Open Letter to GarageGames about TT3D

[paisano]

I sent this email to GG:

Hello. How are you? Well, we diehard ThinkTankers are still at it! We've moved to http://www.planetthinktanks2.com and T3 (ThinkTanks Town) is still growing ( http://thinktanks.wikia.com) .
Our modders continue to build fantastic new mods and maps and we continue to fine tune our servers to host our own matches 24/7 from dawn to dusk.
We continue to host team scrum leagues (season 12 just started)! We continue to recruit new legions of loyal TT'ers!!!

I tell you all this with the hope that perhaps you and your comrades could see what we see. ThinkTanks will never die and is far more successful and more popular than you guys originally thought.
You have to go beyond the bottom line and take a step back and try to see the big picture here. Your silly little cartoon tank game is more than just a game. It is a living breathing community where we get together to play games and socialize and make friends. You are sitting on a gold mine and you don't even know it! Most game developers would KILL to have what you guys have neglected and squandered.
You have a devoted fanbased that continues to play your game despite years without any upgrades or updates. We love your game so much that even when your servers are down we've developed a way to host our own servers and games with a technique I championed a couple years ago called the IPJoiner which continues to improve with each release.

Look, I am not writing this to insult any of you. On the contrary, I want to help spark some renewed interest in your forgotten creation! I am begging you to throw a little more time and focus on one more release just to see what will happen. Perhaps jump to a new release called TT3D where TT will have incredible new graphics for the PC and MAC. New maps and new tanks and weapons and many more customizable options. I still have an official wish list on my T3 wiki (go to the List section).

I also want to make a deal with you. Many of us loyal fans have agreed to help market your game. We've already videotaped incredible footage of our games to create some highlight reels that we will post all over the Internet on places like YouTube and yahoo video and we will use viral marketing to spread the word! Digg, reddit, etc! etc!!!

So what do you say Joe? Can you talk to your partners and consider an update to TT? You have legions of supporters waiting for you. We can make TT3D: Health powerup a tremendous success!!!
We can link our community with other 3D communities like http://www.SecondLife.com , http://www.Worlds.com and http://www.Kaneva.com (which is 2D and 3D)... and even link to the incredibly popular SIMMS and Worlds of warcraft!!!!

Update: There are tons of TT video clips now on YouTube!
http://planetthinktanks2.com/viewtopic.php?t=1161

Also, checkout Halo 3D beta!!! Watch the video clips at the bottom of the webpage!
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx ... docRelease
This is a vision I had of TT3D! We can get out of the tank and score that way too!
I love the freeze frame and slow mo features too!

[icEPiraka]

Curse you Paisano! Did you have to write the letter before me?! (JK )

I'm glad you sent that E-mail (couldn't have done it better myself) to GG. Lets pray they get the point. Three cheers for Pai!

-icEP!-SA

[DJ Wings]

Yayuh!

[Great 8]

I would like to compliment your keen and dedicated proposal to expand the horizons of Think Tanks. With all our loyal and enthusiatic modders this is now the time to demonstrate their success way beyond the creators of Think Tanks.

With hopes of Garage Games' approval of consideration to updating our game everyone will benefit including the players and the company's profits. That is an excellent point to emphasize.

I salute your call for duty.

[Cadc]

Well done Pai, let them know that we are still here

even players since the release of the game

[Cassie]

Isn't it PSL 12 that just started?

Great e-mail, hope you get some respond there.

[Norm the toe]

In the real world, success is defined by numbers.

"Legions" of new players? - please be careful.

Love you paisty!

Norm

What a yay!

[Cannon-Dale J]

Numbers are acheived by such dedication as this.

Well done paisano

[Army of One]

Well written Pai, hopefully this will remind GG that we still exist!

[Dazzle]

Great Letter and Post Pai


It would be nice to get access to the TT source code and some of the original 3D Files, then we could really do some work -- hell i would even pay!!!