Aragorn2002
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11 minutes ago, Vacilllator said:
I tend towards this view as well. And having only arrived last May and since then acquiring all of the WW2 content, I have much more content than time to play it.
Oh and +1 to the welcome @DuckCuckem.
Well, we already exchanged our points of view, guys, so let's leave it at that.
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1 hour ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
I've owned the CM games for decades and I doubt I've played 50% of the available content.....Happy to wait.
Perhaps you're just not as crazy about these games as we are.
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4 hours ago, Lille Fiskerby said:
How about some new pictures of lend lease vehicles.
How about something new AT ALL?
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1 hour ago, danfrodo said:
what? that's it?? that's all the Dead Puritan has? No obscure 80s UK music thing we don't understand? No obscure UK history thing we don't understand? No references to other UK things we can't even categorize because we have no idea what he's talking about at all? This is a great disappointment.
When reading his comments I sometimes have the feeling I don't speak English at all.
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10 hours ago, danfrodo said:
Aragorn, I will pre-order just because it makes me feel good. and it probably makes our friends at BFC feel good to get lots of early orders. I am spending the money anyway, so doesn't hurt me to spend it a month or two early.
I will follow your example. And the day we can download I take the rest of the week off, retreat into my study room and only open the door for my wife if she brings me food.
If she won't New York Pizza will have a good week.
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10 minutes ago, Vacilllator said:
Me too, even though I don't have enough time to play the Red Thunder I already have. FB and BN have taken over (shocking as I'm usually an East Front type of guy) and even FI has had to take a back seat. Anyway, it's all good
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Each game has it's own merits. As you say, it's all good.
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12 minutes ago, mjkerner said:
Pre-orders don’t cost more. One point, if not the only one, was to be notified slightly ahead of time (a couple of hours) so you can beat the download rush and congestion that inevitably happens once it’s announced the game is ready for download. That never works, however, cuz someone always posts that it’s up on the BFC website as soon as they get the early notice.
I see. Well, in that case I will also pre-order, although I never had problems downloading.
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2 minutes ago, danfrodo said:
I don't think there's much benefit to pre-order. And I will pre-order the very minute it opens.
Why? It has to do with getting the DVD, hasn't it?
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2 minutes ago, Lethaface said:
Well I expected you to have a need to be first
Genuine just says that that's the 'real' benefit. I usually don't pre order but just buy when I see it's available. And indeed I doubt that I'll miss it for weeks
I don't think that's the idea behind pre-ordering. I'm not sure, but if I recall correctly you can pre-order for a higher price, so you will get a DVD by post before other people can download the game. So yes, it has to do with making some extra money.
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25 minutes ago, Lethaface said:
The genuine benefit of a pre-order at BFC is that you'll get an e-mail notifying you it's ready (at least in the past). Considering they usually soft-launch, that can be helpful if you need to be one of the first.
Is that a genuine benefit?
Most of us check this forum on a daily basis anyway.
And need to be first? Why?
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On 1/9/2021 at 6:13 PM, Sgt.Squarehead said:
Interesting choice.....Bit narrow in scope though.
Such books are usually the most interesting. Details, details, details.
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26 minutes ago, Erwin said:
Playing the Soviets felt like playing the evil hordes from "Lord of the Rings". Of course that may have been encouraged by govts as we were supposed to be hostile to the Soviets until the 90's.
And with good reason. Let's not forget that.
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I often pre-order books and sometimes games, which always means you get a discount. It also doesn't mean delay for those that don't pre-order.
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8 minutes ago, Ithikial_AU said:
(Dad is also out of hospital doing well)
Glad to hear that.
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On 12/24/2020 at 6:14 PM, Erwin said:
The complexity demonstrates effectively why so few user-made campaigns are now being made.
Ithikial is a perfectionist, bless his soul. But it doesn't have to be that complicated. It's often a matter of taking the time to read and test, after which things become easier and a lot of fun. In the past week I took the time to dive into the editor for Command Ops 2 (I can not recommend this brilliant game enough), which looks pretty daunting at first. After spending a couple of days with it, it proved to be rather easy and very much worth the time and effort. CM is the same. Most of us have become spoiled and lazy when it comes to gaming, but the CM editor in my opinion is very good and not nearly as complicated as it seems on first sight.
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44 minutes ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
How?
It doesn't cost any more and if it means Steve & Co. have a bit of 'fluidity' to make things happen, I'm all for it.....Christ I pre-ordered that POS Cyberpunk 2077 so whingeing about Battlefront's pre-orders would be downright churlish.
Then, what is the use of pre-orders?
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23 hours ago, MikeyD said:
Pre-orders used to have some genuine utility back when BFC had to judge how many paper manuals and game CDs they should produce for release. Now when 99% of sales is online download I don't know what utility pre-ordering has anymore. Also sales through Steam has thrown BFC's sales forecast numbers all out of whack. Pre-order is still a pretty good marketing gimmick to generate some 'buzz' before the release date.
It's extra money. Plain and simple. If you want to create 'buzz' you can give more information about the coming module to those who are waiting.
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3 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
I just remember those huge wheatfields in CM:BB.....On fire from end to end!
Hell yes! I still mis them! Thought about that just a week ago.
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12 minutes ago, DerKommissar said:
So, Black Sea Steam release is January 21st. Are we going to see F&R pre-orders before then?
Highly unlikely.
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10 hours ago, Vacilllator said:
As a relative newcomer, no. But welcome back anyway, until someone tells me otherwise
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7 minutes ago, Bubba883XL said:
Is it really been that long? 2016????
Check my post from last Sunday and draw your own conclusions, Bubba.
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9 hours ago, Vacilllator said:
You off-topic 'helmet guys' should be moved to General Discussion
. Yes, I have learned my lesson from the off-topic police 
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9 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
Worst case from a development standpoint, yes. But as others have illustrated, things like asteroids and alien invasions could change the results.
Perhaps time for another interview with Developer Dialogue. They will be very interested in those possibilities from a developer point of view.
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26 minutes ago, Lethaface said:
Geen forum post maakt het ontwikkelproces sneller, dat is misschien verstandig om te accepteren :-).
Ik ben waarschijnlijk niet zo'n Oost Front fanaat als jij inderdaad. Al heb ik toevallig tijdens Corona wel het gelijknamige boek van Jaap Jan Brouwer gelezen. Ik vond het een goed boek, redelijk macro totaal overzicht.Misschien helpt het dat mijn werk ook software product ontwikkeling is, dus ik weet hoe dingen gaan. Al is het een totaal ander bedrijf dan games maken. In ieder geval, ik vind het natuurlijk wel interessant om te horen als er een nieuwe versie van CM uitkomt maar in het algemeen maak ik me nooit druk om zulks soort zaken; ik heb er geen enkele controle over dus waarom zou ik me er druk om maken? Ik zie het wel wanneer het zover is. Maar goed, dat is natuurlijk een beetje een levenskunst die ik door 'allerhande praktijkervaring' heb geleerd. Het is iig veel relaxter om je niet druk te maken om zaken waar je geen invloed op hebt.
Amen to that.
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