Matchmaking was only open so many hours in a day. I don’t know if the available uptime was region based, but at least in North America, it was open in the late afternoon/early evenings Monday through Friday. It was open for most of the day on Saturday and Sunday.
It’s VERY MUCH a work in progress. Despite how many people are already playing it, they’re actively changing it all the time, and patches can and will drop without any warning.
That’s much higher than normal. A quick google suggests between $200-$500 is more in line with a normal student loan monthly payment, which is still a burden on someone just starting out.
I never got too deep into it, but I enjoyed ~10 hours of it before getting distracted by other games. It felt more like a park business simulator like Roller Coaster Tycoon, rather than an elaborate park and ride designer like Planet Coaster.
It’s totally worth $15 if you want to scratch that itch.
There’s a fantastic LotR total conversion mod for TW: Rome. It was also ported to RW: Rome Remastered, so very easy to play even on modern hardware.
EDIT: Search for Lord of the Rings: Total War (Remastered) for the most recent version of the mod.
That’s not Darth Maul, that’s Master Ima-Gun Di (pronounced “I’mma gon’ die”). His one and only appearance is on a episode of Clone Wars, and at the end of the episode he and his clones are overwhelmed by enemy droids and he dies.
Yes, his name is just a play on “I’m going to die”, because he was created with the explicit purpose of getting killed on screen.
Nothing is stopping existing owners from downloading the offline installer backups, but existing owners will still have access to their games through GOG regardless. Delisting just means that the games will no longer be purchasable, so if there’s a game you want to “own”, as long as you buy it before it’s delisted, it will remain accessible to you for the foreseeable future.