Seriously though, I don't think the problem is that people comment on SaiNt's hard work by suggesting new features and fixes. As a developer, I know that we usually do appreciate ideas for the next step of our projects. The problem would be the lack of good, realistic ideas. Some people have absolutely no idea how ridiculous their suggestions are (in terms of "fix", "improvement" or "completely new project"), while others don't bother first checking if what they're wondering has already been said and answered. Most appear generally ungrateful by not commenting at all on what has already been done (through long nights of blood, sweat and tears) and just comment on what would be needed to make the patch a good thing in their eyes.
I think that's the annoying part. Might I suggest you use your awesome, admin-like powers to perhaps split this thread up (ie prune out all the "useless" psots, like, well, this whole page so far?)
I realize that a project like this for a game as popular as this does get quite desirable and widespread through word of mouth, so there'll be a lot of people who just catch wind of the patch and see that it's almost usable for them. Still, I imagine it's not very motivational to read that 90% of the response to your work consists of people less intelligent than you feeling a need to ineloquently inform you that your work is inadequate.
Time for me to get on MY soap box for a moment...
*ahem*
Ok, seriously, WHO KEEPS SPILLING THE BEANS?! I've seen posts for tech support for various patches that came from THIS forum, all over the web (Ac.net, gamefaqs, etc). So that means some idiot(s?) is going around, promoting and distributing NON-finished products, made to be tested out by reasonably intelligent people, NOT miscontuted as a finished product to be used by any idiot. I just feel that there's something wrong with that, and, i wish that whoever keeps trying to be some second-hand tech-mesiah by telling all their ignorant, 13 year old friends about the work on these forums would CUT IT OUT, at least until the projects in question are complete. There's a reason i don't have this patch or the high poly-models patch or the Mini games patcher on ff7-universe yet; they're in BETA, and the last thing i want is to have to answer e-mails about "why doesn't this work" (And as far as the MGP goes, it's a command line program, and i doubt many people would understand that; its readme does not contain adaquite usage instructions)... My only recourse would be to link the complaining parties back here... and the problem starts all over again.
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