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Message: <blockquote data-quote="starck" data-source="post: 9289" data-attributes="member: 601">This is getting ridiculous.  He can take his money wherever he wants.  He can burn it and use the ashes to fertilize his crops for all we care.  Let him do it.  He's stating why.  Furthermore, I am starting to get a little annoyed as well.  I don't know if I would pull my pledge, but here's why I'm getting pretty PO'd with the current state of this game.  Farsight, I hope you're listening.  This is a little long.1.  RE: This kickstarter: I don't know wtf Farsight is doing.  This is being very poorly managed.  From a marketing standpoint, there are numerous things I could list that they SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE after twilight zone was funded.  TNG table should HAVE BEEN A SEPARATE KICKSTARTER.  FURTHERMORE, THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE LATER IN THE YEAR.  YOU HAVE A BILLION THINGS TO DO NOW THAT YOU'VE SECURED FUNDS FOR TZ.  2.  RE: CURRENT BUGS IN CURRENT, RELEASED TABLES: THIS SHOULD BE THEIR PRIORITY.  WHERE ARE THEIR TESTERS?  Do they have any people specifically positioned as QC for these tables?  If not, they need to get on that.  Interns are free- there's a good start.  It's summer now and high school/college students are itching for some experience.  If Farsight does have QC testers, they either need to: a) fire them, or b) train them better.  All tables need to go through a more rigorous QC test before heading out for the general public to test them for Farsight.3.  RE: CURRENT USER INTERFACE, GAMECENTER (iOS), LACK OF LEADERBOARDS, ****TY FACEBOOK INTEGRATION, ETC.  Why do you think the leaderboards aren't up and working yet?  I'm guessing it's because THE TABLES WE ARE PLAYING ON CONTINUE TO BE REFINED, AND ANY ALTERATIONS IN THE TABLES CHANGE YOUR SCORING ABILITY.  Look at CV as an example- they released it at first as an incredibly easy table on iOS (and other platforms? I don't know).  The new update supposedly makes it more realistic, but, also harder.  If they had leaderboards up, all of the scores from the previous version of CV would be invalid.  I'm almost certain that is why gamecenter integration on iOS hasn't been implemented yet.  4.  Fix the ****ty UI.  Hire a good graphic designer just out of college for a few bucks and spend a few days overhauling the entire ****ing UI.  It's an eyesore.5.  Improve the goddamn audio quality on these tables.  It's awful; truly awful.  I don't mind if the game takes up more space in order to have some high quality/lossless audio tracks for the tables.  That's a big chunk of the experience.6.  For god's sake, hire a good graphic designer out of college for some chump change and have them redo your website.  Right now you look like a fly-by-night operation.  Want some more publicity? Want people to take you seriously?  Want Stern to take you seriously if/when you approach them about digitizing their new tables?  This isn't going to happen unless you've got a legitimate website up and running.  THIS BRINGS ME TO MY FINAL POINT:-Work on fixing the goddamn bugs and getting tables out in a finished form, first.  We, as the general public, are not your beta testers.  Sure, there will be bugs along the way, and that's understandable.  But if you continue to release tables that have blatant flaws in gameplay and are clearly rushed, you're going to start pissing a lot of people off.  You're already starting to piss people off.Sure, funding TZ is great.  I'm happy you made it.  I donated to the cause.  I personally don't feel like pulling my money, but I seriously think that you need to develop a long-term strategy and (forgive the pun) game plan if you want to ultimately survive and flourish.  From the way things have been going, it is not quite clear that there is one.  The current model you are using isn't sustainable, and I honestly don't want to keep playing on tables that are buggy.</blockquote>

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