Please don't use any of the Atari developers from A&A RTS!

[Philips beard]

I beg you, Firaxis. Don't use any of these lozy developers from Axis & Allies RTS! It almost makes me puke when I think of how they ruined the great idea of making a RTS/Strategy of A&A! The whole game is a great scandal!

Stay away from those people, and I'm sure you'll manage to give us a new great CIV game!

Yours sincerely

 

[Loppan Torkel]

The reviews haven't been very good, so no risk of me buying it anyway, but thanks for the warning.

Rome: Total War on the other hand looks real good.

 

[Philips beard]

The reviews haven't been very good, so no risk of me buying it anyway, but thanks for the warning.

Rome: Total War on the other hand looks real good.

Oh yeah! Rome: Total war is really great! In class with CIV almost!

 

[warpstorm]

Why would Firaxis use TimeGate studios to develop Civ4? Yes, they both work for the same publisher, but other than that there are no connections between the companies at all.

 

[Philips beard]

Thank you, Warpstorm! i'm very glad to hear that! What a great relief!

 

[Jon Shafer]

Yeah, something a lot of people don't realize.

Atari = Publisher.

TimeGate studios = Developer.
Firaxis Games = Developer.

All Atari does is do the packaging, print stuff up, advertise, call the stores, ship things out, etc. etc. etc...

They don't have anything to do with the actual MAKING of the game... And yet people always seem to associate games with the PUBLISHERS rather than the DEVELOPERS...

 

[warpstorm]

Trip, you forgot a big thing publishers often do, pay the developers.

 

[Jon Shafer]

Well, I thought that was a given.

 

[Philips beard]

I hope they stop paying TimeGate, they are worthless people! Let firaxis make A&A 2!!! Finally it can be what it should have been!

And Firaxis must never hire people from TimeGate, that would be a disaster!

 

[warpstorm]

Well, Philips beard, the way the industry works, most of the pay for a game is given in increments during the development cycle. If the game sells well enough, the publisher may give royalties to the developer, but only after they 'paid back' the development costs. A game that isn't a hit typically doesn't earn any royalties for the developers (this is most games).

While I have no intention of buying A&A, I liked their previous game Kohan quite a bit. If there weren't so many other games out last month, this month, and next month, I probably would have bought Kohan 2.