relic52 wrote:
I heard rumour that Tom is quite the real estate wheel in the Boston area too. He's a smart man.


Actually, this is not rumor - it is fact. He also pulls down a pretty good check from the Red Sox. Oh, and he also developed a scoresheet program that is at the heart of how MLB.com keeps live stats. Yes, he is a smart man.

Look at it this way: he had taken DMB as far as he could take it with the resources he was able to gather. Selling to Dayne made sense on alot of levels, and certainly the most important one: the bottom line. Even before Dayne, Tom had pulled back - the office move to Luke and Pat's house 3,000 miles away for example. People grow. They move on. Hey, he just didn't want to be Hal Richman, and I gotta respect that. I mean, with the game engine being pretty solid, (Tom's game engine), the next batch of improvement would be more interface in nature. Bells and whistles, beers and dogs. My understanding is that this is the stuff of the least amount of interest to Tom. Even the CPS stuff, while important, was not really a priority to him -- the incomplete data being one big reason. Tom never fired up the '39 disk and said "gosh darn i t, I wish i had splits and trans to do this replay!"


The reality is that Tom made the game he wanted to play and use, which is something different than what everyone else wants the game to be or even what they think it is. Do you really think he wanted to spend the rest of his days making te game "you" wanted? Which, from the suggestions that come in, was another Strat-o-Matic, a Strat with pitch-by -pitch. Tom may not be an artist, but still... that's a toug end for the kid from Toronto.


Now just wait until later next week when Dayne announces he's pulling the plug on this board and suspending all product for V9 while the IS team develops a new super duper Vers X. We'll be in touch.

Holy Cow! Dayne is in fact... Holmeed.