Hertston
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ORIGINAL: Gray_Lensman A while back however, I made a purchase of "Total War In Europe: The First Blitzkrieg". This was supposed to be the first in a series of WWII games with more in the series to be released regularly. This is also a Tiller Design. Now I find that he has instead been busy working on the Campaign Series for Matrix. Now, I don't have a problem with Matrix per se in bringing in Mr. Tiller to put together this collection of tactical warfare games of WWII, but I do question his dedication to supporting and updating this software in a timely manner, now that it has been re-released by Matrix. I certainly hope Matrix has some sort of reassurances of update support or code control, in order to keep it supported and updated. Already, I am reading about some bugs that are left over from the original release and I am waiting to see if Matrix is able to arrange to have them removed. Regardless of how well I like Tiller game designs, I intend to withhold any future purchases of his, (Tiller), designs until I see how well this product is supported and whether I am left holding the bag so to speak with "The First Blitzkrieg" I don't really understand your beef. Where do you get 'instead' from? Since that game was released, as far as I can see, he has released SB: Soviet-Afghan War, NC:Jena-Auerstaedt, ACW:Atlanta, ACW:Chickamauga, PC:Budapest and probably (not sure of the dates) PZ: Moscow as well. Why single out the realtively small amount of work he did on the CS re-release? The First Blitzkreig' may well have been intended to the first in a series, but there would only be more if it sold enough. Likewise, War over Vietnam was supposed to be the first in a series of 'Modern Air Power' games, but there have been no more of those either. So what? You have the game you paid for, as do I in the case WoV. Neither of us paid for a sequel as well. As to ongoing support, I have no idea if Tiller has any ongoing commitment or not, or whether it's up to others now, but all the HPS stuff gets consistently patched and upgraded long after initial release. That means fifty or so games (? haven't counted) - I'm sure another three won't prove a problem. Quite apart from which I don't really see any obligation once the initial screw-up regarding Vista and the East Front add-on, and a few bugs (such as the one you mention) have been fixed. I'm as up for improvements and additional stuff as the next man, but $35 doesn't buy life-long support from anybody. If such things come from the community, that's cool.
< Message edited by Hertston -- 6/12/2007 8:24:21 PM >
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