CA I beseech you! (With poll)

[Polemists]

They only say they did. We don't actually have any proof yet.

Im remaining quitely confident though.

Please let them have fixed it.

Well going off the review, and I only have the one. The guy did manage to keep spain and france from attacking him through bribes and diplomacy, and it sounds like he choose to fight the ottomans.

So sounds like diplomacy at least, makes sense.

[Sir Beane]

Well going off the review, and I only have the one. The guy did manage to keep spain and france from attacking him through bribes and diplomacy, and it sounds like he choose to fight the ottomans.

So sounds like diplomacy at least, makes sense.

I really wish I could read that review . Why couldn't it have been published online? Stupid paper publications asking for money (which I have none of).

I really hope bribery works better in this game, it was horribly broken iin Medieval 2.

[Polemists]

For those of you trying to view the whole thing, or at least more of it. Total War Center forums has about a 100 something post thread going, and they have posted up quite a few quotes.

I don't have the mag, but i'm sure it's a good article. Sadly I don't live in states or the uk :(

[sparkmaster4513]

*sigh*

I've been watching this thread for some time, and I'm stunned that people would think CA would push back the release date.

Think about it critically. News of a demo first. New screens and vids next. Then a full blown REVIEW. They're building hype. Not just among us, but among the casual gamers that would not go out and preorder the special edition and stay up until 5:00AM playing on release day. This hype is a fickle thing. We saw it with the demo. For about 2 weeks there it was OMG IS IT OUT LIEK I CANT WAIT!1111!!1!!!1elevendyonezorx!1!!1. And now, its kinda "meh, its out when its out".

This hype needs to grow if CA is going to have a successful release. And it will grow with further screens, more reviews, and the Fat Man of hype, the demo. SEGA has been in the gaming industry for two decades. It knows what it is doing.

Furthermore, the review proves that the game is Finished 100%. It might not be perfect, and perhaps CA is even now working on a patch, but it is finished to them. The release is three weeks away, which means that even now masters are being distributed to factories and very soon actual production will commence, if it has not already. After this, every day they would somehow choose to delay the game would cost them lots of money. And in this economy, throwing away money because some small part of the extreme TW community thinks a game needs to be absolutely perfect to launch.

Delaying at this stage would be stupid and wasteful.