Looks like they've quit updating the release info and I've visited the forums a couple times and it looks like they are deleting threads at a very fast rate....

The most curious deletion was the Jennifer Winter thread specifically for complaints and questions about the release. Nice work by the media relations staff.

Yep, that one confused me. Also, I noticed when she posted that thread she no longer had the title "Media Relations" or whatever it was under her name.

I think Antmeister should have done a parody song of Annie's "tomorrow, tomorrow"

At this point, why do they even bother posting updates? They're not saying anything significant anyway, and nobody really expects the game to be out on any given day.

A thought just occured to me:

If this game wanted to be truly customizable and worth purchasing, Daivd should have made a simple scripting language (or used Python) to allow modders to fully customize rulesets. It'd allow you to do crazy shit; it'd allow almost any action in the game to affect the score, number of timeouts, or anything else (number of players on the field?). That would be real customizability and flexibility. What Daivd's doing is a complete and utter joke compared to that.

To the tune of the Beatles' "Yesterday"

Yesterday, the game release seemed so far away
Now it looks as though we're about to play
Oh, I can't wait for yesterday.

Suddenly, I'm not seeing InstallShield in front of me,
Gained 5 on 2nd and 10, now it's 3rd and 3.
Oh, beta testing came suddenly.

Why the release won't go, I don't know, they couldn't say.
I post something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, football was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to post away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

OMG, I can't believe I missed this!!! I was too busy creating crappy photoshop art to notice this...

WELL DONE ANT!!

Well, basic things like onside kicks, fake kicks and options "break" the AI, so I would guess anything that customizable would vaporize the AI.

how hard is it to customize nothing?

Crappy Photoshop? You stuff is hilarious. It even made the video.
:D

Well done.

(although I would have gone with "I beleive in yesterday")

Hmm, I seem to have problems getting into Matrix Games' forums. Anyone else. I think I may have been banned.

I see no "dervack" in the members list anymore, you might have been banned...

Speaking of member list, anybody kind of find this amazingly high:

Looking at our own FOFC, the total number isn't shown but there are 86 pages with +/- 25 members per page or about 2150 members...

FM

Their forum includes members posting on all the various games, etc. I'm actually surprised it's not more than 18,000+, since Matrix Games has published quite a few games.

edit: What's interesting is we will probably pass them in number of posts in about 3 days (2 days if Jeeber stays signed on). :D

I wonder if that's the number of members for all of the entire Matrix boards. Still, that's a lot of damn users...

Frank Brickowski is logged in over there.

OMG.

Video Released.

I caught something in it, gotta try and get a screen capture to explain.

OMG.

Link: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1075989

you're right, I thought that I was still on the MF website...

Thanks for righting me :)

FM

Uh, a little help here. What did you catch?

That's a testament to the Beatles, I guess; I heard the Billy Dean version of this song. When a semi-obscure country artist is covering your stuff, that says what kind of an impact you've had across the breadth of music.

Nevermind.

I'm an idiot.

The CFL has 12 players on the field at a time.

Wait, they actually got something RIGHT??? Stop the presses!!!!

There was some note about you needing a month or two rest since you wouldn't stop changing your sig.

I know we have people going over the video right now like the Zapruder film--but I don't think that you will find anything. After the last video, I think that they went over this one with a fined toothed comb before releasing it to the public.

I believe it is themost covered song of all time.

FWIW, I wasn't looking for problems..

I just looked at the lineups and said "that sure seems like a lot of people on the field"...

And I was right, but it wasn't NFL rules ;)...

Of course, whether you should--as a matter of good PR--review the materials that you are putting on the web in order to generate interest in your product is an exercise that I will leave for the reader.

Personally, I think that it should be the rule and not the exception.

I can't watch the video from work...does the TE fall down at the beginning of every run play again?

Alas, there is no gameplay footage, Bee. It's just showing league setup screens...

Nah, it just shows menu screens and formation screens. No in-game action in this one.

ahh...ok, thanks.

Of course if you allowed such heavy customizability of rules, you'd also encourage AI coders to work on custom AIs to complement the rules.

It'd be really hard, though. I definitely would NOT want to try to code a game that tried to do what i'm suggesting AND have 3d graphics.

SplitP is back!!

When he's scrolling through the roster of Toronto in the video, all of the Offensive Line have either 59 or 60 speed and te QBs have 70ish speed. They're fast sons o' bitches compared to the HBs who all have 80ish speed. The ratings in general also seem to be artificially bloated like madden's.

Training camp looks good, though. I like how simple it appears.

The offense appearantly only has 4 formations. Weird.

They do a good job managing the forums and to be honest I'm a tad jealous that they appear to be able to have someone monitor it full-time (well during office hours at least) ....

PS> The jungle that is the sigames.com forums currently have over 100,000 users - we police the jungle to the best of our ability, however there are lawless areas and users enter at their own risk ;)

This thread is now complete

no it isn't

I have to admit I like the look of the interface. Uncluttered, consistent, appears to be easy to navigate. Doesn't look like things like stat/ratings columns are sortable, though.

OTF is policed? That's like the red zone area that pizza delivery refuses to go to.

Gotta agree with st.cronin on this one.

However, it would have taken a big step towards completion if Marc had told us that "Maximum Football" was a name that they had copyrighted as a potential name when they couldn't use Championship Manager anymore.

:D

I agree. Like most everyone here, I hope that the game is good. Movies like this are nice to see in that regard.

This thread can't be complete. I haven't once mentioned the quarterback for my favorite football team, and I don't think we've seen a picture of Pumpy yet.

We are only two pages away from 50 too. Up over Heartbreak Hill people!

Hater

So, the game comes out tomorrow?

It only takes a day or two once the Gold Release Master Final build is complete. Thanks to the internet!

This title seems inadequate. Can't we add a little bit more to it?

The game'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be bugs!

Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the hard drive,
And the defect list
'Til there's none!

When I'm stuck a play
That's grey,
And phony,
I hike it to my tight end
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!

The game'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Third and negative 8 you say
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I'll release ya Tomorrow!
You're always
A day
A way!