CA I beseech you! (With poll)

[pyradyn]

I do want a fully structured game, but do remember the best beta test to find bugs, glitches is none other than full release. With millions playing bugs will be found that they never did in beta. As for full multiplayer in the game on release since we are getting a small 1 v 1 beta. Understand as I am a programmer as are a lot of the moders on this forums. That would not be a month or two delay we are talking about 6 month delay to a year to rebuild everything for MP. It is a lot of just changing code here and there but when you get to go through hundreds if not thousands of pages of code to change the smallest thing it is not a quick processes I will vote no CA cannot afford to break date again. To release when no other games come out is a smart move, then people who have never heard of TW and are just looking for a game might buy TW. The more people that CA can get that has never heard means they will tell friends. After all we all know CA final goal is world domination!


Again just my two cents....I am going to be broke here soon

[Durango]

It is a lot of just changing code here and there but when you get to go through hundreds if not thousands of pages of code to change the smallest thing it is not a quick processes I will vote no CA cannot afford to break date again.

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Well, I voted for additional time anyway, rather than have the game riddled with bugs that take a year just to sort out.

[Marius Dynamite]

I don't think a 1 or 2 month delay would do any good. Much of that time would have to be spent re-testing the entire game because of only slight changes, and if they end up making some bugs because of these changes we could be seeing some very long delays.

The problems with the Naval battles won't be sorted in a month or so either. It's a new thing and will not be perfect and will possibly be very boring, but it is a start and at least from now on it will be (or should be) a key part of total war games as much as land battles.

As for the multiplayer campaign, bringing it out as an update is perfectly reasonable. It will let them see better how the SP campaign is working out for people and let them design around that. Also, for those who are not interested in a MP campaign, they don't have to wait. It's not a core element of the game after all.

[Sir Beane]

One advantage to releasing the MP campaign later than the SP is that it allows CA to see which units and factions are overused or overpowered. Then they can make adjustements to the MP campaign accordingly to balance things up.

Think of the SP as one great big public beta for the MP campaign.