I think we should be expressing our appreciation to the devs of Dom 2.
They actually come to this board and answer our questions about game mechanics. How many other games have that? I remember AoW:SM and Heaven Games. They came by once in a while to make a comment or two. There was no guarantee that they'd come by and answer even a legitimate question when asked politely. Sometimes they'd be gone from the Boards for weeks. JO and KO are a treasure. And I think that their participation on this board goes a long way toward my being happy with Dom 2 even though I paid full price, which was like $50.00 plus some rather high shipping and handling charge.
The mod tools they've given us are excellent. And these tools will make the game playable far into the future with new mods and new maps even if they decide to move on to greener pastures. Which I don't expect they'll do.
I'm going to take the position that we shouldn't encourage illwinter or shrapnel to charge another $20.00 for an expansion unless it has much better graphics. If they want to do that...then let's see what they produce before we either praise them or decide to become disgruntled. IW/Shrapnel doesn't have a history of producing "must have" updates shortly after releasing a game like TSR or Microsoft. And I have a hard time seeing that as anything but a positive as a consumer.
(This is not intended as a rant. But I don't want to join those who praise the graphics of Dom 2. I think they are serviceable at best. But they don't matter all that much so long as the gameplay is rich...I'll agree with that.)
I'm with Gandalf Parker...it would be great to get in on an initial public offering of IW stock.
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