Medieval2 ~:cheers:

[Ypoknons]

I really don't get that attitude. It's so incredibly typically Anglosaxon.

In the Paradox community, for instance, people actually expect good games. There's pressure from players, interaction and player advice to actually make games as good as they can be. And what do players get? GOOD GAMES. If you are expecting a half-assed product and still be happy because half-assed is still better than nothing at all, you will ALWAYS get half-assed products, and they will only become progressively more half-assed as time goes on.

Stand up for yourself, you mindless consumerist drone. They aren't making their games for themselves, they are making games for YOU. For YOUR money. YOUR time. It's all about YOU - not what they want to do with their time. YOU buy their products, so THEY WORK FOR YOU.

Is that really such a hard concept to grasp?

I'm Chinese, if that works for you. Anglo-saxonism, confucianism, whatever, I'm just a hodgepod of values it doesn't matter.

My point is that RTW wasn't so bad - it had huge flaws to be certain, but not to the extent that I wouldn't play it. You're working off the viewpoint that RTW is a piece of crap that noone would buy, and I don't buy that. RTW gives you classical battles in a 3D engine, something not even MTW can give. Yes, the shoddy AI made it boring after a while, but I actually thought that RTW was a rather good game. I am to be called a mindless consumer drone if that is the case? That I happen to prefer a flawed TW-style game to say, HL2 even. People who like Lock-On air combat despite its flaw would say the same thing - what, they will choose to live with those flaws because there is no idealistic dream world giving an idealisticly what you would call a 'good' game. Yes, RTW has more flaws than it should, but whether those flaws are worth your money, is up to you. It's either flawed RTW or no RTW, and the former does in fact, make me happier.

Yes, CA should interact with its customer base more and RTW would have benefitted from that immensely. But that is the realm of the sueprlative developer, and if you only accept games form such developers, go ahead. I don't hold people to the same expectations that you do, and if that makes me a consumerist drone, so be it.

You, in fact, have won me over to the fact that we can expect more from CA. But you won't convince me that RTW is somehow not worth my money, and the same, from current evidence, goes for MTW2.