No Posts for two days in here

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I don't think you're looking at this right. Sure the forum wasn't bustling before R2 and isn't now. But R2 should have revived this forum, the sequel to the greatest game in the TW franchise, with a huge budget and tons of marketing. I came back to the TW series and this forum specifically for it.

But it didn't revive the forum.

That is damning.

You guys have gone to great lengths to apologize for this game. The real question is, are you playing it and enjoying? As much as you did Rome I? If your not, then stop apologizing and call a spade a spade.

I don't blame you, the TWC does the same thing, lumping all the complaints into a single thread and attempting to focus on the positive. But nothing changes the fact the game isn't as good as past releases.

Many things affect the popularity (or lack of it) of a forum. Loading times, presence of ads, quality of posts and moderators among them. Excessive presence of ads (and their effect on page loading times) is what kills twcenter.net for me, for example.

I would not attribute the present lack of traffic on this forum to the quality of RTW 2 in general. Simply, most folks who were originally here have migrated elsewhere (or stopped playing due to advanced age; I'd be in that category if I was not too addicted to TW games).

As far as I am concerned, ALL of the CA games are rather crappy upon release and get slowly improved with patches. Shogun 2 was bugged upon release as well. Rome 1 was no different on the machines of the time (and I'm not even talking about such bugs as subtracting shield value from the total defense of the unit rather than adding it). Don't remind me how bad and buggy was Empire Total War upon release. Come to think of it, that game never really got fixed.