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To: Tom Caruthers who wrote (943)	3/10/1998 4:36:00 PM
From: Tom Caruthers	Respond to of 1992

From a post on the BZ board at Activision.... Posted by mike arkin [activision] on Tuesday, 10 March 1998, at 12:47 p.m., in response to Game not ready for Gold, posted by Akela on Thursday, 5 March 1998, at 8:26 p.m. > I would have to say that the game is not > ready for primetime. A number of issues > still have to be addressed. 1. Load test the > servers. With just 8 people on tonight the > servers were acting strange. I was kicked > out of several games before we were able to > play. Did you know that you are playing on the same servers that Dark Reign and Heavy Gear are playing on? You only see the battlezone games on the servers, so there might only be 8 players that you can see, but there could be 50-60 others on the server. Load testing is not so important for us since we are not a client server setup like Quake. The server does the player matching and once you launch the game the server is not doing much. 2. It's to hard to kill someone in DM. I have never seen that problem, I get killed more then I do when playing quake. And that is alot! > 3. The autopatch dose not work after 3 > attempts to fix it. We have tested the updater quite a bit here with no problems. Some of the problems you saw are related to the server problems that we has at the end of Feb and should have been fixed by now. 4. I have to reboot my > system after I play a game of BZ. Or just > let it crash on it's own. All of the crashes that we know about have been fixed. What do you mean that you have to reboot? The Beta testers were never able to test the final version do to the size that a patch would have had to be, so it is likely that this was fixed at the end, but I would be happy to try it out on my machine for you. > Come on Activision you know this game is not > ready . I politely disagree.

To: Tom Caruthers who wrote (943)	3/10/1998 4:42:00 PM
From: Tom Caruthers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1992

Battlezone has NOT been hyped. Analysts probably don't even know the potential of this game. ATVI's chart looks horrible but I think it reflects 1) Insider selling that took place around $16 shortly after earnings. 2) Short selling that took place after the finance agreement for the $60 million was set (Vic had suggested this one and from what I have read since, this actually happens a lot). 3) Lack of knowledge of upcoming ATVI games. Battlezone looks like it will be yet another franchise for Activision. I think people will begin to see this when the game becomes available in stores. The 20 MG demo was a turnoff to several friends until I guaranteed them it would be good...they were not disappointed. No one knows about this game yet. The stock has been showing some signs of life as of late and the money flow into this stock has been good. Maybe BZ will jumpstart ATVI and we'll finally catch up to those other guys :) Tom C.