{"id":479,"date":"2006-03-18T18:48:37","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-18T18:48:37","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T18:48:37","slug":"maximum-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/03\/18\/maximum-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximum Crap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are very mixed reviews coming in about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matrixgames.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.matrixgames.com\/', 'Matrix Games\u2019 Maximum Football');\">Matrix Games\u2019 Maximum Football<\/a>.  Reading in-between the lines (I don\u2019t own the game), seems Matrix Games followed the artists formally known as .400 Software Studios business model.  You release a broken game, full paying customers become unpaid beta-testers, and then you finally get the product that should have been released in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, been there and done that.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that folks are generally hopefull that when it is finally fixed, Maximum Football will be purchase worthy.  However, with no financial model, I can only see this being used as a college or highschool simulator at best.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are very mixed reviews coming in about Matrix Games\u2019 Maximum Football. Reading in-between the lines (I don\u2019t own the game), seems Matrix Games followed the artists formally known as .400 Software Studios business model. You release a broken game, full paying customers become unpaid beta-testers, and then you finally get the product that should &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/03\/18\/maximum-crap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maximum Crap?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}