Haven’t read the article but they just added a 770MB update to the 26KB original download and now the game reportedly works.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4921760/Heroes_Of_Might_And_Magic_III/
Wow. When I read the headline I thought it had to be an exaggeration or complaint about poor game quality. Nope, literally forgot to add it.
Now that they’ve fixed that, there’s a lot of negative reviews saying it’s crashing a lot.
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Also, yeah, usual business when it comes to Ubisoft. Fun story: their first HoMM game, H5 from 2006, had its release date postponed because the fans protested and begged to have it released later. It was horribly buggy, according to the beta players, and the fans wanted the studio to have enough time to fix it.
Well thanks for that. I had no idea it existed and I love HOMM.
their first HoMM game, H5 from 2006
They also buried the M&M sci-fi storyline there.
Heroes 5 was actually a really solid entry, so I appreciate you 2006 fans!
“It took courage to do what we did…”
Anyone play song of silence? It is like a modern homm3, i think, I’m too young for homm3
I’ve not played Song of Silence, but from what I’ve heard it’s closer to Total War then HoMM.
You should try Songs of Conquest, which is heavily inspired by HoMM, with some more modern mechanics and QoL. I find it simpler than HoMM in general - might be a good intro into the genre.
Also vanilla HoMM 3 is not really a great way to play the game these days. I’d say Horn of the Abyss is a must, and there are a ton of mods to improve the game. Have a look at the VCMI project if you want to dig deeper.
My favorite is HoMM 5.5, which improves 5 a lot.
There’s obviously also Olden Era, which is not bad and a very approachable intro into the series. I’ve not played much, so my experience is too limited to comment on it.
Glad you played Songs of Conquest. Their devs did a great job of keeping the homm spirit while also fixing some issues with the games by enforcing new rules and limits. Only complaint is I wish the graphics were just a little bit better.
Do people actually want/like the 3d added to the hmm3 remake? I was pretty instantly turned off by it.
I recall purchasing this quite a while ago.
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Ah, it was the “HD” version. I wonder what exactly’s different from this one.
Not a fan of Ubisoft and this is definitely an embarrassing blunder but it seems a little petty to leave a negative review if it was only broken for a day after launch.
- Buy game you want
- Install game
- Play
- There is no game
- Complain
- “Consumers are a little petty these days”
Dude.
It shows such an absurd lack of care. Bugs are one thing, but you’d think someone would try to at least launch the game one last time before going live with it??
see all those downvotes? they aren’t petty, people are informing you that your opinion sucks.
pretty apt analogy to the bad reviews frankly.
