Joel Billings
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Joined: 9/20/2000 From: Santa Rosa, CA Status: offline
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I can tell you that sales are not dead, so I know there are new players everyday. There are not as many online Multiplayer games of WitW as WitE, and there never have been, but there are games going on. Aside from the fact that the Eastern Front has always been more popular at this scale than the Western Front, my assumption is that players prefer multiplayer games where there is the hope of both attacking and defending. So there are more 2-player games of WitE for that reason (although, the reality is that many players never get past the early phase of the war as players quit once the tide turns, especially if it turns early). In WitW, the Allies have the initiative for the entire game, so there is a strategic attacker and a strategic defender. I think this means an even a higher percentage of WitW games are versus the AI than WitE games. Personally I found the Torch to Tunisia scenario during testing to be great fun 2 player. Although the Allies have the strategic initiative, it's such a finely balanced game with each player facing their own advantages and disadvantages in the air and with logistics that it was nothing like the rest of WitW. For those of you with Torch, I encourage you to try it sometime against another player. As for forum traffic, clearly there's a bigger WitE community and the fact that we're working on WitE2 means there's a more immediate future to talk about over there. Also, I like to think that WitW was a more refined product at release as we had learned a lot making WitE, so there's been less need for ongoing changes (some may disagree, but I like to think that anyway). Although we've had our share of bugs to fix and balance issues to improve on in WitW, they've been a small fraction of the issues that were dealt with in WitE. We'll continue to make tweaks and bug fixes as important things are brought up, and sometimes we find bugs while working on WitE2 that allow us to improve WitW. So in that way, the game is still alive.
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All understanding comes after the fact. -- Soren Kierkegaard
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