Black & White 2
sanmonroe:
Patch delayed "at least" one more day. It seems that making people stay up 24 hours to bang out a patch at the last minute is not a good idea since they break as much as they fix.
The solution?
ANOTHER ALL NIGHTER!!!
Drama like this arouses me in ways I know are wrong and don't fully understand.
So now it looks like people who bought it on release will lose 3 days of game play, unless they have an Nvidia card in which case they won't have been able to play at all.
:D
Oddysey:
Hmm. If the business of Nvidia cards is indicative of a trend, I may be off the hook, no matter how nifty looking a concept EA's future offerings are. I won't be able to play them, since I'm not buying new hardware for a game. Not *quite* that crazy.
On a somewhat related note: Death to all corporations! CHALLENGE EA!
And assist Google's plot for world domination. Mass open betas, the incorporation of the consumer into the design and testing, and -- behold! -- software that works! I pray for the Google operating system (Googlix). Perhaps it is time to start praying for a Google game company. At the very least, someone should check them out as a model for how to run the public relations end of a software company.
And I'm very, very glad that RTS's aren't my niche, so I'm not unduly tempted to purchase this product.
sanmonroe:
The company you are dreaming of is http://www.stardock.com/ .
Open betas, they release the code for modders, lots of communication with the consumers from start to finish.
AND NO PUBLISHER! They ither get apublisher when the game is DONE or publish it themselves.
Their biggest hit is Gal Civ. The game MoO3 was supposed to be.
If you haven't played it download the demo of the old one to see just what a company can do when it works wth customers and focuses on makeing a great product.
http://www.galciv.com/
And you can check out the sequal, Gal Civ 2. They have beta and also let anyone who preordered play the game from late alpha to release (and as such with the preorder money can pay the Developers without going to EA, MS, Vivendi, etc.
The onl;y big corporate game company I believe you can trust in their releases is NCSoft. They have some nasty practices with competition (like what they did to the Blizzard WoW team after vivendi screwed them, which is why WoW still has no expansion when in the same time EQ2 has put out 1 major and 2 mini expansions plus a complete revamp of the game's combat engine). BUT they corelease most of their games in Japan and Korea with the US. They know to make sure thier shit is together because the markets are so nasty there, a game comes out, that game will work and be tested. Otherwise it will crash and burn. I mean hell, they released a MMO with no monthly fee and are turning a profit! Thats planning!
Stardock is the Firefox of game companies.
Hook:
The thing I remember about Stardock and Gal Civ is that it was originally published exclusively for OS/2. And since I was an OS/2 user at the time, I was very glad to see someone publishing for that operating system. Even tho I never bought the game. :)
Hook
witch:
Hey Hook, how do you and some others I've noticed, get flames and 'Senator' instead of ripped lips and insults?
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