I expect to release UT3Stats 1.0 along with UTStatsDB 3.04 by the end of the weekend. I never expected to write the stat logger for UT3 myself, but there just seemed to be no one else willing to do so. With the latest Unreal Tournament there has been an incredible lack of the enthusiasm that existed with the earlier releases. The non-console versions seem to have lost even Epic's passion. I still have to laugh when I load up a local match and see the
Lorem Ipsum filler text for the map descriptions, or the RC7 label on the DVD. "When it's ready"?
A quote from Michael Capps, President of Epic Games, as printed in the booklet shipped with UT3:
What keeps these guys going on nights and weekends is the passion that it HAS to be right. We're lucky that we've earned a position in the industry where we don't ship until it's ready, where we can afford to take "two more weeks" or even an extra year to do it right, so we can ship something we're proud of. We hope you can tell, and we hope you think it was worth the wait.
Mike, what happened?