So there is a lot of activity on the beta forums of a game that has gone gold, on the day the game is supposed to be released. That is certainly an encouraging sign.

I just commented on that in the MF forum (before I read your post).

:D

We could take this game, combine it with courside challenge basketball, and have the ultimate vaporware sim game. Courtside Football.

Get Duke Nukem Forever involved and we have a winner.

Sorry Pumpy, but this dude is my new hero.

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I saw three new pages to this thread since I last checked here, and thought the game was released.

May have been the stupidest thought I've ever had.

Things are really starting to get a little testy over there.

Can you see if this game is delayed a little? A tester posting that there was a lot of activity today on the testers forum... Does this mean good or bad?

I am ready for the first big issue(s) (I believe there will be more than one with the game...seeing how it is playing out and how Winter reacts to criticism.) and see how Matrix and D. Winter handle the masses and their complaints.

Should make for an entertaining week. :)

They just announced that they are delaying the release a year so that they can add a custom option for the rouge to count 12 points!!111!!!1!!

OMFG!!!!!11!!!!!


:eek:

shit, threads on this game go back to 2003 in the archives. That's hilarious.

And there (evidently) was another forum that dated before then.

Oh boy.

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http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/...ad.php?t=11039

LOL

Edit: Post #11 Post #11!!

Ya know...I had to actually pause and really think about this for a second. Only then did I decide it is a joke. I think. Maybe.

Ah, you meant our archives.

That makes more sense.

Hey Erik, we see you on the board...

!!!!!!!

Ping: Thornbird (Our Matrix insider)

What are your current thoughts on the situation?

I didn't realize we had a guy on the inside.

Well, he is because I say he is. He's actually related to coolroy.

Whoops.

That's awesome.

Color me shocked :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I must say, the box art is quite fetching.

I can't be mad about that. This guy IS a stud. :)

This thread is the greatest evah!

wow. color me nieve but i actually thought they were going to hit this release date. WOW.

That's awesome.

Will somebody tell them to change the box art to a *.png file. So it won't take so long to upload to the digital river server.

This is all going to end badly.

I actually feel bad for Matrix in all of this. It appears that they're ending up with some degree of proverbial egg on their face as a result of this, which could well serve to drive away future sales of other games.

So your point is that it shouldn't? :confused:

no. not at all. i suppose it should. my point is that i feel bad for them that they decided to sign to distribute this game. they made an error in judgement.

I don't think it will ever end.

How much does this thing alledgedly cost.

They still haven't calculated it for 2006 figures yet.

With or without a box?

A box? We don't need no stinkin' box!

.

It wasn't released? But what am I going to do with my day off tomorrow? :eek: :mad:

OUCH.

True story:

When it was first announced, if you had set aside the money to purchase this game in an interest-garnering account... you would own Microsoft.

Everyone sing it with me now!

This is the dev that never ends
it keeps going on and on my friend
some people started making
not knowing if it was nfl or cfl
and they'll keep developing it forever
just because.....this is the dev that never ends

ummmm....underperform as a substitute GM in the f*ing elitist league. ;)

:mad:

I can't wait until my Cowboys meet your fake little Outlaws team on the GEFL field. It will be a slaughter for the ages...

google image:

Naomi Watts
Kelly Clarkson
Joss Stone
Catherine Bell
Alyssa Milano
Monica Belluci
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Tatyana Ali
Kate Hudson
Nikki Cox
Jessica Alba
Lindsay Lohan
Maria Sharapova
Marissa Miller
Elle MacPherson
Mandy Moore
Jessica Biel
Brooke Burke
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Rachel Ray
Christina Aguilera
Rose McGowan
Kate Winslet
Sharon Stone
Elisha Cuthbert
Morgan Webb
Traci Bingham
Salma Hayek
Katherine Heigl
Julia Stiles
Jennifer Connelly
Julianne Moore
Kate Beckinsale
Lisa Loeb
Leelee Sobieski
Emma Watson (for Bucc )
LeAnn Rimes
Hilary Swank
Reese Witherspoon
Rhona Mitra
Rachel Weisz
Eliza Dushku
Brittany Murphy
Rebecca Romijn
Christina Ricci
Rachel Stevens
Rosario Dawson
Tara Reid
Kirsten Dunst
Lacy Chabert
Amanda Bynes

Who knows if the poor Colonials can ever dig out of the hole Jeeber put them in.

As much as it will pain me to do...I will have to give the Boys an a$$-whipping they won't soon forget.

Says the man whose team just tied the franchise record for longest losing streak... :rolleyes:

;)

*chortle*

If David Winters went to graduate school, how long would it take him to finish his dissertation?

David Winter: Thursday, huh?! Crap...I guess I'd better actually start coding this game now. :cool:

Gold Master. You keep on using that term. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I see his wife is out defending him in threads, that is always good for a laugh. And I'm thinking that my idea of a Gold Master and the one the Maximum guys have has gotta be vastly different.

...it just keeps going on and on my friends...

FWIW, this thread is now top 10 all-time in page views in the general discussion forum.

We better get to posting, because the party is DEFINATELY OVER come Thursday. Guaranteed. :)

Amazing, I might have to buy the game just for that reason.

*cough* if it's ever released *cough*

Why do I not fear this in the least bit?

This is actually good news for me. I now have more time to design the uniforms for my Star Trek Universe league. The players are all starships and the field is the size of the galaxy. The ball is a torpedo filled with Spock's body.

I'm still looking for a coach for the Klingons, but be warned that all plays have to be coded in Klingon and Worf is by rule on the Federation team. If anyone's interested let me know after release.

Kewl! I'm in, but only if I can be the Gorns!

Thursday of what year?

And leave it up to Sui to ask the tough questions... :D

Which will be taken as trolling, no doubt.

This seriously made me laugh out loud: "so if we have to slip a couple of days in the scheme of things to do that, we feel it's well worth the trade-off."

You complete me.

great question by Sui.

and let's not all forget...there won't be a demo for this game. so you'll be buying it on blind faith. blind faith for a game that has been 5 years in development and has been "days from release" for several years now.

yeahhhhhh i can't wait to see how that works out

no demo=no consideration from me. period

I guess when you actually count it up, lets see:
365 * 6 (We'll say they 'started' actual dev in 2000, give them 1999 as a concept year) = 2190.

2190+2 (for leap years) = 2192

2192 + 31 (for Jan) = 2223

2223 + 21 (for up til the 'release' date) = 2244

2244 total days from the start of 2000 working on this.

2 / 2244 (for the two days they are 'delaying') = .0000089%

I'd say thats not asking much








to get the best darn football game evern, doggoneit!

and it has started. i don't have the skillz to do the pretty "pasting from the matrix forums" thing, but here ya go

elmerlee
Matrix Trooper



Posts: 33
Joined: 7/20/2004
Status: online I'm sorry people but I have now completely given up on this product.The only smart move now is to wait for a month or so after release and see if the bugs are ironed out.No way the fisrt release can be worth its salt.

How did a well respected company like Matrix get involved in such a sloppy situation as Maximum Football??????

They maybe should have stuck with a legend like Steel Panthers.

link?

hxxp://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1067644

It's almost like watching a train wreck in slo-mo. I feel kind of bad for DW and Matrix, but I just can't look away from the debacle.

My bad.

ummm....

The gold or general availability release version of a product is the final version of a particular product. It is typically almost identical to the final release candidate, with only last-minute bugs fixed. A gold release is considered to be very stable and relatively bug-free with a quality suitable for wide distribution and use by end users. In commercial software releases, this version may also be signed (used to allow end-users to verify that code has not been modified since the release). The expression that a software product "has gone gold" means that the code has been completed and "is being mass-produced and will be for sale soon." Other terms for the version include gold master, gold release, or gold build.

The term gold anecdotally refers to the use of "gold master disc" which was commonly used to send the final version to manufacturers who use it to create the mass-produced retail copies. It may in this context be a hold-over from music production. In some cases, however, the master disc is still actually made of gold, for both aesthetic appeal and resistance to corrosion.

Microsoft and others use the term "release to manufacturing" (RTM) to refer to this version (as in, "Build 2600 is the Windows XP RTM release").

Whoops, mixed up release candidate and gone gold.

I just hope this game gets released soon cuz it's starting to get ridiculous. I know Dave can be arrogant at times but I'm still hoping this is a good game because this is the only PC football game with graphics that we're gonna see besides Madden. EA just keeps taking out features and adding crappy ones and they hose the PC version even worse.

If this game fails then NFL Head Coach and Division Rivals are the last hope Well actually just Division Rivals cuz EA will most likely put restrictions to the game.

Hate to burst your bubble, but there's virtually no chance a developer the size of David Winter will be able to produce anything in the same area code as EA in terms of a 3D graphics football game. They just don't have the resources to compete in that arena.

Yes I realize it can't possibly compete in the graphics department it is obvious in screenshots but graphics aren't everything.

Must stop refreshing this thread.....

You are correct. Graphics are NOT everything.

Customization is, chillld.

I've never heard of this game before, but from what I've skimmed in this thread, should be a winnar?

OK, but I don't get your original point then. You say you hope it succeeds to give Madden some competition in the graphical PC football games market, but there's no chance this game can do that. Unless 2K decides to make a port of their sports games to the PC, you're going to be stuck with Madden for graphical football games on the PC that are worth a damn.

And really, since we can see that graphically this game is very primitive, Matrix is going to have to hope that the sim engine driving this thing is top-notch in order to draw any kind of audience. Do you have any confidence that this might be true?

Had Winter not been so wildly over-ambitious, he probably could've filled a nice niche by giving the text-sim market an FOF-style football sim that added simple, XOR Football type graphics to represent the action on the field. It would've been much easier for a developer of his resources to acheive and wouldn't have nearly as long to finish.

I think i got Matrix Software's new slogan


Matrix Software - There is no Master

Maybe the thing to do would have been to aim it at the single-season replay niche, if there's even such a thing for football games. Forget career mode, just churn out a series of well-researched 'season disks' for single leagues and years and sell them via download for a few bucks each. That's the only market I can really see for this thing - the career-sim guys (i.e., us) aren't interested, and I can't imagine many Madden fans giving it a second look after seeing the graphics.

You have to really give props to the guys that have been following this game for 5 or 6 years and haven't given up on it yet. There aren't too many people faithful to their wives for that long...

True, but wives aren't customizable.

Not sure about customizable, but mine is pretty flexible. :D

Dola

Not surprising the game is having OS problems...since it was originally designed for DOS. :D

If only this could have been released as intended.
It would have looked great on the TRS-80.
{sigh}
What might have been :(

Based on the screenshots and video captures I've watched, the graphics and animation don't even look as good as FPS in its prime, which I'm assuming is the market he's trying to capture. No way this thing gets close to Madden.

You have been on an unappreciated roll in this thread. :D

The sad part is, how many people have actually been lurking around there to check out if the game was released? 20? Slightly more or less? I can't say that's going to be a key to commercial success. Especially if this game has no positive buzz surrounding it, and by now I'd say that is BY FAR the case. How many possible sales have they lost on these boards alone? I'd say in the neighborhood of 50, based on a pure guess.

That, or wonder about their mental condition.

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/688/688964p3.html



This is from an interview with Richard and Robert Garriot on the future of MMO's. They must not be aware of Maximum Football. :p

or they're in denial of the awesomeness that is Maximus Football.