Developers show some quality intentions, at long long last!

As many of you would have known by now, there is big and for the majority fantastic news of a signal of intent of a very much likely improvement to soccer.kiekko.tk by the developers of this great game Jouko Pynnönen & Mikko Pynnönen via a screenshot they've released on http://kiekko.tk/pix/sosseri.png.

After the never-ending wait of a 18 months, since the dawn of the test version 22nd April 2007 after a comical kiekko.tk April Fools joke leading to the release of what we play today, we all at first anticipated a short-term test version and then the real deal to come by soon enough; we never at first recieved what we wanted and over a long time it seemed all interest of the developers about this game was lost as statements of "we do not have any immediate plans to update this game" and other different disturbances such as Hockey updates came in the way. But the loyal community have pulled through and are still consistently playing and keeping the daily user rate of around 95 a night in a struggle of tackling bugs and rows we've had to put up with a lot and we the loyal soccer.kiekko.tk community definitely deserve something.

Let's be honest the game has been crying out for developer intervention since the word go, times have been hard especially for moderators and teams alike, the test version overall hasn't ever been at a stability level of which we could call 'satisfactory' but it could all change. Credit to Jouko & Mikko we have had some occurences of improvements but for sure nothing as significant as to what looks the possible new deal. The Test version could be running on it's last days. The other implications such as VIP services, background noises, possibly a huge influx of new players from neat advertising that jouko & mikko are known to be capable of (just look at the NA Hockey server). I can almost safely say We finally have light at the end of the tunnel. I myself and most people do not know exactly when these graphical and hopefully gameplay improvements will take place but it will be one of the rare satisfactions experienced in our gaming years to come mark my words.

Take a look at this if you haven't seen the awesome pitch upgrade design:

http://kiekko.tk/pix/sosseri.png

No doubt that the pitch detail is on another level, the goal design is almost un-arguable with clear graphical showing of the bar & frame of the goal. The goal net itself, mouthwatering in ripping with a few bolt strikes :D, plus shadows of the underside of the bar easily creating impecable images of a proper footballing stadium and I constantly visualise the ball smacking the post with the background thump, theres the newly found team benches very much mirroring real-life, the advertising boards, pitch-lines, the box mud stud-rubble (developers mean business) ,corner flag, everything graphical we could have asked for is looking more and more possible; Possibly more? Hell no!, The state of this game I ain't complaining for anything we get.

Just compare that beauty to the current pitch we use in the test version and think, hmm. DAMN! We've played on a pile of shit all this time :P

The diagram also shows various different angles of the players body and kit design, it's exciting times to look forward to. Save the picture to my pictures and rotate, zoom in and view/edit to your hearts content; Yes folks this does look like it could be the new face of soccer; Let's hope we get great gameplay features too including what we all certainly know the Goalkeepers inability to be consistent on shots especially spin shots and inability to compete in 1v1 breakaways, the silly errors such as throw-in bugs, fair goals given as goal kicks, shots on the sidenetting being given as goals, random power-headers/volleys going at incredible speed, set-piece freezes, and perhaps to do with the fair goals part the influential crazy one-yard shot which is given as a goal kick (really ticks me off opposition or not :P). We all know the horrendous and putting-off errors which have perhaps been the main cause of so many exits from this mass potential game.

Have to say I'm very excited, the prospect of all these removals and the graphics is psyching me up and I suppose most of you will be pleased too, Love to see comments on what people (including inactive soccer users) feel about this major development in regards to the Football (Soccer/Javaball if you wanna be specific :-\) side of Java games.