RedDevil Wrote:LOL falco Well done at giving them a little hell..
I was working on it myself, but rather went for my money back and left it at that :)
BFC will be a long time getting my support / money in the future, they have built their castle and it will crumble on top of them as they alienate the many die hard supporters of the CM-X1 engine. Hard to make a profit when you're selling crap, unless you're in the fertilizer business.
IMO UBI-Soft has stepped up to being a premier software company, that does support their products. Even tho they have a reputation of letting consumers beta test products, they do fix things without calling their customers names and admonishing them for "not getting with it".
Yes, I remember when guys were buying SF just because BF was making it and we support them....I buy games I like, not ones that are needed to support a game companies profits, unless I own the game company....which at the moment I don't.
I never forget that these guys came from Avalon Hill and that was the same stuff they put in the General magazine. I wrote a letter to the editor and told them to stop making crap or they were going to be history. Same thing happened. On all fronts.
The arrogance level was so high you couldn't see the top of the mountain.
Their games were getting so bad you had to redesign them when you got them home with so many house rules it didn't warrant buying the games.
I was told I just didn't get it.
I started getting the beam of negative opinion pointed at me until I stopped supporting them altogether.
They did the same thing with Squad Leader that BF is now doing with CM.
Started off encompassing everything. Then we started breaking it down into smaller and smaller pieces...more and more modules for more and more money. Then we do a complete revision in which just the rules cost you about $100. Sound familiar with what BFC is doing with CM?
IMO, the results should be about the same. Just like AH did with SL/ASL BFC may have made a classic and then go out of business. Just like with SL/ASL CM will live on with or without them.
Jim Rose, another old AH guy did it right, got a few games that were hits then sold Talon Soft and took his money and ran.
Good Hunting.
MR