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Topic: Firaxis: Stop all information flow! |  |
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Atahualpa
King
of my castle (somewhere in at)
Mar 99
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posted May 20, 2001 11:27
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Dont give anymore news about Civ3.
No more Screens. No more videos. No more information on Gameconcepts.And then when its really the time to get excited about the game (2 months before release) then slowly release some info of the game. But not much. In the meantime. Visit the forums every once in a while and ask bogus questions about something to keep us busy (or those who care). And please dont show any more screens. Hide your jewel till it is polished! Or hehe, try the other way and just release some audio files instead of some screens.
I am getting tired of all the screenshots. You do make an opinion based on a screenshot and a screenshot can barely show the game's potential. Videos are better for such tings. But well its very uncommen to release Videos of Games in Development (except for events such as E3) of course. Ata |
Imran Siddiqui
ACS News Editor
Deity
b.02-15-99
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posted May 20, 2001 12:43
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You want to be lynched, don't you?  |
Nikolai
Warlord
Bergen, Norway, Hordaland
Oct 2000
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posted May 20, 2001 13:23
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Please, Firaxis: Don't listen to this man! He is, unfortunately, mad...!  ------------------
Who am I? What am I? Do we need Civ? Well.... |
vgriph
Warlord
Norrköping, Sweden
Apr 2001
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posted May 20, 2001 13:48
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Originally posted by Nikolai on 05-20-2001 01:23 PM
Please, Firaxis: Don't listen to this man! He is, unfortunately, mad...!
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I think that he may be too excited about the game to stand any more info before he can put his own hands on it  .
Anyway the best solution is to isolate him from any media until the game is released.
That way he won't get any more information, and we not jet affected by this syndrome may get closer to this state of madness as we get more information .
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paiktis22
Prince
Athens Greece
Oct 2000
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posted May 20, 2001 14:40
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LOL @ this thread  Ata, it's not like we have an information overload! |
Kc7mxo
Chieftain
Walla Walla WA USA
b.02-15-99
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posted May 20, 2001 15:13
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Actually, I'm starting to think that looking at previews is a bad idea. At least if i didn't look at them i'd be dissapointed all at once rather than over a period of months. Ignorance is bliss. |
Russell
Chieftain
Christchurch, New Zealand
Apr 99
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posted May 20, 2001 21:32
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This much information, and this much discussion in the forums makes my brain hurt.When I use to switch on the computer it was to actually play games, lately I've spent more time discussing them but it's hard to stop. Always another idea popping up to talk about. And some of it based on misinformation. Look at the seven civs discussions. Haven't we got others lives to live? Arrrrrgggggg! ------------------
"If you post something often enough, people will start to read it" |
godot
Settler
Canoga Park, CA, USA
May 2001
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posted May 21, 2001 13:15
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I don't have an opinion about this issue, but I am getting tired of the hype. I'm excited about the game but I'm starting to tune out. The release is just too far away for me to get worked up anymore. It's like what movie distributors/producers(?) are doing to me by showing movie previews a YEAR before the movie premieres; it pisses me off more than anything. What? I'm not going to see any movie until then? I'll be more inclined to see the movie if I see the trailer 167 times? The relevance here is that I enjoy playing CivII now and maybe CivIII will be killer but I may move on to something else sometime in the next six months. Well, I guess I did have an opinion after all.  |
MrFun
King
United States, Iowa
Nov 2000
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posted May 21, 2001 13:25
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Unfortunately, Apolyton editors seem to post every preview, and then they state that it has the same information or the same pictures as the last preview. The only previews I appreciate are ones that have NEW information. I do not mind less updates on Apolyton if means that we wait for NEW information or NEW pictures.How boring and redundant can you get? |
Imran Siddiqui
ACS News Editor
Deity
b.02-15-99
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posted May 21, 2001 14:46
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SIMILAR information, perhaps. But the new previews expand on the old information. You may not care but plenty of people here do. |
Atahualpa
King
of my castle (somewhere in at)
Mar 99
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posted May 21, 2001 14:49
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quote:
I think that he may be too excited about the game to stand any more info before he can put his own hands on it
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Actually the opposite is the case. The more info I get the less excited I get. And the more info I get the less I care about the info. I havent read any preview lately, simply because they start out all the same (boring) way and there is not much interesting thing to read.
And I see no point in releasing every little feature of the game. I rather think I should find out all these features on my own when the game is out. Remember CtP2? I knew everything about the game, before I played it. And when I first encountered it, I could play right away. The game had nothing new, I knew everything already. Man that was boring. quote:
Anyway the best solution is to isolate him from any media until the game is released.
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No problem I am doing that for myself already. godot: ditto So Firaxis please dont tell anything about the game anymore. No features or something like that. I want to find that out on my own, when I have the game in my hands.
I dont want to experience the "CtP2 Shock" again. Besides everyone here will, when you suck up every little info on the game. You wont find much fun with the game then. Thats my opinion,
ATa |
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