Your CLOD rating...(before)

voted 20, game is very bugged, a few good bits but I voted it down due to the awful development team, i have no trust left in them at all and they deserve to go bust.

[Feathered_IV]

Are there any original members of the team left now. Or has the lineup of Maddox Games changed completely since the Forgotten Battles days?

[Chivas]

Apparently there is still a few left from the original team, but I couldn't find the team member lists. Even if the team isn't exactly the same doesn't mean the sim will be a flop. Companies change team members all the time and still build quality products. CODs only fault is that it was released before it was finished, for obvious financial reasons. Although some would suggest they released the sim early to garner as much negative feedback as possible.

[Pudfark]

Originally Posted by Chivas

Apparently there is still a few left from the original team, but I couldn't find the team member lists. Even if the team isn't exactly the same doesn't mean the sim will be a flop. Companies change team members all the time and still build quality products. CODs only fault is that it was released before it was finished, for obvious financial reasons. Although some would suggest they released the sim early to garner as much negative feedback as possible.

lol....that did give me a smile...Thanx..

[Blackdog_kt]

Ok, moderator mode on...


This has the potential to be a somewhat useful poll and if more are done in the future they could also serve as a sort of comparative progress-meter, as long as people stick to a dry, reporting, "clinical" style in their posts and avoid the confrontational cliches.


In other words, posting an opinion is ok but "enforcing" it on others is not:

Topic:
"This is my rating of the sim, plus some words about why i mark it that way, i like this and this, i don't like such and such, this is my personal interpretation of the vote distribution that i'm voicing in a nice manner that's not provocative to others"

Off-topic:
"1c deserves to go broke/become millionaires"
"it's the fault of person A/B/C/whatever"
"i know/don't know how they released such a masterpiece/mess"
"they stole our money to buy vodka/no our money went to charity because they are good guys"
poorly worded one-liners to the tune of "it's a joke"/"no it's not you are" that don't explain anything about why the poster is so adamant in his opinion
rude, provocative or offensive comments/wording in an otherwise on-topic post


and similar personal opinions, conjecture and speculation that are not shared by all, can't be factually proven but are argued as if they can and most of all, have been repeated ad nauseum.

The on-topic stuff is useful and stays, the off-topic stuff is edited by the original poster or gets moved to the arguments megathread as soon as i wake up tomorrow.

Moderator mode off




Interesting opinions and a bit reassuring to see that most people are being reasonable in their judgement of the sim. I too find the amount of 50s a bit much, but we also have quite a few 60s and 70s.

The way i read this trend it looks to me like this: for a lot of people things are so and so (the 50 score bracket), for the majority things are better than average (the 60+ score bracket) with half of them being even more positive, while the amount of people who are overly positive/negative are a definite minority.

I think the poll results thus far are an accurate overall reflection, in the sense that while it's far from perfect it's no dog either, plus it's in a workable state for the majority of users.

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Ok, moderator mode on...


This has the potential to be a somewhat useful poll and if more are done in the future they could also serve as a sort of comparative progress-meter, as long as people stick to a dry, reporting, "clinical" style in their posts and avoid the confrontational cliches.


In other words, posting an opinion is ok but "enforcing" it on others is not:

Topic:
"This is my rating of the sim, plus some words about why i mark it that way, i like this and this, i don't like such and such, this is my personal interpretation of the vote distribution that i'm voicing in a nice manner that's not provocative to others"

Off-topic:
"1c deserves to go broke/become millionaires"
"it's the fault of person A/B/C/whatever"
"i know/don't know how they released such a masterpiece/mess"
"they stole our money to buy vodka/no our money went to charity because they are good guys"
poorly worded one-liners to the tune of "it's a joke"/"no it's not you are" that don't explain anything about why the poster is so adamant in his opinion
rude, provocative or offensive comments/wording in an otherwise on-topic post


and similar personal opinions, conjecture and speculation that are not shared by all, can't be factually proven but are argued as if they can and most of all, have been repeated ad nauseum.

The on-topic stuff is useful and stays, the off-topic stuff is edited by the original poster or gets moved to the arguments megathread as soon as i wake up tomorrow.

Moderator mode off




Interesting opinions and a bit reassuring to see that most people are being reasonable in their judgement of the sim. I too find the amount of 50s a bit much, but we also have quite a few 60s and 70s.

The way i read this trend it looks to me like this: for a lot of people things are so and so (the 50 score bracket), for the majority things are better than average (the 60+ score bracket) with half of them being even more positive, while the amount of people who are overly positive/negative are a definite minority.

I think the poll results thus far are an accurate overall reflection, in the sense that while it's far from perfect it's no dog either, plus it's in a workable state for the majority of users.

More people give it 10 than 100 90 80 combined. Thats kinda disturbing.

[klem]

Originally Posted by connie

More people give it 10 than 100 90 80 combined. Thats kinda disturbing.

I'm not surprised as there is a wide spread of hardware, OS's, settings and setup knowledge.

In any case, it is an opinion poll and the results are bound to be subjective. Its sometimes hard to split emotion from objective assessment and lets be honest, the current state of CoD is raising some emotions. That's why I set out my scores in a such way that I could try to be objective and calculate a result rather than go only on gut feeling.

The poll is not a definitive assessment of the technical condition of the game as there can be no unique definition of hardware, OS environment, setup etc.

Nevertheless its a reasonable guide to this forum community's opinion and an insight into how the they are coping with it.

EDIT: I think MG should be encouraged by what they see, there is a concentration of opinion around the "not particularly good but recoverable" area. It could all have been down in the 20's indicating imminent demise of the patient. I just hope people remain as objective and unemotional as possible in their assessment.

[Rattlehead]

Originally Posted by connie

More people give it 10 than 100 90 80 combined. Thats kinda disturbing.

I feel extremely high scores (100) or extremely low scores (10) should be chucked out of the poll as they're (in my opinion) agenda driven.

Anyone who has spent ten minutes with this sim can tell you it doesn't deserve either score.

I think the people who voted 10 are reacting to the dev's more than the sim, obviously the people that voted 100 are potential Luthier stalkers (check your back garden out Luthier). That said 49.02% of people have voted 50 or lower, which reflects how badly this game as been recieved.

[miky]

That said 49.02% of people have voted 50 or lower

Or that said 70.24% of people have voted 50 or higher.
Sorry, couldn't resist