Steve Moret talks on ToEE patch #2
Steve Moret talks on ToEE patch #2
Game News - posted by Spazmo on Thu 29 April 2004, 20:10:15
Tags: Temple of Elemental Evil; Troika GamesSteve Moret, lead programmer on Temple of Elemental Evil at Troika <a href=http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=376117>posted something at the Atari forums[/url] yesterday about the status of the second patch for ToEE. Here's the dirt.
I've been holding off posting about this for a while now, but seeing as Atari doesn't want to respond to my questions as to what’s going on from their end I'm going to let you guys know what has happened on my end.
On the morning of April 12th, 2004 I e-mailed the ToEE producer at Atari what we hoped to be the final beta of patch 2. Verifying that he did receive it, that producer wrote back indicating he was going to try and get it into testing as soon as he could.
That was the last I've heard from Atari.
In these subsequent weeks, I've been e-mailing that producer, another producer, and the PR manager for ToEE to try and find out what the status of the patch is. To date, I have received no e-mails back.
I have also (unofficially) begun work on what I hope to be patch 3, which hopefully will include some new content (so far new long item descriptions courtesy of Mike Mercurio) as well as fix up any issues people are still seeing after patch 2 gets released.
I am assuming patch 2 is still in testing, but since nobody at Atari has written me back in 2 weeks I cannot say for certain. I also cannot release what exactly is in patch 2. As soon as I have more information I'll let you know, even if it is as vague as "Atari has contacted me and we will have more information at a later date."
Well, that just sucks. What the hell is up with Atari now? Steve and the other Troika programmer make a patch on their own time and then Atari just sits on it? Forshame! Check out the thread linked above for more poop straight from Steve Moret.
Thanks to Exitium for surfacing from his new MMORPG long enough to bring this to my attention.
I've been holding off posting about this for a while now, but seeing as Atari doesn't want to respond to my questions as to what’s going on from their end I'm going to let you guys know what has happened on my end.
On the morning of April 12th, 2004 I e-mailed the ToEE producer at Atari what we hoped to be the final beta of patch 2. Verifying that he did receive it, that producer wrote back indicating he was going to try and get it into testing as soon as he could.
That was the last I've heard from Atari.
In these subsequent weeks, I've been e-mailing that producer, another producer, and the PR manager for ToEE to try and find out what the status of the patch is. To date, I have received no e-mails back.
I have also (unofficially) begun work on what I hope to be patch 3, which hopefully will include some new content (so far new long item descriptions courtesy of Mike Mercurio) as well as fix up any issues people are still seeing after patch 2 gets released.
I am assuming patch 2 is still in testing, but since nobody at Atari has written me back in 2 weeks I cannot say for certain. I also cannot release what exactly is in patch 2. As soon as I have more information I'll let you know, even if it is as vague as "Atari has contacted me and we will have more information at a later date."
Well, that just sucks. What the hell is up with Atari now? Steve and the other Troika programmer make a patch on their own time and then Atari just sits on it? Forshame! Check out the thread linked above for more poop straight from Steve Moret.
Thanks to Exitium for surfacing from his new MMORPG long enough to bring this to my attention.
