGINAL: Orzel Bialy
HOWEVER, please note that if there is talk of any more "extras" being added that would continue this spat of delays...PLEASE JUST SAY NO!
Thank you.

BEST WISHES,
STEELER

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ORIGINAL: KG Erwin
I would love to see a new MC, if a primary designer would step forward and take it on.

BEST WISHES,
STEELER

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ORIGINAL: STEELER13

Yo Ken...
By the way, have you read Bitter Glory? What's your opinion? Very OT so if you want to send me an email, I'd love to hear your comments. The author paints a picture to me of a Poland that was asking to be repartitioned by pissing off the Germans AND the Russians, along with the Czechs, the Hungarians, the British, and just about everyone.

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ORIGINAL: hellcat

i don't think so, by the time 8.2 ever gets here MG with a lot of help from you and your spurious announcements will have put out any fire that was burning for 8.2

Gunny I would seriously consider your position as moderator of this forum. It's noty funny, it's not fair, it's not sensible and it's certainly not good business for MG to have behaved how they are behaving. It's like a small bunch of power mad nuts and control freaks holding the game and the community hostage.

This place used to be something good, now it stinks to high heaven. You're part of it.

I vote new mod

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ORIGINAL: VikingNo2

How do you become a moderator ?