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1. 

   buggsy 5

   101 Kudos

   11/07/09

   if i bought a tv and brought it home and it had no remote and no screen at the front id bring it back 2 the shop.yet how can you get away with knowingly selling a game full of ctd and bugs and rubbish ai???if sega made you release the game b4 it was ready you shoulda had some artistic pride and stood up to them.they are ruinin ur rep. empire could have been great. i wont be buyin any sega stuff again.

2. 

   mike456

   103 Kudos

   10/19/09

   your game does not work ,you knew it would not work and you dont give a dam you should refund all the money you stole from people with your false claims, and now you release a add on your company is shit
   

3. 

   Akhrehn

   101 Kudos

   09/21/09

   Hi Mark,
   
   I am a great fan of the TW-series and have played it since Medieval 1. However, with your latest game, Empire Total War I have some serious stability problems. Everytime I fight a land battle the game crashes back to desktop. This sometimes happens during the battle itself or at the end of the battle. The point is, that I am never able to end a battle because of this issue. Somehow I suppose that this problem could have to do with some kind of incompability issues between Empire and Nvidia-drivers.
   When I was using ETW version 1.2 with Nvidia drivers like 186.xx the game would crash to desktop. Then I read something about CA having tested the game with Nvidia-driver 182.02 and it worked more or less stable with me. When 1.3 came out I installed the new 190.38 driver of Nvidia- resulting in the issue I have just told you about... constant crashes to desktop in every land battle.
   What would you recommend I should do? Is CA working on this problem? I can send you my dxdiag if that helps.
   
   Thank you in advance for your efforts!
   
   Sincerely,
   Akhrehn
   

4. 

   ansys

   106 Kudos

   09/01/09

   
   

5. 

   Wraith Ravenscroft

   4 Kudos

   08/21/09

   After much anticipation, I bought "Empire : Total War" on release day back in March. I have not been able to get it to work. It causes my computer to bluescreen and switch off after a few seconds on the loading page. I don't know if I have the wrong disc in the DVD drive, I don't know if the problem is with Steam and would very much appreciate some professional support.
   
   I would like to send my DXDIAG to someone at your firm who can interpret it. I hope you can facilitate that.
   

6. 

   Paul Rooney

   103 Kudos

   07/22/09

   Mark, sweet game, but I have left ya a message to pass to the relevant people for me since I can't run the game without it crashing or graphical corruption since patch 1.3. I can run any game off the shelf top spec 3 times over since my PC is top drawer but I can't play the great game of Empires & it's killing me, lol. HELP!!!!

7. 

   koppar

   102 Kudos

   07/19/09

   Hi, nice work with the new units.
   
   Background:
   The Swedes had very offensive tactics in the great northern war beginning of the 18th century. They often broke the enemy with these tactict, but with heavy losses in the beginning of the battle and taking enemy lives in toll at the later part of the battle. However, the Swedish cavalry had a special formation which high success rate. It consisted of a V uppside down in several ranks with one riders knee behind the other in this extremely tight formation. Enemy lines hit by this close formation rarely held their line and broke.
   
   Proposal: New special swedish cavalry unit being able to have this very tight formation.
   
   Best regards,
   
   Olof

8. 

   Nick Bradford

   101 Kudos

   07/17/09

   I've had the game since it first came out. i love the total war series. i think yall did a very great job with this game. but, a feew days ago i experinced my first crash. no problem though since it was my first since it came out. GREAT JOB WITH THIS GAME!!!!!!!

9. 

   UrukEngineer

   101 Kudos

   07/17/09

   Sir, please repair the Consecutive Unit Counter. It used to keep a running tally of how many Line Infantry units had been created assigning the next number to the next one recruited. This really helped to personalise the units. I would also amend the text to say where and when it was raised.
   
   Indeed you could add a unit history tab to let you see other details such as where it had served or which battles it had fought in. This all helps to create an immersive world.
   
   I love the game. Thanks.

10. 

    Stromgarde

    0 Kudos

    07/15/09

    Hi Mark,
    
    Please check out the forum thread titled "Constructive Feedback after release of Patch 1.31" for useful feedback on the game following the release of patch 1.31. I hope it may come in handy.
    
    Pete

11. 

    HenryClinton

    101 Kudos

    07/15/09

    Please don't give ships of the line short range guns! These were the only ships capable of carrying the biggest guns. The small ships couldn't handle them. Just making the smaller ships more manueverable should be balance enough.

12. 

    FearfulWays

    103 Kudos

    07/14/09

    will you please update us on the progress of Multiplayer Maps. thanks for your time, nc

13. 

    brennan1

    101 Kudos

    07/14/09

    Hello Sensei,
    
    Just wondering why I am incapable of even trying the higher graphics settings. I have a rather decent computer, though surely not currently top of the line, but for whatever reason I cannot even attempt to try anything higher than 'medium' settings. It has never been my experience with other games (even other total war games) that graphics settings were simply inaccessible to test for certain computers, but if this is the case then I am content to let it be... but it does seem rather unreasonable given that at maxed settings (everything medium, huge scale, and 1280x1024) I do not experience any slow-down at all.
    
    Let me know what you think, and thanks for any help that you may provide. Sorry if this was not the correct place to ask this question, but there appears to be no support mechanisms on the total war homepage, and your publisher appears to have no contact information at all.
    
    thanks again,
    Brennan
    

14. 

    Geppenguin

    101 Kudos

    07/02/09

    Hi Sensei. Just a question: everytime I enter the multiplayer lobby, there are no games shown, even though I am an online and connected to the Internet. I have set my server location to Singapore, where I live. Is there a problem with the server or lobby and can I do anything about it?

15. 

    Feever

    101 Kudos

    07/01/09

    Hi, since update 1.3, Empire has been crashing to desktop every time I click Grand Campaign...what should I do?
    

16. 

    Trevelon

    110 Kudos

    06/28/09

    I decided to have hope in your new patch.. So I total un-installed Empire: Total War even after I patched it. I re-installed it and a few hours later, I was ready to get down and dirty.. A fresh new start. It has to be me, it just has to be.. Right? Wrong.
    
    Even after doing a fresh install, 10 land battles later.. CTD. No problem, right? Loaded up last save, went to the same battle.. CTD. I then decided to do the old "Turn off the PC and turn it back on in order to dump the memory cache", and ta-da.. I can play through the land battle.. 2 land battles later.. CTD. Sounds to me, after all this time I've been nagging you about your engine's memory leak issues, you still haven't nipped the problem in the bud. You guys are by far the WORSE gaming company ever when it comes to next-gen stability.
    
    I had to open five instances of Crysis and curl in the fetal position just to whisper to my souped-up rig that it isn't his fault. It's not my rig letting me down, it's your sheisty core-testing. Stop releasing teaser-patches and slay this dragon in one hit, Newb.

17. 

    Trevelon

    110 Kudos

    06/28/09

    I appreciate you not blocking or deleting comments from the customers who really have something to say. Might wanna share that same ethic with the board nazis here who paint a picture of sunflowers and teddy bears. As a loyal gaming consumer, I have no problem putting my money in the hands of developers who make good games. Your company makes good games. E:TW? Not so much. Although I won't give up. Why? Because you still have my money. Oh, and I don't kiss ass like some of these fanbois & girls. I tell it how it is, straight up. Here's the message. CA needs to get their ass in gear. Stop pushing out useless patches every month and start focusing on the core issues that cause this game to be unplayable for the majority of players. So, here's the post I put up, that will most likely be deleted. I'll share it with you so you can act as a vault of sorts for those whove been silenced:
    
    Don't make fun of the programmers or your post'll be deleted. In fact, requesting anything above their normal work flow from CA is grounds for post deletion. It's amazing how many unsatisfied customers are snuffed/banned out of existense for just stating the obvious.
    
    Stability is key to making a game enjoyable. I'll take stability over the gloss and glam of graphics. Slowdowns in 21st century gaming on a hardcore rig is unacceptable. The majority of players here exceed the base requirements for this game, and I can run any current next gen game on my rig with no problem. I can run Sims 3 on 4 different windows before I notice a FPS slowdown. I run a tight-ship when it comes to my gear. Always have. Upgrade my equipment religiously every 6 months. But this game sure is a +@!$%!.
    
    If CA just simply dropped the ball on this programming failure of E:TW's engine, and brought the same Empire Canon to Medieval 2's (nearly perfect) stable engine, I'd probably not leave my house for a few weeks. Maybe take some vacation time from work to enjoy a nice working stable game, with all the joys of 18th century warfare. It's all about the fun factor, it really is. The thrill of playing against an enemy that somewhat resembles the thought process of a 2 year old human is the scariest opponent one could ever face (I.e, M2TW, Very Hard/Very Hard). I really do hope CA tightens their shotgroup with the stability and mem leak issues. I want them to be successful, really. But, at this rate, we're not going to see a working stable game until the end of next year.

18. 

    Trevelon

    110 Kudos

    06/27/09

    One step forward, two steps back. To see low-budget developers push out heavier graphical games with minimal patch fallout, and suceed without their fanbase feeling ripped off. Honestly, I feel we asked as much as we could for our buck from CA. It's not their fault they can't push out a post-beta stable game. Let's all see this as a learning lesson. For both of us.. The company and the consumer. Test before you push, wait before you buy. It's no wonder vendors are slashing the price of Empire in half.. ($29.99). It's already got a huge rap in the gaming community for being completely broken. I recently went to the local candy shop (EB Games), and asked the guy at the front of his thoughts on Empire: Total War. He turned to me, and with a snarky laugh said, "Don't even waste your time on that garbage. I've seen the Germans **** out better S-RPGs." So there you have it. Empire: Total War, Version 1. a million. The Duke Nukem Forever of the Turn-Based Strategy Genre.

19. 

    BriCommander

    101 Kudos

    06/22/09

    I want to ask that when will CA release the DLC to the asia players.
    Another problem in 1.3 i saw all player are 1 star only but they aren't.

20. 

    romanlaw

    101 Kudos

    06/22/09

    I need a lot of help or i am going to go crazy. I loved playing empire total war and i still do. but after the 6-22-09 patch i can't play it any more. when i start a new campaign the HUD is the same but the map is all color streaks i think it's the patch i really need help please help me. Email me at legion100@wirelessilliana.com
    
    Please help me!

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