Americans, how is Kingdoms?

**Monsieur Alphonse** · 08-28-2007, 21:30

There is a guy at TWC (avatar Antioch) who has posted the first screenies. He bought the game in Sweden.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=117983&page=5

**Ferret** · 08-28-2007, 21:55

Thanks Alphonse

**Proletariat** · 08-28-2007, 22:00

Any positive experiences with buying it via download? I'd like to play it now, because I'm impatient, but I also like having the discs. If there aren't any considerable draw backs, I might just download it tonight, but the only other time I've bought a game via download, it only allowed three activations of the game. That's pretty lame since I know I'll inevitably screw up game files while tweaking things and I'd like as many installs as I need.

**Ice** · 08-28-2007, 23:44

Originally Posted by Proletariat

Any positive experiences with buying it via download? I'd like to play it now, because I'm impatient, but I also like having the discs. If there aren't any considerable draw backs, I might just download it tonight, but the only other time I've bought a game via download, it only allowed three activations of the game. That's pretty lame since I know I'll inevitably screw up game files while tweaking things and I'd like as many installs as I need.

Don't download it. I downloaded MTWII and it was a pain in the ass for support and getting stuff to work.

Edit: I did use steam though.

**Gorm** · 08-29-2007, 00:17

ARRGH! My pre-order with Amazon here in the US says it is in stock on Sept. 2 and deliver between Sept. 11 and 17.

**andrewt** · 08-29-2007, 03:55

I preorder my games through Gamestop because there's one within walking distance, probably a bit over a mile from my house. The "release date" is always the "ship date" and I get games the next day.

And I'm surprised how little this game was talked about the previous week, it seems people forgot today is ship date. Didn't see any new threads here until this one and didn't see any of the game sites have any new article about it.

**Gorm** · 08-30-2007, 00:51

Originally Posted by andrewt

I preorder my games through Gamestop because there's one within walking distance, probably a bit over a mile from my house. The "release date" is always the "ship date" and I get games the next day.

I live in a remote part of Colorado and can't afford to take time off work to drive 2 or more hours one-way to get to the nearest Gamestop. Darn.

**Benandorf** · 08-29-2007, 04:47

Originally Posted by Ice

Don't download it. I downloaded MTWII and it was a pain in the ass for support and getting stuff to work.

Edit: I did use steam though.

I actually had an opposite experience with M2:TW over Steam. In fact, I've liked it so much (no scrounging around to find disks and constantly changing them out of my only CD/DVD Drive, YAY!) I plan to get RTW:Complete and Kingdoms from there.

I say that disks are annoying, if you have a fast internet the best way to go would be downloading it.

**phonicsmonkey** · 08-29-2007, 04:52

I would have used Steam but for reasons unknown M2TW was unavailable over Steam to persons living in Australia

**Rhedd** · 08-29-2007, 06:58

Originally Posted by Benandorf

I actually had an opposite experience with M2:TW over Steam. In fact, I've liked it so much (no scrounging around to find disks and constantly changing them out of my only CD/DVD Drive, YAY!) I plan to get RTW:Complete and Kingdoms from there..

That's good to hear, because as I understand it, a retail boxed version of Kingdoms won't recognize the fact that you own the Steam version of M2TW, and a Steam version of Kingdoms won't play nice with a retail box of M2TW.

I'm sorry, but you couldn't pay me to buy things off of Steam. It's full of peculiarities.

**Slaists** · 08-29-2007, 14:38

Downloaded the whole log (7 GB) last nite and had a shot at a Jerusalem campaign for an hour before heading to bed way too late.

Here is the first thing that jumped at me: passive strategic AI all over... Egyptians, being at war with me, had 5 stacks wandering around my provinces around Jerusalem for 10 turns and not attacking anything... with the manpower they had there they should have been able to seriously threaten at least one of my cities/castles there, but nada...