Paradox aquires...AGEOD

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http://www.paradoxplaza.com//index.php? ... Itemid=129


Wonder if this will affect the AGEOD titles carried by Matrixgames?

[Hertston]

Oh, *&%$!!.

[DuckofTindalos]

Oh Goody... AGEOD go bye-bye...[8|]

[vonRocko]

Crap![:@]

[Greybriar]

I have a really bad feeling about this. I hope this doesn't mean that AGEOD will fade away until it eventually disappears.

[Qwixt]

Say hello to future half-baked buggy releases from AEGOD

[Josh]

What I find most amusing about Paradox is that they dare to sell "sprite packs" and "music packs" for HOI3....
Embarassing. First they launch an extremely buggy game, and *then* they have the audacity to sell things afterwards to "ïmprove" the game...IMO the sprites should be in the game in the first place, and not be sold afterwards, and the game should be fixed long time ago.

[Widell]

Wow! Another Paradox-basing thread. Why can't we all sit in a virtual ring, take off our socks and tell eachother how crappy Paradox and their games are and that we will immediately uninstall any AGEOD title we may have installed, burn the CD's and destroy all our backups just to protest against the whole unfair crap company and their useless products? Oh, wait, that's what we´re doing. My wrong, sorry for disturbing the ritual [;)]

[DuckofTindalos]

This assumes that Paradox gives a <expletive deleted> about their customers, which they do not.

[Arctic Blast]

ORIGINAL: Josh

What I find most amusing about Paradox is that they dare to sell "sprite packs" and "music packs" for HOI3....
Embarassing. First they launch an extremely buggy game, and *then* they have the audacity to sell things afterwards to "ïmprove" the game...IMO the sprites should be in the game in the first place, and not be sold afterwards, and the game should be fixed long time ago.

I definitely agree that the release state of HoI 3 was ridiculous. However, I don't take issue with sprite packs and the like being sold separately for one reason...they don't affect the game whatsoever. If you want to pay for a little bit of eye candy, you can. If you don't want to, you don't have to, and your game experience is not going to be affected at all.

[Lützow]

A good day for AGEOD. Hopefully they get the fund now to develop decent games.

[SlickWilhelm]

Hopefully Ageod will end up in an autonomous situation within Paradox, like Pixar has within Disney.&nbsp;

[anarchyintheuk]

I don't have that much familiarity w/ Paradox games except for HOI but I did w/ AGEOD. One of the best companies in terms of quality (absent the WWI game) and support that I've dealt with. Hope their standards remain as high as they were and the Phillipes are happy.

[Adam Parker]

Look, though I bought a new PC specifically to be able to play Ageod's Civil War game (I needed the RAM and processing power to be able just to scroll it's map), I have not played the game very much since.

Ageod's games are not pristine bug free things either. It's Napoleon game left me cold enough to ask for a refund and it's WW1 game was the last straw for me.

There are logical synergies between the Paradix and Ageod style and I wish them luck.

But anyone foolish enough to have bought HoI3 after bug-ridden titles 1 and 2, really has no reason to complain. Why would you buy any game whose predessors were broken? And that goes equally for Paradox, Ageod and any other developer.

My .02.

[NefariousKoel]

Paradox is still making games??

Must be just enough suckers out there still giving them money.

[MikeBrough]

ORIGINAL: Adam Parker

There are logical synergies between the ParaDIX and Ageod style and I wish them luck.

Freudian slip or intentional?

On a related topic, with the recent release of the Heir to the Throne update to EUIII, you'd have spent close to £100 on the whole set. If you consider the expansions to be real expansions, adding new content, then fair enough, you possibly think you've got your moneys worth. But, to me, the expansions have been primarily bug fixes with minor tweaks to the game play and the current incarnation, patched up to HttT, is what should have been released initially. If any EUIII fanboys want to argue that point, would they be willing to play each of the original and expansions as individual, stand-alone games - do they really think they have 4 games on their hard drive? No one goes back to older versions after the new expansions come out.

I feel like I've been paying for their ongoing development work to the tune of around £50. And, no, I'm not buying HttT. Jeez, at those prices, WITP:AE seems like a bargain.

[Adam Parker]

ORIGINAL: MikeBrough

ORIGINAL: Adam Parker

There are logical synergies between the ParaDIX and Ageod style and I wish them luck.

Freudian slip or intentional?

LOL! Fat fingers, small keyboard [:'(]

[JudgeDredd]

***OFF TOPIC RANT START***
I agree Mike Brough.

I also agree with Arctic Blast that add on content is fine and people who want it can buy it...however, the point he was answering to was also valid...the fact they are releasing add on content to a bug ridden game just makes me mad. I would much rather the expense and effort went into better Beta testing or fixing the core game or, at the very least, having a constant presence on the support forum with each and every logged message have at least one post from a Paradox member.

In fact, they should be chucking the addon content out to people who bought their bug ridden game.

I'm not overly fussed. It's sitting on my hard drive and I am currently unable to play it. Support on the forums (outside of one or two forum members) was worse than useless and not one Paradox member of staff showed their face until I said I was finished with the game.

I'll go back to it one day, install it and something on my system somewhere will have changed allowing me to at least get to the game menu...until then, it's a wasted £29.99 for me. No point in brooding over it though...I have plenty of good games to keep me occupied, which is why I dropped it for the time being.

I just think the points are valid....oh, and also NefariousKoel's point as well...I was one of those suckers. Not again though. I can forgive them for a few issues, but the actual state of the game and the lack of Paradox members on the forums (who seem to be keener to moderate and ban people than they do to show their faces in the support forum) has turned me this time. I'll wait like everyone else and pick it up patched out of some bargain bin.
***OFF TOPIC RANT END***

On topic, yes...I think personally it's not the best news I've heard.

[NefariousKoel]

I learned my lesson after the first HOI.&nbsp; When HOI 2 came out, in what should've just been a patch to the original, and they charged full price for it..&nbsp;[8|]

[Arctic Blast]

JD : Yep, THAT part I agree with. The idea that they've got people working on sprite packs and not coding fixes is a bit objectionable.

MikeBrough : Why would you go back and play an older version of the game when you have a new one with tweaks and fixes? And yeah, I am planning on grabbed HttT after Christmas is over. I like the new Casus Belli overhaul, I like the improved AI use of diplomacy, I like the Sphere of Influence system and I like the changes to make playing a Merchant Republic more fun. I'd call that stuff pretty significant change.