Senior Member
Volunteer Data File Contributor
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 591
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I too am wondering what the status is. Will we see a preview soon?
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Duluth, MN.
Posts: 80
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any news yet? I am kiccing off a new campaign using Paragons and would love to be able to use this.
Giddoen I have faith!...my character sheet says so! |
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Lone Wolf Staff
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 4,690
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Hi guys,
Sorry for the lack of updates on the M&M stuff. Originally, we were planning to have a public preview out by the end of last year. However, a couple of things got in the way of this. First, we realised that we needed to make some changes to the core Hero Lab engine to really support everything that M&M needs to do. The good news is that those changes are almost finished. As a result, Hero Lab will correctly handle sidekicks, minions, and all that other fun stuff - you'll be able to define multiple sidekicks and minions for a hero, edit them all in Hero Lab, and have all the points validated for you. Second, the "look and feel" that we'd created was, to put it bluntly, not good enough. So we got a professional graphic designer in to work on it for us, and we liked what he came up with so much that we gave him some extra time with it. He recently got back to us with the final photoshop files, so that all now has to be integrated into the data files properly. When these two things are completed, the preview we come out with will be much, much stronger than it otherwise would have been. We don't want to release something substandard that makes an underwhelming first impression - we'd rather spend the extra time that's needed, and make it *good*. Once again, sorry for the delay. When the preview release, we hope it'll have been worth it. |
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 2
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Just keep up the good work. I'd rather have a robust data set later than a weak one now. All I can ask is that you let us know when you've hit some turning point and have something new to tell us. Maybe a development blog?
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Lone Wolf Staff
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 4,690
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ART! wrote:
> > > Just keep up the good work. I'd rather have a robust data set later than > a weak one now. All I can ask is that you let us know when you've hit > some turning point and have something new to tell us. Maybe a > development blog? A development blog is something we've considered before, but there are a few issues with it. One is that it invites user disappointment by promising features that we might not be able to deliver; another is the amount of time it would take to create it, time that's not spent on adding features to our products. For example, we could potentially do weekly, or monthly, updates on what we're planning to do for HL's next release. Unfortunately, often when we try to implement the features we have planned, some of them have to be postponed, changed, or dropped due to unforseen problems. Coming out and saying "we're planning X for the next release", and then having it not appearing, leaves users feeling annoyed with us. I've seen this happen with many other companies, and (regardless of how it might appear to others) I really try to avoid annoying our users. We try to release program updates on a monthly (ish) basis - the current release being exceptional - so that means we'd be doing development blogs on about the same schedule as we do releases. By the time we had enough data to make a reasonable blog post, the release is effectively only a week or so away. Is it really worth doing at that point? Why not spend the few hours it would take to write putting in a couple of extra features that people will enjoy using in the product? Finally, writing up something like this takes time. First we'd need to work out the content of the report (in advance), then write it, then edit it, before you guys get to see it. All of that is stuff that really needs to be done collaboratively and on a schedule, so that means that 2 or 3 of us spend time working on it at various points. So that's why we don't have something like a development blog. Hopefully you can see our side of the issue - writing something good takes time, and it's time we all too frequently don't have. We don't have a full-time marketing guy who can write these things, unfortunately - it's just us core people, doing everything. Thanks! |
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Volunteer Data File Contributor
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 649
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I'd rather wait and get something that really works than have you be rushed and give us something that's a waste of money & bandwidth.
Still, you've already got my money. *waves $20 in the air* |
#26 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 14
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Waiting with money in hand to buy Hero Lab with this data set. Just waiting for the announcement of its availability.
Please let me know as soon as it is, and you will have an immediate sale. |
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