YankeeJim:
Quijotazo:
WGT should try to move on from depending on Adobe Flash Player and adapt all their game-design into a more reliable game-engine-player.
What are the realistic alternatives. I'd like to learn about them, need a clue. :-)
My first "virtual-golf experience" was in 1995 with the first version of PGA Tour (that I know). You had to install the "game-engine" into your computer and if your hard drive and memory were decently ok then you would play a very smooth and consistent game.
Today, any game designed for a game-engine or console can be re-programmed into another game-engine-console (from X-Box to Wii or Play Station per example), and I am talking about games with a lot of graphics and intense real time motion.
Virtual golf does not represent such a hudge amount of digital information transit, other than transition between situations, loading new graphics and conditions from one shot to another, besides that, the only real motion-generation would be the aiming direction, the meter slide and our final click command.
Having said that, and trying to resume what could be an even larger thread, if I knew that one could load a more efficient "game-engine" into one's computer, and Flash didn't have to carry so many shots from so many players at the same time, plus advertising, plus friends connecting in and off, anymore, I would love it, specially because the smoothness of the game would be more controllable and in direct relation with our "computer's health" (lol). One could even play this beautiful game without having to be on line (in solo games I mean) leaving internet experience for multi-player games only, but of coarse, we all like to play with each other, so, the experience on line would be exactly the same, but handled by individual game-engines less dependent of one and only game-engine for all the players of WGT at the same time.
I just know that, for people in the industry of game-programming, this would be very easily doable, or not ?
Anyway, don't mind me much, I love WGT the way it is now. If they keep it like this for the next thirty years I'll be happy all the way ... I am just throwing some possibilities, which we all are entitled to do with respect and good vibes.