I've posted this a number of times, I enjoy the banter, being pushed to think about things from a different perspective, all of it, I know that I will end up with life long friends from here as I have with BigFooty. I still go to the Footy and catch up with them 2 years after the AFL Live was released and we are not even making Footy now (
). I cannot wait, most sincerely, for when we have the play sessions and I get to see the smiles and enjoyment that I know people will get when they have their hands on this game.[/QUOTE]
Hi All,
Have been away for a few days and am only catching up on things now and I know this quote was pages ago!
I believe Ross is quite possibly referring to me here (if not I'm not sure who I've been going to the footy with lately!).
Throughout the development of AFL Live Ross was very interactive with the Big Footy forum members, giving us lots of pre-release information much like he does on here. In fact, there were several occasions when he got himself into trouble for breaching NDA's with the publisher by giving us too much information.
The pattern for release was the same as he has described here, albeit he now has complete control over it as he is both publisher / developer - not just the developer.
Ross in real life is no different to how he appears on this forum. He loves his work and putting smiles on people's faces who play his games. He spends ALOT of time reading AND answering questions on these forums while we are watching the footy games which is his personal time.
He has been nothing but generous, courteous and very open with me - EXACTLY as he has been on here.
He has ALWAYS been open to feedback and actively seeks it to try and improve his games - again, precisely as he has been on here.
I have absolutley no doubt that the timeline that Ross continually speaks of is completety accurate regarding release etc.. Meeting him over the previous 2 years gives me no readon to believe otherwise. I guess I could go on, but hopefully you all get the picture by now!
I don't think there would be too many CEO's that actively participate in forums like Ross does nor any that put so much of their personal time into interacting with the fans that buy the game. We are incredibly lucky to have this type of participation from Big Ant. I shudder to think what the alternative would be if we didn't have him and Mike around here!
There! That probably sounds like I'm Ross' brother lol! But just wanted to give you all my experience from a 'first hand' point of view.
Ps - that glowing review must make it your shout at the footy next time Ross!! Hahaha!
Edit- don't know what I did wrong but Ross' quote at the beginning didn't come up properly!
). PS Ross please answer some of his questions as he gets ignored a lot lately.
