Hallo, schönen abend an alle,
This message is a reply.. and as always, not an evasive one.
(I wish to precise one more time, any personal offence was intended. Name citations are for referential basis about thoughts. Life is stressful and not easy; my last aim is to play with nerves... especially of some persons that I deeply respect and owe my years of P2 gaming fun. I never want to hurt. Please believe in my sincerity that I am not provocative, nor I wish to find myself in such confrontations).
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Yes, if you love someone or something, you need them (life-coach and adviser MoS has spoken).
I do not know however, which coach /expert/ color psychologue has recommended to decision-makers (if they are not themselves to approve it), to use such colours and such neglected design, on this actual notorious Sea Map.. Even city models on the Map are transported from Port Royale 2.... Was it this difficult to create "some small niceties"?
I will not thank to decision-makers to change this Map now, in both of these reasons:
1./ It is clear that at the beginning, someone is OK for this very neglected Main Map, for the whole life of the P4. Any problem found about that.. A decisive act from the side about (manufacturing) approach on P4.
2./ After the messages of some anarcho-liberals (extreme-ists), now this have to be replaced... It is accepted, (after major / general acceptation), that they have right. But if this major acceptation wave could not became a tsunami, these all-time-negative badboys(!) will have been other-ised.
Let's make a speculation:
- Hundreds of thousands of copies P4 sold in Germany.
- Another million+ more outside.
- Producer is content.
- Designer is prideful.
- Players are delighted.
-"Come on MoS, why aren't you fed up to trouble waters?"
-"After all, are anybody here or there who will change their minds after my overpowered *personal narratives*?.. Any success of working persons can irritate me. BUT even most folks accept / support or show an indifference to *some sub-standard* manufacture (about a domain that is important for me), I may very well be the sole person to say this. Even this will greatly increase my badboy points. This is my choice to be, not to have. If there are good things about Patrizier, it makes me a great joy to say them also; as I already do it many times...Tell me if I am wrong on this: ... that from this wonderful P2 concept (as still-existing some die-hearts communities proved this to us), we produced some down-ed game today, and already we *know* that most of the todays PC-Gamers are impatient. So no need to crush ourselves to create a very sophisticated game. Don't you see, we even accepted one-year time of deadline, to produce a game from stratch!!".
on the other hand:
-"My respectful image about Germany, as this is an extremely respectable country who has an image on all over the rest of the world about: Inventions/innovations, precision, systeme, methodics and sophistication/detail-ism, reliability; and all of these far ahead of the time. A trend-setter, even, then materially copied/pillaged approach by others."
Mr. van Bergen replied:
- "But this WiSim concept is a niche product, there was a problem about selling copies of P2 Add-On, they were never sufficient".
- "So once this is a niche product, may I ask is this is not a risk, to try to produce something sort of "mainstream" now from that?. Maybe old fans will find it too simple, and eventual players still too difficult to bother with.
Dear P2 players... thank God now (if s/he exists) that the decision-makers had not great concerns about risky sellings at those past years..(Big thanks to Ascaron also)..Otherwise we are still be forced to play (or maybe not anymore) with initial P2 dynamics.. And here, Mr. van Bergen is saying: "At the beginning, P2 was far from quasi-perfect."
I wished to hear (maybe again), NOW, before the release, from an authoritative mouth to say: "YES, P4 IS BETTER IN MOST (not: some or many) WAYS FROM P2". This will make an anchor point to stimulate commercial success. I wish so.
But while declaring this now....while also drop a hint that more than some negative critics are "mannerist/personal/relative/extremist" approaches; and undergroundly declaring some critics-folks as "MARGINALS" (even they are)... there is an imbalance in this Game.
Someone does not necessarily write novels, to be a critic/commentator on Literature.
Is equitable enough?
MoS
Edit: Many typos