fitzy opened this issue on Jan 17, 2005 ยท 70 posts
Penguinisto posted Wed, 19 January 2005 at 12:21 PM
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Err, first off, it would be mega-stupid to fix a known bug that will leave a sizeable chunk of one's customer base with a substantial number of items suddenly worthless. id Software tried doing something like that by fixing a well-known and universally used "strafe-jump" speed bug in the game Quake 3 Arena. The demo wasn't even past its first 24 hours, and the company got a shedload of screams from users demanding that the bug be re-introduced. The Quake 3 retail version had the bug back in it. I suspect that CL will, given its history of rescinding the "Activation" copy-protection scheme they had, follow suit and leave certain bugs in the program as features. As for P6, I'm mostly going to sit and wait. I put up a laundry list of stuff that should be addressed, but until/unless I hear yea or nay on 'em, I've no reason to pass judgements on Poser 6 beyond what I've posted. If Poser 6 holds no real benefit for me (money, time, and data migration vs. new features, stability and performance), then I won't purchase it. Simple as that. I still use RedHat 7.2 and SuSE 9.1 machines at work for that reason, even though RH's Fedora and SuSE 9.1 Linux distros are basically free for the download. I didn't post speculation, just suggestions based on past history and the fact that we have (and more importantly, CL has) plenty of time for them to be implemented. /P