When will you purchase Empire?

[sassbarman]

It's a totalwar game what else am I going to do but buy it straight away, there is nothing else like it out there.

[Megas Methuselah]

Well said, friend. Well said.

[SpencerH]

Assuming no Securom

I'll be waiting until it goes "gold" or until the reviews by other players are comparing it to the brilliance of STW.

[Basileus]

I have not followed the developemend of the game this time so i guess i´ll wait for rewievs and peoples opinion before buying.

[Gray Beard]

I think I may skip this one.

I don't really enjoy the massed battles that much and really prefer a setup more like CivIV though hate the cheesy cartoonish nature of Sid Meyer's games

[Sir Beane]

If everything goes well I'll be getting the game as soon as it's released. I can put up with bugs and things until a patch or two have been released. More importantly I can write up a review of the game for fellow Orgahs to help them decide whether to get the game or not.

[Monk]

I'll be waiting until it goes "gold" or until the reviews by other players are comparing it to the brilliance of STW.

So there's absolutely no pressure, CA.

[Martok]

Monk: Indeed

Assuming no Securom

I'll be waiting until it goes "gold" or until the reviews by other players are comparing it to the brilliance of STW.

I suspect many of us are in that same boat (wanting to know how it compares to Shogun).

[JR-]

M:TW is the yard stick by which i will judge it.

[caravel]

As I'm always one release behind anyway I'll be playing M2TW first no doubt. But DRM has stopped me from buying Kingdoms and will no doubt stop me from buying ETW if that comes bundled with the same or similar security compromising malware.

[Fookison]

It's a totalwar game what else am I going to do but buy it straight away, there is nothing else like it out there.

Me too!!! Can't wait......

[Spino]

Empire looks phenomenal and CA's rewriting of the engine & AI is very promising. However given CA's track record with Rome & Medieval 2 I simply cannot bring myself to purchase Empire once it is released. To put it bluntly I don't believe Empire will be sufficiently challenging or balanced right out of the box. CA's penchance for taking an eternity to release precious few patches between the time of release and the expansion pack only worsens the prognosis.

However like Medieval 2 I'm sure Empire will be great once the expansion pack is released.

[Odin]

Always always wait for the 1st or 2nd patches. Most PC games get a good preorder crowd and a "I must have it crowd" who fill thier forum sigs with free fixes for the games they just purchased (genius's). Its an advanced beta process, that works look at MTW2 and the moaning about the shield bug etc, modder comes along and fixes it and bam! hes now working at CA (lusted).

Let the preorder boys beta it for you, wait for the patch or user fix then you purchase. Anything other then that then you really have no cause to complain later