Re: Report of Conversation with Joe Blackwell

Actually, revealing the reasons why they are not going to finish the
code will serve a useful purpose for owners of the game. As
customers, we should be able to judge for ourselves whether they make
sense or not. It may help us decide whether we should be customers
again in the future.

However, if you agreed to not share them at Stern's request then
that's another matter.

As for WOF, IJ4 and the rest, hopefully they will come through for
buyers of those games. Just don't count your code before its
released.

Dave


On Jun 19, 7:30 pm, azpinlawyer <gregda...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I had a lengthy and frank discussion with Joe Blackwell.  He did his
best to resolve my concerns about unfinished software, owned up to the
fact that Stern promised more than it delivered, and assured me that
Keith would be finishing the code on WoF, at least to the point where
all the lamps on the playfield are used.  I pointed out to him that
Stern creates expectations by foreshadowing features in the manual
which, in WoF's case, turned out not to exist (Share the Wealth mode,
for example).  This was news to him--but he pointed out that the
manuals are created long before the games are finished.  Joe estimated
a timetable of six months to have this done.  I suggested to him that
the IFPA code should be made public, at least.

He assured me that more is coming for IJ4, programming-wise.>
Here's the bad news:  Spidey is probably finished.  We discussed the
reasons why this is the case.  Those reasons make sense.  Revealing
them would serve no useful purpose.  Suffice it to say that mistakes
were made and learned from on Spidey.

TDK will be shipped with all features functioning.  Nobody should
count on a complete palette of speech calls or animations out of the
gate.  Updates will be made and will continue to be the norm.

In sum, Stern Pinball agrees that WoF should have all lamps and
features active and functioning, and that will happen, hopefully
within six months.  More will be revealed as goes IJ4.  Spidey 2.0 is
probably a pipe dream.

.

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