Fuck Team Gizka

No really.

Fuck em.

For those unfamiliar with their work, these are the chaps behind the Sith Lords Restoration Project. I've blogged about it previously here.

I mentioned in that post that the bug count these guys were supposedly working on was at 84, and had been for the past four months. This was in Febuary of 2009. It's now August. A quick bit of maths will tell you that they've been in the same position for ten months. Are they any closer to releasing their mod? No. Do they have a time frame for releasing it? No. Are they even working on it?

Well the forums are pretty dead. One beta tester is still posting his experiences and there are a few feeble discussions about the politics of Star Wars but it's not exactly a vibrant hive of activity as you'd expect from a mod of this type.

I've been waiting for this mod for ages, I've been patiently putting off replaying KOTOR 2 until it was out but no more. Fuck them. I'm downloading the leaked version of their mod because I have absolutely no faith that they'll ever release the fucking thing or that they're even still working on it.

Team Gizka should be a warning message to anyone thinking of starting an ambitious project:

1) Be honest with people about how the project is doing or they'll just leave.
2) If it's a restoration mod, add content gradually so that when you inevitably lose interest, the users still have something to show for it.