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Les_the_Sarge_9_1 -> (7/16/2003 7:40:46 PM)
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Supply and demand is all that counts.
I can recall telling people they should just leave the game alone, and stop pestering people for the perfect fix. I think this was back in 4.something.
Now of course, since 4. something we have achieved 3 mega Campaigns, and to my surprise I am even working on the 4th (something I would have thought a silly notion a year ago hehe).
Panzer Leo might himself not want to have a separate forum, hardly an impossible outcome. The notion was more just an observation myself.
A separate forum might help collect and unit H2H relevant comments, or it might do the reverse, and make people unaware where they went (assuming some might look no further than the open comments in the general section of the Steel Panthers forum itself).
As for Matrix Games not wishing to field comments about someone else's efforts, I don't think there is any rationale behind that.
Matrix Games doesn't own Steel Panthers either, it's owned by SSI. They only own the software called Mega Campaigns where Steel Panthers is concerned.
But as H2H is clearly a very well established major mod for the core game, I don't think anyone is ever going to claim it is in some way unworthy.
7.2 is it the end, hmm ask the people that made 7.2 not me. I long ago gave up the notion people would be unable to find the interest to do so.
Combat Leader is just around the corner. The consensus seems to be , so what.
Anyone not actually part of the team designing Combat Leader is obviously not worried about employing time fussing with Steel Panthers.
I would rather like to be spending my money on Combat Leader. But I am perhaps sufficiently realistic, that Combat Leader will have to earn it's keep. Steel Panthers did not leap out of the box as 7.2 after all.
If Combat Leader is only as good as initial release Steel Panthers was from the point of view of software and polish, it will have done Matrix Games proud. Because I for one think Steel Panthers is a good example of a truely great intial relese game.
Sure it got better, a great deal better. But I have seen quite a few games that sucked day one, and sucked through several patches, till finally, it was more or less merely "ok".
Being great day one is a major challenge.
So here is to H2H, simply because Panzer Leo has managed to do what only a very small few of us know how to do, take a great game, and actually do something decisive to actually make a noticable difference.
He might not even want a separate forum himself.
But a special place is in no way indicative he must continually slave over it to the exclusion of all else.
It merely says, excellent job man, we need to give your cool mod its own niche. it won't stop people from talking about it elsewhere, but it would give those that respond to questions a link that would allow us to say, you can find all you need to know right here.
I do that all the time by the way with several games and or sites/forums.
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