XP? Will you buy it?

[moomin]

Your local friendly regular troll detector, I.

[tishco]

they were the moomins, they were the moomins,
la lala la lala la la la la

anyway, i will buy this pack if it has enough new materials, although i didnt with civ 2 and got left out because lots of scenarios and mods i coulnt get, although with civ3 there arent senarios anyway!

i didnt buy smac alien crossfire either, i had had enough sci fi.

[moomin]

But SMAX was a good expansion set. It still reigns my hard drive. What will all that tweaking and all those interesting options there are so many differnt things to try and explore even after you've learnt how to soundly whup AI behind each and every time.

I do wish Brian Reynolds would abandon that Yet-Another-RTS he's doing and bring us a true sequel - BRAX? I wouldn't, at this point trust that to whoever Sid farms out his games to these days.

[Swissy]

Mostly it depends on cost and release date. If it is relatively inexpensive ($20US or less) and released near enough to my birthday or Christmas, I'll wait and let a relative buy it as a gift.

Anything over $30US and I'll have to wait for a good sale or start hitting My Points alot to build upto a $50US gift card for Circuit City (not my favoraite place to buy games, to retail in price).

I am not gong to shell out any of my money for features (MP and scenarios) that were promised in the initial release.

[Zoid]

Nope, I´m not spending another 25$ on this game. It looks like a rip-off to me

It won´t be like SMACX, now that was good expansion

[Hoot]

Originally posted by Coracle
Firaxis stuck me with a beta $50 game last November, along with a useless idiotic "Strategy Guide".

Hell will freeze before I buy another Firaxis Civ 3 product - unless I get a $25 rebate for Civ 3.

Anyone who gives Firaxis more money is a sucker. Some of those who say laughably that "money is no object" sound like Firaxis shills.

You're only a sucker if you didn't get what you expected when you bought it. I'll buy it, and I'm sure I'll be happy with it. I didn't agree with all the Firaxis bashers on Civ3, and probably won't on the XP. Civ3 gave me countless hours of enjoyment, at a much cheaper price than any movie I've paid to see. I'll buy it, and if I get 10 to 20 hours of enjoyment out of it (a conservative estimate, I'm sure), I'll be happy. If I can't get it to run, and knew I wouldn't be able to before I bought it, I'd be a sucker. Otherwise I'm just a sucker if I listen to people like you, Coracle.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Flanker
I guess I´ll buy it along with a banana. Then I could make my own banana republic at home.

I voted banana too, is this a swedish thing

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Flanker


Well, maybe you´ll have to add the bananas yourself. Or maybe a banana comes in the gamebox. However, I think the key to maintain corruption is to feed the people with bananas. Plenty of bananas, no corruption.

In the banana republic bananas should show up everywhere on the map, and not just in the stinking jungle IMO.

[Taxidopolis]

I'll maybe buy it, maybe not.
Thing is for me will be the MP option....how well it performs and such. I have a fairly good system but given the slowness of Civ3 anyway I'm doubtful of MP being doable against several players so I'll wait and see what the forums say before purchasing.

Thumbs up to Firaxis anyway for getting it together after the initial bllox-up with the rushed release.

Taxi

[Cesa]

Originally posted by moominparatrooper
I do wish Brian Reynolds would abandon that Yet-Another-RTS he's doing and bring us a true sequel - BRAX? I wouldn't, at this point trust that to whoever Sid farms out his games to these days.

Hmm, Brax, isn't that a fish?

Originally posted by Kamrat X I voted banana too, is this a swedish thing

Are you from sweden Kamrat? There seems to be quite a lot of us around here.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Cesa


Hmm, Brax, isn't that a fish?

Yes, but it´s called bream in english

Are you from sweden Kamrat? There seems to be quite a lot of us around here.

Yes, I am from Sweden (Göteborg). But I haven´t seen that many swedes apart from Flanker, Snapcase, Gramphos, Juggernaut, Sten Sture, Moominparatrooper and Usually Insane. But then I rarely step outside the OT forum...

[Flanker]

I voted banana too, is this a swedish thing

Actually, I didn´t vote for the bananas, because I thought I would be able to do it myself by buying some at ICA... Anyway, I guess Sweden is one of the most banana-eating countries in Europe actually. And yes, there are a lot of Swedes here, but not everyone have written their countries in their presentation. There was a thread somewhere where you could vote which country you where from, don´t remember where, but Sweden was in a pretty good position.
Länge leve Sverige!

[Adagio]

There's ton of Swedes around here, but it seems like I'm the only dane around here...I guess I'm the only person in Denmark who plays Civ games!

Btw, everybody's talking about that SMAC expansion, but how was that? What did they include since it was that great?

[Alexander's Horse]

Where is the "I'll buy it if players I trust say its good" option?

[Rhuarc]

I will probably buy it a day or two after it comesout, by then many people on here will have gotten it and will have posted up tehir opinions of it, so then I'll know if i want to buy it or not!!