When will you get Fall of the Samurai?

**Andres** · 02-27-2012, 11:15

At first, I wasn't interested at all, but the vids that were released make it tempting.

RL doesn't allow me to have much gaming time though, so I'm a bit undecided. If I would have more time, I'd probably buy at release, now I'm perhaps going to wait; so maybe within a few months and definitely when it goes on sale.

**feelotraveller** · 02-27-2012, 15:39

Not interested at the moment. May change to, when it goes on 'big' sale, but only if it turns out to be a massive success.

Probably one I will permanently avoid.

The era does not capture my imagination.

I am also not impressed with ongoing marketing tactics.

**andrewt** · 02-27-2012, 20:02

I saw the bonuses leak out and the most interesting faction to me is Saga, which is the limited edition pre-order bonus. Unfortunately, I haven't seen the limited edition on sale here in the US anywhere so I'm waiting for now. I'm going to pre-order at the last minute if I don't see it anywhere.

**A Nerd** · 02-27-2012, 20:27

I must say what I have heard about it does seem tempting, but I don't like firearm eras. I will probably wait.

**Claudius the God** · 02-27-2012, 23:27

the retail price in Australia for the limited edition compared to other editions available gives the impression of the customers being financially sodomized. I still want the retail edition with the installation disc, but I may wait until I see it cheaper and get all 3 DLC factions later on.

EDIT: I just double checked and it looks like the Steam version has gone up in price from $29.99 USD to $49.99 USD.
So it looks like the SEGA version (with only the Obama DLC for pre-orders) is the cheapest at $29.99

**xploring** · 02-28-2012, 09:54

Originally Posted by Claudius the God

the retail price in Australia for the limited edition compared to other editions available gives the impression of the customers being financially sodomized. I still want the retail edition with the installation disc, but I may wait until I see it cheaper and get all 3 DLC factions later on.

EDIT: I just double checked and it looks like the Steam version has gone up in price from $29.99 USD to $49.99 USD.
So it looks like the SEGA version (with only the Obama DLC for pre-orders) is the cheapest at $29.99

You can get the Saga one here: http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/t...dition-game-pc

They ship for free to Australia, and $5 cheaper too.

**Jacobin** · 02-28-2012, 15:10

When I've won with every vanilla STW2 faction at Legendary - i.e. probably never!

Seriously because I love the Heian period and the Tale of the Heike and the Yoshitsune are my two favourite Japanese books I can't see myself enjoying a campaign which makes far too many changes in historical terms (if it was accurate you'd have just two factions with armies made up entirely of samurai horse archers and useless peasant levies - which would hardly be Total War).

**Forward Observer** · 02-28-2012, 00:37

Originally Posted by andrewt

I saw the bonuses leak out and the most interesting faction to me is Saga, which is the limited edition pre-order bonus. Unfortunately, I haven't seen the limited edition on sale here in the US anywhere so I'm waiting for now. I'm going to pre-order at the last minute if I don't see it anywhere.

Same here. It's not so much about the Saga clan in particular, but the fact that I prefer to continue to buy a hard copy edition if I can.

I have ordered all the Warscape TW games on hard disk through Amazon.com. I don't have an issue with Steam, but I find having a hard disk ultimately more convenient for installation and/or re-installation on both my desktop and gaming laptop. In addition, I have a "Prime" account with Amazon, which gets me free overnight shipping on new release games. They ship a day ahead, so I get it delivered to my door on release day.

However, Amazon only has the Steam download edition listed plus a link to a UK seller for the LE edition with a higher price plus a transit time of 3 weeks after release. I have yet to find the LE (hard copy) edition listed anywhere in the US. It hardly makes sense to pre-order unless one is getting some sort of bonus over waiting until release day.

It also seems odd that all the UK and European sellers have had the LE edition available for pre-order almost since it was announced, but with less than a month to go, I cannot find a US dealer with it listed. If one goes to the official site for the pre-order bonus descriptions, the LE (Saga bonus clan) still shows as "coming soon".

I may just wait and get the regular disk copy if and when it comes available. I'm figure the bonus clans will be all eventually be made playable through DLC's.

Cheers

**easytarget** · 02-28-2012, 02:07

Originally Posted by andrewt

I saw the bonuses leak out and the most interesting faction to me is Saga, which is the limited edition pre-order bonus. Unfortunately, I haven't seen the limited edition on sale here in the US anywhere so I'm waiting for now. I'm going to pre-order at the last minute if I don't see it anywhere.

I agree that's the pre-order bonus clan I'm interested in as well, and I find it pretty annoying CA and SEGA can't get their together sufficiently to get it out in the US.