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Post by ferg on Mar 17, 2007 21:09:45 GMT -5
I love this advancement in the cotg family and will probably subscribe if it is affordable. I am a bit down though. I was hoping for a personalized cotg game for our computers. Like when I am going on long trips and have no internet connections. I had e-cotg, but my last computer crashed and I lost my registration number and would like to get into contact with darrin hobbs. He had a pretty good one (allowed you to enter bootlegs, and wrote out the matches for you), but I will take what I can get  . Thanks for all the hard work your putting in. |
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Post by GalactiKing on Mar 17, 2007 22:37:16 GMT -5
Who knows what the future will hold for COTG.
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Post by BDS on Mar 18, 2007 6:22:46 GMT -5
While the format might not be everyone's first choice, it does offer a lot of benefits that a traditional style game wouldn't. It's much easier to set up multiplayer games this way, we're going to have the benefit of the global stat database, and it's easier to get updates out to everyone through an app like this. We figured that with everything we were wanting to accomplish, this sort of distribution model was going to be the best way to do it. Hopefully all of the goodies contained therein will make up for any disappointment you feel now.  |
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Post by squire on Mar 18, 2007 7:59:26 GMT -5
I can vouch for what BDS is saying. The company I work for has online services as well as a smart client (Desktop PC Application). Deployment of the web services is much less involved than smart client. With a smart client you have to acccount for X number of operating systems where-as an online application you can code to the standards set forth for browsers and get, I would say, 98% compatibility.
Now, add updating the application to the mix and with the web everyone is forced to the same version. Little to no problems exist with adding new features, etc. With the smart client, some clients do not update thier version so we have to account for 3-4 different versions of clients coming in with support calls.
I do hope that in the future a desktop app is supplied that can synch with the online app but until then I will happily throw my money at COTGOnline.
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Post by ferg on Mar 18, 2007 9:38:53 GMT -5
I understand all that and I am not disappointed. But wehn I am going on vacation or long trips where I can't get access or cost me an arm and a leg to get computer access, it won't do me any good. Thats why I was hoping for a more personalized system. And I hope that will be considered in the future. It won't make the long trips away from the game or computer that long. (You ever try playing and recording cotg cards on a trip or in a moving car lol)
Just promise me that we will be able to upload our bootlegs soon. That is another impotant thing to me. I would ask for some kind of match record to do more detailed write ups but I don't want to ask for the moon.
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Post by BDS on Mar 18, 2007 9:53:52 GMT -5
I understand all that and I am not disappointed. But wehn I am going on vacation or long trips where I can't get access or cost me an arm and a leg to get computer access, it won't do me any good. Thats why I was hoping for a more personalized system. And I hope that will be considered in the future. It won't make the long trips away from the game or computer that long. (You ever try playing and recording cotg cards on a trip or in a moving car lol) We're definitely not ruling anything out for the future. Our feature list is pretty solid at this point, so we're not going to add anything else into the initial launch, but I'm hoping that COTGonline becomes a product that is constantly growing and expanding with new goodies. Just promise me that we will be able to upload our bootlegs soon. That is another impotant thing to me. You will be able to use bootleg stats in the initial release of the Stat Tracker. You won't be able to play with them in the Game Area, but since it's based off of COTG Desktop you will be able to drop a card next to the PC and play against what's on the screen. Kind of wacky and meta, but it'll work, at least. Again, it's hard telling what we'll add in in the future at this point. I know there have been discussions on how to handle bootlegs in the actual Game Area, but our focus is on getting the product polished and out the door for now. It's probably something that we'll revisit down the road, though. I would ask for some kind of match record to do more detailed write ups but I don't want to ask for the moon. That's definitely in. If you've ever read one of my write-ups (Foley-style cheap plug), you'd know there's no way possible I'd write a record keeping program without throwing this in there. |
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Post by ferg on Mar 18, 2007 16:09:42 GMT -5
Thats good to hear. I have several efeds that I run that I would love to have my bootlegs wrestlers in the game area to make things a lot easier. I hope that bootlegs will be allowed into the gaming area as well as lows
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Post by BDS on Mar 18, 2007 17:05:55 GMT -5
Thats good to hear. I have several efeds that I run that I would love to have my bootlegs wrestlers in the game area to make things a lot easier. I hope that bootlegs will be allowed into the gaming area as well as lows From everything I understand, the LOW situation is tricky because of contractual issues. I wouldn't expect to see current LOW guys any time soon. |
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Post by traviz on Mar 18, 2007 17:12:01 GMT -5
From everything I understand, the LOW situation is tricky because of contractual issues. I wouldn't expect to see current LOW guys any time soon. is more than willing to be a part of COTGOnline...he told me. |
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. Thanks for all the hard work your putting in. 
