Psychological research on MOO3 game and market behaivor. Join!

[Dr Strangelove]

I paid $54 for it. It is one of the worst games I ever bought. It completely trashed the Masters of Orion name. Complete garbage. The game gives the player virtually no control over anything, not reserarch, not planet deveklopment, not even combat. About the only decisions a player gets to make are what ships to put into a fleet and where to send them.
I doubt that there will ever be a MOO4. This game has almost certainly eradicated the MOO line of games.

I'd rate it 0 out of 5.

[Pax]

I paid $50 plus about $15.00 for the guide.
5 for concept.
1 for execution.

I had trouble with the install. The mouse arrow would disappear whenever I loaded the game. I can't remember what I did for the fix.

[Whoha2]

I bought moo3 for 20 dollars(if i sent in the rebates I could have made 2 bucks on the deal).

The game is actually pretty good, if you can get around the various bugs, don't give a rats ass about diplomacy, etc.

I had the long live leaders mod, and spying disabled.

Of course the fighting gets very tedious(namely the 20-30 battles per turn I fight,followed by planetary bombardment,followed by invasion,followed by disbanding troops,leaving a fleet if this is a junction point that I need to control, and moving on to the next system), but I only have myself to blame for being at war with the remaining ~10 empires.

I just can not automate some things, deas I have to place myself, battles I have to fight myself,etc. But the game does a fairly good job of just building everything available to build(deas,planetary stuff,terraforming), and I have the ships I want priced correctly so that I get enough transports,warships(all recon class so that all 10 TF's stay together instead of running into the enemy piecemeal like the ai fleet so often does), and ground troops.

Wiping out the Ithkul was/is tedious. I killed off all 3 ithkul empires but they left some presents in the form of planets with population that aren't connected to empires. Also occasionally I'll run into a planet from another empire with Ithkul, so I glass them if they aren't 100% 1 race, it's the only way to be sure.

[Whoha2]

I think hes doing the cost thing because all the people who preordered/bought it soon probably had much higher expectations then people like me, who waited months before getting it .

[asleepathewheel]

$50

3 out of 5 for the first month or so then
2 out of 5 due to the crappy support. I can handle a few bugs or flawed manual issues, but I need to see improvement in the game in a month or two (I'm looking at you paradox) Once the support was pulled, the game lost most of its appeal to me. Great ideas and concepts, but buggered delivery.

[notyoueither]

About $50 (if converted to US). Didn't preorder, bought in in the store.

I rate it a 2 out of 5 after patch.

No problems installing.

[SnowFire]

I forget how much I paid for it. I think it was either 45 or 55, including shipping. I sorta pre-ordered it: I vowed not to since I was afraid the game might suck, but then as the initial reviews were wonderful, I went ahead and "pre"-ordered it about 3 days before the game was released.

I'll rate it 2/5. I'll agree about the cognitive dissonance in my case though: I really tried to give the game a chance, having blown a lot of money on it. On the other hand, had I picked it up for 10 dollars, I'd probably have felt less obliged to play the game, and thus perhaps keep a better opinion of it due to benefit of the doubt.

[muxec]

Thank you for information.
Tassadar, Ludd and so on: please no offtopics here.

To make some conclusions i need at least 20 of those who pre-ordered the game 20 of after release buyers and 20 free users. Those who DLded it or used friend's copy please be more active.

[muxec]

Also even now I can say that some of my expectations were very right : )

[Q Classic]

like i said earlier, i tried it on my friend's, so i don't know anything about whether it was patched or not; i don't know if he had any tech problems, 'cause it seemed stable enough when i played it.

i will say this, though: i couldn't figure out what i was supposed to be doing through the entire experience, i couldn't figure out whether anything i did do was affecting anything, i didn't find the battles that interesting, seeing as there didn't seem to be any tactical control, and in the end, i don't remember enjoying much of anything.

my few hours worth of experience with it was enough to convince me not to spend 50-odd on it (as i'd been stung before with bad purchases like CTP and UT2K3 and Civ3-LE (CTP wasn't horrid, though, but not worth 50; Civ3-LE wasn't anything that deserved the term LE; UT2K3 just plain took everything that was good of UT and threw it out.)).

i'd give it an 0/5, moo3.

[Japher]

I forgot how much I spent on it, but it was just a couple of months ago and it had already made the "bargain" section at best buy.

I had no problem loading it, and read the manual.

Still, I couldn't figure the game out. I played for about 5 hours, and now wish for that time back. It was a complete waste, and I am dumber for having played the game.

[muxec]

Again, please give grades from one to five. Waste is not a grade.

[Japher]

I rate it a 1...

[gjramsey]

Unfortunately I paid for it, about $45 just after it got released. 2 out of 5 for the first month as I tried to figure the thing out, then couldn't be bothered to play it anymore. Didn't even bother with the patch. No issues loading it, and read the manual and web site message boards for hints, then realized it didn't even matter.

[Q Classic]

0 = 1, then.