WorldScores

[Guest]

I am very upset with the fact that WorldScores no longer accepts the Balls of Steel scores. I have watched my wife (username - Bon Redberry)reach the level of 4th highest in the world and 2nd highest in the United States with the Darkside DEMO. That was the reason that I purchased the commericial product for her for Christmas. She just finished playing the Firestorm board and got a score that is 10 times higher than the number one score in the world. 2,147,503,375,326,380. Yeah! that's correct, 2zillion points. We are both upset at the failure of the company to meet their obligation in this mater. It is even written on the software box that the game "saves and compares your scores to the world's BEST SCORES."
I would hope that others out there in the world of pinball players would let their voices be heard on this mater also. Via this forum as well as through regular email.
This is truely a sad state of affairs for such a fine product.

Sincerely,
Jim McAllister

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knightmoves@earthlink.net

[Joe Siegler]

I asked, and this is what I was told about the sitation:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>The cost to renew the service had gone up, and that we decided it wasn't worth it, especially since the game had sold so poorly.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

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Joe Siegler
3D Realms Entertainment
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[Alex]

Damn, it must be tough to be among the world's best at BOS, yet go unnoticed http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/frown.gif

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*gleam*

[Guest]

I was also a bit dissapointed that WorldScores is no longer a part of BOS. That was, IMO, the best feature of the game.

With that I always had a goal to reach on it. It's no fun beating your scores, you need to beat someone else.

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Dopefish!

[X-human]

=( Aw that sucks alot. I enjoy pinball alot, like Phatom of the Opera and Chucky's PlayHouse, =) How much did it cost to keep up the world scoring?

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The One and Only -=[X-human]=-
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[Guest]

I was also disappointed to find out that the scores were no longer going to be updated! I'll admit there are many better Pinball games out there. The only reason I have kept playing BOS is because there is competition! Oh well. Time to finally put it to rest.

[Joe Siegler]

Actually, the BOS guys are working on a v1.2 update to it. It's mostly video bug fixes, but there's a few minor things in there.

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Joe Siegler
3D Realms Entertainment
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