Are codemasters the biggest idiots or what - whats wrong with them?

[anand99]

I personally think codemasters are not seeing a huge oppurtunity to dominate the cricket games market. All they have to do is put their brains to it and get a new version of BLC out that incorporates all the changes that people have been asking far and get the graphics up to date. Instead they have pretty much closed the door to future cricket games. I wonder who was responsible for such a poor marketing decision by codemasters. Maybe it is because they have lost the talent pool of programmers that worked on BLC to other companies? I heard two of them worked on Cricket 2002. Maybe others who worked on it have also left Codemasters? Which could also explain why their support for the game is very poor and they don't answer any questions posed to them because they simply dont know how to answer them because anyone who knew anything about the game has already left the company.

Maybe all of us should chip in money and buy the rights to BLC from Codemasters and then make it the most advanced shareware cricketing game ever. Kinda like a LINUX movement.

 

[Anonymous]

[bost_uid0]lol[/bost_uid0]

 

[SCHUMY]

yup its true Codemasters could have developed the game to its limits.....with BLC being such a great game they could have achieved a much better game than C2002 but they don't have BLC programers anymore........and they didn't they just concentrate on the American games not cricket ???



Edited By siskue on April 03 2002 at 02:52

 

[Anonymous]

again, a lame thread

 

[yaju]

Anand, I didn't expected this kind of thread from you. You are such a smart person.

The main programmer of BLC, i.e. Jeremy Wellard has left CodeMasters. He has formed HB Studios. And then maybe they didn't got the reviews they expected as Colin McRae, Operation Flashpoint, 1NSane recieved better reviews than BLC so they left that.

I was just reading an article at GameSpot about great games whose sequels aren't made.
It took 9 years for a Wolf3D sequel.

 

[Saptarshi]

I think codemasters have had many better selling games and better reviews for games other than BLC. Blc is a cricket game and its not as popular as RPG's, racing games or the action games that Codemasters have sold.
I think EA is the only company which really makes profit out of games because of its largely popular AMERICAN games and FIFA. That is why I think they are the only people who can venture new things like making a cricket game.
Anyway I think Cricket 2002 is really great and is quite comparable to BLC in all aspects..... Only If the experience of Fifa games is brought in by the EA sports guys like new jersey, better commentry and new squads and player management........