I love SEIV like the rest of you. I have a vast experiance from strategy gaming from the early 80's until today. SEIV is one of the most enjoyable and addictive games in my career as a strategy games player.
MM is one of the best game companies. They always carefully listens to their customers. The only company that can top them are Paradox who by the chance also has produced the best game ever Europa Universalis II.
For me strategy games are like art is for artlovers.... even though I'm probably not going to play Moo3 as much as I did play Moo2 it's still has beutiful nuances that other games don't have and it's a worthy addition to my near 150 strategy games collection.
I am sure that SEV will be an even better game but I have a feeling that there will be lots of complaining just because SEV will not turn out as some peoples has imagined. This always happen to every game that follows up a series of great games.
I have never regretted any of my strategy games buy (with the exception of perhaps Destiny
) and I am always open minded about the games I buy and well awared that they may not be like I had imagined.
[ March 12, 2003, 10:07: Message edited by: Saarud ]