MOO3 finished!

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by atomannj:
Well, looks like they dropped the ball on this game. Why couldn't they just add to MOO2? Keep all of the things that made it great and add a little more. I had a feeling this was going to bomb. I'm so glad I got into SEIV before.

Well, they also faced a lot of pressure to really 'break new ground' in this game. Lots of people said 'Don't make it MOO 2.5!' in the message forums. So it's sort of a double-bind. No matter which way they go lots of people will be upset. From a commercial stand-point it might have been smarter to stick with known principles, but then again as other games continue to evolve they might have gotten laughed at for being so unimaginative.

I guess they waited too long to update it. If there had been a MOO III only 3 or 4 years after MOO II they could have had some feedback, and some experience with smaller changes. Instead they tried to leap 8+ years of game evolution all at once.