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With CA's recent debacles, I do not want Medieval III from them. If they do release Medieval III, I won't be surprised if the best we are getting is going to be a half baked version of the 1212 AD mod for Attila... but with a $60 price tag.
CA needs to change first, then finally retire the 14 year old Warscape Engine to make way for a brand new, next gen game engine that would have better AI, improved battle simulations, and vastly enhanced modding capabilities. But I strongly doubt current CA will do this.
May I ask what engine you would prefer? Unity is an outright cheesy knockoff engine.
By the way, Pharoah bombed. Bombed to the point it cannot even pay off its creation loan yet.
The deal with Epic for free hosting caused Troy to bomb as well.
It has not helped after the too complex release of Rome 2 only a few of the uppermost best home built computers could get to run with less than three minute turn cycles. If curious, average turn cycle for those patient enough to play was 11 minutes every time you hit end turn until you got your turn again. That might not have been so bad, but then every 45 seconds it needed your attention for AI diplomacy so you could not hit end turn and just do something else. Personally, I had my feet up listening to a book tape and playing only when allowed. It was fantastic, but 4 minute turn times was annoying.
Ironically, the only good thing CA has done recently was Warhammer series, a game CA said they would never do, but were court ordered to purchase a three part license. And of course the DLC is going up because someone has to pay for all the flopped TW games one after another in the historical section. They are so far into debt to SEGA, even SEGA is partially stuck and threatened because of owning CA.
CA isnt the only gaming company with huge problems. Have you noticed not a day has gone by Diablo IV has not been on sale for at least 40% off? The gamers tried to have our say disallowing Microsoft to buy Blizzard as it was a bad idea and Blizzard games would be abandoned; no one listened.
Ubisoft is shutting down their servers to cut costs to attempt to stay afloat. They stood up to Microsoft, but unable to afford rebuilding a new chat server and service under the newer EU terms, Heroes of Might and Magic VI gets gutted in another month taking away all the "Dynasty" bought and paid for rewards.
2K did a super hero pay for cosmetics and features game that outright flopped coming off of XCOM 2. Of course, every other game 2K does is Civilization which is also nearly played out. If they had any financial sense, they would pick XCOM 2 back up, reforge it tripling the missions in the story and the random missions, gear more towards teams, interlock multiplayer so each team member can be a different online player, and then add the final chapter of it comes from below to finish it off and they would make a killing more than all Civilization combined. Chimera Squad flopped, but that was the same mistake most game makers make and it took away control from the player too much. It was more movie than game. It was someone's side project toy they played with and 2K used it for a cash grab rather than developing it.
Then, everyone is holding their breath as they think AI is going to be able to soon create the perfect games. AI has no imagination and the reality is AI will be able to find the errors in the code and fix them so no more day one broken games. It will still take a human to imagine and define how the games will play.
In the near future, we are waiting for that nobody with an incredible mind, nothing better to do, pick up unity, and build something amazing. If you did not know, the pushing of cheap Unity access through Humble Bundle is an imagination search for creative content.
Not a big fan of CA at the moment (Or the last several years) but Volund is full of ♥♥♥♥. He claimed Rob Bartholomew was getting canned. Didn't happen and he's sill listed prominently on the list of executives in that "apology" letter.
The leaked Hyenas dev footage seems legit but he can't be regarded as a trustworthy source in general since clearly he lies and makes up stuff and holds a bitter, obsessive vendetta against a video game company which frankly is just bizarre behavior (Regardless of how incompetently CA is being run).
As for CA in general and Total War the franchise is dead. No point in kicking a dead horse. The only thing that will fix the company and bring back good historical games is a complete house cleaning and replacing all the executives with veteran dev's who actually care about the franchise which will never happen. And if SEGA decides to unload it whoever buys it would probably be even worse the current management.