MTW=no longer supported

**Puzz3D** · 10-06-2009, 02:04

It became clear during the RTW v1.2 beta (Nov 2005 - Jan 2006) that CA was no longer interested in maintaining the quality of the game play. That's not to say there were not individuals within CA who did want to maintain it, but the tide was against them.

**gollum** · 10-06-2009, 18:59

Thanks Puzz3D, that's good to know.

Some old threads in the Collosseum are quite sad. Certain developers were posting almost in a propagandistic tone with the clear ultimate goal to portray the change that RTW brought in a positive light or silence the negative posts - especially at the beginning, before the "new" fanbase found its way to the forums.

Thanks to the moderators for nicely changing the title.

**oz_wwjd** · 10-10-2009, 08:45

Indeed at one point I was willing to actually attempt to attempt to BUY the sourcecode from Ca,or open negioations to do so. The problem being that I was unsure of how to contact in order to start the proceedings,and in any case none of my e-mails to CA received any reponse whatsoever,which is frustrating,given the potienal of MTW,given the amount of fan-based support it still has.

**Vantek** · 10-17-2009, 17:39

Isn't it, you know... illegal to call a game Vista compatible when it's not?

How much money would they open the source code for?

EDIT: how unthinkable would it be that the MTW community *CREATES* an open source engine that runs on MTW textures, sprites, models etc? Kind of like happened with Total Annihilation ==> Spring?

**drone** · 10-18-2009, 01:59

MTW is compatible with Vista, it runs on my Vista laptop. The main problem is with the video drivers.

**oz_wwjd** · 10-18-2009, 07:28

Isn't it, you know... illegal to call a game Vista compatible when it's not?

That's still not compatible if it doesn't work with the drivers that come with Vista,which most people do expect.

How much money would they open the source code for?

That's just what we've been trying to find out,but no-one seems willing to discuss the issue,or I've sent multiple e-mails about this subject,all of which I've received no answer to.

**Knight of the Rose** · 10-19-2009, 14:41

Well, many games has some minimum system requirements that you should take into account before buying a game. This game has maximum system requirements now. That doesn't make it illigal to sell it to you. I have a newish laptop and plays M:TW like never before, much better load times than on my old system. So it works for some.

Things has improved (or so it seems to me) lately, but I can still remember games sold where on the back cover there was a total listing of all cards supported. The question that can be raised is wheather or not SEGA fullfills its obilgations to make you aware of the requirements.

/KotR