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is Elemental going to be a subscription type game?

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is Elemental going to be a subscription type game?

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I just got an email from stardock informing me that Elemental has been released and with my purchase I would get a year's worth of free updates. Really, only a year?

So last week I paid 80 dollars for the limited editiion and next year I have to give more money for updates? I would buy an expansion pack without hesitation, but am not a fan of any type of "subscription" based updates. especially if they are bug fixing updates.

I don't remember reading anywhere and I cannot find anywhere on the purchase web pages that mention having to eventually pay for updates.

Maybe I'm mistaken and my interpretation is skewed.

does anyone have any info on this?

thanks

 

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Reply #26 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting kryo, reply 12

Will I need a subscription or further payment to get game updates like the email implies - or not?
No, and you can download the entire latest version of the game as long as we're around, just as with all our other games. That includes any new content that is or will be added to the base game, such as Campaign Book 2.

We can't rule out the possibility of expansions since any timetables for such things are in flux until the post-launch settles down. But you can look at GalCiv2's history for a good idea. Even though the first expansion was released twelve months after the base game, and the second fourteen months after that, we continued to update the older versions with any applicable bug fixes that could be back-ported, even a full year after the final expansion was released. That's three years from launch to the last update of the base game.
End of kryo's quote

Thanks for getting back to me Kryo. I don't have a problem with later expansions being sold separately - it's nice to have more content and I'm willing to pay for it if it's good. If you assure me that Elemental will operate on much the same basis as previous Stardock titles, I'll be quite happy with that.