UncleDrood

Typical EA. They've found a great way to double dip. Charging for an EDITOR is lame. I will happily pirate it if it appears. Despite hating EA, I will most likely buy Spore (though not on release day. Let other suckers deal with the bugs first. If the game is an utter trainwreck, I want warning). I will not pay for the editor twice. It's yet another money gouge from EA, and it saddens me to think if this succeeds, more developers will try it. Massively overcharging for the damn games is

I despise Electronic Arts for all they've done to the PC gaming industry. The dumbing down of video games. Treating staff like cattle. (I have a friend who works for them.) Celebrating them buying other companies is NOT good. For every one that flies (Maxis) there's several that get squashed. EA are evil and, for many reasons, represent all that is wrong in video games. I, by and large, boycott EA. (Spore is going to make it very hard to continue to do that.) I support indies like Star

Cheating in single player, I say go nuts if you wish. It's your game, do as you wish. Hell, I do. Not in Gal Civ, but in other stuff (Half-Life 2 for example. Grunt-o-matic!) But cheating in a multiplayer environment is the act of an unmitigated coward and a malodorous sleazebag who deserves to be publicly flogged and beaten with sticks.

If you run a game windowed, in my experience it isn't running at it's full potential. So that's not an ideal solution. This is the first game I've run that outright crashes when I try to return back from the desktop. I can honestly say I have a LOT of games installed, and not ONE locks up or crashes when I come back from the desktop. Closest I get is Team Fortress 2 and other Source based games that take a while to come back up, but they DO work after about 30 seconds. Having t

So instead of being Rickrolled, it's Saganrolled. That's a much more noble idea.

WANT! BADLY! No more delays it appears, so my fears of Delta Testing were unfounded. Huzzah! God this looks awesome, but what's with those nastyass gifs throughout?

[quote]Good link to have.By the way, where do you buy 3ds max?[/quote] GOOOOOOOOOOOGLE!

Don't go getting excited for release. We've still got another 20 or so letters of the Greek alphabet to go through for testing yet. That dialogue is freakin' hilarious:)

Let me guess... This time next week we'll see that it's entered DELTA TESTING~@!

36 hours before release date you move it again. (By the time I got the news, it was less than 24 hours.) I know it's going to be good, but dear god, this was originally supposed to be out in December! You had a poll asking if people would prefer to wait until January. The majority (myself included) voted yes. Release date after release date has been missed. So very disappointed with Stardock. Yeah yeah, I know all the fanboys will start on at me now. Well sorry folks, I didn't

[quote]stardock's anti-drm policy has a tendency to deter pirates because people do become loyal customers whom will acutally go and purchased their games instead of just pirating them. With Chris Taylor singing the doom and gloom song of the death of pc gaming industry, this marriage will breath back some new life into the industry.[/quote] Lord knows it did with me. The main reason I bought Gal Civ II in the first place was because of Stardock's stance on DRM and them treating their

Note about the Amazon download service: Hardly industry changing if it's anything like their MP3 service which is US only. The last time I remember a company engaging in such hype was Sports Interactive and it turned out to be something idiotic. Stardock has bought Eidos, and their next game will be Lara Croft's Galactic Civilizations where all your units have giant false breasts on the front, thus distracting a certain demographic of gamers by having them say "Yes it runs poor

[quote]I just hope it's not that StarDock going to use the stupid DRM scheme that was suggested [/quote] Given how anti-DRM Stardock seem to be, I don't imagine that. My guess: Twilight of the Arnor is actually going to be free, and everyone who pre-ordered like myself will be told to screw ourselves and Stardock run giggling into the distance with our money. ;) Very curious though. Though I will be supremely annoyed with Stardock if they're using "The PC game industr

This attitude Stardock has towards their customer base and copy protection is the EXACT reason I bought Gal Civ II in the first place. I'm currently eagerly awaiting the next expansion which I pre-ordered way back last year. I used to be fairly heavily into piracy. Now it's just not worth the effort. Most games are generic cookie cutter crap and I just can't be bothered with them. I mean Bioshock may be a great game. But I already have several FPS I've not finished (Half-Life 2. Yes, I

So, as a geek, can I get maybe a little technical explanation of how you've improved the graphics, reduced memory usage and increased framerate? Since that goes completely against pretty much any other game I've seen and I want to know how you geniuses pulled that off:)

Would rather wait for a full, thoroughly tested release, so despite pre-ordering some time back, I'm happy to wait. Whatever it takes guys. So, just to clarify, JANUARY! (Though I'm not participating in the beta. I've done enough beta testing of other things for one year.)

[quote] The error message is "The module you requested is no longer available". This is when I choose "Update Now" on the dialog that pops up telling me there's a patch. Try just going to DA in the games section and updating manually. [/quote] Decided to humor you expecting it to fail... It didn't. Thanks:)

I'm having weird issues as well. Since last night I've been unable to download the latest patch. It just fails. The game and expansion are fine, since that's how I installed them in the first place, with this existing install of SDC, so I have no idea what the hell is going on. Kinda frustrating. The error message is "The module you requested is no longer available". This is when I choose "Update Now" on the dialog that pops up telling me there's a patch.

When I said EA have always been pitiful I mean their current incarnation, which is all a lot of gamers have known. And Speedball II was'nt an EA game. It was developed by Bitmap Brothers. It was published by Imageworks/Mirrorsoft in the rest of the world, and Konami in the US market. Total Annihilation is one of my favourite RTS games. Still have it installed. But probably my favourite RTS has always been Myth II. No resource gathering. Just blood and carnage.

Stardock are very much a throwback to the good old days. No copy protection, quality games, DECENT AI... Electronic Arts are pitiful, always have been. The EA Sports series is always crap. I'll pick up Madden every 2-3 years, or recently NFL Head Coach appeared for $5 in one store here. Yes, a whole $5. I don't mind paying that. But $50 EVERY YEAR for pretty much just a roster update with the same braindead AI? And mentioning all these new features but failing to specify it's certain versions on

Ordinarily I would agree with the anti-multiplayer sentiments. I get tired of being a second class citizen and liking offline play. The last game to REALLY anger me was Call of Duty. A great WW2 game. However, they included no bots of any kind. The argument being "the single player component is more than enough". Er... No it wasn't. In fact, opening missions aside, I had no interest in playing most of the game again. So if you want to play half of what

I had been on the fence about picking up Gal Civ II. I'm a big strategy game fan, but hadn't really fallen off the fence. Then this whole Starforce thing blew up. I already believed the company to be insidiously evil. To post torrent links (which I wouldn't be at all surprised if they created in some kind of "Look at this software we weren't paid to protect... Be a shame if something happened to it" mafia style insurance deal) is despicable.