EU3 Good news/Bad news

lupi

Lifer
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The good
Coming soon - EU 3: Napoleon's Ambition
Napoleon's Ambition, the first official expansion to Europa Universalis III,
takes players all the way into the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.

Some of the new features in the expansion:

* Expanded Timeline to 1820
The expanded timeline to 1820, will encompass the wars of the French
Revolution and Napoleon. New leaders, rulers, advisor wars, countries and
national ideas have been added as well as dozens of new units to give more
tactical choices.

* Historical Options
For those gamers looking for an even stronger historical experience, this
option is the one. In addition to hundreds of new events, players will be
able to see their rulers, leaders and advisors appear on the accurate
historical dates.

* Improved Interface
A new added map mode for trade displaying all goods will be produced in each
respective province, including its value.This means more pages for the
ledger including information about colonies and leaders, and several
improvements to the interface.

* More Gameplay Options offer more Strategies
Now you can emulate Peter "the Great" and create an all-new capital for your
nation. Influence trade in your nation, add centres of trade to bring more
wealth into your nation, or remove them to focus trade on a few valuable
trading centres.Conquer Europe as Napoleon and dismantle the Holy Roman
Empire.

* Enchanced Trading System
An all-new system to auto send merchants will allow players to choose the
trading centres they most want to focus on, and the game will take care of
the rest. This system also includes a new rule for trade overseas. The only
way players will be able to access markets is to use war or diplomacy to
allow merchants in. Get there first and reap the profits!

* Additional options
More options have been added to customise your EU3 experience. Players will
now have options for "No Inflation", "Free Colonisation", "AI
Aggressiveness" and many more.



the bad

Europa Universalis III: Napoleon's Ambition is schedule for release later this month and will only be available via the digital distribution portal Gamer's Gate

Like a kick in the goat arse.
 

lupi

Lifer
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Originally posted by: honkydory
do they think they are valve or something?

As I was trying to explain to our clueless friend Aikouka the other day, once one starts the rest follows. An increasing amount of titles now released with the expansion packs being done download only; attempts at the developer getting a larger portion of return as there is minimal cost for them compared to the initial release - particularly with no printed material and only losing a portion to the DL agent.

All in all a rather shitty turn for the consumer cause less (successful) titles released means less overall PC title real estate space at the regular stores.