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<TITLE>RE: [bf1942] BFVCC & BFVC3 ?</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> From: Lee Latham [<A HREF="mailto:leeprivate@cgmlarson.com">mailto:leeprivate@cgmlarson.com</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Subject: Re: [bf1942] BFVCC & BFVC3 ?</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Roger that. And running a software company myself, I can't say I'm </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> terribly interested in people's excuses for not testing </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> properly. I'd find </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> myself out of a job for whining like that, not to mention the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> incredulous </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> looks like I'd lost my mind.</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Like EA can't drum up a few beta testers for christ's sake..</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>clearly i need a faster machine for builds :-)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>in ea's defense they did spend time testing the win32 builds and did find several 'interesting' issues. however, their emphasis was on making sure that the game play worked right, not in how to manage the servers. the thing w/ the remote consoles messsage mode came up the day before they went final (or whatever they call it) and since none of us here had ever heard of it we dedided to punt.</FONT></P>
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