ArcadeHack, on 06 Apr 2021 - 1:26 PM, said:
So Jurgie. There was no course creator to be had which means what killed off the Rory version of EA’s golf title?
That is a very good question and a reply to that would just be speculation on my part. I however go suspect the following. Years ago when Links introduced the APCD in conjunction with their release of L2K1 & then L2K3 they probably were not anticipating that many members of the Links Communty would actually master this Architect. In fact to the point where the designs were of better quality then the ones they offered as addons that you purchased. A similar thing occurred with the EA TW platform. That had a CA until EA TW 07. From 07 to present day, no CA from EA. Why, same reason, better custom courses than the stock ones. Had it not been for the ingenuity of the TW Community to adapt the TW 06 Ca to work in both the TW 07 & 08 TW Platforms, we would not have had custom course designs after 06. Ok, so let's add a little reasoning to this topic. If you were a developer of a golf sim, would you give your community a CA of the same potential and content that you are using for introduction into your creation? Furthermore if your Sim's interface consisted of every feature imagineable that would satisfy the most hardnosed video golf enthusiasts what is left? I bet that you would use this platform for years in conjunction with all the custom designs that you and the rest of the will provide. As a developer you would have to at least every other year with new eye popping features that would captivate the buying public in buying your newer version. Check out the forums in both at both Links Corner & Course Downloads. Links is using a patched game that was released in 2002. Dowloads is using TW 08 with an 06 CA. If you had the ability to design top notch customs in PGA 2021, for how many years would people play on that platform?
