Re: Future of Silvern Castle

[Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net>]

Tony Ward wrote:
> 
> I am one of those who registered the shareware version. I haven't
> played through all the updates (yet) but even the very first version
> was well worth playing. Anyone who has fond memories of games such as
> Wizardry really should give Silvern Castle a try. Nice job, Jeff!
> 
> It's hard for programmers to gauge success based on positive feedback.
> More often than not, people are quiet when things are good and loud
> when they are not (ie. complaints far outnumber pats on the back.) One
> of my own efforts, BorderTracker, was downloaded about a hundred times
> but I only got positive feedback from about 6 people. I did get several
> dozen emails requesting new features and reporting bugs though.
> 
I know it may *not* be the first thing that would come to your mind, but
IMHO lots of people think they are doing you a favor by sending in bug
reports. These people naively believe that a software author *wants*
to know the problems with his program, so he can fix the problems...

So it feels like a slam, but a lot of people are just trying to be helpful.

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