Who else pre-ordered...
 

...as soon as it was available from Shrapnel? I know personally I have alot of faith in Illwinter and their game design vision as shown in Dominions 2. As soon as I found out about Dom3 coming out and looked over the planned feature-list, I was hooked and pre-ordered immediately. Anyone else do the same?

I know I'd much rather spend 50$ supporting an indi game company that focuses on depth of gameplay as opposed to sparkly graphics and mass appeal. Too many developers are afraid of the cost-to-return ratio on making niche market games without broad appeal. So we end up with alot of generalized game titles that are trying to appeal to far too many people and thus lack depth in their core gameplay.

Anyway, I'm rambling... my main point is to show my support for Illwinter and ask if anyone else has the same feelings. Call me a fanboi if you want but I feel quite strongly about supporting Illwinter by pre-ordering and having confidence in their next step forward in the vast and complex Dominions world.

All in all, much http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/heart.gif for Illwinter and really looking forward to the release.



Resok

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I did of course...but as we know, Doms3 preorder broke the old preorder record at Shrapnel, so I guess, the game will sell very good.
I have the same feelings like you btw, I always prefer gameplay over gfx and such stuff. Doms2 got awesome gameplay, and that is what matters. Some ppl here says that "Doms3 looks like an expansion pack for Doms2." This is definitely not true, there will be tons of new content, AI fixing, great modability etc.

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I did. Thanks for the reminder since I have more I need to order also and I wanted to spread them out on the credit card. Its time for me to order another.

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I will be pre-ordering soon... the game will most likely be very good.

The only thing us gamers have to worry... is if some bad feature was introduced into DOM_3... such as the 'auto_surrender' seen in AOW:SM. Luckily the AOW community pulled together and convinced the developers to move this into being an option.

If one or two nations are much stronger... I see this as a good thing because it will provide more challenging SP games and new gamers would have a better chance in MP.

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Of course one or two nations will be much stronger. Dont you remember the early days of Dom2? What we all saw later in new players, all the players went thru at the same time in early Dom2. We all, at the same time, decided that Ulm was too powerful. Then we all decided Ermor was unbeatable. Then Arcos had too much magic. It took forever for us to get thru the whole list to figure out that there was some balance. Then years more to pin down some imbalances we could actually agree on.

And Dom3 will have at LEAST 3 times as many nations?!?
Of course one will be too powerful, and then another, and then another http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I have much faith in IW and I've preorderd as soon as it was possible http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I am sure there will be few nations that are much stronger. And there will be a lot of arguments in this forum about which are those nations http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I preordered and I can't wait to get Biblical on someone, fire and brimstone style http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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I preordered http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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It would be nice if those who preordered (like me ;-)) would be part of an open betatest.