[Dekent]

Well I paid 50$ for this game, plus S&H..thats more then most NORMAL full budget games I buy. So expecting the same line of support shouldn't be out of the question.

Now from the start when I received this game I was disappointed, even before I opened it up. (No jewel case?) Then after playing it, it really isn't Dom2 so much as Dom1.5...For every step forward there seemed to be a step backward, and at the end I felt Dom2 was just about the same as 1, and only continued to play it (2 over 1) due to the new races, which is a rather weak point considering I have only played about 4 of the orginal to any great extent so far.

Now I belive both Dom1 and Dom2 are execellent games, and I have received more fun for my buck then any other nonblizzard game I have played. I still have my orginal dom1 folder floating around, 3 years old as it is and being bumped around from various HDs and partitions, I can't say that about ANY other game =)

Yesterday I was rather jaded, I have been very busy IRL and was settling down to relax and play some Dom2. The patch was out, I jumped for joy, oh boy...it screwed up my old save game which was nearing turn 200 and I was preparing to launch a final attack againt Jot (his dominion was swallowing me but I had most of the provinces)

"Well let's start over, I can play around with the mod tools and see what I can do....lets see....*opens up manual*..not working yet...not working yet...not working yet....but hey! I can add units to a nation, this might be fun, oh and customize units, that can be interesting too...*makes a few test lines, launches and adds mod*....well at least it didn't crash..lets fire up my good ol starting map....hmmm what? 'Abyssia has cheated! Ermor has Cheated! Ulm has Cheated! Pangaea has Cheated!' ack what is that....wait where did all these arch mage....GAAAAH!!"

Ok now I realize im ranting, but im still off my rocker ;p

I don't play Dom to win, I don't play multiplayer on it, I play it to have FUN, like I play almost all my games. Of the 70 or so games I have played (all vs cpu) I reckon I have won about..3. Most of the time I quit when I'm about to win, however more often then not it is because I lose. Now I don't consider myself a bad player, I just tend to give the CPU huge advantages including custom gods and scales, and large starting armies, or against ermor, let em expand and become their giant jugernaught selves.

Unfortually the patch has killed all my current work in this area, and since gods and scales have to be 'legit' now, it killed my primary means of having fun in this game. Odds are I'm just going to play with the mod tools some then reinstall (or am I able to make multiple installs of this game?) and go back to my old ways, I'm not quite sick of em yet =)

I hope all this helps yall understand why I often come off as being very cynical or demanding around here. I really do like the game and respect Illwinter for their hard work when they already have so much to do. I would just like it if the game didn't try to make me NOT like it so much =)