Just to let you know.

[gilesgoat]

Hi,

so don't ask me/blame me about what about this and that.

"We never heard yet from ATARI since" ..

I mean we heard something which we said things like "yes sure why not we can do it" and ended up in "Right that's good we'll let you know".

.. silence ..

They'll let us know.

.. sometime ..

[WiteWulf]

Eh?

[phattslagg]

Reminds me of a certain thread in another forum...

[Harlequin]

Eh?

Essentially, Atari have not been responding to contact attempts for some weeks now.

[Misfit]

Eh?

Essentially, Atari have not been responding to contact attempts for some weeks now.

I think that is Sony, re the release of the PS4 Gridrunner/Goatup.

Not sure what the hope is out of Atari. Pretty sure Giles wants people to know it is them, not Llamasoft, responsible for any lack of patching/VR release.

[Harlequin]

Essentially, Atari have not been responding to contact attempts for some weeks now.

I think that is Sony, re the release of the PS4 Gridrunner/Goatup.
Not sure what the hope is out of Atari. Pretty sure Giles wants people to know it is them, not Llamasoft, responsible for any lack of patching/VR release.

Ah, yes. I was indeed confusing the two companies. Atari's loss of contact might be more recent, although over one week.

[gilesgoat]

I am just saying that even with Atari 'we lost a bit contact' it's since T4K that we heard very little from them.

[The Gardner]

It looks to me like Atari has a kind of "hit and run" style of business. Throw something out, turn a profit as quickly as possible, then abandon support to avoid spending any more money. It's too bad that their lack of support ends up reflecting on you, because you're the only one trying to serve the customer.

Thanks for the hard work. I'm glad I got to own T4K anyway.

[gilesgoat]

It looks to me like Atari has a kind of "hit and run" style of business. Throw something out, turn a profit as quickly as possible, then abandon support to avoid spending any more money. It's too bad that their lack of support ends up reflecting on you, because you're the only one trying to serve the customer.

Thanks for the hard work. I'm glad I got to own T4K anyway.

Well .. from a point of view of one that 'has to do the support' let's say if you are going for a 'single hit' I think it's a valid marketing/economic strategy.

See as you like it but "support" is actually very expensive, in terms of time, resources, everything, the smaller you are the harder ( and proportionally more expensive for you ) support is

Now you will say but "support keeps people happy, makes a good impression, more people will buy your product" .. that's "the logic theory" .

Reality of facts as usual is pretty different, reality is if you don't make 'relatively soon' quite a bunch of money to re-coup all the initial investment 'dragging on' more months/etc via support if it does not 'immediately' produce some results it's 'ever more money lost you'll maybe never see it back'.

Anyway yeah Atari seems to have a bit this "hit and run" strategy but there's nothing we can do about it, that's their plan.