Thanks!

Hopefully things will go as smooth or smoother tomorrow with the preorders preloading.

Everything truly is WOW! and it shall be a great game indeed.

Thanks!

Yea, I just wanted to add how awesome you guys are.  I downloaded everything in under 45 minutes from a cable connection.  That's simply unbeatable.

My first post. Been around for a little bit just reading. Mine as well make the first post a thank you post.

Its rare a company impresses me. Stardock has done that. You guys have a grasp of what it feels like to be a frustrated gamer when it matters most...on release day. I have long since stopped buying games from EA (oh my god...) and other big name companies (Firaxis is the only other company I will buy a game from nowadays). You guys are involved in the community, and are very much in tune with your customer base. Its certainly great to see the devs actually answering questions and responding to both the constructive criticism and the questions I am sure they are asked 15 times a day. Electronic and advanced downloading should be a policy MANY more game companies out there should take a serious look at.

After all of this (which is WAY more then what other companies out there do), I do have one request. Don't change one bit from this policy. Its what distinguishes you from the rest.

Thanks!

It looks awesome. Can't wait. I've lurked awhile but I'll step out of the shadows for this one.

I'll get right to it. I want to congratulate Stardock on their magnificent customer-friendly attitude. In the big heap that the software-industry has become, it seems you didn't forget that customers are what keeps companies going. In the past I sometimes really got frustrated about other companies' behaviour towards game-development and fan-community handling in the proces (pre- and post-release, as I'm sure you will continue, as allready promised, this positive attitude in the months after the release of GCII). In the past I witnessed companies who would not even recognise a patently obvious bug (though the whole community was complaining about it), they kept on claiming there was no bug. They only fixed the bug with an expansion-pack (only at that time did they publicly admit that there had been a bug). Needless to say, without buying the expansion: no bug-fix... Though I had been a costumer from their first release, they definetly lost me in the proces. Their games are in my opinion a real loss of potential. If they would only pursue a better policy, I'm sure their games could become genuine classics, instead of the deciptive classics they're being held for at the moment (due to good reviews; that's why I sometimes doubt how far reviewers go into games, because okay, at the surface their games look fantastic). Now, I'm likewise inclined to say that Stardock is behaving in exactly the oposite way and therefor deserve every credit. Since I can be defined as a satisfied Stardock-customer (and fan in the making), I wanted to voice my satisfaction. But I want also want to voice a concern: don't grow to big, stay the way you are and keep on going on that fantastic policy of yours.

Truly yours,
Luca C.