I see the potential of this game, and I look at my experiences with its predecessors, and what do I see? Waste! Horrible, terrible waste of potential! It could have been so challenging, so engrossing, but it turns out to be a rushed product at the whims of a publisher, with many bugs, but most terribly an AI that I can abuse, fool, and trick, rather than cross swords with on an equal level. Besides that, the tactical engine seems to have been simplified and cavalry grossly overpowered.

And to top it all off, I look at Blizzard Entertainment and see its support to its games, and its openness to its customers, and then I look here, and I see two little patches which fix some bugs. Admittedly, 1.02 is an improvement upon vanilla, certainly, but no real effort has been made to make the AI smarter, to improve the tactical engine, so that I actually have a challenge to look forward to. Never mind that the enormous amount of historical innacuracies I see as a fan of military history! The gameplay remains more important.

Then I look back at WarCraft III's 18 patches, StarCraft's (!) latest patch, and WoW's patching (not to mention polish), and people wonder why I play this game constantly annoyed, and put effort into things such as Europa Barbarorum.



~Wiz