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When thinking about how many people want to play the multiplater campaign, with the new publisher for CA, I have raised the idea that Activision may impress their potential buyers with a gift, and by doing so, show what they can do.
Maybe not all of you( are you the 5 %?) want to play such a MP, but recalling the past when we are waiting for the expansion pack, we were looking for the Multiplayer Campaign so hard. Although our dreams were brought to an awful end, I still dream about it when I couldn't connect to the server at night.
At least I can't wait until mid 2002 for the MTW to play the MPC. What can they do?
They can make MPC real and release it in stores, with the patch and maps and maybe a battle recorder. And we may battle out in another server by the Activision!
Can they do it in 2 months? And if so, would they? Or is the totalwar belonged to EA that they have no rights to do so?
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Are you balancing the imbalanced or imbalancing the balance?
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There's a psuedo MPC managed by Magy et al. Other than that, there's no pre-TW2 chance.
Manpower + Time + Money = Results Coefficient
But manpower + time = money, so..
2 x Money = Results Coefficient
2 x (CA's Money) = aww, is that all??
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Nuf said.
Matt
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I doubt they will even mention the MP campaign until they have it implemented in the game. As they must of learned by now that it will just create a backlash if it doesnt make it in.
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"DP is correct" - Shiro
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EA holds the cards for the current incarnation of S:TW and WE/MI. They are not going to allow their competition - Activision in this case - to modify their code. Nor would Activision have any reason to do so, as the patch u describe would not generate Activision any revenue.
Unfortunate - and a good idea though.
Qapla!
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BSM_Skkzarg
"A mind is a terrible thing to taste."
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first off, one shld understand the various roles each of these companies provide. in actual fact, Dreamtime Interactive holds the copyrights to the original game, not EA or CA. i'm really not sure who put up the original money for development, but EA is, these days, primarily a distributor, not a developer. i'm not even sure EA has their own in-house development any more. CA (Creative Assembly) are the folks that actually made the game, or at least the bulk of it. they seem to be the folks that did the coding. however, the original idea 'seems' to have been spawned from Dreamtime. so perhaps Dreamtime did the original designing, Creative did the original coding, and EA did the testing and shipping and lent their big brand name to the thing. this is certainly not necessarily an accurate and total view of all that each company did, but rather just a cursory look. but, it does show that Activision isnt likely to suddenly take over the coding aspects of the game and suddenly provide a multiplayer campaign. i would think that would have to come from CA and they are ostensibly working on M:TW. EA also provides the servers for the current online portion of the game. so, what is most likely to happen is that the only new thing that will happen is that Activision will now do the quality control, online servers and shipping of the new game. they will have NO say in the current stw/we/mi...i think, unless of course they struck some kind of deal with EA to take over the servers for stw/we/mi, but this isnt very likely.
thus, there is almost no chance that Activision is going to suddenly provide an MPC for stw/we/mi, and almost no chance that they will have much say about a M:TW MPC.
and as for whether dreamtime or creative are going to make this attempt again or not isnt being discussed in public. like Target says, they learned that lesson from the earlier hypes.
so, if yer lookin for an online campaign, i suggest you contact dreamtime or creative, not EA or Activision.
there are also a number of inherent real time problems with an MPC that incorporates turn based and real time battle such as Total War, which i'm sure CA can attest to ;), so, i wouldnt be too anticipatory re an MPC showing up for stw/we/mi or even for M:TW.
it would be a nice 'gift', as you put it, but it's also a very unlikely one.
K.
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