most comes down to, stop buying games until they play to your satisfaction. If you do not like the rules and code when the game comes out. Don't buy it until it is up to what you think is complete and enough to spend $4500+ on it. Then you won't have to worry about situations like this. When I bought LOTR, 10.0 code was already out. Early on, it needed time to develop. Once it was tweeked out, it was awesome.

Now some will say that stern won't invest the time in the code if the sales arn't up. But at the same time, if sales continue to be slow due to unfinished code, they will realize the importance of code, and start dedicating more man hours into making sure it's more complete before the game even ships.

Well, Keith worked on Lotr and TSPP in his free time to make them as indepth as he did.

He can tell you, he was in this thread just a couple of days ago. I heard he worked hard on LOTR and TSPP because both subjects were meaningful to him. Hence why he put in a lot of personal time on them.

NGG has been treated by williams like WOF was by stern. It could have been an awesome game, if the code would make more sense. I don't know why they didn't set it up with certain number of holes, and run it like a course. Say you start with hole 1. It gives you a 6 to start. As you make shot and do certain things, it lowers the 6 down, until you hit enough to make it a hole in 1. Have certain shots make you put out, if you hit them at the wrong time or something. Would have been better than random hole counts.

it's all over the place and not laid out very well. Rules are very unpolished.