rosscoe(au) said:
I find it very interesting that Sebar can say anything he likes about Atari and nobody jumps on his back, but say something about Frontier and its a different story.
I find it interesting too!
But let me add that where praise has been heaped I have heaped it too. I also have been hard on others like Chris Sawyer when he tried to defeat the trainers for RCT2. Many will remember it was I who was one of the first to comment harshly and than got literary friends at gaming magazines to comment as well by bringing the diabolical move to them.
When RCT3 came out with problems, I jumped on many's shoulders including David Braben, Frontier, Atari and even got on Ken's back a while too when he was an Atari exec. So I have been impartial to all. In fact I have been somewhat scathing on Ken for closing the CM forums recently, perhaps for good, just as I might be if David closed these forums, stranding RCT3 users which he has not done. So right now is Atari getting scathed? You bet, and I am just getting started too. Mainly my interests are Journalistic or literary hence the name of the "Sebar Literary Network" which attracts a great many literary people and readers as well.
But with RCT being a very very very long time hobby, I take the platform very seriously and I am vocal with anyone who hurts it.
Now I'll swing a bit to a reminder. When David's people screwed up and used the SDC Polyp as the first Spider type ride and named it Octopus, I was the only one to complain first about its lack of spinning passenger pods (buckets) and also the name as the only true Octopus was the one licensed out by Eyerly Aircraft Company as Eli Eyerly was the owner of the original Blueprints to this type of ride. Yes its true that Britain manufactured, through several historical ride companies, licensed versions of the original Octopus; but it was always called "Octopus" and should have remained so in the menu of ride names, and never mind Ken Allen, what you told me about trademarked names. You cannot trademark a group type of rides, but can register a trademark logo for a single product or company logo. The Octopus/Spider type rides is basically a catgory, thus you cannot trademark a category at least in the USA.
Did I take flames when I mentioned that the Jr. Merry-Go-Round spun so fast that it flung things onto the wall? Yes I was punished for that comment, but the RCT3 Jr. Merry-Go-Round does spin way to fast and I posted that and in my posting I flammed David Braben and Frontier mainly for this, not so much Atari, but Frontier; and I took my long list of shots in the Atari forums for this commenting.
I can site example after example of posts both positive and negative that covers many different people and company products, again both positive and negative. I also do something else few will ever do. I stand by every post no matter how tilted as you may feel it is Rosscoe or as Scathing or as Honest as it may appear to others.
David, Ken, Bruno and Chris plus many here like my old friend bctrainers and others within the community know this to be the case with my postings or writings online.