Dear TWC members,
even though I never received any official reply or PM or anything from CA I am still fine with it. Our survey wasn't endorsed by CA and this is possibly the most likely reason why we got no note.
I am fine with that because the reason, that the majority of criticsm and praise which each of you will also find in the unofficial world-wide Total War survey results has been taken quite seriously and we can all see this in consequence for Attila. If anyone has missed the TW survey, please check the results in my signature, aside other hopefully interesting topics.
So at the moment I do think that the survey wasn't completely useless. Even it would be ridicilous to link it to changes in Attila, which I clearly refrain from doing - it helps to understand that CA seem react on the opinions of players they shared in many postings and threads and in the least consequence also in the survey.
Based on the 40 turns demo the TW Youtubers got and their first experiences they published some hours ago, this game seems to heal wounds. This sounds good, while in the first place it becomes even more unlikely that features will be added to Rome 2. Not to blame CA for that because CraigTW said back in 2013 no major features will be added in Rome 2. The Emperor Edition was a clear exception to that rule.
I am sad about that course they have chosen in this regard.
On the other hand I am very happy that CA, very likely more based on lasting feedback on forums, rather than fastly reacting to our survey, included a lot of features into Attila people asked for.
Based on what I have seen on Youtube they added a lot of immersion and changed literally "everything" we had to complain about in Rome 2. Take the word everything with a grain of salt please. I am still sure there will be old issues we know since Empire because it is only an improved engine.
Also like DarrenTW said, the multiplayer part will not see an overhaul. So don't think about an avatar campaign in place.
Still, I am looking forward to Attila and will share my zero day experience on TWC for sure. I avoid to argue about it before release, so this is why you rarely see me discussing here in this subforum.
I don't have a firm reason to entirely recommend, not to recommend, or hype it though. I am relaxed and awaiting to get my Steam code.
yours,
al Qamar