[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by endgame

And not to be overly provocative, but at what point would one be entitled to make expectations or comparisons, $79.95? $99.99?

Well, I used to play High Heat, which wasn't cheap, and they never even came close to fixing all of the bugs. Ditto Tony LaRussa. Ditto Earl Weaver - in fact, I suspect that we testers never even found some of them in EW2.

Fixing all the bugs - especially the trivial ones that don't effect play - is a mighty tall order, and it assumes that you both can find them all and have found them all. In the case of the sound problem, I don't even think the problem is in OOTP itself; I'd be willing to bet it's more of a sound driver/DirectX/interface kind of problem. I keep my systems up to date and the sound has always worked when I've tested it.

I think Markus is doing the right thing in totally recoding OOTP for version 7. (It's a bit scary, though, because the rewrite opens the doors to all kinds of new and potentially huge bugs.) Plus, by joining SI he got access to their library of system code, and system programming always looked to me to be Markus' Achilles Heel.

The sound isn't going to be fixed, guys. Deal with it. There isn't going to be any H2H either. (And there's no Santa Claus to boot.)