Patch Update

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Originally Posted by Akka

Mmh, no, I'm telling to people who say "hey, the game was released half-finished, but it's better than to have a pushed release so the game is released finished !" that they are immature (and counter-productive).

I think you read my message with the opposite meaning than it had ^^

That's also my opinion, and one of the main reasons I didn't bought the game, unlike every other in the serie.

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Really? Immature huh? Well, my dad can beat up your dad, so there.


Seriously, though. Without insulting anyone, I am getting alot of play value out of the game in its current state (Multiplayer battles, RTI, Prussian GC) where alot of the gameplay problems are minimized irrelevent. I'd rather have the game and be able to enjoy those features that do work (and be able to provide quick feedback for those that do not) then wait another three months. Not to mention, three months of testing in house is most probably not going to bring to light all the problems that three weeks of general release will, so you still aren't going to get a better game from a delayed release than we will probably have at that same chronological point after the actual release.

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Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

Well, it isn't like Steam made your game.

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It owns it through :-p

Sorry, I couldn't help a little Steam Bashing

hrmmm... thought the point of steam was to make patch release easy, wish they'd quit cramming new fixes in and just release what's fixed now, then re-patch in a week with more fixes.

ETW is not nearly as bad as RTW or M2TW were on release. I'm playing on a freaking Packard Bell laptop and haven't had any gameplay breaking issue or CTD.

Sure, the AI is bad, some features are clearly not correctly working. But it's not nearly as bad as many other released games.

Is it just me or are we getting waves of expectation depending on when you joined the community? All those who have been here since Rome (or before) are "mostly" the low expectations but happy to wait. Whilst those who joined post Rome (with its infamous patching etc..) seem to be very disappointed. What caused this?

See, I'd be fine with a few bugs, that wouldn't worry me. I'm used to it, plus you kinda expect a few to slip through in development. What's yanking my chain is that my copy worked perfectly until they released the patch on March 10th. I'd completed RtI and started a GC as Britain. Even tried my hand (albeit dismally) at naval combat. I loved it, bugs and all.

Then the patch comes out, my version won't even get as far as loading, and no one on the SEGA support area even has the decency to respond to tell me the patch will be delayed. Thats whats pissing me off.

Clan McLeod03

I get your point. Which is why the lastest post from CA is that they are delaying the next patch to implement more stringent Q&A testing before release.