This is my first post here, and yes, I’m here for the Unity 2.5 :0) As I’m sick of refreshing Unity home page hundreds times every day just try to find out whether 2.5 is out or not, I would like to open up 2.5 Release Date Guessing Game.
Here’s how we play the guessing game before we releasing our own software. We let our users guess the exact software release date, and on that day, we choose on lucky user from whom made the right guess, and give him/her a license for free!
I’m not suggesting that Unity should give out one copy of Unity 2.5 to the winner here, but just try killing some waiting time :0)
I see 9 t-shirts there. So with total statistical confidence I could absolutely be certain there are 25 * 9 remaining bugs ~= 225 bugs.
Let’s say they can fix 4 or 5 bugs each day. So that would be 45 days. Let’s be optimistic and force them to work weekends. That would be within 2 months.
Of course I took a stats class, and 9 t-shirts isn’t an accurate sample size. If there were more t-shirts I could pinpoint the day exactly.
thought only if the newsletter mail isn’t 2 days later than the page update as with the 2.5 news …
but yeah less polling would perhaps make the page a little faster
Guess: GDC (I believe unity would prefer that. A GDC release is about as cool as it gets for a game engine / tool plus its a cheap press conference if you’re planning to go anyway ).
Avast! I used to hate when people would do that when you had to guess the closest without going over… that just gave me a mean elementary school flashback. Although it was always funny when people would get the strategy wrong and choose one under, effectively forcing themselves to only be able to win if they were 100% accurate.
I say march-april. I’m on the later side because I think they will release it closer to after snow-leopard to make unity take advantage of the new power. GO UNITY!
Do you forgive me? 