Whatever happened to the Nival SS forum???

[Karstedt]

I was so glad when all those years ago when I heard Sergey retook control of Nival. But nothing much has come of it IMHO. They are caught in the HoMM franchise and various C titles, and have not seemed to put any effort back into A (or B) list turn-based strategy, which in my opinion was what they were great at (merely lacking the polish of a developer with more resources). I'm guessing the company got more or less gutted in American hands and there wasn't much left for him to "restore" when he regained control.

 

It's always sad to see a great or promising developer squashed under the corporate boot.

 

Hammer and Sickle took me 45 minutes to play...that was the shortest game I've ever seen. If I wanted a 45 minute game I'd only pay .99 cents for it.

 

You must loathe Bioware then. They've been demanding $7-15 for their 15 minutes of DLC content.