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NTJedi said:
I wonder if the developers will find a major publisher for Dominions_3 which will save us the hassle of buying Online.
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I doubt that major publisher would do any good to Dominions. Just imagine what kind of publicity it would get: Mr. Casual Gamer comes in the local shop and start browsing. He knows that if the game title doesn't end with 2, 3 or better 4, it's surely some buggy and boring game. He sees nice Dominion 3 box. 3 is good! He examines the box: ... 25 nations - that's really great! ... you will be playing a God - wow, that's cool. He rushes home and installs the game. But where's 30 minutes introduction movie? And where are 4D graphics?? And how does one actually starts the game? Some time later gamer's army of elite knights gets demolished by a horder of undead spirits. AI is cheating!!! He couldn't get so many units fairly! And why mosquitoes on the battlefield don't have shadows?! Totally unrealistic!
Next game he brings the game back to the store with appropriate comments.
Whole thing will probably create a bad press and drive the price down while the increase in sales won't be significant. It's highly unlikely that somebody will enjoy Dominions as their first strategy games. The market for Dominions seems to be experienced strategy players who mastered simpler titles, and those people are usually watching for promising titles, visit newsGroups and forums, so that they're likely to find Dominions anyway.