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Originally Posted by PJs Ronin
Whoa there nellie!
I see you only have 14 posts so you're either new to things around here or you got the opportunity to change your screen name. In either case, there is considerable history, and egg on faces due to slippage, in that everyone from the PT team, including the tea lady, has promised PT4 beta release in Q3. This was later modded to Sep which is still in Q3.
PS. Wells was a better actor than he was a wine connoisseur. Wine is often released when it's ready to be released which is not necessarily when it's ready to be enjoyed.
1st it should be stated that all along we said that we
project a Q3 beta release, it was never promised. The press release was very specific in saying "PT4 is
expected to enter public beta-testing late in the third quarter, with commercial sales slated for fourth quarter 2011." From day one we have worked hard to make sure that a firm date was never provided because it would be inaccurate if given. Even with the big massive companies with thousands of developers at hand working on the same code at the same time projections might slip.... its the nature of the beast (see past MS Windows release dates slipping as a good example).
As for the "history with egg on the face" comment, I can confirm that we readily admit we made the mistake of releasing PT3 before it was ready for prime time. We will not make that same mistake again, we admit we might have lost some users during PT3's beta who never gave us the chance to solve the issues that they found. We of course solved these issues over time, and then continued to improve upon PT3 when opportunity knocked.
If it requires a little egg on the face because we slip into Q4 then so be it, our users swill be much happier in the long run to have access to a working application that will not interfere with their playing experience, we won't take that risk. We are willing to take an egg or two for the team, the players who rely on our software for a living deserve a complete application - not an alpha stage product in beta form - and we intend to deliver that!
PS: If anyone in our company specifically said September then I must apologize for that mistake, I feel confident that it would not have been intentional because everyone in our company knows that we are not permitted to state any specific dates. Could it be released in September? Maybe. But it could also be released in August or October or some other month if we need the extra time to work out bugs before release. We will never tell until its time. We are aware that some people will be bummed out by this, but in the long run we can assure you that it is for the best.
PS: This is our new corporate account provided by Two Plus Two, there are no new employees, its the same guys without modifications. Thanks for asking though, we may have missed explaining this earlier.