Hey, don't bring me into this.

Sorry, please don't eat me Mr Hobbes sir.

I find myself agreeing with TheJoe.

Must counter...

The Guild was rubbish!

He was in Privateer?
Oh no, not the whole The Guild argument again:P

Maybe. I confess, I haven't played that particular WC game yet, but rest assured that even if you never see him he's still there, watching you.

Well thats very, very scary.

Hobbes isn't in Privateer.

There is no argument. The Guild is all. There is no way to contradict this.

Wait, the game or the show?

Right, Time to hijack your pathetic excuse to get yourself a game gifted. I mean really, you post this thread up in the hope someone will appear a bit flash and say, "hey, check your mail". The GOG people that gift games are not so shallow.

Basically Joe, it suffered from the fact it was unfinished. Masters never quite ran a business well. It's fine for them to maybe not get the best prices, but to just run your business into the ground? That's just rubbish. Then there's the annoying bug where sometimes traders are locked into their own city, and all other cities are... their own city. Decent testing should have found that, it probably did, they just didn't fix it. Then we have the marriage balancing issue. Trade your way all you like, marry and you're rich, it's too heavy a skew. Overall the game promised a lot, but really you just feel a bit detached from it all. It's a nice idea, and I'm all for games trying it, but just as all Molyneux's games were flawed by their ambition, so was the guild.

Ok

From what I have read on the forum, it actually does happen like this. Of course, the request is largely different but I witnessed many gifts like this

That's exactly the point. They are unexpected acts of kindness, beggars go wanting.

Oh dear lord someone's got a tumour on his humour.