BlitzNews Letter?

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An unofficial newsletter gets the thumb up from me. I'd be happy to help out in any way that doesn't actually require me to do anything. Serious. =]

i just had a thread locked trying to push the powers that be to allow free and open discussion regarding some of the legitimate frustrations that some of the membership is experiencing here...

In fairness, this thread was actually started before those -3- others.

in a few months, all of the complainers will be happily coding their tails away with the 'Max gui and 3d and whatever modules

Perhaps MaxGUI in a few months, but there is no way in hell we are seeing Max3D before mid next year. Probably Xmas again. Let alone 'whatever' modules.

this will be a forgotten issue

Yes. People will find other things to complain about in the same manner.

all I see is jokes.. and I fear this topic will get locked

Your other serious thread got locked, so it seems to me you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. We aren't allowed to speak seriously and we get threatened when we have some fun with each other.

The questions aren't really answered they just say "we're too busy right now, we are working on it, oh and the newsletter is resting and will be back up whenever we want it to" and thats about it.

Newsflash, those are answers. Just because they're not answers you want to hear, doesn't automatically invalidate them.

Its the least they could do ;)

The least they could do is absolutely nothing ;]

The only trouble with hosting it here would be that someone from BRL would have to take the time to go over it to check it's OK to publish.

'Tis a lot quicker to read something than write it. I shouldn't see that being a huge problem in the scheme of things. They read through countless news posts before any of them reach the main page anyway. Even if they don't want to officially host it here, I don't see them not approving a news post about it.

Nope, we can technically secrete it into the site (not on the front page, or by hacking it in). However, that probably will not happen.

Well, there's absolutely no reason why all the text content couldn't be put into a topic or worklog and images uploaded to the gallery ;]

I ran into blitz before and didnt buy it for that reason, instead I bought DBPro and hated DBPro.

And now you've bought Max and don't hate it at all. Lesson learnt I'd say. Let everyone else out there learn the hard way too! That's what makes life fun. That and bitching at others over an internet forum. =]

the quasi-fanatical users who endorse it, whether you want them to or not.

LOL! <runs around with shirt over head> Yay yay yay! Blitz Blitz Blitz!

team of 16 beta testers (according to the credits - although I could swear they're out of date)

Out of total curiosity, because I'm nosey like that, would you estimate that that is a generous or conservative number, then? ;]

harming sales.

Well, if everyone who is at first put off by the advertising hype on the front page (you know, the lack of) eventually buys it anyway, like you did, then it really doesn't matter when BRL get their money, since you only pay for it once anyway. This is of course providing BRL aren't bankrupt by that time. =]

I love BMax and I have no problems with it.

I do. There's a show stopping problem wherein TileImage doesn't respect the scale setting which has completely halted my project <rolls eyes>