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Arralen said:
I have paid .. what, $40 .. for a game I would normally play >80% in SP, but it's more or less useless for that. So I'm forced to play MP, what I can only sparingly do because of time constraints (and time zone).
Atm, if I want a SP game that makes some sense, I have to edit the map to pre-place castles and make pretenders for every nation to hand over to the AI. What gets tedious work and takes a good part of the fun away from the game.
I even started writing an app to do exactly that for me - I'm not sure if it will get finished before Dom3 comes out, as I'm learning a new programming language especially for this.
So all I want is the game I already paid for in a state that it is not 'completely' (no software ever is, I guess), but at least 'sufficiently' finished. But it doesn't look like this will ever happen.
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Maybe what you categorize 'sufficiently' and what others categorize 'sufficiently' are two different things. It's impossible to argue that you want 'What you paid for'. There was a demo that was availiable which gave you a pretty decent representation of the game. For whatever reasoning you decided that it was worth the purchase alot of people didn't and not for the reasons you stated. You control what you buy. End point, there is no fault of the developer on what you considered was worth your money. For my $40.00 Dom2 has been well worth it though you may disagree and you are perfectly entitled too.
You can't blame IW for fixing things in a new version of the game that allows them the ability to add to all aspects of the game (and the desires of other people that play the game, other than yourself) the easiest way possible (by massively rewriting coding, placing modding where it wasn't originally planned, etc) with an entire new version and thus a new game.
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And can anyone assure that the same wouldn't happen with Dom3? That this or that will not work and I will be told to buy Dom4? I had that happen with too much games from the big labels already, and I really hoped this wouldn't happen again. That's what it takes to make me purchase Dom 3 !
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There will be a demo and release notes for Dom3 just like Dom2 I expect. You don't even have to try the demo if you don't want to, you can not play Dom3 for whatever reason you like. However if the Demo gives you enough reason to buy it, then it will. There are no assurances for your personal preference, unfortunately or the future possibilities.