A simple thank you

[quantum_mechani]

Not a "Great game, but you really need to add this one feature..."

Just an acknowledgement to Illwinter for making one of the most fun, absorbing, addicting, time-consuming- wait, why am I thanking you?

[Nappa]

Agreed, I'm still playing and learning this game 6 months later. Great game.

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Nappa said:
Agreed, I'm still playing and learning this game 6 months later. Great game.

One full year for me (counting 2 mo of Dom1 !), still totally addicted (5 ongoing PBEMs !) and now I think I'm relatively competent with 1/3 of the nations [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img] !
Never experienced that before with any game A great THANK YOU to IW and Shrapnel !!
BTW when will be Dom2 1st "birthday" ? I'm sure it's close now!

[NTJedi]

This game could easily blow the Civilization game series out of the water upon the arrival of Dominions_3... especially if diplomacy features for the AI are added. I wonder if the developers will find a major publisher for Dominions_3 which will save us the hassle of buying Online.

[Gandalf Parker]

NTJedi said:

This game could easily blow the Civilization game series out of the water upon the arrival of Dominions_3... especially if diplomacy features for the AI are added. I wonder if the developers will find a major publisher for Dominions_3 which will save us the hassle of buying Online.

From the looks of things, by then there wont be any.
Maybe someone will iron out the hassles in offering Digital Downloads instead.

[Boron]

Yeah playing it now since 4-5 months and still discovering new things each day . Even started to play SP again because i haven't time for more than 1-2 MP games now during my new semester .

I was as many of you may remember for about 1 month in a period of thinking dominions is unfair and unbalanced but that was only because some things are more hidden .
Dominions 2 is the best strategy game of all

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Gandalf Parker said:

From the looks of things, by then there wont be any.
Maybe someone will iron out the hassles in offering Digital Downloads instead.

Why don't Shrapnel offer that already ? I've been very impressed with the download system Stardock offers for their (GalCiv) and other games (look at totalgaming.net) for example ...

[Richard]

NTJedi said:

This game could easily blow the Civilization game series out of the water upon the arrival of Dominions_3... especially if diplomacy features for the AI are added. I wonder if the developers will find a major publisher for Dominions_3 which will save us the hassle of buying Online.

A retail publisher? Yeah that would be great...

Here's what we can expect.

A rushed product to meet retail deadlines (ie full of bugs and dumbed down).
No royalties to the developers so the suits in marketing can buy new cars and take "clients" on marketing trips.
Crappy customer service, and almost no patch support.

Seriously I know if I were a fan of this game I wouldn't want a retail publisher for it. Illwinter would be out of business in no time at all.

Instead you get great customer service, direct interaction with the programming team AND the exectuvies from Shrapnel, monthly royalty checks to keep Johan and the guys in business (and we have never missed a check), and support of the community.

This might sound sarcastic, but seriously look at how many developers that are similiar to Illwinter have been ripped off this year by retail publishers...

[NTJedi]

Richard said:
A retail publisher? Yeah that would be great...

Here's what we can expect.

A rushed product to meet retail deadlines (ie full of bugs and dumbed down).

Develop and finish the game... then find a publisher. During the time before release provides more Q&A testing.

Many gamers don't trust buying anything Online and will never get the game if the game can only be purchased Online. I'm only suggesting the developers should find a way to get their game into the local stores otherwise there are thousands and thousands of gamers they will never reach.

[alexti]

NTJedi said:
I wonder if the developers will find a major publisher for Dominions_3 which will save us the hassle of buying Online.

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.