Operational Art of War

[Brigz]

Originally posted by StrategyCat

Originally posted by Dave Briggs
The 1.06 patch was for CoW, not any other version of the game. If previous posts in this thread said otherwise, then those are wrong. You need go no further than this discussion at The Blitz wargaming club, entitled "ACOW Patch 1.06 has serious flaw! Read this!", http://www.theblitz.org/message_boards/ ... 586&t=3586

I stand corrected. Now, see how easy it is to be civil. I'm not upset or angry. This is just a forum. Sometimes we're wrong and it's no big deal. The whole purpose of this thread was to get to the bottom of this TOAW mystery. I won't have time to read all the messages on the forum you quoted but if you have time could you post the link to the 1.06 patch for COW?
Thanks, Dave Briggs

[Knavery2112]

Well.. I got my Cow. However I was a little more than disapointed to find out all they send is the disk along with a manual printed on a standard b&w. For a game that old and for what you get, they should not charge 40.00. It is rape if you ask me, but I will soon find out it is probably worth it.

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

In some ways I agree, but not in others.

We are conditioned to think that 6 months after it appears software should plumet in price.

I think that's the fault of pirates though.

It's now decades since Squad Leader first graced the shelf. ASL is also something that has a lot of years under the bridge.
I would not hesitate to pay the full price for it tomorrow (assuming I was that rich of course hehe).

Steel Panthers is today a largely free wargame. Tomorrow I would gladly slap down 50 bucks for it if I had never played it before, and it looked like it does today.

I got Panzer General for peanuts. I still think it is worth full price.

I think Close Combat is still worth full price.

I think TOAW to a first time consumer has not lost any value too.

Sure the lame manual copy seemed a quick fix, but I didn't buy the game to get a fancy book. I can read it, and that's good enough.

Now I could sure list you a few games that were not worth the full price on day one, and they haven't gained any value with me either.

[Brigz]

Originally posted by Knavery2112
Well.. I got my Cow. However I was a little more than disapointed to find out all they send is the disk along with a manual printed on a standard b&w. For a game that old and for what you get, they should not charge 40.00.

That seems to be the trend these days. Personally I don't care if the game comes in a cardboard box or not. I've got dozens of PC game boxes just taking up storage space in my closets. Never ever look at them. All the games are neatly in their plastic jewel boxes on my computer hutch shelf ready for access. As far as printed manuals go, well, I prefer them but every game I have has had the manual revised so many times that I always end up having to print out from file the newest update so I really don't care if there is a printed manual or not. If it's on the disk in PDF or Word format then that is fine with me. I'm just concerned that my money is being spent on a good program.