How much do you play ETW?

**Prussian to the Iron** · 07-22-2009, 16:14

Originally Posted by Sturmwolf

I happily threw that ETW CD out the window! !!! the game was junk from the onset, with so many countless CTD's with Ship/Fleets. Game was nothing more than a bunch of marketing Hype, not thoroughly tested/proven before release by CA ( Who shall now be forever named Clueless A**holes, instead of Creative Assembly).

a damned shame, STW- Great game. RTW- outstanding. MTW M2TW, both excellent. ETW- just a pile of Sh*t in a fancy candy wrapper! useless! !!!

dude, stop ranting in every ETW thread. its annoying. odds are its either your computer, or your disc. get the hell over it.

**Aemilius Paulus** · 07-23-2009, 21:47

Heh, and I have yet to open up my ETW that is wasting my hard-drive space. I am thinking I will soon either delete it or move to a disk, as I have not yet bothered with the game and I have had it since its release.

**Prussian to the Iron** · 07-23-2009, 22:30

wait. so you bought the game at release.....then haven't played it? that seems a little odd. alot of improvements have been made, and mods extend gameplay a ton.

**Tony83** · 07-25-2009, 01:22

I bought RTW on the day it was released and played it non-stop for just over a year until I stumbled across RTR by accident. Then I started playing it and other mods, and haven't stopped.

I also bought Med II on Day 1 and played it exclusively for about three months, until I gravitated back to Rome. I started playing Med II again when the big mods started appearing (Broken Crescent, PDER, etc.) and now I play it almost as much as I still do Rome.

ETW was again acquired on the first day of release and, unlike many, I've had no technical issues with either it or Steam, and only about two CTD's. However, it's exclusivity oof my attention barely lasted three weeks! While I have no real issues with the battles, either land or sea, I find the whole experience bland and uninvolving, it compleltely fails to capture my imagination. Each time a new patch or hotfix is released I try again, but I rarely get past setting up the first turn as it seems all so futile.

I'm not saying it's a bad game, just that it's not for me. I hope that once the full conversion mods start appearing things will change, but I'm not too bothered, as there's still plenty going on in the modding worlds of RTW and Med II.

**Xipe Totec** · 07-25-2009, 20:32

I hated it at first and went back to RTW. Now I can barely go a day without playing it. It's the best thing since man maybe walked on the moon, or perhaps in a weird studio set with unusual gravity. That video with the astronauts jumping like Bill and Ben doing the 'astronaut olympics' until one of them falls over onto his back does look like a fake. Flapping and bobbing about at the apex of a jump in low gravity is very hard to explain.

**Lord of the Isles** · 07-28-2009, 01:43

I play it less than any of the earlier titles. But the poll won't let me choose to have none of the boxes ticked.

**Prussian to the Iron** · 07-28-2009, 07:49

there should be an option saying 'none of the above'. i mean, even me, who has played ETW from like march 7-ish up until now almost every day or every other day, has definitely not played as much as RTW or M2. obviously, because they were out much longer.