Comments on: A Tale of Two Empires

By: Lud_wig

Lud_wig — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:45:27 +0000

Lordy, all this wailing and gnashing of teeth about the extra units and, shock horror, the fact that you can pay some money to unlock them sounds so very Daily Mail. Outrage built on ignorance and fanned with gusts of arrogance.

We exist in a world of digital content distributed by digital channels, I think you are all aware of this although you whingers sound like a bunch of octogenarians talking about whether a word document is ‘really there’ when it is displayed on the screen.

By: BoltingTurtle

BoltingTurtle — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:46:48 +0000

I have a feeling that some of my fellow americans are angry at Empire for destroying their pet myth about winning the revolution because we “fought like injuns” while the “redcoats” lined up in the fields using “parade ground tactics”. Though it is irritating that the minutemen and indians don’t do this, if you’ve played empire you know it would end badly if they did.

The drama of Empire battles has done a good deal of service to those of us who try to explain pre 20th century tactics to people whose only knowledge thereof comes from watching The Patriot. These aren’t bloodless affairs, and they fought in lines because it really was the best way to do it.

By: Haborym

Haborym — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:58:51 +0000

Blame Cave Story B-)

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:14:17 +0000

When did the word ‘Huzzah’ take over the world? I grew up in the seventies and eighties and I never heard it. We all said ‘Hooray’ or ‘Hurah’. Then since about five years ago everyone on the internet is saying ‘Huzzah’.
I mean, I grew up in the UK so i had a fair exposure to American culture via watching so many American TV shows and I still don’t remember anyone saying Huzzah. I can understand some small pockets of people saying it like some in the south say ‘Wrasling’ instead of ‘Wrestling’ but it seems that everyone says ‘Huzzah’ on the net and no one ever says ‘Hooray’ or ‘Hurah’.

I say hay, hay, hay, hay . . what’s going on?

By: Heinrad

Heinrad — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:12:49 +0000

The French flag is the wrong colour on that box, it should be white.

By: Arnulf

Arnulf — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:02:02 +0000

Nice thing with the covers there. The Prussian eagle for the German edition. I guess the Bavarians and Austrians wont buy it then.

Although I’m not a fan of these type of games I don’t begrudge them their success.

By: Hmm-hmm.

Hmm-hmm. — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:59:36 +0000

It’s silly, but knowing there’s a cover with my nation’s flag on it makes me want to buy it (a tad more).

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:28:40 +0000

I always liked establishing protectorates after a massive invasion. Its kind of Useless but i just get a sense of pride that my political offspring are still holding land.

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:13:38 +0000

“The boxart here in Ireland, is noticeably different – instead of Sean Bean waving a angry jingoistic flag, there’s pale skinned Gabriel Byrne looking destitute and hungry”

I particularly liked the scenario involving the attack on the Riordains’ farm.

By: Subject 706

Subject 706 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:27:06 +0000

@Oak – You just made London a priority target for my army of Scandinavian mongrels with flag inferiority complexes.

By: Oxide

Oxide — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:27:38 +0000

Tiny Swedish flag :P
http://images.webhallen.com/product/83633/large

By: unclelou

unclelou — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:02:09 +0000

Paying for extra content that’s On The Disc reeks of companies trying to eat their cake without losing any actual cake.

It comes with the monetary benefits of DLC, as in extra income from sales of optional products added onto the base sale, but without the actual “downloading” or the issues one would imagine DLC would ordinarily bring up–hosting files on servers and actually having them sent to the customer, for example.

Locking on-disc content from use is pretty blatant as far as consumer-ripoff shenanigans go.

It doesn’t depend on if it is on the disc or not at all. Now the “special forces” are a bit of a bad example, but the only thing it depends on is if they made that extra content *because* they knew they would sell it extra. If it wouldn’t be on the disc if they hadn’t planed to charge for it, you can’t complain if it is on the disc and they didn’t charge you for it (but don’ let you use it).

You don’t “own” the content anyway. You physically own a worthless piece of plastic (the data carrier) and a box, which is why any chocolate box example just doesn’t work.