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[quote who="solidsmooky" reply="177" id="2774135"]I really have no idea why so many people dislike campaigns. I love them. [/quote] I like campaigns too... just not the one attached to Elemental. The player is given ZERO choice about anything, its do this then that, then this and use this army and that city, etc... I loved the campaign in Kings Bounty and HOMM, but both gave you at least some freedom.
[quote who="Satrhan" reply="205" id="2773410"] You've just invalidated your own position as much as you have his.[/quote] No, I havent. I haven't taken the arrogant step as to make demands of the developers, or taken it upon myself to speak on behalf of more than I represent. Re-read my wording, what I said was exactly true and reflective of exactly the audience I represented. You will find the threshold between arrogance and not are using w
Hey Brad, have you ever considered ( and have the infrastructure to support ) enabling QA builds to a subset of the community? I am not even talking from a gameplay/play balance perspective, but to expose the game to a wider set of hardware. This is an aspect I realize Stardock is a smaller company, and as a developer myself, I realize that QA is extremely important but doomed to failure if you don't have a large enough hardware base. If you enabled people t
[quote who="DeadlyShoe" reply="177" id="2773070"] It's also Blatantly Obvious that I WAS NOT speaking for the people WHO DON'T want larger unit count Make all the posts you want using your own voice. Saying you are making an 'official request' from the 'player community' is presumptuous to say the least. [/quote] This, agreed a hundred fold. I am part of the community and I think this idea blows. Just posting my di
Don't know if its the patch or not, but I just installed 1.07, started a new game, then on the 5th turn or so I go SWARMED. Suddenly four or five stacks of monsters basically appeared beside me and as I was only a few turns into the game I obviously died. I hit Auto Resolve and mob after mob attacked, including a stack of about 9 spiders. I am hoping this was just a random map glitch and not signs of things to come with the patch.
Ok, you may not want to install it! I just installed the new patch, started a new game, then on my fourth turn got attacked about 6 times in a row by monsters that werent on the map. Like to think it was a glitch of the random map, but I don't think so. Hit the AutoResolve button over and over, and new mobs kept attacking, had a total of 5 attacks, very odd. About to try another game.
Its up.
No. The people reviewing games probably have years and years of dealing with 4X games and aren't coming in blind. The bad press is because: 1) The game is incredibly bug prone, with horrid frame rates and many crashes on a lot of peoples systems. 2) The game is incomplete, with a joke for a campaign and multiplayer missing. 3) The game is broken from a gameplay perspective and especially from an AI perspective, which is pre
[quote who="Xiara" reply="48" id="2749712"]I think people need to learn to research before purchasing a videogame. I learned this 15 years ago. Nothing is as advertised at launch unless your Blizzard. (lets not forget how bad WoW was at launch though.) It amazes me how many people blind buy games without even checking out the website, previews, forums, or early impressions. Then cry foul because its not what they expected. Doing these simple things will save you alot of grief and alot of mone
[quote who="tevans6220" reply="39" id="2749365"]I think the biggest reason for all the negativity is that Stardock is held to a higher standard.[/quote] No, the negativity is because they released a horribly broken game, a game a very vocal community was looking forward to. Also, their is nothing unique to the backlash Stardock are receiving, any A title that is released with major flaws there is a massive backlash. You should have seen the Neverwinter Night
[quote who="Sinful01" reply="32" id="2748332"] ... but what REALLY infuriates me, is when I'm in a thread reading about legitimate complaints (usually in the ones about framerate slowdowns on PCs like my own - I'm there trying to find out if its being addressed, and/or if anyone has any temporary fixes) - and rabid fanboys rush in, usually the same 4-6 names - it is sad I can recognize them after a few days, isn't it? - and start shouting about how the game is perfect, there are no probl