You are talking to someone who would ask for 1 cent back which he borrowed to his best friend. I value money as I know how much of myself I invest into earning those 500 USD / month, while hating every second of 10h working days and almost nothing left after paying for everything.
Tank of gas is 10-15 USD here. Still means nothing, even if I was the richest man on Earth, I still wouldn't spend a cent on things I consider useless or give a cent to a person that doesn't deserve it, even if that person would die without it.
I've never bought a game, movie, tv show, song etc. , but I played almost everything that was worth playing, watched over 1000 movies and tv shows, listened to so many songs. I would've probably killed myself long time ago if I had to pay for any of those, as I wouldn't be able to and those are the reason I get from bed
Ignore artwork. What is expansive and finely crafted? What is so different compared to Warband? If you never enter a city or a village, but play through text fields, then every city and village is same, just wares and prices change. It's better to be good at one thing than bad or medicore in many. Each of the games I've mentioned is good at one thing. Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned Kingdom come, as I only have watched gameplay on YouTube, but my first reaction to it was "oh look, Mount & Blade as it should be"
Point of my post was to share my opinion, without trying to achieve anything. I never try to change someone's opinion as I don't care what people think. Also, I've learned long time ago that it's super hard to change an average opinion, so I'm not even going to try that, ever. I'm far from emotional in general. I see no point in life, so I care about nothing. It would be silly of me to care about a game that I received as a gift and played for a few hours before uninstalling it forever. More than a week has passed since I unistalled it, so it's not about anger and outburst. I check forum from time to time to check the latest patch notes to see what's happening and if there are any interesting topics. I stumbled upon this one and decided to register and comment. I just dislike immorality like selling pre-alpha game for a full price and getting both free testing and money. I would never let myself do anything like that. I'm amused how many people are ready to pay so much money to play something so unfinished and be used by a company.
Not really, as I'm not expecting anything. Just rating a product. I only have the idea what the product should be and that is not too different from the current game or Warband.
Of course, I've been playing X4 Foundations for a few months now and having a blast every time.