what about the future?

[13lackGu4rd]

Tim Brooks, while all this information is obviously hidden from us, the public, it's still false to discount everything on the basis of "lack of information". experience also counts, and can help fill some of the gap created by the lack of information you're describing. moreover, we're part of your customer base, so we know what we want personally, as well as what we like and dislike about Dominions3 and everything related to it that we're exposed to.

so sure, in a university course the obvious answer would be "can't answer, not enough information". but in life you can never have enough information, yet you must make decisions. thus you make decisions without adequate information.

with that being said, not everything we say about Shrapnel is bad, heck personally I haven't said anything bad about you guys(at least not in this thread, can't bother with digging up all my posts around here for this...) and others too. the simple(yet often overlooked) fact that we're still here, 6 years after the original release of Dominions3 should tell you a lot about your game. most games don't last this long, only truly exceptional games do, so there were many things done right in Dominions3.

but like everything else in life, each coin has 2 sides. there are the good things and the bad things. the wisdom is not to eliminate them, cause that's impossible, it's to emphasize the good and try to hide the bad as well as you can.

as for actual marketing techniques. right now it seems like you're trying to fight the community to prove a certain point, instead of actually trying to listen and filter out the useful information we give you from all the background rants. this thread, as well as other threads around here, have offer you(as Shrapnel) as well as Illwinter with some very useful information, masked with endless rants and spam. if you can filter out the useful information you'll have a lot of new material to work with, which can greatly improve your game as well as your marketing, which of course will in the end lead to higher profits.