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Empire: Total War MP Beta Plans

[Mar 02, 2009, 09:59 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Total War with multiple personalities on PC Format is an interview with Mark Sutherns of Creative Assembly about Empire: Total War. Even though the strategy sequel is expected in US stores tomorrow, the conversation is about beta testing, as they plan a post-release multiplayer campaign which will begin testing soon, saying: "that’s the idea of running this as a beta so that we can refine what we have and introduce new ideas gradually with feedback from those who want this mode more than anyone – our community."

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Re: Empire: Total War MP Beta Plans

Mar 3, 2009, 08:57

justice7

So much hate toward Steam, yet it is all unfounded. Steam has been fantastic for a lot of people, and it solves a lot of problems for the publisher AND the consumer. -Cheaper to distribute, means more money for the publisher/developer -Centralized friends list -Automatic game updates -Easy as cake to install, right click "install game" and come back later -Ability to re-download your games -No need to keep discs while the steam service is running What happens when steam is no-more? Likely, and i'd hope; that they'd offer a steam client which works without the steam servers, which can read your steam backups to install games. Steam has a fully integrated backup system so that you may burn your discs at will. Hate on it all you want, but it sure beats standing in line hoping you got a boxed retail copy before they were sold out; you could be playing the game at midnight from a preload. People hate DRM, but Steam offers the consumer so many benefits its really the proper form of DRM.

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Comment [quote="justice7"Mar 3, 2009, 08:57]So much hate toward Steam, yet it is all unfounded. Steam has been fantastic for a lot of people, and it solves a lot of problems for the publisher AND the consumer. -Cheaper to distribute, means more money for the publisher/developer -Centralized friends list -Automatic game updates -Easy as cake to install, right click "install game" and come back later -Ability to re-download your games -No need to keep discs while the steam service is running What happens when steam is no-more? Likely, and i'd hope; that they'd offer a steam client which works without the steam servers, which can read your steam backups to install games. Steam has a fully integrated backup system so that you may burn your discs at will. Hate on it all you want, but it sure beats standing in line hoping you got a boxed retail copy before they were sold out; you could be playing the game at midnight from a preload. People hate DRM, but Steam offers the consumer so many benefits its really the proper form of DRM. [/quote]

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