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Originally Posted by Andreas Raht
We will learn from it, next year we'll do better. At least I hope so. A part of the problem was that we worked on the game until yesterday and we had promised to release yesterday.
Yes, I'm sure, just as we did with OOTP 2006 
We've just been late this year. But we're already eager to start working on OOTP10, which we'll do right now 
And next year, we will better release it late before releasing without mirrors. Promised. |
Good to hear, but you don't have to wait until next year. Markus has already said there will be a patch. It'd be great to see the lesson learned right away with it being released with mirrors and torrents right from the get go. Patches are usually much smaller too.
As for releasing it late over releasing it without mirrors, I seem to remember you guys did that once before (a patch probably) and IIRC most everybody was really pretty reasonable about it. That's much better than being told to go get it, but then you can't.
Did it really have to be that big by the way? 192MB? Holy cow! I thought OOTP8 was huge at 97MB (and it was compared to OOTP6's 24MB), but 192MB? What the heck did you guys put in it that makes it so bloody big, a Seinfeld episode? There must be stuff in there that could have been made an optional download like rosters or something that many will never use. I could see the argument that having to download multiple files might piss some people off, but the option of downloading a stripped down version would surely be appealing to others.