When will you purchase Empire?

[Monk]

I'll be waiting until it goes "gold" or until the reviews by other players are comparing it to the brilliance of STW.

So there's absolutely no pressure, CA.

[Martok]

Monk: Indeed

Assuming no Securom

I'll be waiting until it goes "gold" or until the reviews by other players are comparing it to the brilliance of STW.

I suspect many of us are in that same boat (wanting to know how it compares to Shogun).

[JR-]

M:TW is the yard stick by which i will judge it.

[caravel]

As I'm always one release behind anyway I'll be playing M2TW first no doubt. But DRM has stopped me from buying Kingdoms and will no doubt stop me from buying ETW if that comes bundled with the same or similar security compromising malware.

[Enron]

@enron: I dont know ati video cards, but it seems ok for the most part.
@W&F: Macs?

Thanks, for the encouragement Unless I'm wrong my card is equal to the Nvidia 6800 series.

[GhostOfDisco]

I play RTW and M2TW on the PC side of my Mac.

When will I purchase ETW? The question, for me, is if - if the requirements are low enough (no more than 2.16 GHz and 30+- GB, please and thank you).

If not, then on the rare chance I can afford to buy a new computer and do, and have some money left over from Empire, then I might buy it.

[alman7272]

Hopefully if I can get a new computer in the meantime. But that means a new power supply, RAM, motherboard, and video card. A lot of money there.

[darrin42]

I clicked, As soon as its Released...though Realisticaly it will probs be a week or so after, before I have time to drop by and look for it.

[Polemists]

Same, I will purchase as soon as I can get to a outlet to buy it.

[Gray Beard]

I think I may skip this one.

I don't really enjoy the massed battles that much and really prefer a setup more like CivIV though hate the cheesy cartoonish nature of Sid Meyer's games

[Sir Beane]

If everything goes well I'll be getting the game as soon as it's released. I can put up with bugs and things until a patch or two have been released. More importantly I can write up a review of the game for fellow Orgahs to help them decide whether to get the game or not.

[Fookison]

It's a totalwar game what else am I going to do but buy it straight away, there is nothing else like it out there.

Me too!!! Can't wait......

[Spino]

Empire looks phenomenal and CA's rewriting of the engine & AI is very promising. However given CA's track record with Rome & Medieval 2 I simply cannot bring myself to purchase Empire once it is released. To put it bluntly I don't believe Empire will be sufficiently challenging or balanced right out of the box. CA's penchance for taking an eternity to release precious few patches between the time of release and the expansion pack only worsens the prognosis.

However like Medieval 2 I'm sure Empire will be great once the expansion pack is released.

[Odin]

Always always wait for the 1st or 2nd patches. Most PC games get a good preorder crowd and a "I must have it crowd" who fill thier forum sigs with free fixes for the games they just purchased (genius's). Its an advanced beta process, that works look at MTW2 and the moaning about the shield bug etc, modder comes along and fixes it and bam! hes now working at CA (lusted).

Let the preorder boys beta it for you, wait for the patch or user fix then you purchase. Anything other then that then you really have no cause to complain later