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Zen said:
And I would like to add finally the great truism of the Internet.
Even if you give people what they want, they still feel the need to complain. Kristoffer just told you that 2 of your list of X were already fixed. While that may not mean they are doing everything you want, it certainly does mean that you are being heard and implementing changes they feel are appropriate and within their ability/resources to change.
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Of course, outside the software world, when you're sold a car that turns out that only the wheels on the right spin, people don't get surprised and upset when you're not willing to simply buy next years model because "it'll be fixed in the next (model/version/release)".
Don't get me wrong - I
like Dom2, and will almost certainly get Dom3. But if I hadn't been able to play lots of MP games, I probably would've shelved the game among all the others that I've bought and been dissatisfied with over the years. The SP game has immense flaws, which would be almost impossible to ascertain simply from playing the demo. (Players would be
extremely unlikely to figure out that the AI
never builds castles and has no clue about starvation. It'd also take someone willing to play the demo an
awful lots for them to figure out the diplomatic blundering and blatant cheating going on.)
And, outside the software world, yes, people probably would have reasonable expectations that their car would work with or without passengers or whatnot. Only with games and other software (and possibly real estate development) can the seller consistently get away with a WYGIWYG (What You Got Is What You Got) attitude. Intel had to replace people's faulty Pentiums, even though the flaw was a lot less noticeable. Car manufacturers do recalls all the time - not just for exploding gas tanks, but for things arguably more trivial than the flaws in Dominions2. People don't
have to suck it up and buy the next model to get the flaws fixed.
J and K have done a lot in supporting the game - I'm not saying they're guilty of that. But I can see how people are frustrated and disappointed in never getting a viable single player game out of their purchase.