Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

Well, as I'm the one that translated the KO interview for Cyber I maybe can post the original English text http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
Will ask permission to everyone involved and come back.
See ya soon ! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

There are ads in magazines?
Actually I always divided buzz into two things, publicity and marketing. The publicity side (press releases, contests, word of mouth, articles, screen shots) takes time to do. The marketing (ads, attending conventions, boxed sets) tends to take money. One of the reasons that I thought Shrapnel appealed to independent publishers is that Shrapnel does more "we will take the time" stuff and not so much of the "this chunk of money has to be paid back before profits" stuff. Just my opinion though.

Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

We announced our involvement over a year ago.

A few notes:

Computer Games Magazine, in their February 2006 issue, listed Dominions 3 (half page write-up) as one of the Most Anticipated Games of 2006.

Word of mouth. A number of you in this thread mentioned word of mouth as an important marketing tool. It is THE MOST IMPORTANT marketing tool. Every game we have had that has had a huge following, has gotten there not by advertising, reviews, interviews, etc, but by fans word of mouth. It is the most effective form of promotion. So talk up Dominions 3 and Dominions II!

You must remember we are still selling Dominions II and although there has been a slow down in recent months, it is still usually one of our top 3 or 4 sellers. Selling Dominions II is the best way of promoting Dominions 3. No?

Much more coming v-e-r-y soon. Awakening soon...

Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

I am very excited about Doms 3. I was playing Doms 2 with a few of my friends, like 20-30 hours all week, however I wasnt playing on the net with you guys. We gonna change for Doms 3. Me and my friends will all buy Doms 3, needless to say, and will play on the net as well. The only thing why we was not playing Doms 2 on the "net", thats because PBEM is kinda slow, if you dont know the rest of the players very well. Is there a possiblity for Doms 3, to add additional MP part? Like a game lobby, and the ability to host games from there? I know that doms 3 will be a slow paced game, like Doms 2, its like chess. However the same is true about Civilization 3-4, 1 turn can take 3-6 mins even, or more if the game is big. There you can save the MP game, and all players just load it back, and continue playing.
So all in all a game lobby -> hosting/reloading games directly would be a better option then a PBEM system. I am pretty sure that it would work flawlessly. Tim or anyone can post some opinion about this, also may I ask, that in the vanilla game we only gonna have PBEM MP system like in Doms 2?

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Browsing through the Archive of Arcane Lore (okay, so it was Google), there was indeed a press release to this effect back in October 2004. Well, I guess I was sleeping back then.

I stand corrected and withdraw my point. What Shrapnel should do is, really, imprint souls so that information isn't overlooked (or, worst of all, forgotten!).

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i would just like to remind some people of something: there is a large number of people who follow this game and dominions 3 on these forums that dont talk to us

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Do you recognize yourselves? This is a mad cultist: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
http://ulm.illwinter.com/cultist.jpg

Dominions 3 is coming along nicely. JK is sitting beside me at our new Mac and experimenting with a random map of 1500 provinces. Not that 1500 provinces is a setting I would reccomend, but it is good for testing purposes. His Ageless Olm pretender is apparently missing a description.

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1500 provinces? ARE YOU MAD!?!?!

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Hey there Kris! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif
1500 provinces?! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

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OMPG! It's a spittin image of me! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif