[Atrocities]

PVK the game is far from dead. In fact I do not believe that was at all what I was emplying. However, if that is how you read it, then I do apologize for it.

What I thought I was saying was that every game has a peek point that when it has been crossed the game slowly begins to loose momentum. Fewer and fewer people play it with few mods, ship sets, and other being released for it.

The game has crossed that peek now with this final patch. Malfador is not going to release another patch for the game and will now focus upon developing SE V. That to me is a sign that the game has peeked.

As long as people play SE IV, the game will live on. Hell people still play Tribes, in fact the disk for that game cost more than they did new, and you have to ask yourself why? The answer is simple, like seiv, the game peeked then went down the hill into the shadow of its sequal Tribes 2.

The game was, is, one of the greates games ever made IMHO, (Tribes 1 that is) and its sequal Tribes 2 is equally ledgendary.

Space Empires III and IV are both great games with SEIV's peek being far higher than III's. Space Empire V's peek will be even higher.

I think of it as a road over the moutain to a much larger moutain. The moutains will always be there, but once you have crossed them, all you have to look forward to are more moutains or another trip over the same moutains.