Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

buy on release?

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Gary Grigsby's War in the East Series >> buy on release? Page: [1] 2 3 4 5   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
buy on release? - 12/6/2010 7:24:17 PM   
bairdlander2


Posts: 2264
Joined: 3/28/2009
From: Toronto Ontario but living in Edmonton,Alberta
Status: offline 		Buy on release or wait for first impressions?
Post #: 1
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 7:26:21 PM   
typhoon

 

Posts: 387
Joined: 4/2/2002
From: United Kingdom
Status: offline 		Got a feeling this one will break the servers when the release goes up.

(in reply to bairdlander2)
Post #: 2
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 7:28:54 PM   
jjdenver

 

Posts: 2247
Joined: 11/2/2007
Status: offline 		Sadly I don't think any TBS (turn-based strategy) games, particularly deep, big TBS games ever "break servers" haha.

This is a niche market sold to a niche crowd. However I do hope it makes some money for the companies involved at least.

_____________________________

AARS:
CEAW-BJR Mod 2009:
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2101447
AT-WW1:
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1705427
AT-GPW:
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1649732

(in reply to typhoon)
Post #: 3
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 7:35:22 PM   
AZKGungHo


Posts: 509
Joined: 6/7/2006
Status: offline 		I'm in when it's up for sale!

_____________________________

"In Arduis Fidelis"
Louie Marsh

Books:
Once A Raider… http://tinyurl.com/89mfnnk
Getting Real - http://tinyurl.com/7zhcjlq
Websites:
www.usmcraiders.com
discipleup.org

(in reply to jjdenver)
Post #: 4
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 7:36:47 PM   
Spechtmeise


Posts: 82
Joined: 7/1/2005
Status: offline 		@bairdlander

you buy on release, I'll wait for your impressions. How's that?

_____________________________

Just Because I'm Paranoid Doesn't Mean They're Not Out to Get Me!

(in reply to AZKGungHo)
Post #: 5
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 7:41:51 PM   
animaluk

 

Posts: 100
Joined: 7/2/2004
Status: offline 		I want it now

(in reply to Spechtmeise)
Post #: 6
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 7:46:08 PM   
Zemke


Posts: 642
Joined: 1/14/2003
From: Oklahoma
Status: offline 		Do what you want, I know this will be the best Eastern Front Operational Simulation ever, it has been too long for it not to be.

_____________________________

"Actions Speak Louder than Words"

(in reply to animaluk)
Post #: 7
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 8:10:10 PM   
blastpop


Posts: 395
Joined: 11/27/2005
From: Connecticut
Status: offline 		I probably won't be around when it goes up. I will probably read some consumer comments and then decide when to pull the trigger. Most likely a buy, but I do enjoy researching purchases to death... as my wife says.

< Message edited by blastpop -- 12/6/2010 8:18:47 PM >

(in reply to Zemke)
Post #: 8
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 9:01:48 PM   
Adam Parker


Posts: 1848
Joined: 4/2/2002
From: Melbourne Australia
Status: offline 		LOL. Has anyone clicked a link and tried to buy the screenshot pack

I thought it was the game!

(in reply to bairdlander2)
Post #: 9
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 9:05:12 PM   
Mannock


Posts: 87
Joined: 7/4/2006
Status: offline 		For me, it's a buy on release. I know what I need to know to buy it without waiting for reviews and other comments.

_____________________________

Always from below, seldom on the same level and never from above. - Mannock revised.

(in reply to Adam Parker)
Post #: 10
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 9:07:36 PM   
AlesMrak

 

Posts: 21
Joined: 1/2/2010
Status: offline 		I'm buying on release, period.

br.
Dr.Jones

(in reply to Mannock)
Post #: 11
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 9:08:30 PM   
Tophat1815

 

Posts: 1824
Joined: 1/16/2006
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Stratocruiser

@bairdlander

you buy on release, I'll wait for your impressions. How's that?



Done! I'll be sure to let you know my thoughts after the tutorial. I have been on the back burner regarding wargaming for several months due to health issues and a vision problem. Things have finally improved and a game I have been long awaiting is due to release,you bet I'm getting it release day one. If it comes out on the 7th t can be the perfect anniversary gift,for me that is.

(in reply to Spechtmeise)
Post #: 12
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 9:19:37 PM   
kirkgregerson

 

Posts: 497
Joined: 4/9/2008
Status: offline 		I've already bought this game in my dreams many times before today. 
You can bet I'll be buying it ASAP when it releases.  I've been a huge fan of GG and JB way back when they were making games at SSI.  Did I mention I'm a big fan of GG and JB, just not in a stalking way. 

There it goes again, my credit card keeps jumping out of my wallet every time I mention WitE. 


< Message edited by kirkgregerson -- 12/6/2010 9:20:53 PM >

(in reply to Tophat1815)
Post #: 13
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 9:24:47 PM   
wmcalpine

 

Posts: 131
Joined: 8/23/2004
Status: offline 		Kirkgregerson,

I am in the same boat with my credit card. Perhaps we can set up a PBEM after the new year. I yearn for a little revenge (I know, not very probable) after you kicked my backside in out last AT game.

Bill

(in reply to kirkgregerson)
Post #: 14
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 9:26:46 PM   
ratdeath

 

Posts: 16
Joined: 10/25/2008
From: Sweden
Status: offline 		I'll buy it on release!
Even if it might need a patch or two it's worth it and I think the games Matrix sell have a good track record of getting patches and support after release (and long after).

(in reply to kirkgregerson)
Post #: 15
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 9:26:51 PM   
warspite1


Posts: 41353
Joined: 2/2/2008
From: England
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: bairdlander

Buy on release or wait for first impressions?

Warspite1

Definite buy on release - no question about it

_____________________________

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805



(in reply to bairdlander2)
Post #: 16
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 9:31:06 PM   
kirkgregerson

 

Posts: 497
Joined: 4/9/2008
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: wmcalpine

Kirkgregerson,

I am in the same boat with my credit card. Perhaps we can set up a PBEM after the new year. I yearn for a little revenge (I know, not very probable) after you kicked my backside in out last AT game.

Bill


Sounds good to me. Well good to know I did well in some AT games, mostly remember getting my butt kicked around the block and back. First of the year sounds good as it will give us time to get through learning curve a bit. Now I just need to figure out how to hack into my HR dept db and add another zero to the end of my vac hrs.

(in reply to wmcalpine)
Post #: 17
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 9:49:57 PM   
Vasquez


Posts: 441
Joined: 12/29/2000
From: München, Bayern, Deutschland
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Dr.Jones

I'm buying on release, period.


+1

_____________________________

My Steam Profile: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198022087017/

My Steam Curator-Page: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/2370797-7IDGaming.de/?appid=275290

(in reply to AlesMrak)
Post #: 18
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 11:12:39 PM   
fsp


Posts: 77
Joined: 11/22/2010
Status: offline 		Ready to click F5 several times tomorrow and the day after until I can buy :-)





(in reply to Vasquez)
Post #: 19
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 11:20:25 PM   
Lützow


Posts: 1517
Joined: 7/22/2008
From: Germany
Status: offline 		The East Front fascinated me from when I was a 14-years-old boy and my grand uncle (grandpa got KIA 1945 near Danziger Bucht) told me about his reminiscences from Russia, the ice cold nights, heavy fights and how they made fire under their tanks to unfreeze the motor. We had no Cosims here back then, but I devoured the books from Carell, Manstein, Guderian and 'reenacted' by drawing maps and utilizing toy soldiers.

I also never got to play WiR, so cannot draw comparisons, but my expectations are set very high in regard to a worthy 'successor' of the never released Road to Moscow and what Grigsby delivered in the heyday of his monster games (the era from BoB until WitP). That said, now the WitE release is imminent, I still worry a bit about the level of detail and micro management is deep enough and not sacrificed for greater 'accessibility', like we saw in later 2by3 productions. The price is only a minor concern for me, however, everything else but the mother of all East Front games, solely to be topped from a Fieldmarshall's Edition, would be a let-down.

On the other hand I have faith into the beta tester verdicts and of course Mr. Grigsby's extraordinary design skills. So I'm going to buy WitE immediately after release.

< Message edited by Lützow -- 12/6/2010 11:47:13 PM >

_____________________________


(in reply to Vasquez)
Post #: 20
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 11:25:36 PM   
G.Boggon

 

Posts: 28
Joined: 8/9/2004
Status: offline 		Buy ASAP or before

(in reply to fsp)
Post #: 21
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 11:30:16 PM   
hgilmer3


Posts: 530
Joined: 12/28/2008
Status: offline 		Yes, I'm buying on release.  I trust Matrix and I trust Gary Grigsby to produce an excellent game. I like the material and I have read a lot of the AARs to know that this game will probably be special.

(in reply to G.Boggon)
Post #: 22
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 11:44:23 PM   
OldSarge


Posts: 642
Joined: 11/25/2010
From: Albuquerque, NM
Status: offline 		This is a buy on release for me. I've been following this game with interest since it was first announced and like how it has shaped out. The AARs look good and the game seems to have that polish to it that says it is going to be a classic.

Like many others here, I have been wargaming for a long time and the games that I still enjoy playing can trace their roots back to the old SSI days and have Gary's name all over them. This one will be a nice replacement for WiR!

Regards...

_____________________________

You and the rest, you forgot the first rule of the fanatic: When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.
Jeffrey Sinclair, "Infection", Babylon 5

(in reply to bairdlander2)
Post #: 23
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 11:46:47 PM   
JudgeDredd


Posts: 8573
Joined: 11/14/2003
From: Scotland
Status: offline 		Buy on release. Hearing the game will be priced in the region of WitP:AE, and seeing the dedication that's gone into it, there's no reason not to buy on release for me.

Just the price + tax + physical + postage - these determine whether I get the physical or digital only (and do for every other game from Matrix I buy actually)

_____________________________

Alba gu' brath

(in reply to OldSarge)
Post #: 24
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 11:55:46 PM   
kfmiller41


Posts: 1063
Joined: 3/25/2003
From: Saint Marys, Ga
Status: offline 		buy for sure, been an eastern front fan for years and this game fits right into a void of strategic games on this front.

_____________________________

You have the ability to arouse various emotions in me: please select carefully.

(in reply to JudgeDredd)
Post #: 25
RE: buy on release? - 12/6/2010 11:56:39 PM   
Manstein63


Posts: 688
Joined: 6/30/2010
Status: offline 		I intend to get this game asap then challenge PyleDriver to a PBEM & watch in horror as his Panzers Drive towards Stalingrad in the winter of 1941
(well maybe not until I have played the AI on hard a few times)
Manstein63

(in reply to JudgeDredd)
Post #: 26
RE: buy on release? - 12/7/2010 12:10:04 AM   
Schmart

 

Posts: 662
Joined: 9/13/2010
From: Canada
Status: offline 		I already have my planning staff working on the details for a German south front strategy, so for me it's buy on release! (or as soon as I get home from work, whichever occurs first on that day). I feel like I'm 8 years old on christmas eve again

(in reply to Manstein63)
Post #: 27
RE: buy on release? - 12/7/2010 12:16:45 AM   
Tokugawa

 

Posts: 8
Joined: 12/7/2010
Status: offline 		Buy on release here. Been waiting for a game like this for years now.

(in reply to Schmart)
Post #: 28
RE: buy on release? - 12/7/2010 12:26:57 AM   
abulbulian


Posts: 1047
Joined: 3/31/2005
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Lützow

The East Front fascinated me from when I was a 14-years-old boy and my grand uncle (grandpa got KIA 1945 near Danziger Bucht) told me about his reminiscences from Russia, the ice cold nights, heavy fights and how they made fire under their tanks to unfreeze the motor. We had no Cosims here back then, but I devoured the books from Carell, Manstein, Guderian and 'reenacted' by drawing maps and utilizing toy soldiers.

I also never got to play WiR, so cannot draw comparisons, but my expectations are set very high in regard to a worthy 'successor' of the never released Road to Moscow and what Grigsby delivered in the heyday of his monster games (the era from BoB until WitP). That said, now the WitE release is imminent, I still worry a bit about the level of detail and micro management is deep enough and not sacrificed for greater 'accessibility', like we saw in later 2by3 productions. The price is only a minor concern for me, however, everything else but the mother of all East Front games, solely to be topped from a Fieldmarshall's Edition, would be a let-down.

On the other hand I have faith into the beta tester verdicts and of course Mr. Grigsby's extraordinary design skills. So I'm going to buy WitE immediately after release.


Wow, lucky you to be able to chat with somebody that fought on the eastern front. Is he still alive? I'd pay for a call to chat with him if he was willing. My Deutsch is a bit rusty if he doesn't speak English. My grandfather trained fighter pilots for the USAF during WWII. Later in life he opened his own flight school and actually hired a Luftwaffe Ace that had flown some of the special later war rocket fighters. He said the guy wasn't afraid to fly in any weather. Guess after years on the Russian front, weather condition might hardly phase those hardened vets. Also had a great Uncle that died in ranger battalion assaulting Point-Du-Hoc early on D-Day. Sad he didn't make it and wasn't able to share his stories.

I've read Mainstein's memoirs too and was fascinated by what was going on with the war in the east. I know it was a nightmare in reality for those that had to live through it. The brutality was on an epic scale, but the battles that were fought and the men and equipment involved is just incredible to imagine. If all future wars could just be played out on a computer simulation, how wonderful a world would it be.

Buying ASAP and can't wait just like all the others!

< Message edited by abulbulian -- 12/7/2010 12:28:36 AM >

(in reply to Lützow)
Post #: 29
RE: buy on release? - 12/7/2010 1:01:25 AM   
hgilmer3


Posts: 530
Joined: 12/28/2008
Status: offline 		I want to take off work tomorrow, but I don't want to and then it not be available.

(in reply to abulbulian)
Post #: 30
Page:   [1] 2 3 4 5   next >   >>
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Gary Grigsby's War in the East Series >> buy on release? Page: [1] 2 3 4 5   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

2.078