I will admit I prefer older games that didn't rely on graphics so much over gameplay as far to many of them do now. I really need to ask you if you are actually a fan of 'Turn Based Strategy Games' or not and if yes then which ones would you consider to be superior to H3? Or which ones did you just enjoy more? After purchasing the game itself there were no fee's to be able to play either, and the game regularly received support and updates. Also the last Expansion was a stand alone which people did not need to have the other 2 to be able to play which is a lot more than other companies were doing. The first part of Heroes 3 was released early Feb of 99, the first expansion over half a year later in Oct 99 and the final expansion another 7months later in April 2000. Just because these ways are not obvious for someone who's been playing for a couple days does not make the game bad. There are some towns that do better for the long haul and some do better in the short term, but there are always ways to limit weaknesses. How can you possibly make every Faction of a game 'Balanced' without making them cookie cutter copies of each other that become stale within a week? Aside from the visuals it's pretty much a mess. Feel the same way with the faction imbalances, they went quantity > quality. Honestly the more I play this game the more I realize that their concern was with pumping out as much content as fast as possible, as opposed to taking their time to make fewer maps that were balanced and highly replayable. James5272: That's kind of why I asked for 'balanced' maps.

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