PTW standalone?

[Tilemacho]

Hmmm, that is a little dissapointing...
I only want to MP (PBEM) and I realy don't see the reason I have to pay twice....
I didn't buy the game last year expecting the MP version to come up..... well that buisness I guess

[FrustratedPoet]

In a couple of months it's likely you'll be able to get Civ3+PtW in the same box for about the price Civ3 was when it came out. Game stores are always running deals like that a few months after an expansion pack comes out.

[sabrewolf]

FrustratedPoet, that sound's right.

and in two years you'll get the civ-pack (civ1, civ2, civ2xp, civ3, civ3xp/ptw) for the price of civ3 a year ago.

and in 8 years, you can buy these in a 40$-"oldies but goldies"-collection

[Jon Shafer]

The Game of the Year edition has both PtW and Civ 3 bundled together for $40, IIRC.

[N. Machiavelli]

Really? I thought that the Game of the Year Edition was simply Civ3 + patches with a scenario or two.

[FrustratedPoet]

News item from StrategyPlanet

Civ3 Game of The Year Announced
Seaman | 9/7/2002 | 9:48 PST


Yesterday the 'Game Of The Year' edition of Civ3 was annnounced by infogrames. This version is suppose to ship at the same time as the upcoming Play The World Expansion in october. This version will have three new game maps, a keyboard command card, a making-of video, and an excerpt from Prima's official strategy guide for the game and will also ship with the latest patch(version 1.29f). Civilization III was released on 2001 and won several awards, including best single-player strategy game of the year by Gamespot.

Source:Gamespot

Looks like Machiavelli is right on this one. The Game-of-the-Year edition will ship at the same time as PtW, but it's just the 1.29f version with a few scenarios and some interesting (but probably lame - remember the 'designer's notes'? ) extra goodies.

[Jon Shafer]

Well imagine that.

Glad I bought the thing already.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Coracle


Yea, typical.

HEY FIRAXIS GUYS. . . how about doing a little coding for a change and selling a PTW Deluxe (or some other name)? You can give those who want it the option of getting FIXED all the stuff we hate, such as Flipping borders and cities; crazy levels of settler expansion; lame naval warfare and useless privateers and subs;
bombers with a realistic range (above '8'); less AI cheating; and all the other things some of us despise.
That includes an end to the stupid UNLIMITED MP's on RR's, and not being able to use unpillaged roads when invading.

Even I'd pay for it.

A lot of what you mentioned ar ebeing implemented in PTW.. as well as tweaking existing units, so maybe that will satisfy your appetite for useless unit gone 'gooder'.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Switch


And Half-Life: Blue Shift.

And CivII Test of Time comes to mind.....I'm pretty sure it was similar to the mentioned SimCity 3000 situation...

remember, valve was so cool enough to give rebate to opposing force owners for getting jipped(?) since blue shift included opposing force as well.

Mail in your original civ3 for $15 on PTW standalone?

not a bad idea id say.

[Jon Shafer]

In any case, Infogrames is in charge of that, not Firaxis. They're probably trying to compensate for all those patches released for free...