No SE5 news ?

Will · #1 April 21st, 2006, 03:34 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
You must have missed the addition of "Some of the improvements over SE4" to the SE5 site relatively recently.

http://www.malfador.com/Se5.html

The "SE5 Demo Download Page" link on that page gets me every time...

RonGianti · #2 April 21st, 2006, 04:14 PM

My guess:
The next news we are likely to get is that the release has been delayed until early fall.

Then, it will be released just in time for the Christmas season.

If there was any competition in the 4x crowd, SE5 wouldn't stand a chance by the time its released. But there isn't, not really, so we wait for the release.

Its really just one guy writing the whole thing, so his time is better spent on the product then marketing it...

Ed Kolis · #3 April 21st, 2006, 04:52 PM

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RonGianti said:
If there was any competition in the 4x crowd, SE5 wouldn't stand a chance by the time its released. But there isn't, not really, so we wait for the release.

You think SE5 is going to suck???

Uncle_Joe · #4 April 21st, 2006, 04:59 PM

Perhaps not direct competition, but its a 4x game of sorts due to be released June 1st.

http://www.wargamer.com/news/news.asp?nid=3269

Noble713 · #5 April 21st, 2006, 04:59 PM

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RonGianti said:
If there was any competition in the 4x crowd, SE5 wouldn't stand a chance by the time its released. But there isn't, not really, so we wait for the release.

I guess you've never heard of Galactic Civilizations II, huh? I get the impression it is doing reasonably well....

thorfrog · #6 April 21st, 2006, 05:00 PM

Yeah, I agree that the lack of news sux. This is my biggest beef with SEV. How about play tester notes. That would be cool.

Captain Kwok · #7 April 21st, 2006, 05:15 PM

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atomannj said:
Yeah, I agree that the lack of news sux. This is my biggest beef with SEV. How about play tester notes. That would be cool.

I'm sure Aaron would love to be inundated with e-mails about why feature-x was cut or why feature-y is being implemented. I think a couple dozen testers already make him crazy enough.

Atrocities · #8 April 21st, 2006, 05:35 PM

Aaron's focus is on game development, not marketing. You would have to take the lack of news up with him. I however can point you to gamespot for some information if your looking for some. They ran a preview of the game some time ago. As with most games, news is often released in small amounts stretched out over many months. Really the info we have gotton is on parr with the industry standard for such things.

RonGianti · #9 April 21st, 2006, 05:05 PM

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Noble713 said:

I guess you've never heard of Galactic Civilizations II, huh? I get the impression it is doing reasonably well....

Ya, I saw that. But there are too many things they left out that I want, like a lot more control over ships during combat and a whole lot more choice in weapons. They called their rock/paper/scissors - lasers/missles/guns. I want a bit more than that.

If SEV was not coming out, I'll look at Galciv. But SEV will come out, so I'll wait until then.