He's been busy since 2015 putting out Gems of War, a match 3 game for PC, mobile, XBox, Switch, and PS4.

M0D3M might be able to clarify what kind of download it is or put it somewhere else if he sees this at some point

Did you try M0D3M's link and instructions in post #2?

Ah, okay. Maybe that could be said in the comments next to the 1.05A download? I understand keeping it for historical sake, but maybe something like "Obsolete, use 1.05B patch"? And/or maybe some short list of instructions, like "Download and install Steve and KGB 1.05 patch, then download 1.05B patch and copy over the .EXE file. You do not need 1.05A patch if you do this." or something?

Wait, so are you saying to do all three? Steve and KGB 1.05, 1.05A, and 1.05B in that order? Or skip 1.05A and go to 1.05B?

Are you looking in the Downloads section on the site? It looks like there's three 1.05 patches with two of them saying to simply copy over/replace the .EXE file from to the patch to existing game file .EXE

In case anyone's interested, Steve and company posted a "GoW 2018 Year in Review". Looks like the game is still growing so they'll be at it for a while

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I actually don't care either way - I never really got into Warlords IV and I don't play Warlords 3 anymore, so <shrug>. I was just addressing wargul's questions about what I2 was doing nowadays.

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Obviously your opinion, but gotta disagree with you there. I haven't spent anything on GoW (nor plan to), just my time, for three or so years now, and I'm pretty much "end-game" (have almost all of the troops and done "everything"). It's definitely not a "money sucking game" (unless you allow it to be) and frankly, the mobile part is a major feature/advantage - but you can also play it solely on your computer, if you want (or XBox or Playstation). Not even sure about the "brain-stupefying" part because even though I am a "near end-gamer", there are plenty of games/matches where I have to think out my moves (and hope the RNG goes my way, admittedly).

So I'm not sure how much you've played or time you put into it to get that opinion, but for anyone else reading this, it's my opinion and counter-argument that it's anything but what you think it is

I think it's the equivalent of "liking" a post. I just clicked the + button on your post above and increased it by 1 , so I think it's something others have to do for you, you can't do it yourself.

Well, I certainly can't answer about why I2 homepage seems to be neglected

What I was saying above is that 505Games *might* be in charge of the web design stuff so that I2 can focus on GoW development (or it might be part of 505Games responsibility, period - I don't know ). But in any case, Gems of War has I2's attention non-stop (aside from Steve's "teaser" about mentioning PQ3) so their own page is probably very low priority. Very Low

I'm not sure who worked with him before as a "small" group, but it seems the core group of programmer/people who started Gems of War with him are still around. And they've hired some more people as well in the four years since it's been out, so I would say it's a "medium" sized group

There are weekly new content releases (that are put into the "schedule" "ahead of time") so yeah, that's constantly being worked on. There are updates/Patches every few months which are also being worked on - one was just released yesterday. Could be same, different, or a few same working on those. <shrug>

The Gems of War site/homepage could be run by the publishing company 505 Games, so Steve and I2 don't have to maintain/be responsible for it.

Ah, I see what you mean; I usually just go straight to the forums. Not sure what's happening on the homepage, probably something needs tweaked to display correctly. But yeah, it's probably been "forgotten" as Gems of War is the main thing now.

What do you mean by "homework"?

As far as I know, Steve's still working on Gems of War but there was a little tidbit a while ago about starting development on Puzzle Quest 3. Haven't heard or seen anything since though.

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I play regularly and read the forums on the weekdays.

I'm sure Warlords is in his heart and probably in the back of his mind, it's just that GoW is taking up almost everything in front and middle

You gotta keep in perspective that the people complaining about it are just a small (but yes, vocal) percentage of the player base.

He hasn't left the team; he posted in one thread on the GoW forums about making some fixes.

Another dev made a telling comment that if you read between the lines, the new UI was a directive from the *publisher*, not the devs themselves. But they're stuck with it, they're not going back (they said so), so the best that can happen is incorporating some player suggestions on improving it.

So if anything, Steve is going to have his hands full even more trying to make fixes and improve it.

Steve's very busy with Gems of War, so another Warlords probably isn't happening anytime soon.

Depends what you're looking to get out of it

I loved PQ1, didn't get PQ2 or the others (the former because of lack of time, the others because wasn't Kingdoms for console? which I don't have and wasn't into SF).

The nature of the hardware is what allows for your categorizations. There's no way a phone can compete with a PC (right now...). I don't really play console so can't speak to that.

But I think Steve either mentioned or alluded to on the I2 forums, that he can't really do another iteration of Warlords because it won't pay the bills - it's really a niche game. Unless it somehow spans platforms like GoW... but all of his energy is on that right now. And it seems that DOES pay the bills... whether you think of it as casual or hardcore or whatever.

I think it depends how it's used on mobile. Steve Fawkner's current game is Gems of War, which is on PC, mobile (and you can link accounts so you can play on either one), XBox, and PS4. The ability to play GoW on the phone is awesome as you're not tied to the PC for gameplay.