by Screwbucket » Thu Jun 07, 2018 12:53 am
I'd offer to upload it for you, but sadly the last version I have saved is 2.3b.
Here's something interesting, though. I went to the Simbro blogspot website and...it's VERY out of date. The last post made to it was in June of 2017 with the public release of 2.3 and the Patreon release of 2.4. That stood out to me because the reason 2.3b is the last version I have of Simbro is because that's about the time I stopped following. So I went to Graphtreon and compared June of 2017 with their stats.
Now, my memory is sketchy, but I think this was the point where fan good will was mostly lost. But looking at Graphtreon, June of 2017 was when their earnings dropped and never recovered. I'm almost positive this was the period of time where there were just endless delays and long periods of silence. But isn't that odd? The last time any update was made to Simbro's website was the same time that their delays and releases became inexcusable. And they are now supposed to release 2.7 within the next few days. Oh, also? The countdown timer isn't on the Simbro website. I swear, I recall the countdown timers being on the Simbro blog. The current timer that was linked to on the Patreon post is on countingdownto.com.
It would not surprise me at ALL if it turned out that someone left the project, leaving someone who wasn't skilled in everything required for development...and the person who left neglected to hand over permissions for the Simbro website. Other than pure laziness, I can't imagine why they aren't using the Simbro blogspot anymore considering it's still linked in their introductory statement on their Patron page.
Oh, and based on the countdown timer, they initially set it up to end on the 30th of June. As of me writing this, it will reach zero on the 7th.
Some things never change, I guess.