Typical, the thing I try out of desperation after posting this, works! It worked fine through Stardock Central, just couldn't get it to work at all outside of that application. Oh well, it's worked now
I've been trying to buy the game for a couple of days, every single time I'm thwarted by the store.stardock.com! I can seem to get the game into the basket at store.stardock.com (somehow, tried who knows how many routes), but every time I try to actually get past the basket stage to start entering my details, I just get a "cannot connect to.." screen https://store.stardock.com/ssl/process_
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