Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: Elliott Lee Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Yaroze Server dying? Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 18:45:10 -0800 Organization: Cisco Systems Lines: 64 Message-ID: <352058B6.27C24832@netmagic.net> References: <352030C1.1F66C97D@mail.datasys.net> Reply-To: tenchi@cisco.com NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-e-39-237.cisco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) Welcome... Darco wrote: > I just received my yaroze kit a week ago - and just recieved my access > name and password. But now that I'm on the web site... It seems like > everything posted is really old!!! Look, the last auditorium session > was last year - as well as most of the games. The only new games were > made in japan! Naw, the server just hasn't been updated in a while. Check the newsgroups as well. Quite a few new things are announced there rather than being posted in the showcase, for example. > People write in the newsgroups sparsely, and Sony's minimum cut-off > date for the yaroze project is only 2 days away... Most of appear to be busy with full-time work, and a lot of questions get answered within time. > Did I sign up too late!? It seems like net yaroze was super active > last year! Now it seems to be thinning out to nothing... > > To be honest, I'm worried that I spent $899 for nothing. > > Common Sony!!! Do something so scrape up intrest once again, and get > these news groups flowing! The Yaroze program isn't cheap. Sure it's a bargain when compared to some other professional development programs, but $899 isn't just pocket change. So, you have to figure that the price factor is what will keep a lot of potential programmers away. In general, the Yaroze program is what you make of it. There are a lot of us doing it, and only a portion are really frequent contributors to the newsgroups. We all seem to be working on our own projects, and a few have formed groups or collaborated with other people. I personally don't think you are too late in joining the group. Make some code, announce it on the groups, ask questions, generate some conversational topics, and join us for the Saturday talks (6PM EST, 9PM PST, in the Lobby). I'm sure you'll be plenty occupied when you get some projects rolling. You've got a powerful toy for your money---don't get discouraged by the lack of activity that seems to be here. A good starting point is to put up some info about yourself. Reply to the 1/18/98 Federmeyer post "What are you?"... > -- > 'Darco > darco@NOSPAM@.bigfoot.com > > UIN: 1454810 (You can page me at http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1454810) > WWW: (sorry, page is down) > Voria: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/voria > PGPKey: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/pgpkey.txt > > "Meow, Meow, Meow..." - The Dan Happy coding, - e! tenchi@netmagic.net http://www.netmagic.net/~tenchi/yaroze/