Growing Tomatoes

[rss334 10]

Hi, I started growing tomatoes for a living and I'd like to share my story with the development team.

After finally cultivating hundreds of plants I finally was in business of selling tomatoes. They looked great on the outside, they were bright red and firm (my tomatoes) .... but when you cut them open they were brown and slimy on the inside and they smelled pretty bad. I tested many tomatoes and each one had the same result, my tomatoes were ruined.

Now my delima was I had neither the time nor the resources to grow a new batch or figure out how to fix the current one, so I had no choice but to go to market with them. Customers were tripping over each other to get to my tomatoes and I sold every last one of them that day.... then the phone calls and emails started. People got those tomatoes home and discovered regardless of how nice they looked on the outside, they were rotten on the inside.

Most of my customers demanded refunds and vowed never to buy anything from me again, but a very loyal few saw the beauty and potential of my tomatoes, they vowed to stick with me through these tough times. Now my tomatoes really did have potential but my failure to meet my customers demand simply was unacceptable.

In hindsight it would have been better for me to delay going to market with my tomatoes until my new batch was done. Although I knew about the issues I thought my customers would overlook it, well I lost a lot of respect and a lot of customers that day.

[someguywho 12]

I see what you did thar

[Nicholas 5]

At first I was thinking this was spam. Haha.

[froggyluv 2136]

You know, there really aren't enough garden produce to video game industry parables. Well done.

[runforrest 10]

I want bananas! XD

nice post, although im not sure if it fits

[rowdied 44]

Hi, I started growing tomatoes for a living and I'd like to share my story with the development team.

After finally cultivating hundreds of plants I finally was in business of selling tomatoes. They looked great on the outside, they were bright red and firm (my tomatoes) .... but when you cut them open they were brown and slimy on the inside and they smelled pretty bad. I tested many tomatoes and each one had the same result, my tomatoes were ruined.

Now my delima was I had neither the time nor the resources to grow a new batch or figure out how to fix the current one, so I had no choice but to go to market with them. Customers were tripping over each other to get to my tomatoes and I sold every last one of them that day.... then the phone calls and emails started. People got those tomatoes home and discovered regardless of how nice they looked on the outside, they were rotten on the inside.

Most of my customers demanded refunds and vowed never to buy anything from me again, but a very loyal few saw the beauty and potential of my tomatoes, they vowed to stick with me through these tough times. Now my tomatoes really did have potential but my failure to meet my customers demand simply was unacceptable.

In hindsight it would have been better for me to delay going to market with my tomatoes until my new batch was done. Although I knew about the issues I thought my customers would overlook it, well I lost a lot of respect and a lot of customers that day.

Ok not quite.

If you would have said not ripe on the inside but still consumable instead of rotten it would be more believable. See the game runs fine for me, better than Arma2 on launch. The two crashes I've had involved the German original campaign. I've played around for hours on and ofline and had no crashes.

Gettin real sick of the haters hatin everything in this world. It is only $29 people. A bad dinner, half a tank of bad watery gas etc... you get the point things never to be recovered again. Yet with this game you can have endless hours of fun especially if you've always dreamed of an open world WW2 sim that will only get better with content and stability patches.

End rant!

[GRS 10]

If you ask me it's just not quite ripe yet. Some tweaks and we'll be good to go. $30 well spent.

[skadog 0]

When the devs give you tomatoes, make bloody marys. Cheers! :o

[jedra 11]

Your time may have been better spent actually detailing the problems you are having and producing some repro steps for the devs. There are issues, but not everyone is suffering them which means the more information the devs can get, the better.

[Placebo 29]

Prefer tomatoes in ketchup only myself.

I concur with Jedra.