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Thanks Johan/Balor for your mention on the system requirements.
The lack of comment on the release date may also be telling.
The lack of comment on the release date may also be telling.
I dunno. I like Gamersgate better than Steam. Less DRM and having to connect all the time to play games.
Gamersgate just has you download a single exe file which decrypts and after that you don't have to connect to them anymore.
I don't know about you guys but Steam left a lot of people with a bitter taste in their mouth after Empire Total War. Its was a total and complete failure and that might be giving it to much credit.
Half the people who paid 10-15% more for the game to download 2 days ahead of release were slapped in the face when Steam stated on the pre-load date that they would NOT be allowing pre-loads, after months of telling customers that they were going to be able to.
Then for the ones who waited and bought the physical copy, had trouble even installing the game. Many said the game actually DOWNLOADED from Steam instead of getting the info from the disk. On release +2 Steam released an update to stop this from happening.
I like the Total War franchise and Steam ruined that experience for many people. By God if they ruin HoI3 for me, I will systematically take down their entire company via hostile take-over.
I do not understand the thoughts in Publishers and Developers. No matter how much money to spend on security and anti-piracy you are forgetting your legitimate customers. And your forgetting the most powerful of all Human philosophies, if there is a will, there is a way. Someone will crack the game and many people will download it. Life's a bitch consider it payback for releasing broken games that require tons of patching to be play able (Not necessarily directed at Paradox).
Half the people who paid 10-15% more for the game to download 2 days ahead of release were slapped in the face when Steam stated on the pre-load date that they would NOT be allowing pre-loads, after months of telling customers that they were going to be able to.
Then for the ones who waited and bought the physical copy, had trouble even installing the game. Many said the game actually DOWNLOADED from Steam instead of getting the info from the disk. On release +2 Steam released an update to stop this from happening.
I like the Total War franchise and Steam ruined that experience for many people. By God if they ruin HoI3 for me, I will systematically take down their entire company via hostile take-over.
I do not understand the thoughts in Publishers and Developers. No matter how much money to spend on security and anti-piracy you are forgetting your legitimate customers. And your forgetting the most powerful of all Human philosophies, if there is a will, there is a way. Someone will crack the game and many people will download it. Life's a bitch consider it payback for releasing broken games that require tons of patching to be play able (Not necessarily directed at Paradox).
Actually Steam is possibly one of the best pieces of gaming Software I've ever used, from what I hear it's on Sega/Creative's side that all the trouble is coming from when they decided to use it as a form of DRM and there sloppy ability to fix the game.
the funny thing about those ridicules specs that they higher even then crysis specs, so i wouldnt count on them to much
total war ruined the experience themselves by releasing a bug riddled game.
and i for one very much pro copy protection (maybe not steam) since "most powerful of all Human philosophies" as u say is why pay for something i can get for free...
total war ruined the experience themselves by releasing a bug riddled game.
and i for one very much pro copy protection (maybe not steam) since "most powerful of all Human philosophies" as u say is why pay for something i can get for free...
I don't like Steam and guys whats this spec talk about video card iGB onboard memory???? What???
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP/Vista
Processor: 3GHz dual core processor
Memory: 2 GB of RAM
Hard Disk Space: 4 GB
Video Card: Graphics card with at least 1 GB onboard memory
Sound: Direct X-compatible sound card
DirectX®: Direct X 9.0
Dev team please help
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP/Vista
Processor: 3GHz dual core processor
Memory: 2 GB of RAM
Hard Disk Space: 4 GB
Video Card: Graphics card with at least 1 GB onboard memory
Sound: Direct X-compatible sound card
DirectX®: Direct X 9.0
Dev team please help
1) Thats not the system requirments, as those requirments are ridiculous. There's another thread on this forum which have them... http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=400179
2) The game will be released at all download portals AFAIK. Gamersgate, Direct2drive, Steam, Impulse etc.. as well as in stores on cd's.
2) The game will be released at all download portals AFAIK. Gamersgate, Direct2drive, Steam, Impulse etc.. as well as in stores on cd's.
Is the XP/Vista a requirement? I live on a shoestring budget and can't afford to get a new Operating System, I'm currently using Windows 2000 Professional.
I for one am glad it is being released on Steam (among other platforms) as this means the game will reach a wider player base instead of the niche gaming grognards. If this hobby (and strategy games like this are strictly a hobby) is to survive, it needs to be made accessible to as many people as possible.
The requirements listed may just be what you would need to run the game with full bells and whistles and no slowdown? *shrug* Doesn't matter to me, by August I'll have a system built that will exceed those requirements. Now for the price of SSDs to drop so I can have zero load times.
The requirements listed may just be what you would need to run the game with full bells and whistles and no slowdown? *shrug* Doesn't matter to me, by August I'll have a system built that will exceed those requirements. Now for the price of SSDs to drop so I can have zero load times.
Can we get a confirmation from a P'dox employee about the release date?
I would then be able to set down an exact date for my countdown in my sig, instead of aiming for about August 1.
I would then be able to set down an exact date for my countdown in my sig, instead of aiming for about August 1.
:rofl: It would be insane! I have a good graphic card, with which I can run all games on highest settings, and it’s only 512MB.
Yes, me too!
How can anybody in their right mind write those system reqs down? I mean, people who work at a company like steam are supposed to know something about computers, right?
I am not buying the game from steam simply because i want the boxed version which will include the gigantic manual (i'm guessing). Which will be alot of fun to read.
I'll be getting it off Gamersgate, like I have with all Pox games since Doomsday. Steam is only for games I'd have to run through Steam anyway, like E:TW
I'm going for a hard copy if at all possible, with gamersgate a close second. I refuse to use steam.