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Dear Katrine,
I don't know what you think about the First Heroes and Canningham's wife in particular, but you forgot that Kings Bounty is the founder of the TBS genre, and like Heroes, it was a commercial project. Due to the gaming industry at the time (who would pay for a subscription when they could just copy the game from a friend?), it couldn't generate the profits it could today. And to claim that Canningham and Co. were altruists and didn't try to make money from Heroes is at least wrong...
As for the beta, Nival did NOT plan to release an open beta; it was a very foolish initiative by Ubisoft, and now they are paying the price. It is well known that Nival released a build for the beta that was far from the latest (my words are confirmed by the fact that the castle building system in the beta was abandoned at least six months ago), and this beta has no real meaning for Nival other than as a stress test for the servers. And the mass hysteria will not yield any results; moreover, it is even beneficial for Nival.
As for the love for Heroes, I sincerely love Heroes 3 and just as sincerely hate Heroes 4. Compared even to Heroes 5, it is simply poor and looks like a banal attempt by a drowning man to grab at a straw, although in reality, it was the most important nail in the coffin of Heroes. By the way, I don't know how NWC felt about their project, but Heroes dominated, and it treated fans like cash cows... unlike it, Ubisoft and Nival give you the opportunity to criticize them :) and at least pretend to listen to the fans - otherwise, even if you write 100 petitions, no one would listen to you.
P.S. I don't know, but in communicating here, it seemed that my opinion annoyed many people: D... if this is the case, then I apologize, but I express my position independently, as I have no incentive to defend Russian developers, since I am Ukrainian: D
I don't know what you think about the First Heroes and Canningham's wife in particular, but you forgot that Kings Bounty is the founder of the TBS genre, and like Heroes, it was a commercial project. Due to the gaming industry at the time (who would pay for a subscription when they could just copy the game from a friend?), it couldn't generate the profits it could today. And to claim that Canningham and Co. were altruists and didn't try to make money from Heroes is at least wrong...
As for the beta, Nival did NOT plan to release an open beta; it was a very foolish initiative by Ubisoft, and now they are paying the price. It is well known that Nival released a build for the beta that was far from the latest (my words are confirmed by the fact that the castle building system in the beta was abandoned at least six months ago), and this beta has no real meaning for Nival other than as a stress test for the servers. And the mass hysteria will not yield any results; moreover, it is even beneficial for Nival.
As for the love for Heroes, I sincerely love Heroes 3 and just as sincerely hate Heroes 4. Compared even to Heroes 5, it is simply poor and looks like a banal attempt by a drowning man to grab at a straw, although in reality, it was the most important nail in the coffin of Heroes. By the way, I don't know how NWC felt about their project, but Heroes dominated, and it treated fans like cash cows... unlike it, Ubisoft and Nival give you the opportunity to criticize them :) and at least pretend to listen to the fans - otherwise, even if you write 100 petitions, no one would listen to you.
P.S. I don't know, but in communicating here, it seemed that my opinion annoyed many people: D... if this is the case, then I apologize, but I express my position independently, as I have no incentive to defend Russian developers, since I am Ukrainian: D