What the hell is up with Dominions 3???

DominionsFan · #1 March 13th, 2006, 09:56 PM

I am visiting the Shrapnel site more times / week for many months now, but there is _STILL_ no informations about Dominions 3. How is this possible??? The game supposed to be released in 2006 Q1...I thought so at least....

Why is there no infos about Doms 3 or why no screenshots has been posted yet? Also what is the release date of the game?

Saber Cherry · #2 March 13th, 2006, 10:04 PM

Well, calm down a bit...

First off, the latest official mention was here:
http://www.illwinter.com/

Second, similar to the case with SEV, I think the developers would rather spend time working on the game than updating their website...

Go look at the GalCiv2 forums. As much time as Brad spends reading and posting on the forums, I can't imagine how he gets any work done

Edit: I don't mean that in a bad way; I know he works really hard. I just don't understand when he sleeps.

alexti · #3 March 13th, 2006, 10:53 PM

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Saber Cherry said:
Go look at the GalCiv2 forums. As much time as Brad spends reading and posting on the forums, I can't imagine how he gets any work done

Edit: I don't mean that in a bad way; I know he works really hard. I just don't understand when he sleeps.

I hope that while he is on the forums, not when he's working on GalCiv2

Cainehill · #4 March 13th, 2006, 11:39 PM

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Saber Cherry said:
Go look at the GalCiv2 forums. As much time as Brad spends reading and posting on the forums, I can't imagine how he gets any work done

Edit: I don't mean that in a bad way; I know he works really hard. I just don't understand when he sleeps.

He's an AI from Shub.

(And yes, I have GC2 - great game, but Dog, I wish they'd done a better job on UI.)

Alneyan · #5 March 14th, 2006, 07:21 AM

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DominionsFAN said:
I am visiting the Shrapnel site more times / week for many months now, but there is _STILL_ no informations about Dominions 3. How is this possible??? The game supposed to be released in 2006 Q1...I thought so at least....

Near as I know, there has been no announced release date for the game (any you would see is probably guesswork at best). Dominions 3 hasn't been officially announced by any publisher either, near as I can tell. I know Space Empires V, though the previous one was published by Shrapnel Games, ended up with another publisher, so you cannot be 100% sure about the future publisher.

For what we know, perhaps Illwiner will try to get the game published by, say, the Holy See. A few features might end up slightly reworked, though.

Arralen · #6 March 14th, 2006, 07:59 AM

There have people been seen browsing a private DOM3 beta test board on this forum (click "who is online"), so I would say don't worry, be happy

DominionsFan · #7 March 16th, 2006, 08:17 PM

Why the devs cant answer here at all? Doms 3 cancelled maybe? I have a bad feeling now...no real news since ages...this is not good...not good.

Ironhawk · #8 March 16th, 2006, 09:41 PM

Dom3 has not been cancelled

Richard · #9 March 16th, 2006, 10:37 PM

Because their busy testing and coding Dominions 3. It isn't cancelled, it's right no track.

PDF · #10 March 17th, 2006, 09:56 AM

Well, I'm quite puzzled at the lack of any communication effort by IW and SG about Dom3.
This game should be SG workhorse as sales and buzz go, yet in the last 3 months we had to ask for an interview with KO (that he ans SG gently agreed on) to have news and screenshots for Cyberstratege (the french mag I write for...).
IW site is a polar desert, the latest journals should have more than 6 months, and SG don't even assure they'll publish it now (or is it a joke ?) !
Well, I suppose it's a try to get buzz through silence