sweet i want the first one

Bye bye to Sins for me then.

 

I cant afford to get a few small expansions.

 

I prefer a tradisional big expansion.

Dito, I never was and never will be someone who likes to buy games online, first of all, I REALLY LIKE a game box and a manual I can read. Second, this way, I also support the local reseller for which it isn't easy to survive with all these download possibilities.

I don't mind paying more then those who download, aslong as the package contains a quality game or expansion, the game gets patched on a regular base if necessary and the communication is there with the developer/publisher.

Needless to say, I WILL NOT be buying these add-ons unless you guys hit the retail market with them.

I'm a loyal customer and will remain so ONLY if you guys will use the retail market aswell.

BTW: I forgot to post this the other day...

 

The micro x-pack made Wired. You can about it at the following URL:

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/08/micro-expansion.html

 

(WHat is up the link feature being disabled?)

interestingly no one asked: will there be a beta for these? when would they be?

$10 is about what I expect for new content at this point (although why anyone would volunteer to pay that money months and months ahead of time makes no sense to me at all; also, it's kind of BS that an online-only release that obviously cuts costs does not pass along any savings to the customer...). The point of business is to make profit after all. But...

 

I'm not clear on how these 3 expansions will prevent fracturing in the multiplayer community.... The way I see it, fracturing that already exists is one of the biggest problems online: the already weak online player community was divided when a partion upgraded to the beta 1.09 and a portion did not.

 

Now the same thing is going to happen again and again? It's already very nearly impossible to find a game in 1.09 --imagine how hard it will be to find a game to play with someone else who just happens to have the same two out of three expansion packs that you chose to install! The number of possible combinations of expansions vs no expansions at all is way too high, and assuming the different versions are truly compatible with one another, people will still want to find other players with their same set up updates. I'm afraid this may fracture the online community to the point that everyone just gives up playing there at all.  That's practically happened already...

Highlight the text after you've typed it, then you can add a link.

 

Quote Kryo:

Thank you time bending.

 

Yes they did, both early in this thread (Zoomba) and in another thread (Kryo)

"Now the same thing is going to happen again and again? It's already very nearly impossible to find a game in 1.09 --imagine how hard it will be to find a game to play with someone else who just happens to have the same two out of three expansion packs that you chose to install! The number of possible combinations of expansions vs no expansions at all is way too high, and assuming the different versions are truly compatible with one another, people will still want to find other players with their same set up updates. I'm afraid this may fracture the online community to the point that everyone just gives up playing there at all. That's practically happened already..."

 

If you didn't noitice, "The expansions are being developed to prevent fracturing of the multiplayer community. If both players have a given expansion pack installed, the features are available, but if one does not, the expansion pack features are disabled for that particular game."

I noticed. I still think that having multiple expansions options will cause fracturing, not prevent it.

Only through buggy Impulse?!?!  NOOOOOOOOoooooooooo.........

I have had nothing but trouble with Impulse.  I'd gladly pay more to get a copy some other way that actually works.  I'm still having problems with some of my GalCiv2 installs on Impulse.  Frankly, my impulse is to ditch Impulse.

I just tried to look up this expansion pack on Impulse and guess what?  It's not there (or I couldn't find it at least after seaching and searching).  If I buy it from the link above, will it work with my Impulse (that doesn't seemt to have it) or will this just be yet another Impulse problem?

I'd love to preorder, but I'm very reluctant to use Impulse again after the multitude of problems.

small $10 expansions worked for battlefield 2 it will work great for SOASE also

 

I run Sins with Linux... work great... font problem was resolved ( thank to these forum ), sound is sometime not very great but it work ( strange sound on the 2 HD box, 7.1 only is great )...

 

But the Impulse installer don't work with Linux... do you plan a working version of Impulse for Linux user ? Or maybe a boxed version made from several "micro-expansion"...

There will be a retail release with all the micro expansions.

I don't think there will be an Impulse for Linux, though.

If this was $3 less there would be no complaints.

Say the first one is $9.95 and the complete summer pack is $25.

I think you would make more money if you charged $9.95 for the first of them you buy, then $8.00 for the second and $7.05 for the third. This would mean you don't have people waiting for summer and if people only buy a few your stil getting more out of them than you would otherwise.

I'm not saying price them as such in the order of release, I'm saying after the first give a discount on the second, then third. This in whatever order you buy them in.

Well, unless you do this I'm gonna be waiting for the summer release.

Charles