I would bet that most people who follow civ 5 close enough to nitpick one unit being added are probably big enough fans to buy the expansion regardless of one unit. I am thinking this unit won't affect sales in any noticable way.
I'll start a poll to ask if we should have a poll on that.Can we have a poll on whether we're tired of all these polls?
Does one usually make it that far in the game? My games are usually over before I can build GDRs...
People can make it that far into the game. That's like arguing that high performance cars could be banned without much worry as "people will be on the normal roads anyhow". It takes a personal set of circumstances of roughly applies them to the entire set, ignoring any other set of circumstances.
Unless of course a 1/3 of the people didnt buy the expansion because a useless unit was added in when so many other things need attention. Then their would be an uproar.
One thing that makes me feel that way is how they give us only a dribble of info even less than with GnK. They never really took any questions during PAX.
Yes indeed my friend! Far better!
Next maybe they'll give us the Battlestar Galactica or the USS Enterprise NC-1701. Why not? How about the Death Star!
Firaxis should have used the time adding in an XCOM unit to making sure each civ gets its own great people. Instead of Patton being spawned as German, or Chinese, or Russian general (In a previous game of mine he was Spanish). I think he would be apalled by that. Especially, a Russian general. He could not stand the Russians. In any case, there are so many things they have made better. They certainly could add some depth to espionage for one thing.
Can we have a poll on whether we're tired of all these polls?
If 52 people constitute 1/3 of the people who would buy this game, Firaxis has bigger problems than this unit.
The game was announced 10 days ago. If I recall correctly, at this point last time, PAX hadn't even happened. So we actually have more information earlier than we did then. We also got three civs both times. Your memory is better than mine if you remember if they revealed everything about the civs when they showed them.
That I can live with it is rather comical. They could fix that though. I am surprised they haven't made a mod that corrected that. In CiIV I had one for a scenario I created. It worked out the generals at least.Getting random GPs 'out of place' is a large part of the character of GPs, and no sillier than getting them in entirely the wrong era.
The game was announced 10 days ago. If I recall correctly, at this point last time, PAX hadn't even happened. So we actually have more information earlier than we did then. We also got three civs both times. Your memory is better than mine if you remember if they revealed everything about the civs when they showed them.
We got more attention, let's put it that way. The thing is they are not as far ahead as they were last year. So, again, they did not have to rush the announcement until they had something more in depth to tell us. Not just some bugged demo. Why rush? It is annoying. Rush patches, dribble info,
never talk to the community for months, overlook bugs some of which have been present since vanilla. New bugs are found and passed over. The AI is still rather stupid, and now it will deal with organizing tourism and culture, not to mention trade routes. It can't even do half of what it has on its plate now man.
This is a slippery slope. Let them put XCOM in the game and the next thing you know there will be giant bipedal nuclear robots in the game.
I split your quote mid-sentence because you're talking about two very, very different things. The first is about info for the expansion, the second is not.
Why do you want everything at once? To me, it seems better to give us the opportunity to discuss everything before we move on to something else. Otherwise, the information really will be blink and you miss it. Some of us enjoy dissecting screenshots to get all possible information
See, this complaint has absolutely nothing to do with how quickly they give us new information. Although, for what it's worth, they could stop right there and have three civs and both your complaints about dribbling out info and working on new things would be resolved. Would you buy that expansion since it satisfies your complaints?
Slippery slope arguments go both ways. For example: If they take XCOM units out because of a few complainers, the next thing you know, they will just remove every thing a few people complain about and all that will be left is a game with two civs with one warrior each.
I think you missed the joke behind Gort's comment.
And they have already started removing things because a few people complained...the Pueblo civ.
I would love the xcom unit to be removed, and add a more realistic 40 range predator drone unit (as another thread suggested) to the game. I would rejoice if those large bipedal nuclear robots did go too.