rec.autos.simulators

Posted by Geoff Crammond on April 06, 1996 at 20:16:50:

Dear All,

Thank you for your interest in Microprose's products,
at present we are suffering from financial
difficulties, due to the AI difficulties we are
re-writing most of the code for Grand Prix 2.

We are at present discussing our situation with a
sponser who could possibly save us.

So until our deal is finalised we will not be
releasing Grand Prix 2 in the near future.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Geoff Crammond.

P.S. Our present situation will not affect the sale
of any other Microprose product, or support.

Posted by Steve Race on April 06, 1996 at 23:13:12:

In Reply to: Microprose posted by Geoff Crammond on April 06, 1996 at
20:16:50:

GRAN PRIX 2 has officially beed cancelled by
joint agreement between Spectrum HoloByte-
MicroProse and Geoff Crammond.

While this is regretable we at Spectrum HoloByte
feel that due to the lateness of the project we
would be providing a dis-service to our investors,
stockholders and customers by continuing a future
release of GP2.

Current plans going forward call for the game
to be picked up for future release by Electronic
Arts.

Steve Race
CEO Spectrum HoloByte

Craig

If this post is true, this is a major blow to Microprose's
credibility. You don't promise your customers the greatest game ever,
lying about release date after release date, and then just cancel it
because it's going to take a little more time and money. I think it
will be a very long time before I even consider buying another
Microprose product.

Joe

Its my experience that CEO's don't usually make major annoucements via
a message board. When I see a press release on something more
official, I'll believe it.

The game will be here when it gets here

Oh, well I've kind of begun to expect this from SH/Microprose.

Joseph Gates

...

Hey, there are some idiots who mess around at that message board. Some
days ago someone posted a message with Microprose's signature stating
that Geoff Crammond has had a lethal car crash ... Spectrum-Holobyte
found a lot off b*llsh*t-messages and deleted them. Don't give a damn on
the reliability of this message.

Stay tuned

--
Ruediger 'Gremlin' Gemmrig

Confirmed : This *is* a wind-up.  The guy who posted this has now posted an explanation of why he did it, and calls himself 'Imposter Geoff Crammond'.

Be patient.

Pete
----

Make up your own minds!

Ian

Joe

<I've cut the rest of the previous mail for bandwidth sake, but you
should know what the original post was about : F1GP2 should be
overdelayed>

That's total bullshit. As the editor of a french PC magazine, i've
contacted officials from Spectrum Holobyte who were as surprised as I
was. This is a complete fake, F1GP2 will be released in france by the
end of may because the coders do have some problems with the driver's
AI. But it will (or should) be delivered in time. The project is still
on the move and the previous post can be considered as a total fake.
Neither Steve Race or Geoff Crammond did ever wrote such kinda stuff.
If they did, they would have made an official press release before
all.
Don't believe in everything that you read on the net. If this was a
1st april joke, it's not a funny one for F1 ***s. At the moment,
the game is almost finished (we've got a kinda beta version). Be
prepared, the race starts by the end of may (hopefully).

Yours,

Guillaume
Editor of PC Player / France.

"I've been around since Moses,
 Your preacher never came."
- Fields of the Nephilim -

Best,
Gabriel Turk
Manager, Customer Support
Spectrum HoloByte / MicroProse