They are pretty major chain across the US, have bought out a lot of the competition and now hold a monopoly in many areas. Their PC support is lethargic at best though. They seem to make most their money giving kids next to nothing for selling them used console games that they then resell for 75% or more of the new retail price.

This was discussed on the Demigod forum and Brad said there would be no suing going on. I just think a little "oopsie" with any new game release/shipment to them from SD would fix'em. They can't sell it before release if they don't get it till the day of(or a day or two after even)

LAMO!!

Or the Scratch warranty, im nearly 32 years old i think i can take care of my discs.

Yup, we have EB everywhere here too......

EB = Gamestop...ever since 2005.  So, insofacto you have Gamestops down under

Which just makes me miss all the more the days when Games Domain was truly "by gamers, for gamers."

Also, thanks for helping a feeble-eyed Gerontocrat remember to double-check the spellings for entity names. I'm now vaguely recalling completely different reasons for holding both Gamespot and Gamestop in contempt. The former are industry suck-ups and the latter are vultures preying on adolescent deck-game junkies. Neither do anything to help folks with an interest in seeing 'niche' games get their due and continue to increase their sophistication.

Well I'm "rushing" through one of my month-long games now. The MV will probably be back before i can finish anyway.

Shame, I just got a new PC and went through all the pain of reinstalling only to find no meta.

This may take the cake for stardock.  How freaking hard is it to have a server support the start and end of a freaking game?  My lord. 

The thing is it isn't hard.  They just don't care anymore.  (and haven't for about a year at least)

Strange what one thinks of at 3:30 am:

Stardock just released UE to retail in February. DL and DA are also still in retail. Imagine what all these new customers must think when they come here. The metaverse does not work, ToA has major bugs, we're up in arms, and we have yet to see even one recent statement from Brad about any of this.

Because of the retail release, stardock can't just abandon the metaverse, either. At least not without an even worse consequence to their reputation. I realize, of course, that there is little that can be done to speed up the restoration of the MV server considering the Demigod situation. I'm just throwing this out here because I am not sure whether stardock has a sufficient understanding of the current situation as it relates to new GalCiv2 customers.

Oh my......

PS: so we are already two...I am sure more of us will join and little by little we bring up enough for a new server or something

Arrrggggh, I still can't access I-Mod sites... and no matter where i look in my local Vista "flaws" or presumed reasons i'm always back to Bell ISP connection servers.

Could be the modem itself or some domain hi-jack via rootkits.

Sadly, i'm not the ONLY one experiencing your total virtual absence, stefan.

Is X-Worlds 06-A up & running?

I want a definitive solution to this mess, what do you recommend - anyone?

Amen to that

Anyway, while the metaverse has been down, I've been stuffing around playing a gigantic map as the Arceans, getting an idea of how they play. I must say it has been incredibly enjoyable too, especially considering how the mega events turned out. One thing I did when setting up the game was turn off tech brokering and trading, and set research speed to slow, which meant to me, anyway, weapons like lasers and stingers actually were important.As for the mega events, the first one hurt me a lot, which was the pirates, so I had to really work on getting together a good fleet together to crush them. But just after the pirates came the dreadlords, who, along with the pirates, smashed all of my starbases. At this point, I didn't have much in the way of starships, so it was a fairly pathetic site. And following on from the dreadlords was the next super event which was the plague. When the plague hit, things were at a real standstill in the universe, if I wanted to expand, I'd have to attack someone, and I had no idea who I would attack considering my closest neighbour (iconians) was getting all of my trade, and the other neighbour (Krynn) was the most powerful civ in the game. For comparsion, while their military was rated at about 360, mine was sitting in at 50. Because of such a low military rating, I didn't dare go to war with anyone to take their worlds while their population was low, I was the first to research the cure for the plague. But the next interesting decision was somewhat made for me. As I pondered who I would attack, the Jagged Knife came along with their usual flair, and all of a sudden, there was a whole lot of "neutral" worlds for me to conquer. The transports were built nice and quick, and sent out, and all of a sudden, my empire just grew to the point that, as far as population goes, I was on equal footing now with the Krynn (the most powerful empire). The Krynn didn't like me taking their former worlds, nor did the Iconians, so they both declared war on me. I hurt the Iconian's badly, and made them a shadow of their former selves, and have crushed much of the Krynn's military. Essentially, their fleets would be completely annihilated, while my fleets would get away with at most, 1-2 HP lost. Now the Krynn are asking for peace as they watch their worlds get swaped around them, while my own war machine is still just gearing up. Currently, my miliary rating is about 120, theirs is 250, but I'm systematically going through each and every world in their system hammering the defenders and starbases into submission.

I ain't stopping for no one now.