[TxMt] Re: TM2 in the Vaporware Awards

[King, Steven]

On 23 Dec 2009, at 07:45, Piero D'Ancona wrote:
Why sp much fuss about TM2 when there is a trivial workaround?

Brilliant! :-)

Wired has never actually adhered very strictly to their rules. Duke Nukem Forever had been near the top of the list for nearly a decade, and it had the same "It'll be out when it's done" schedule as TM2. No one ever complained that it was unfairly characterized as vapor. Allan himself wrote in Oct 2007:

"So put TM 2.0 up there with Duke Nukem Forever and be positively surprised the day it is released :)."

DNF is officially a dead project now. I'd had to see TM2 end up the same way.

It's been a full three years since Allan announced that TM2 would be Leopard-only, which led to a lot of speculation that it would be out sometime near Leopard's release. I don't know exactly when Allan started working on it, but it's clear that it's been in development for well over three years now. Sounds like it's a wonderful example of letting "perfect" become the enemy of "good".

I'd say it's perfectly fair to place TM2 in the "vaporware" category. Hopefully making Wired's list will shame Allan into finally releasing it before next year's list is published!

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Steve King
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