I hope that the new patch will intrigue me into playing again, but it'll be tough. I would probably still be playing, but now 1.3 has to pull me away from HL2/CS:S and WoW. Had it been right in the first place I wouldn't be playing other games in the first place.
I hate it when creative works are put on a deadline. Game Developement teams really need to work more like a private art studio and less like Crime Scene investigators.
There shouldn't be any stress in making a computer game, it should be 100% talent of creativity. Games are entertainment like books or movies, I despise art forms being cannibalized by corporate entities and whoring them out... which is probably why I love VALVe's whole Steam system where they can distribute their own games - giving to the creators what truly belongs to them.
God Speed, Creative Assembly.
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