Skye,
I reckon it's HANDS OFF, because of what deathtowalt said, there is proof (I am guessing here, deathtowalt seemed pretty factual on this) that Eric was proposing to stick around and update InSIM for a year. Obviously he has no obligation to keep going after that.
However, having said that there is conflicting issues. Skadi: Are you saying that it's been updated for Apartment Life and that Eric has nothing to do with that update? Maybe I am reading it wrong, but some clarifications on what Eric's involment with InSIM since the latest EP would be handy.
If InSIM will be left in a corner of the sinking InSIMWALT ship, it will be Eric's prerogative to do what he wants to do with it. By this stage, with little information to go by, and only his past actions to judge him by, he will let it rot.
So don't bother trying to save it, unless you want to clone it and give it to a team interested enough to keep modding it. Eric has no copyright to it, since it's all EA code.
I reckon it's HANDS OFF, because of what deathtowalt said, there is proof (I am guessing here, deathtowalt seemed pretty factual on this) that Eric was proposing to stick around and update InSIM for a year. Obviously he has no obligation to keep going after that.
However, having said that there is conflicting issues. Skadi: Are you saying that it's been updated for Apartment Life and that Eric has nothing to do with that update? Maybe I am reading it wrong, but some clarifications on what Eric's involment with InSIM since the latest EP would be handy.
If InSIM will be left in a corner of the sinking InSIMWALT ship, it will be Eric's prerogative to do what he wants to do with it. By this stage, with little information to go by, and only his past actions to judge him by, he will let it rot.
So don't bother trying to save it, unless you want to clone it and give it to a team interested enough to keep modding it. Eric has no copyright to it, since it's all EA code.
Well, I don't know about proof exactly. Just Walt's word in the first announcement. In the first announcement, which was posted somewhere in this thread, he mentioned that Eric would be around to work on the InSim object for a year. It has also been mentioned that the reason for this might be because Mansion and Garden stuff functions as its own .exe, so the object might need to be updated. Let me go back and see if I can find the specific posts and pages these were mentioned on.
ETA: "Eric has already agreed to continue to update his InSIMenator module for at least another year." This is from the e-mail Paden and other staff members at InSim received, and the subsequent announcement that Walt pasted on the site. She posted it on the first page of this thread.
ETA2: "Someone pointed out in another thread that the .exe file for M&G Stuff is, in fact, EP 9. Apparently this is because it comes with a new option in build mode and a new interaction." This is from Owl on page 15 of this thread.