I just wanted to make sure people have a look at this month's TGC Newsletter for an answer to that often asked question:
"Where's the Upgrade for FPSC"?
Here's an excerpt from this month's Newsletter:
Why do we never write about an Upgrade to FPS Creator?
This is a common question, often posted to the FPSC forums after the release of our newsletter. So I thought I would spend a moment to explain our company policy, and give a bit of a background. Back in 1999 when we started out with DarkBASIC Classic, we fell into the mistake of promising things in Upgrades, and also promising unrealistic deadlines. While we set out with every intention in the world of meeting our deadlines, it doesn't always pan out like that. And while we'd love to drop every single cool new feature we can think of into FPS Creator, we cannot publicly say we're going to do this - because the community backlash if we fail to deliver is far worse than that generated by saying nothing at all. Our policy on upgrading FPS Creator is quite simply that it will happen when we are ready, but we will not speculate on what the upgrade may or may not contain, nor when it will be released. Both of those items are kept internal until we have a 99% complete package ready to roll. So when you do hear about an Upgrade from us, you will be safe in the knowledge that whatever we say it contains, it will do - and that because we've even mentioned it, it must be extremely close to release status (within 4 weeks). Some of you may not like this approach, but we have learnt from the past and it is how we now operate. When the first FPSC Upgrade is ready, you'll read about it here first.
Here's the link to this month's
TGC Newsletter.
I'll leave this stickied for a week or two.
-Keith
