I'll be coming back, no new update kind of sad

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May 8 2007, 2:46 pm
Howcome 4.0 isn't out yet?! Makes me so sad, it's been like a year or two since I've done much here at byond (waiting for the next great installment) and nothing has changed really! :P

I'll be coming back in full swing as summer starts and I'll be putting out some titles.

Just wanted to say hi.
May 8 2007, 2:59 pm
Jon rocks.
May 8 2007, 4:08 pm
Jon Snow wrote:
Howcome 4.0 isn't out yet?! Makes me so sad, it's been like a year or two since I've done much here at byond (waiting for the next great installment) and nothing has changed really! :P

I'll be coming back in full swing as summer starts and I'll be putting out some titles.

Just wanted to say hi.

Here's my two cents:

Pretty much the current version we are in is like a prequal to what V4 is gonna be like, but they're REALLY busting their balls (in effort) to get it done. However, since it's not DONE, it's obviously not out yet, and they want to FINISH IT before giving it to us.

Players: Hey, are you finished with V4 yet?
BYOND: No, we're still working on it. Deal with V3.5 for now.
Players: But we want it now!
BYOND: You know what, here, take it.
Players: YAY! V4 is out I....wait....it sucks. It doesn't even work.
BYOND: Well...duh, it's incomplete. You said you wanted it now.
Players: Well hurry up and finish then! God.
May 8 2007, 10:03 pm
In response to Evil-Inuyasha
I'm sure windows vista didn't help do anything but slow them down as well :(
May 8 2007, 11:55 pm
In response to Jon Snow
BYOND's Windows build will most likely work on Vista.
May 9 2007, 6:57 am
Howcome 4.0 isn't out yet?! Makes me so sad, it's been like a year or two since I've done much here at byond (waiting for the next great installment) and nothing has changed really! :P

Why do you need 4.0 to make your game :P? When 4.0 comes out are you just going to continue to wait because there may be a 5.0 coming out in the distant future?
May 9 2007, 7:03 am
In response to Theodis
agreed at this rate he might as well not come back at all since v6 is 'right around the corner'.

Jon, while you were away, people were doing some cool things with 3.5 and several people made some good games.

you snooze, you lose!
May 9 2007, 8:10 am
In response to digitalmouse
Haha, well I didn't leave on purpose!

I didn't have internet for awhile because I was living in a house out in the country, which internet could not reach without paying a hefty 2000 dollar price tag for comcast, or going with the expensive hughes net.

Nah, I'll be programming right now I was just hoping for client side capability for better efficiency :P
May 9 2007, 11:53 am
In response to Jon Snow
That won't be in 4.0. ;-)
May 9 2007, 2:33 pm
In response to Jon Snow
You better look some place else. I don't think BYOND will ever have client-side processing. I just wish more things could be processed client-side.
May 9 2007, 8:10 pm
In response to Jon Snow
funnny thing is, i bet you had telephone. and where there's telephone, there's AOL or some other cheap per-minute dial-up-modem access. it's not like BYOND is a network-whore, so you could have easily kept up with the BYOND happenings.

so :p
May 10 2007, 12:36 am
In response to Evil-Inuyasha
Evil-Inuyasha wrote:
Here's my two cents:

Pretty much the current version we are in is like a prequal to what V4 is gonna be like, but they're REALLY busting their balls (in effort) to get it done. However, since it's not DONE, it's obviously not out yet, and they want to FINISH IT before giving it to us.

Players: Hey, are you finished with V4 yet?
BYOND: No, we're still working on it. Deal with V3.5 for now.
Players: But we want it now!
BYOND: You know what, here, take it.
Players: YAY! V4 is out I....wait....it sucks. It doesn't even work.
BYOND: Well...duh, it's incomplete. You said you wanted it now.
Players: Well hurry up and finish then! God.

Haha.. yeah, but I doubt that would ever happen if it did ;)

Hm. It's worth waiting for something great and pwnage, isn't it?
May 12 2007, 4:17 am
In response to Evil-Inuyasha
I'd say your two cents are pretty accurate.

I'd imagine BYOND doesn't quite suffer as many problems as big development Companies that have PR departments though.

A PR dude says something dumb like "And it'll have flying craft!" in passing to a Journalist. One week later, everyone's going "Man, those flying bears with laser eyes are gonna be so cool!" and Management are telling you that you've gotta make these flying bears by the next release or your ass is fired.

Chances are, they're suffering from the problem of "Bug-fixes always take twice the time you allocate to them".