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Just trying to make a point. I have seen a number of posts similar to yours with a number of people who complain about the bugs or problems with SPWAW saying that MATRIX's should do this and fix that and change this when they got the game for FREE to begin with. I am sort of a cheer leader here and MATRIX's is my team. I tend to get a little protective of them when I thing that people are being unreasonable. I have been playing SPWAW for 2 years straight(almost every single day) and I am still not tired of it. I have never purchased any game that has keeped my interest for that long except for maybe Masters of Orion 2. Well I a glad that you did not get upset. I was not trying to do that. By the way Welcome to the forum.

Yeah, welcome kungfucheez. I actually think Gary is just trying to pad his # of posts so he can reach the exalted status of Matrix Hero like me.

over 1000 posts, I could never make that many posts

Some of us have too much time on our hands.

Guys,

I think that we are forgetting about the real topic of this thread. It says something about the future of MCs' releases. Has this issue died already?

As far as I know the release was to take place when Watchtower is sold out. Anybody knows if it changed or how many copies are left?:rolleyes:

No, just on the back burner. Still waiting for WT to sell out and most efforts are being ppumped into Combat Leader.

Sorry to burst the bubble but it was never available as a stand alone download. You had to purchase it from Matrix or one of it's distributors. It did have a copy of an older version of SPWaW on it, 5.1 or 5.3, in fact all the MC's have some full version on them.

There are patches that are still on Matrix's homepage for these, perhaps that is what you thought was a downloadable game.

As to the future, who knows. At last look, Matrix still had stock remaining of the last MC, Watchtower, and until they were sold out, then nothing was going to happen on the MC front.

There has been "unoffical" musings about some sort of re-release , and such but I don't know what will happen, if anything.

Having been the chief coordinator for Desert Fox 41 and Watchtower 42 Mega Campaigns, I'm delighted to see the interest that is still here.

Watchtower is still available and being the third in the series, it is probably the most improved. That is not blowing my own horn, just a fact.

The downside is that more folks want EF stuff rather than Pacific. That is too bad. The Watchtower Mega Campaign is a virtual electronic encyclopedia on the war in the Pacifc with its primary focus on the Marine efforts to hold the island against the worst possible conditions. It was an Alamo in its own right but one where the beleaguered defenders carried the day.

Every type of scenario imaginable is here with various routes of scenario choice at the player's disposal.

As to satisfactioin, I have talked with David Heath personally about them and I can assure you he is very pleased with public response. It was the "Mega Campaign" that put Matrix into high gear and into the gaming public's eye.

I think the "disappointment" might be all the hassle that went on initially with setting up the sales system and the problems with the companies that were doing the CDs initially.

Call it growing pains.

I can state personally that I am ecstatic about the results from the Mega Campaigns and I wish we could do at least one more prior to the release of Combat Leader.

The hardest, most challenging and most frustrating work I ever did in gaming were the two mega campaigns plus helping Brent in an advisory capacity with Lost Victories.

Money wise, in my mind the Mega Campaign is worth every penny spent on it. So many hours of fun and the possibility of replay.

So we'll see. If there is another, in spite of the voluminous amount of work involved, I'd be willing to go through just to see it done.

And Gmenfan, you're doing a great job. I lift my helmet to you and offer you a snappy Kunel's salute for your magnificent efforts. Hang in there, Warrior. We all appreciate you!

Wild Bill

Steeler, I cannot remember that any of the MC's would have *ever* been available as download.

There has been some talk about this earlier, you could try to do a forum search about it...I guess the main problem would be that many people still have problems downloading even smaller patches so if person pays $, gets a d/l password and download fails it will couse plenty of extra hassle.
Need to verify that the d/l indeed was broken, identity of persons etc..and what if all seems to go well and d/l is complete but corrupted?

As for sales...I recall Matrix people said that the production run for each MC was 2000 copies. I may be wrong in this but the exact number isn't that important. What is important is that the sales dwindled into few MC's/week towards the end of stock.

So it's not worth doing another relatively large batch of MC cd's. However with current cd burners being very fast I don't understand why not simply sell 'homeburned' cd's whenever there is a buyer? The quality isn't that much worse than a commercially made cd and most buyers can make a backup copy.

Voriax

[FONT=arial]Yo Voriax,
I am not trying to start a fight, or dictate policy to Matrix Games. I am extremely grateful for all the work put into SPWAW. I understand from your post the website may not be sophisticated enough to handle download purchases. Fine.
As you said, though, they could burn a few copies for the die-hard interested people willing to pay.
I have $25 to pay for the North Africa MegaCampaign. Granted I am only one person, and it is only $25, but I am very interested. Maybe I am wrong, but I am sure I am not alone in trying to purchase the game. I have done searches on ebay, in newsgroups, and elsewhere. I found posts from a couple months back where others were looking for a pirated version as they couldn't purchase it.
I am not going to go for a pirated version(although, if Matrix no longer makes money off the game, is it still piracy?). But I am willing to trade games(East Front, OAW, SPIII, etc), buy the game off someone no longer playing theirs, or something. I would prefer Matrix would take me up on my offer of $25 for the game. I will even take my chance on the zip. I live in PA, about an hour and a half away, so it is not like mailing to a foreign location.
Please, Matrix, let me know. Thank you.

I do have one suggestion:All games under the product page are listed as discontinued, in development, or out of stock. Perhaps you could list an estimated date of release?
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Hi Guys

I am just going to say spread the word ..... Mega Campaigns maybe back sooner then everyone thinks.

David

Does it mean tomorrow???!!!

But seriously, David, this statement lightens up our hearts. We all keep our fingers crossed.

Hope your not just teasing us.

I've got Desert Fox, but misses out on the other two due to 'cash flow' and 'domestic relations' issues - how's that for PC talk?:)

Would really like to get the last two MegaCampaigns, so sign me up as supporting the concept.

Is matrix open to bribery and corruption. If so then I take back all those nasty things I said about you and megacampains.

I have a big wad of dollars for you if you re release soon.


Klinkenhoffen:D

Please don't tease me!

As a latecomer to SPWAW I've missed out on the MegaCampaigns.

So Please Please Please Please Please Re-Release them Matrix.

BTW, Any ETA on the re-release? Sorry, had to ask.

Birdgunner

Good things are coming guys. Just hang on..WB

Speaking as someone who has been here for a couple of years, I can attest to the fact that if Wild Bill says something is so, you can take it to the bank!

Eric Maietta

I appreciate your confidence professor and you guys won't be disappointed...Now I was going to say something else but I forgot

WB