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Originally Posted by moore4807
traveler99,
OK if your a veteran of hard coding moves from the 80's - then how on god's green earth can you complain about this??? These guys acknowledged mistakes, we both know coding consists today of Hundreds of Thousands lines of coding to a game. Way more than we ever did back then...never mind the computer languages! Essentially they have said FHM is a three man shop with occasional borrowing of people (or GUI) from OOTP, I'm ok with that.
Your comments about screens (#3) This doesn't make sense because your still referring to GUI, not coding! The GUI doesnt reflect mistakes other than what is input data (names, dates, etc.) GUI is colors, sizes of boxes, and fonts for example. and data entry is not coding, but still has to be done.
The coding tells the processor what to do with it. A simplistic example is today's Microsoft Excel - program A-1 through A-12 to sum and whatever you fill in those boxes with will be the sum total in box A-13. Ergo you just programmed! Now forget to assign the fill box and A-13 looks like random numbers and symbols because the logical computer cant reason - it just does exactly what its told. Why is that so hard to apply here for these guys? Do a couple thousand lines of coding and marking each one down so you can track what's done... Then wait three weeks and find there was a problem and one of the three guys has to wade back through all that code to find the problem. Even using a data compiler that job still sucks!
Anyway you are entitled to your opinion, I just find it shocking in this day and age, someone from my generation has so little patience with a game. I still say look at it as an investment, IRL you dont collect money the second you invest it, You give it time and let it grow.
As was pointed out, people are still playing EHM07 six years later and what a return on investment it's been for me! 72 months for $24.99 It will be the same for FHM if its given a chance...
See - there is no bashing on either side necessary... I'm sure the developers want to have this game working correctly as much as you want to play it. For the record what part of FHM cant you play? I am on my third season of NHL (New game, NOT historical) since the update and have had nothing go wrong, some of the data needs addressing and how the $$$ FA works but its not game stopping IMHO.
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my reason for my gripe is this, when they released the "Paid" Beta it was actually Alpha, Beta is playable supposed to be and that surely was NOT, Now they release the game and its Beta...what more can i say? if they released it at least in near proper release version and patch it up after whatever minor bugs there be, i would have zero issues with it. But intentionally deceive customers (the its Beta no work as an excuse anymore) have you seen the adverts of the game? now they are selling it, many of the features don't even work...so yes, i'm not a happy camper after paying for beta and waiting for a year already and still cannot play, even after the patch 1.03 i cannot even resign any of the players...how ******ed is that...so simple thing, hope this complaints make the devs think twice for FHM 2 when to release it...they have lost lot of customers already for refunds and simply not buying it, its not only a loss to them but its a huge loss to us people who love Manager style games, if the value of the brand goes down so can go the efforts behind it as it stops making money, hope they take the criticism seriously and try to up the ante soon. I love Manager games and to wait so long for a game like this (since 07 no any good ones) and get disappointed like this, its huge disappointment...