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Steam has an offline mode: you enter it when you have internet and then you can play offline.

Folo[quote who="GaelicVigil" reply="9" id="3264244"]Derek Paxton mentioned in the podcast that we would get TWO free games if we bought War of Magic in 2010. What second game is he referring to? A FE expansion, or something else?[/quote] Following War of Magic's "release" Brad said that those that bought the game in 2010 will get the next expansion free (expansion became the standalone Fallen Enchantress), but those who preordered will also get the second expansion for

All IP of Majesty are owned by paradox

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="3" id="3217003"] Quoting GFireflyE, reply 2I'm sure they had a good reason for it. I believe the reason is when the game crashes they get a report about the crash via the internet.[/quote] No. Each launch beta downloads fresh xml data from stardock's servers so that numeral changes like unit cost etc. can be changed without releasing a patch.

Call it any of this: Elemental 2: Fallen Enchantress Elemental II: Fallen Enchantress Fallen Enchantress: Elemental 2 Fallen Enchantress: Elemental II Because changes to Elemental are big enough for a number increase.

[quote]Steam has an amazing self-serve uploading system. [/quote] Does it allow self serve beta creation and upload? If it does beta builds of Rebellion could be nice (no need for QA) PS. If I remember correctly, that was something you wanted Impulse to have.

Maybe they are doing it AI Wars way - using Steam for achievements and matchmaking but not protection.