Boring; because I'm trying to be reasonable here. No, I'm not throwing insults. They don't help.
It also doesn't help that people don't seem to read what I'm saying, or for that matter only read rumours and half-truths rather than going to the source.
As an example, sure, the information is in a saved-game
after the bug has occurred. When a bug can't be reproduced from that saved-game, a saved-game from the same playthrough that was taken at some point
before the bug occurred is needed, preferably with a list of the steps the player took that led to the bug. When the problem can't be found from one angle, you try another. This is not talking shit. Go back to my posts, read them through - if you want - and understand. I am not embarrassing myself, or anyone. At worst, I'm playing Devil's Advocate, but I guess that's not welcome if you don't like the possibility of being wrong. Ok, maybe what I've written isn't always clear, but that's what happens when you're put in the position of trying to explain the obvious.
The truth is that the people who
are embarrassing themselves are the ones who get worked up, because... it makes them look stupid. There's no grand conspiracy to defraud or cheat the gaming public here. There's no lies, there's no robin-hood rich-and-poor justification for an act that was a bit dumb. All there is, is an insular and harassed modding team wanting to complete a task on their own, a mod that's going slowly, and a fool who probably thought he was doing the right thing by leaking a buggy beta.
And that's all there is. There's no other issues; except possibly time. And when you get down to it, time doesn't matter all that much. It's not like we're going anywhere. It's only a mod. I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with, eventually; if the project dies, no worry, as several of the longer-serving beta testers have gone on record saying they'd release the most recent build if that happens. And that was made clear before the beta leak, too.
As for the hate; it's all very confused, isn't it? Some don't seem to know if they're hating the Team or the Team's more vocal defenders. It's also hard to see where it comes from, except from the mouths of yammering trolls, or perhaps frustration at not being able to contribute. For the latter, that's just how it is; for the former, people are willing to demonise, but no-one mentions the fixes that TG made available, or the modding tools they developed that they released to the public, or the four mods that were inspired by their small community, one of which has been released and two of which are in hopeful development (shame about M4-78, but what can you do, eh?). If you look back on that, one can't avoid the possibility that perhaps TG is a positive force in the KOTOR modding scene.
I don't think there's much else for me to say, except -
someone who probably can change shit.
Don't know who you were expecting, pal; President Bush? Elvis? None of this is really important, and I'm just as valid a commentator as anyone.
