Sympathy is irrelevant. We made a change which locked out players unexpectedly. That is not how to run a successful service.o11c wrote:The server didn't have a problem with it. The last client build on the hardest-to-support platform did.
While I understand the desirability of not breaking TMW for our Mac OS X users, I find it hard to have any sympathy when Apple is going out of their way to make our lives difficult.
We have not established which people are unable to use the CSV-format maps, or why. All we know is that some people cannot play the game with CSV-format maps, and that the set of clients is larger than was understood or communicated at the time of the change. It's unhelpful and unprofessional to blame a computer manufacturer for this mistake.