What Will Happen To SEIV

Barronosod · #1 August 6th, 2004, 02:26 AM

What a wonderfully rich community you guys have here. I truly wish I'd been a part of it longer, I just got SEIV yesterday. The prospect of everyone moving on in a year or so is a bit of a bummer, but such is progress.

Gandalf Parker · #2 August 6th, 2004, 03:24 AM

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Originally posted by Barronosod:
What a wonderfully rich community you guys have here. I truly wish I'd been a part of it longer, I just got SEIV yesterday. The prospect of everyone moving on in a year or so is a bit of a bummer, but such is progress.

You would be surprised at how many we have sucked into the Dominions 2 forum (right next door)

But I think it will be a Looong time before the SEIV forum dies off.

[ August 06, 2004, 02:25: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Barronosod · #3 August 6th, 2004, 03:41 AM

I can believe it. I began as a Dominions 2 freak, then migrated this way.

Loser · #4 August 6th, 2004, 04:14 AM

I'll still play Se IV, I'm thinking.

Unless everything translates.

I doubt we'll be done with the Play by Committee game when SE V comes out.

Fyron · #5 August 6th, 2004, 04:17 AM

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Originally posted by Barronosod:
What a wonderfully rich community you guys have here. I truly wish I'd been a part of it longer, I just got SEIV yesterday. The prospect of everyone moving on in a year or so is a bit of a bummer, but such is progress.

Possibly half of the (Online, vocal) SE3 community left when SE4 came out, because in some ways it was a radically different game. Some of them converted after the game was out for a few years (myself being one of these). With a real time combat engine, SE5 may well be just as different from SE4 as SE4 was from SE3. Who knows what will happen. Those that remain will just move to the SE5 forum and it will be business as usual...

Barronosod · #6 August 6th, 2004, 06:18 AM

Fogive me Loser, but I'm curious... what is this play by committee?

PvK · #7 August 6th, 2004, 07:37 AM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
What do you think will happen to SEIV once SE V comes out? Do you think people will continue to play it or pretty much right it off and stick to the new?

I expect SE V will have a period of wierdness after release. As in, I wasn't really entirely happy with SE4 until SE4 Gold. Most SE4 players will of course give it a lot of attention, and different people will like or dislike different things. I think there will still be enough people playing SE4 to find new PBW games probably for as long as PBW continues to offer it. Are there not still diehards playing pre-Gold SE4 on PBW?

Of course, you are invoking the annoying term "people", which suggests maybe you are interested in herd behaviour, and not just in whether there will be enough players for games.

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I for one am hopeful that people will continue to play SEIV as it is a great game. I know that many of the PBW game will more likely than not continue through to there conclusions, however no new games will start.

I'd say you're wrong that no new games will start. Unless again, you are exaggerating out of concern for what "people" will do, meaning some sort of herd.

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We all have invested a huge amount of time into SEIV and I am sure we will all do the same for SE V. But turning our backs on SEIV, something I do not want to see happen, would be a crime in my opinion. Then again I could be wrong an no one really asked me so there.

Why then do you (if I'm not mistaken) periodically create such threads where you talk about SE4 "dying" and such concepts? Seems like counterproductive populist pessimism to me. No?

PvK