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Still waiting on a key here...

Got mine, looking forward

 General Annoyance wrote:
Still waiting on a key here...

I honestly didnt think you would of put your name in for the beta you never said one thing nice about the game yet.

OgreChubbs wrote:
I honestly didnt think you would of put your name in for the beta you never said one thing nice about the game yet.

You have a very narrow viewpoint on game critique. Just because I think the game will be garbage doesn't mean I shouldn't play it and put my money where my mouth is.

Besides, I've complimented the art style of the game. Nice to see someone's paying attention...

Tomorrow is the big day laddies and gents. Who is ready for some dawn of war 3

Still waiting for a key. Emailed Relic to ask why I haven't got one yet; as far as I'm aware, this isn't and shouldn't be a closed beta.

Its Relic, what do you honestly expect?

 Trondheim wrote:
Its Relic, what do you honestly expect?

Not much these days; to me, Space Marine was their last great game they made.

 General Annoyance wrote:

 Trondheim wrote:
Its Relic, what do you honestly expect?

Not much these days; to me, Space Marine was their last great game they made.

Ugghh that game was sadly the last thing that had any sliver of decentness in it, but yes. Relic took a solid nosedive after that game indeed. Hopefully DoW3 puts the nails in their coffin

 Trondheim wrote:

 General Annoyance wrote:

 Trondheim wrote:
Its Relic, what do you honestly expect?

Not much these days; to me, Space Marine was their last great game they made.

Ugghh that game was sadly the last thing that had any sliver of decentness in it, but yes. Relic took a solid nosedive after that game indeed. Hopefully DoW3 puts the nails in their coffin

Well, which games beside CoH2 did they release since Space Marine?

I didn't play CoH2, but one failed project is acceptable as DoW 1+2 and CoH1 were fantastic.

I got a key this morning, cannot wait until tomorow !!

Knowing my luck it will be a massive disappointment.

Kopy wrote:Well, which games beside CoH2 did they release since Space Marine?

I didn't play CoH2, but one failed project is acceptable as DoW 1+2 and CoH1 were fantastic.

Sometimes one failure is enough for people to lose faith. Considering that Relic also tried to sell a character for a spin off game mode that's nearly 6 years old for nearly $10, I'd also doubt their practices.

Rayvon wrote:I got a key this morning, cannot wait until tomorow !!

Knowing my luck it will be a massive disappointment.

Still no key here; at least I won't be able to be disappointed.

And some people are just bitter to the point of no return.

No key here, I've adopted a wait and see stance myself, having decided not to pre-order. Worst case scenario, I'll get my Knight fix when the game goes on sale around Summer or Christmas this year.

No real hype for Dawn of War III here so this beta is more of taste to see if I like it.

Something about the art style just rubs me the wrong way.

 BrookM wrote:
And some people are just bitter to the point of no return.

I'm not trying to be bitter for the sake of being bitter if you were referring to me; I still try to look at this as objectively as possible each time I think about it and still have a problem with it.

If Relic could just give me a damn key we could put this to rest, one way or the other.

Hope you guys are all signed up. Beta starts tomorrow the 21st and ends on the 24th.


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 General Annoyance wrote:
Still no key here

Hate to be That Person, but... checked your spambox and such as well?

 BrookM wrote:
And some people are just bitter to the point of no return.

No key here, I've adopted a wait and see stance myself, having decided not to pre-order. Worst case scenario, I'll get my Knight fix when the game goes on sale around Summer or Christmas this year.

Its far better to aquier the game via alternative sources than waiting for a sale.

The art style, layout and somewhat odd choices as far as gameplay goes alongside Relics much tarnised record that has poisioned my mind when it comes to anything they put out

 Melissia wrote:
Hate to be That Person, but... checked your spambox and such as well?

I did a double check just now; Relic have left me another email saying I should sign up to play the Dawn of War 3 Beta today.

Thanks guys...

Assuming I get a key in the end, I'd be happy to play with some of you lot while the beta is live. PM me if you're interested.

What tarnished record?

With no more Command and Conquer series planned, Relic is pretty much the only remaining top tier big-budget RTS game development company out there aside from Eugen. DoW2 and CoH2 were highly successful games, and now that the dust of THQ's death has settled they're making another one. Most RTS devs are small time companies that have yet to establish themselves.

FFS at least they're not Blizzard, producing a sequel to a 20 year old mediocre game that wouldn't have been up to snuff for RTS genre quality standards 10 years ago, never mind now.

I'm being a bit reserved myself and not buying in to all the hype, and I don't blame you for not buying in to any of it-- but that's no reason to try to do some revisionist history.


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 General Annoyance wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Hate to be That Person, but... checked your spambox and such as well?

I did a double check just now; Relic have left me another email saying I should sign up to play the Dawn of War 3 Beta today.

Thanks guys...

Assuming I get a key in the end, I'd be happy to play with some of you lot while the beta is live. PM me if you're interested.

Try signing up again? This is fething weird.

I'll try and sign up for the beta tomorrow. Super pumped for this

OgreChubbs wrote:

 General Annoyance wrote:
Still waiting on a key here...

I honestly didnt think you would of put your name in for the beta you never said one thing nice about the game yet.

Kinda gotta agree with you there man. GA is reminding me of how much hate AngryJoe gave the Total War: Warhammer game and the dude still got to test the game out. I wonder just how much damage Joe did to that game and it still succeeded no thanks to him. Can't say how much his shenanigans ****ed me off as an old WHF fan. I mean yeah the DLC prices were crazy but it's the last time i get to re-live WHF and i paid infinitely more when i was into the tabletop so it's a non-issue. Seriously i've had a TT buddy complain about it even though he impulse buys. Sometimes he's a strange guy.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Kinda gotta agree with you there man. GA is reminding me of how much hate AngryJoe gave the Total War: Warhammer game and the dude still got to test the game out. I wonder just how much damage Joe did to that game and it still succeeded no thanks to him. Can't say how much his shenanigans ****ed me off as an old WHF fan. I mean yeah the DLC prices were crazy but it's the last time i get to re-live WHF and i paid infinitely more when i was into the tabletop so it's a non-issue. Seriously i've had a TT buddy complain about it even though he impulse buys. Sometimes he's a strange guy.

IOW: don't have an opinion that's different to mine on a subject I know you like.

Why is someone bound to like a game from a franchise they like? Surely they'd be even more critical of a game from a franchise that they love; hell, even in AJ's own words "know that you critique a game because you love a game"

Just because it's the only way you can relive the WH Fantasy universe off the tabletop doesn't excuse it from poor business practice either.

Also just because I think the game will be crap doesn't mean that A. I will play it this weekend and still hate it afterwards, and B. that everyone else can't enjoy it. My opinion is not gospel, nor will I ever claim it to be, just like anyone who wants to be a critic should do. If anything I lose out if I hate DOW3, since I won't be able to enjoy it with people who will end up enjoying it.

Now let's stop with this ridiculous tangent of discussion; anyone can PM me if they think I'm being unreasonable or want to ask why I feel this way, but stop trying to make me look bad here just because I'm not willing to jump onto a hype wagon to sing praise for the game before I've even played it.

G.A


@Melissia - I did try that a few days ago, but it said I was already signed up. Luckily the problem has been resolved this morning, as the key turned up in my spam folder after I made breakfast. Hopefully it will be ready to play after work today, although chances are I will be playing the game tomorrow and on Sunday.

 General Annoyance wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Kinda gotta agree with you there man. GA is reminding me of how much hate AngryJoe gave the Total War: Warhammer game and the dude still got to test the game out. I wonder just how much damage Joe did to that game and it still succeeded no thanks to him. Can't say how much his shenanigans ****ed me off as an old WHF fan. I mean yeah the DLC prices were crazy but it's the last time i get to re-live WHF and i paid infinitely more when i was into the tabletop so it's a non-issue. Seriously i've had a TT buddy complain about it even though he impulse buys. Sometimes he's a strange guy.

IOW: don't have an opinion that's different to mine on a subject I know you like.

Why is someone bound to like a game from a franchise they like? Surely they'd be even more critical of a game from a franchise that they love; hell, even in AJ's own words "know that you critique a game because you love a game"

Just because it's the only way you can relive the WH Fantasy universe off the tabletop doesn't excuse it from poor business practice either.

Also just because I think the game will be crap doesn't mean that A. I will play it this weekend and still hate it afterwards, and B. that everyone else can't enjoy it. My opinion is not gospel, nor will I ever claim it to be, just like anyone who wants to be a critic should do. If anything I lose out if I hate DOW3, since I won't be able to enjoy it with people who will end up enjoying it.

Now let's stop with this ridiculous tangent of discussion; anyone can PM me if they think I'm being unreasonable or want to ask why I feel this way, but stop trying to make me look bad here just because I'm not willing to jump onto a hype wagon to sing praise for the game before I've even played it.

G.A


@Melissia - I did try that a few days ago, but it said I was already signed up. Luckily the problem has been resolved this morning, as the key turned up in my spam folder after I made breakfast. Hopefully it will be ready to play after work today, although chances are I will be playing the game tomorrow and on Sunday.

Not saying you can't have your opinions. The only thing i'm saying is reserve your opinions until you play the actual game. On the case of your opinions i just get annoyed hearing them sometimes and your user name seems to make a little more sense. Course i'm a general annoyance too so i can't talk there .

Aren't you also giving your opinion before you've played the game?

 General Annoyance wrote:
Aren't you also giving your opinion before you've played the game?

Only in telling you to reserve your opinion. In the case of WHF maybe but i was mad at AJ for being mad before getting the actual game and crossing my fingers it'd be good. In a sense i was probably mad in that case because i mean come on it's the last time i'd ever get to re-live my hobby. Yeah i didn't want it to suck but DLC costs are nothing to a WHF TT player. The only real issue is if they do it to get buys for a crappy game but they did compromise at the end with the chaos warriors dlc. Also i don't get the complaints i played skaven on the TT and we're only just now getting something for them (we all know the hidden faction in the 2nd game is them ).

I just suppose i can't care about video gamer issues when i got so screwed by GW and had their own players crap on me for WHF. The bad guy here isn't CA or Sega so much as GW. If you want to crap on them go right ahead. They've set me back at least a thousand dollars in one game and then said i can no longer play it and if i don't wish to then i'm no longer wanted in their stores. If you want bad business practices CA and Sega hold nothing to that.

 General Annoyance wrote:
Aren't you also giving your opinion before you've played the game?

Yes, but when he does it it's okay

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Only in telling you to reserve your opinion.

Well, pardon me in thinking that the whole point of threads like these is to give pre play opinions...

In the case of WHF maybe but i was mad at AJ for being mad before getting the actual game and crossing my fingers it'd be good. In a sense i was probably mad in that case because i mean come on it's the last time i'd ever get to re-live my hobby.

Again, that's not a reason to pardon anything that he may have picked up on. Personally I haven't seen his review of it since I was only interested in Fantasy after playing Vermintide a month or so ago, but even if it was full of unreasonable judgement, so what? It's his opinion, which you're welcome to disagree with; even if he's being contrarion, why should that affect your own judgement if you have one already on the game?

Yeah i didn't want it to suck but DLC costs are nothing to a WHF TT player.

I don't know about you, but I know I'm not made of money, even with a decent paying job for my age. Thus, charging nearly $10 to let me play a Necron Overlord with no dialogue in a minigame nearly 6 years after the game's release is pretty insulting to both wallet and brain. Let's not get started on some other DLC that 40k/Fantasy games have offered in the past too (*cough*SpaceMarineElitePass*cough*)

The only real issue is if they do it to get buys for a crappy game but they did compromise at the end with the chaos warriors dlc. Also i don't get the complaints i played skaven on the TT and we're only just now getting something for them (we all know the hidden faction in the 2nd game is them ).

Ah yes, the Chaos Warriors DLC - the one that they were going to/did lock off to preorders, right?

I just suppose i can't care about video gamer issues when i got so screwed by GW and had their own players crap on me for WHF. The bad guy here isn't CA or Sega so much as GW. If you want to crap on them go right ahead. They've set me back at least a thousand dollars in one game and then said i can no longer play it and if i don't wish to then i'm no longer wanted in their stores. If you want bad business practices CA and Sega hold nothing to that.

There's nothing wrong with GW's IP though - you can't really argue that the IP is problematic to work with when there are plenty of examples in gaming history to prove otherwise, both for Fantasy and 40k. This is just a problem with GW selling its licence out to companies that either don't have the talent or the respect to work the universes into games that will go to a very critical audience

 Melissia wrote:
Yes, but when he does it it's okay

You picked up on that pungent smell of double standards too?

I am loving this game guys the ork play so beautifuly

Very disappointed with this game, the open beta just reassured me of my hesitation towards this game.

It simply doesnt feel like dawn of war.

 Irishpeacockz wrote:
Very disappointed with this game, the open beta just reassured me of my hesitation towards this game.

It simply doesn't feel like dawn of war.

How so I find it feels very much like dawn of war. Constant battle monstrous mechs ripping and killing. The hero is well placed and not overly powered. The abilities are easily avoided and used. Orks attack in mass marines in few eldar are ment to be fast. Everything I expected of dow