Empire delayed until March; Multiplayer campaign included!

[Martok]

Thread merged with existing (stickied) thread on the same topic.

[Polemists]

Sorry but not behind this not in the slighest.

First there is the obvious fact that you need not give out concreate dates if you expect delays. Which leads to the idea that CA has either made a mistake or taken on more then they can.

Either way, it's bad. I never had a single problem with MTW, MTW 2 or RTW that was insurmountable, I may be in the minority but judging by reviews I read in magazines, I doubt it. If someone took all the comments, improvements, and ideas that this forum had for games and put them in pre release it would take YEARS, to do a game that would even please 20% of this forum.

Then you look at the very idea that the so called "Vaulted feature" has no implementation upon release and is nothing more then a poorly made side feature that will be poorly maintained. I think you will all be very disappointed.

This would be the equivelent of players asking for naval combat in MTW 2, and the devs saying, sure, 1v1, post launch. Before empire's engine, before they took time to research, before they took time to playtest.

Again I am not against Multiplayer Campaign maps but so far CA has had a "We won't put it in, unless we put it in right" kind of attitude. Why change now?

I am highly disappointed. The actual month in and of itself is irrelevant, the reasons behind it stink of SEGA's hand. (The guys behind Spartan and Viking)

Maybe this is a rant, but I still think this is a bad move by CA.