Thanks Derek, for your great direction and vision for what FE has become. I can appreciate the hard decisions you made (removing dynasties and simplifying concepts etc) and I think it's great that you obviously had such a great supportive working environment to make the changes that needed to be made.

i love the silence before a storm 

lets hope it will be a good ppl buying storm

I really hope it pays off for you all. I love this game and I want to see it do well.

This game is just great. You did a great thing here. 

Thank you very much for creating an amazing game. I have never seen a developer who shared his knowledge of the game development with the fans and listened to the feedback of the fans like Stardock. It was very interesting and fun to see how every patch improved Fallen Enchantress and i hope that the game will be a huge success.

Thanks so much for doing such a great job!  Also, thanks for helping me out with my game personally and getting it to work.  LOL Im such a geek, but when my wife came home I was all smiles.  She was like:

"What has you so happy?"

I responded, "I got to talk to Derek Paxton" grinning hugely.

Her response quickly nullified some of my grin "Who?"  /face palm

To defend my wife, I will admit she does game and has done so for quite a few years...mostly MMO's.  From EQ on up.  She just doesnt play single players 4x type games.  Also she is carrying my baby girl who will be her in about 6 days so I decided to go easy on her for her lack of knowledge.

"Hes the guy who was brought in to help with the WoTM sequel and he did some kick ass stuff with Civ 4."(She knows Civ 4 because I played it...alot.

"OH so its a Civ game," she asked

"No, its not a Civ game but its kinda like it...more like Master of Magic revamped in a way."  (She knows that game because its what she used to have to drag me from to go on dates).  You know its made by Stardock," I explained.

And again..."Who?" /face palm x2

Deciding once again to go easy on her because of various factors, I replied "You know the one that made Galactic Civilizations...the space game that I modded with Star Trek ships."

"Oh that one...the one with cute Cat race that I liked," she said while smiling.

"Cute cat race..the Drengin??  ARe you crazy...they are ruthless cold blooded killers and.." the rant when on from there for a few minutes.

She nodded at me "ya them...the cute cats."  I let it drop, because in my years of marriage I have learned a few things.

"Well anyway" I explained after regaining my composure, "Derek called my cell to ask me some questions about the problems I was having.  See?  Here is the number he called from...I could now have him on speed dial and could call him on a whim!"  I exclaimed with pride(and no...i have no intention of doing that, but hey its a guy thing to brag about someone famous calling them isnt it?)

"Oh so he knows you then," she asked.  Blissfully unaware that no...Derek did not know me.

"No not really, but ummm, well he was asking for volunteers so I did and boom he called me.  We had some game issues and he was trying to get them fixed."  He did ask me if I used mods, and I was like no I dont...though I did edit my xml files to make my Sov a bit better...I profusely apologized for the umm...advantage I was giving myself, but Derek laughed and said its "Your game do what you want"  Crisis of conscience adverted!

"Oh that was nice of him," she responded while turning on the oven to make our pizza which was waiting near by.

"Hell ya it was...I mean it was like Sid Meyer was calling me," I exclaimed proudly.

"Who?" she asked

I headed downstairs to my man cave at this point...

Thanks again for all the hard working and calling me to try and see what was going on.  Sorry I did a complete re install of the game before you called back the 2nd time.  And at least through all of this my wife has learned a few more names...though she did ask me if a new version of the "Cat game" was going to come out soon.  Kudos to everyone for all their hard work!!

I think you'll have a success on your hands, Derek.  Best of luck with this.

FE has improved a lot, and I am happy to see it going "gold".

I fear, though, that it requires more polish. I will wait for Thursday's update to post a list of any issue I encounter.

Lets hope that I'm just a worrisome person and the game is bigger success than we hoped for!

This and Planetside 2 have become the first game since the era of Baldur's Gate, Planetside, and Knights of the Old Republic which I can't stop playing or shut up about.

Well done. Pretty cool experience the past 2 years, full of ups and downs, drama, popcorn, and Xia's ponies (or lack thereof).

I'm still hoping Xia's ponies are in there as an easter egg...

Save for a few remaining bugs, I also think the game is ready. And, as we all know, with the continued support from Stardock and its modding capabilities, this is just the beginning.

I'm glad to say that, from my perspective, you guys have created a truly fun game. Hopefully, the market will perceive the same. And since this appears to be the last piece left to crown an amazing experience, I just want to wish you the best of lucks with that.