STW:WE sales

[solypsist]

Just asking: any info on how well sales are going to the game?
While it's hardly scientific, I use the .Org a sort of measuring tool, and I must say that there seems to be little by way of new people showing up, at least compared to when the original was released. There was a big jump of users this summer (thank god I missed that) which I chalk up to the reduced price of STW due to forthcoming STW:WE. But there doesn't seem to be much reception lately.

[Otokomi Innue]

Hey, Solypsist.

Lonely here this time of night.

Here in my home town, I think I'm the only one. I work with at least 100 gamers and no one but me talks about it.

PC gamer usually has some info on this from time to time. It would be interesting if there was some kind of gaming weekly that carried this kind of info or other gaming news.

[clink]

Have to say pretty much the same in this part of the country.

I talk to other gamers around here and hardly any mention it. My heart goes out to CA, hoping that they will cash in in a marvalous achevement.

[solypsist]

I'm sure they cashed in off the original game, and expansions have a history of never selling as well as the original; but maybe EA went too far in releasing both the original again and the expansion. I know a lot of people here were complaining about that tactic and decided to either not buy it or wait until bargain-box season.

[johnmcd]

If I wasn't interested in Japan I wouldn't have bothered with Shogun and I know friends who like RTS that didn't bother on the grounds that they couldn't be bothered with learning a whole new type of RTS. Frankly I haven't got the time to learn a whole new type of game either for the most part. Some got it when the reviews rated it so well but scarecely played it thereafter. The whole thing is so different from C&C that I think a lot of copies got shelved pretty quickly. I love it and think it is a huge step forward but I can also sympathise with people who were confused that left click and drag didn't select a group of units. They were never going to buy the expansion pack.

Also, if I had been holding out to see what the reception was here I wouldn't have bought seeing the criticism that has abounded. CA would do well to be more vocal about their patching intentions as it would encourage more people to get the pack against the day the patches appear. Patching is good. I will buy anyting Valve put out in the future just because of thier fantastic support for Half Life. Even if their initial offering is weak I know they won't rest till the whole thing is perfect. Even two years later they are patching up Half Life and yet we are told that we have one MI patch if we are lucky. Hmmmm.

[Tsumi]

Speaking of PC Gamer, in the Oct 01 issue they listed the top 50 games... and STW didn't even make the list. Who's runnin' that chicken-shit outfit? I can't believe some of the entries that did make the list, namely AOK and C&C. Even though I own both of these games and do admire them, STW, as a RTS, is years ahead of those games.

[solypsist]

I hate to write anything resembling a love letter to EA/CA, but STW has kept me on far longer than any other game, with or without the multiplayer. For me, most games like C&C end after the "final battle". There's little incentive to play it all over again just to see what differences there might be.
Too bad on the STW:ME front as far as game listings.

[clink]

I too was baffled not to see Shogun listed in the top 50 in PC Gamer. I have in the past blown my share of sunshine up CA's ass,but its still worth repeating that Shogun is very well done.
Its possible that Japanese history doesn't appeal to a broad range of gamers.
Oh well,its thier loss.



[This message has been edited by clink (edited 09-06-2001).]

[RageMonsta]

Its all about taste......and most peoples tastes is in their mouth.

Look what music reaches the number one spot or what movies generally are watched the most...people are sheep.

This game could have been set during any era...the fact remains that it is still the best and the only game that you get that feeling of real battle command...but alas....most people would rather listen to the Puff Daddy, watch Pearl Harbour or play C&C than listen to Rage Against the Machine, watch RAN or play STW.(options on the music lol)

The problem I have seen with the MI is how the on-line players have either split or left.......I am talking about players who have been here for over a year....the hardcore....as stated before STW is the best but was it the inventers of football (soccer to the ignorant) that made the game great and last so long?..or was it the players like PELE. BEST and CHALTON?..just like all those who came to play on-line when SP became a drag....they met Magyar, DA FEARS, Demon, CHAOS......RAGE.....etc. The players..makers of web sites...the org...planet....etc..we all kept this game going for most people well beyond its life span......these tini boppers who at the moment are playing the MI on-line will soon die off....and unless we have a patch to make a choice about either playing the type of game we know and love or the C&C moral style they have produced...sadly we will see the old players dissapear.....and then inturn the game will fade...like Puff Daddy and Rambo....where as Bob Marley still sells a shit load of records and 7 Samurai is still watched 40 years later.

[Tsumi]

Good points Monsta. Sheep, clones, etc... who do you think is behind cloning?

[johnmcd]

Well, the first football team was Scottish and we invented cloning too so it looks the blame for MI lies squarely with us. Damn.