Cancelled My Collectors Edition

[Deathwish]

When they call the game "homeworld THREE" I was expecting a similar game to hw 1, 2 or even hw cataclysm. To me it's a completely different game so it would have been better to call it "Homeworld: example name" instead of just adding the 3 to it.

The camera controls and hotkeys are nothing like the previous games. I would actually go as far as to say the UI hw 3 has is a downgrade compared to the fluid camera control and universal hotkeys from previous games used.

Just from seeing the qwert grid alone I've already speculated that the game aiming to become an esport which just means whoever is making the game is only taking feedback from elite "esport players," a tiny or near nonexistent part of the whole playerbase. If you look at what happened with Dawn of War 3 or Company of Heros 3 you already know that epsort players provide some of the worst feedback and ultimately lead a game to not succeed financially. In my opinion, most successfully esport games became esports by accident and not by only taking the feedback of esport players. I can't on hand think of one single game that was developed by only by esport players and has succeeded.

All my friends have cancelled their preorders and since I have no one to play with I've decided that Homeworld 3 is not for me.

[Husbando]

well done you have joined the "SANE" REAL HW FANS club we welcome you!

REAL hw fans would not consume s**t severed in a bow!

my hope is for a mod team to remake hw3 in the hwr engine! (hint hint complex team)

[Hawk Firestorm]

who ever made this junk never played complex mod.

[Husbando]

yeah i might buy on special in a years time if the fix everything still think a mod would be better though

[Zakalwe]

On no!

I popped by to see how the demo went down. I missed it, but I was a huge Homeworld fan when it first released. The forum seems really negative after the preview. Hell, I was even intrigued by the imminent release of the Homeworld: Fleet Command board game. Turns out there are a few frowns about that too.

Well, there is hope. The Sins of a Solar Empire 2 Early-Access is finally starting to show some real promise. I'd avoided it because of the single faction, reused ships etc etc, but things have come on leaps and bounds. There are two factions now for a kick off! It's looking darned good, and it's playing pretty good too. I think it's going to be a monster release when it's done.

Drown your sorrows over there instead ;-)

[Dante]

Given what I've seen so far, I would have cancelled a normal pre-order and waited for reviews, but to me, the physical content (the model especially) in the collectors edition is worth it by itself even if the game is bad so.... Good or bad I can't cancel it.

[ザ ル]

Originally posted by Deathwish:

When they call the game "homeworld THREE" I was expecting a similar game to hw 1, 2 or even hw cataclysm. To me it's a completely different game so it would have been better to call it "Homeworld: example name" instead of just adding the 3 to it.

+1


When they call the game "homeworld THREE" i was expecting THE Mothership, and that is NOT the Mothership and this means a lot to me.

Dont want to use the Mothership?
Just call it Homeworld new horizons, new home, expeditions, whatever.. just like you said above.

Look; i love the Enterprise, Millennium Falcon, Rocinante and i expect to see these ships when im engaging with their respective content - this concept is so simple and straightforward to me that is baffling to see it ignored.

[alex010300]

No idea why you said they are not the same with classic controls, granted some game play choices does seem like a step backward from HW2

[Kadeshi]

I am a longtime player, actively involved in the HW community. I am one of the authors of the HWR Players Patch 2.3 mod that everyone uses to play HWR online, and frustration sums up my feelings about HWR3.

For me, the problems began when they released the first trailers of the game. It was evident from the start that despite being a successor with a 20-year gap, there was no evolution of the game. Take Final Fantasy, for example, which evolves its gameplay systems while maintaining the series' characteristics. Homeworld, on the other hand, brought no evolution whatsoever, and the so-called "war games" offer nothing innovative; in fact, it seems quite tedious. So much could have been done while maintaining the game's originality, with ship customization systems, decks, etc., similar to RTS games like Wargame and Broken Arrow.

Not only is there a complete lack of natural progression toward a more modern RTS, but there's also the issue that the good parts of the game were abandoned (camera, fluidity, etc.). The ship design is also horrendous. In summary, they kept the old and outdated and destroyed the good parts that worked well.

For me, this game is beyond redemption; unfortunately, it's the end of the series, at least for me.

[Husbando]

Originally posted by Kadeshi:

I am a longtime player,
For me, this game is beyond redemption; unfortunately, it's the end of the series, at least for me.

ditto