Re: SE IV The End Of An Era.
 

I don't have your history with this game, Atrocities, but I share your thoughts on this game. It's a fluke that I had even heard of it, but I'm glad I decided to buy it after I checked out the demo. But I don't things are going to be as bleak as you're making them out to be. We got maybe up to 2 years before SEV comes out, and that's 2 years of more mods and race sets to look forward to. Sure, the beta testers may know what the new game will include, but for us average joes, we'll be playing along with whatever comes out until then. It's the fans, after all, who make the game what it is now.

Re: SE IV The End Of An Era.
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I probably came across as overly severe. I see what you mean, I think, although I just prefer not to think of or express "Last patch" or "popularity" in terms of a game itself being dead, over, ended, or falling. Mainly a perspective thing.

PvK

Re: SE IV The End Of An Era.
 

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif The game will live on until the end of time itself. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif And I am damn proud to have been a small part of it.

Re: SE IV The End Of An Era.
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Huh? Things are not going to be bleak, or at least I can not imagine them becoming bleak. What will happen has happened to many games before. As the new game gets closer to release, fewer and fewer people will be releasing mods, ship sets, and other things for the current game.

People live for whats just over the horizon and I for one feel that the road that leads there is the same road that leads to the next horizon and the next new thing.

No no, SE IV has a bright and enjoyable future yet. The game is still young and still very popular.

The sad thing is, and I do mean this, is that people have not yet discovered it. That is the true gloomy thing if you think about it. Here we are, enjoying this game while others out there are still playing Stars without any knowledge that SEIV is out there.

Or worse, they are playing MOO3 thinking that there is no alternative to it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Now that is indeed sad.

[ February 27, 2004, 18:39: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

Re: SE IV The End Of An Era.
 

Let's just hope that SE5 does not drive away half of the Online SE4 community like SE4 drove away half of the Online SE3 community... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

Re: SE IV The End Of An Era.
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Why did SE4 drive away the SE3 community?

Re: SE IV The End Of An Era.
 

Some of the SE3 veterans did not care for SE4 due to changes in the way construction worked, or combat, etc. And then I think there was all sorts of disputes between SE4 fans and SE3 fans and so on...but I wasn't really involved too much during those days so I can't speak much about it.

I think SE5 is going to go much better since there will be a lot more fan input in the game compared to the SE3-SE4 transitition.

Re: SE IV The End Of An Era.
 

My only gripe in the change from SE3 to SE4 was research. I still prefer SE3-style research. Though SE4-style kind of grew on me.

Re: SE IV The End Of An Era.
 

Old games dont die, they just fade away.

Heres to the community that made the game worth coming back to for four years, and that will keep me coming back until SE5.

Cheers.

Re: SE IV The End Of An Era.
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">two words and sum up this.

Thier Loss.