CA and BI Decision Making

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Very well said DA.

I will not cover the Sega+CA part, but just state my opinion for RTW with a few words.

Although it is better in some aspects than STW and MTW, it made me feel it was poorly made (overall estimation). In MTW we had 3 periods and that wasn't just a theoretical part of the game, as the available units were divided in these periods while there were significant changes in the lands each realm had, thus altering your strategy in every era.

In STW, not only we had the throne room with the ambassadors/portugese/dutch etc. but also the cool little videos with the assasins, geishas and others. Of course, lets not forget that the game was a challenge to the end, since if you played in the east, by the time you had reached the west (Oda) you found there was someone who had prevailed against the others at that part, so you still had to fight challenging battles.

However, RTW has some overpowered factions, like the 3 romans+egyptians, some rather underpowered like the Numidians(and the spanish to a lesser extent). I never understood why we had to unlock half of the factions in the gaem, manually .

There are a lot other stuff, but all these have been pointed out in other threads. I'll close this, by saying that after STW, ppl have been waiting for MTW and when it came out it made a far bigger impression than RTW. There were also far less complaints. Wehn VI was about to come out, there were far less ppl saying they would wait to see what others think of it, to decide if it would be worth buying. And when RTW was about to hit the stores, i can't remember any1 (maybe i have a weak memory? ) who said i'll wait to see what it'll be like.

However, now that we've seen RTW, there are a lot of ppl, at least saying they'll wait for others opinions for BI, before they buy it. I think this alone is a mark that CA (and the TW series) start to loose the faith of their fans. Sth like what happened to the CM series: when cm4 came out, most of the community were dissapointed, now cm5 and fm5 are almost identical, while the TCM series is gaining fans, because they listened to what the ppl had been asking. The latter may not be exactly on a par with cm/fm, but a couple of years given, i suppose it will catch up to them and surpass them.

I am pretty certain ppl will buy BI, but if it turns to be sth like RTW, we may begin to see a change in their attitude, especially if someother tittle like TW comes out.