Quote Originally Posted by ichi
But a lot of people have uninstalled it while others play for hours each day.
Well, with the Loadgame bug breaking almost all the seiges and crippling the AI - those are really the only viable options. You can either play for many hours at a stretch, or just give it up as a bad job. There just isn`t any point trying to play the game as and when you can, like many of us have to.
Quote Originally Posted by ichi
But help me to understand how these titles can be so loved and so hated, apparently so good and yet so bad.
I think it`s a love/hate thing because the game is so very nearly there. It`s almost what TW players have been dreaming of for all these years - but then it turns out to be fundamentally flawed. And that`s heartbreaking.

[SWISS TONY]
Playing RTW is like making love to a beautiful woman
[/SWISS TONY]

It`s like a bad love affair. That fabulous girl you admired from afar and finally got together with. She`s lovely to look at, she`s into all your interests, heck she even likes computer games - but 3 months down the line you realise she`s an alcoholic, inveterate gambler or whatever...

And just like a breakup, or bereavement, we`re seeing the classic behaviour stages...

First there comes Denial - "Well I play this game all the time and I don`t see these bugs you`re all so bothered about, everything`s just fine here"

Then comes Fear - "OMG it really is broken. Please help us CA! Mods can u fix this? Anybody!!??"

Then comes Anger - "THiS &^$£* GamE Sux big time AND ca are aLL *@%*$*"

Then comes Bargaining - "Please CA would you mind taking a look at this and maybe fixing it for the Expansion. I`m sure it will be fixed soon and we`ll all be happy to buy the XP and the next title which I just know will be awesome"

Finally, there comes Acceptance - "Well that`s it for me. I can`t play this game as it stands, so I`ve just uninstalled and I`m off to play SH3"

Trouble is that`s not really a healthy closure, as there`s still a residue of bitterness left behind.

*Sigh* RTW, you promised so much, but in the end you turned out to be like all the other games