This is fantastic! 97/100 which NO other game has gotted! That's just ridicilisly** good Well, if this GalCiv II debacle*** doesn't make it clear that the TBS genre aren't dead than I don't know what will! ** = I know it's incorrectly spelled but its a good guess *** = I think that's the right word to use Frogb
I thought I would never see a company give better or equal support than Blizzard. StarDock, you proved me wrong
Here I thought that StarDock was just another independent small developer that happened to create a smash hit when in reality they make programs for ATI (!), Nvidia (!) and the XboX 360 ! How's that possible?? I mean, isn't there other, better skinning programs..? StyleXP comes to mind. Well, this was certainly an eye-opener <b
*Looks at the spreedshett and tries to understand it* *Feels dissy and gets a headache* *Focuses harder and tries to make up own examples. Gets a major headache* Ok, I'm one of those that want to know everything in detail, but I'll make this numbercrunching an exception. Ooooh my head
I've taken two pictures with my mobilephone but I don't got the cable to get them into the computer And wouldn't you people rather want a WET T-TSHIRT contest?? I know I would
All this E vil A rts hostile takeover against UbiSoft made me worried that some rotten publisher (read: fat guy in a suit) would buy up StarDock and add them to their slaves in the roman boats with a cracking whip.
I believe that GalCiv II has the serial that is required for updates to thank for some of its sales as many people tries to get most stuff for free but in order to get a better product they'll have to buy this game. And back in the day of Warlords II & III, cd-burners and empty discs were expensive. And most people didn't know how to get free games since there didn't exist any P2P software. Today, any 10-year old can download DC++, UTorrent
instanst : I agree that switching cd:s isn't fun and that the StarDock way (easy to pirate, hard to get updates) is great, but even those updates aren't that hard to get for non-legitimate buyers it seems That "license key" thing also seems like a good idea, but it has been cracked in every iteration so far. And it seems copyprotection
I agree that switching cd:s isn't fun and that the StarDock way (easy to pirate, hard to get updates) is great, but even those updates aren't that hard to get for non-legitimate buyers it seems That "license key" thing also seems like a good idea, but it has been cracked in every iteration so far. And it seems copyprotection does help
StarForce supplies a product which publishers want, and it works better than the rest of its competitors. And It's stupid to blame StarForce for that GalCiv II torrent link since it wasn't the company that did it but one of their employees! I'll have to ask you something though: If a copyprotection would emerge which would couldn't be emulated or cracked (Everything can be reverseenginered, lets say it takes too long) and which wouldn'
It's fantastic if he has never given a game as high a grade as he gave GalCiv II. And cool poster!
While I knew that GalCiv II was a wanted game I wouldn't think that it would become the #1 sold game in any store! And I didn't think that you could take down torrents that easily :/ Oh well, guess I thought that it was as hard as in Sweden ^^
#61 Francis Deshenes - How much starforce paid you for this post?? I did like to inform you that games with starforce are pirated too and not necessarly less than games without starforce because it's sure there is at least one hacker who take protection program hacking as a challenge and he like challenges. <br/
I'm one of those that talk for StarForce, but I didn't knew about StarDocks buisnessmodel of serialbound free updates. But every other company except a few others will only release a few patches - often bugfixes - and as such pirates will not lose much by pirating those games. About the StarForce admin posting a link to a torrentsite that's something that most people can find anyway....if he had said: "well, GalCiv II doesn
Funny you mention friday as that was the day that I bought the game Yep, bought it yesterday but I haven't instealled it yet. I think I'm gonna try it today after I beat Red Alert.
Great to see him being so astonished about the A.I. It says "buy this game NOW!" to the hardcore 4x gamers. It seems that you would have gotten 5/5 if you would have made better tutorials and included those supergraphics that you talked about.
When I try showing this game to some people, they first go "Pfft, graphics don't look half as good as Empire at War", then they ask if there's multiplayer, rant that a game without multiplayer is stupid, and go back to playing Amped 3 on Xbox 360 or some other no-brain game. I can't believe that! Real
Saw the collectors edition at my local EBgames two days ago (same price ^^). I wonder if all copies of the collectors edition contain the tech-tree poster and allow me to download the desktop theme as I didn't preorder.
Heh, I wouldn't buy the game if it were to look like THAT! Thank god for bumpmapping, T&L and all other graphic things.
Nice job StarDock! D [Size1]Now get working on Master of Magic II[/Size1] I'm one of those that try go get everything for free even if I have to scour the internet for solutions (Yes, I'm poor ) I want to support the independent developers but a free game weighs heavier than my goodwill
