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Free Add-On Announced for East India Company
Control the Vast Ocean Like Never Before with EIC "Designer's Cut"


NEW YORK – October 7, 2009 – In its continuing efforts to deliver the ultimate gaming experience to PC gamers, Paradox Interactive and Nitro Games today announced a "Designer's Cut" update for the hit naval strategy title, East India Company. Based on ideas from the game's developers, as well as feedback from the loyal East India Company community, the development team has gone to great lengths to ensure that players of East India Company experience everything they could possibly desire as they assemble the strongest naval empire to sail the seas.

The free add-on introduces a vast amount of enhancements for improved gameplay, including new port views, tactical battles can now be fought on an island environment providing completely new tactical elements, the introduction of multiplayer modes "Beehive" and "Breakthrough", history graphs to help track long term progress, and many more new features to make East India Company a deeper experience than ever before.

“In 'Designer’s Cut', we made several improvements to the original game to make it even better," said Kim Soares, lead designer for East India Company. "Some features were chosen from the ideas presented to us by the East India Company community. This kind of feedback from the active players is invaluable, as they have spent hundreds of hours playing our game and know it inside and out."

The East India Company Designer's Cut will be available for download on October 27. Starting today, East India Company is also available at a reduced price of $ 29.99/€29.99 in retail and via digital download.
For more information on East India Company or upcoming expansion East India Company: Privateer, please visit the official East India Company website at http://www.eic-game.com.
 
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Very nice. I will continue to follow the game's development. :)
 
Based on ideas from the game's developers, as well as feedback from the loyal East India Company community

Wow. I guess it means all those hours spent posting to the ideas thread weren't wasted at all. :)
 
I hope the addon delivers the goods, because the core game felt very workmanlike, competent, but ultimately well short of great...and stood out mainly because the genre it's in (the historical trade sim) has been moribund since Ascaron decided after Port Royale 2 that they'd rather be RPG developers and did Sacred.
 
I hope the addon delivers the goods, because the core game felt very workmanlike, competent, but ultimately well short of great...and stood out mainly because the genre it's in (the historical trade sim) has been moribund since Ascaron decided after Port Royale 2 that they'd rather be RPG developers and did Sacred.

I hope so too. I was expecting a little more for the $40 I paid for the game. The games trade mechanics are ok, but the naval combat system needs a major overhaul. If they improve the naval battles and add tactical port battles I will be a happy customer. Whats cool too is that they are adding all this stuff for free!!!

I admit I was skeptical about buying this game after reading some bad reviews. Seeing the Paradox logo, and being a fan of the genre, I thought that I would buy this game anyway.

Now, after reading this thread, it seems my faith in Paradox has paid off. If they add some more features and reduce the clumsiness of naval battles, it will add a lot of potential to EIC.