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Originally Posted by mikev
The unpaid mods have never been the issue.
The issue is that they are the ONLY form of support that is out there.
Then again, think about it for a minute... You have never had a problem getting issues resolved, but they're always issues with solo games...
OK back on topic.
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Staying off topic for a second more, OOTP has always been pretty much just Markus as it's pretty much only employee, In the move over to SI he joined a larger company, but I don't know how many people SI has dedicated to OOTP. Once Markus said that the 1.03 patch was it, he moved on to start programming 2007 pretty much full time, and that is where his focus is. Once that final patch comes out, unless Markus sees something he just has to fix(and it has happened before) then that versions official support has ended due to the number of people that work on the game (1). The community will work with you to get the game working to your expectations but it will mostly be through workarounds and all unpaid mods and others helping. Unfortunately through a lot of different factors, the community is pretty weak right now, so there is a great hole that previous versions of the game didn't have, in getting help to peoples problems.
You can say that is pretty bad support for the game, but that is the nature of the current gaming industry, for better or worse, a new game must come out just about every year, so there has to be a point where Markus needs to start working on next years product and stops trying to perfect to everyone's satisfaction the previous version.