aragorn 0 Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 (edited) Did you see what happened with BlueByte and Settlers ? For me, Settlers IV (Die Siedler IV) was the last real Settlers game (and, as far as I know, tha last succesfull version). Ubisoft almost destroyed the saga and, it was at least "curious" that Settlers IV was published near the time when Ubisoft bought BlueByte and the game appear in warez BEFORE it was published (who supplied the pirated copy ? a BlueByte employee ? could be....) Did you see what happened with software products "adopted" (like a children adoption) like: DBase III+, Quattro Pro, WordPerfect and several other examples. The buyer company did not "love" the adopted producted because they are not the "real parents" and the product fades and finally disappear. Appart from economical interests, I think a company can not make a really good product if the company team do not love the product and do not take it as their son with enthusiam and deep emotion. No money compensate the lack of enthusiasm. I hope Ascaron can solve its financial problems. On the other hand, the bugs on Sacred 2 (Renik's end, Better yields, etc) and specially the bug in the final mission (Nameless guardians 3 and 4 not awaking in some circumstances) do not any good for the game. We, the old Sacred fans, could forgive these bugs but I think the newer gamers and specially those on consoles (XBox, PS, etc) will be less tolerant and if the game acquire fame of bugous no one will forget this fame. Edited July 12, 2009 by aragorn Link to comment
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