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[quote who="Tridus" reply="181" id="2745441"] Quoting Jharii, reply 179 That has hardly been the case in this forum unless the antagonists have shown no interest other than to engage in an all-out flame-fest. I most certainly have not seen incidents of your last two examples. I am sure that they may exist, but it is rare at best, and is most defintely not a stance that Stardock themselves takes. I have seen the "get a refund" from Brad himself a couple of times bec

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="136" id="2745473"]That's not DRM. DRM stands for "digital rights management" and refers to a very specific form of copy protection. What you're describing is really no different than the registration process you need to go through before you can post on most internet forums, so by your logic, a large portion of the internet employs "DRM" making the term pretty much meaningless.[/quote] Actually, DRM is NOT a specific form of copy protection, it

[quote who="arstal" reply="133" id="2745453"]That 1UP review talks about the robust multiplayer in the game. It's laughably obvious the reviewer hardly played the game. [/quote] If you noted the "editor's note", they pointed out MP was not available at the time of review, and that he was quoting the Elemental website's feature: [i]Robust multiplayer[/i]. The reviewer was saying that a shit AI CAN be redeemed in a "robust multiplayer".

It's a shame this "apology" comes after it hit media outlets. Otherwise, I might have even considered it sincere. Being on the receiving end of one of Brad's rages, I can honestly say it's a shame the CEO of a company acts like this. :(

After reading this thread I feel like throwing up. To many sickening sycophants patting Brad on the back for a disaster. His post shows nothing but severe damage control, and point #7 is just disgusting (reviewers should review what's pressed on the disk since that's when the developer says "it's ready", not the game after 5 patches). [quote quoting="post"] Let me say that I'm glad that most people seem to like the game.[/quote] I think you are mistaken. &nbsp

[quote who="Lord_Asmodeous" reply="108" id="2743708"]Again I would suggest this is an unfair assessment. At launch there were no plans to open up the Civ4 SDK to allow for DLL modding, so that there are no plans to do it for Elemental is notwithstanding. That came about in Civ4 because the Apolyton and CivFanatics guys gave a lot of really good arguments as to why it should happen, and Firaxis agreed with what they were saying and opened it up.[/quote] Sorry but I need to correct you

[quote who="stax77" reply="67" id="2742792"] Only thing I want to say in this thread, is that if the idea is to get people to play this game for 10 years, then you need to start with a great game. Unfortunately, IMO EWOM misses that mark. That is a subjective opinion. While i do agree that there are many unfinished features and untapped potential in Elemental, that didn't stop me from wasting every evening since release just playing the game and having fun d

Only thing I want to say in this thread, is that if the idea is to get people to play this game for 10 years, then you need to start with a great game. Unfortunately, IMO EWOM misses that mark.

Will this be included in the day 0 patch?

From an experienced modder, first thing you need to do is play the game a few times all the way through and learn it. You say you want to mod as soon as possible, but what things do you want to mod? Spend a couple days just opening files and looking at them. If you've no experience with modding or reading raw files it may take a few days to understand what's going on. After you've learnt the game, and learnt the files, next you need try some simple things to ensure

Cool thanks. I'll be at TechEd in Queensland that week, but I'll be able to download it after that.

My version is saying that it needs activating now, and when I paste in the serial number I got before it says already registered. Does this mean I have to wait till release even though I have the beta?

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="62" id="2710984"]Dale ALWAYS plugs Steam. He's just looking for a reaction.[/quote] I'll accept your apology for that insulting comment. I just quickly flicked through my two years of posting history on this site, and only 21 posts have I replied where "Steam" was mentioned, and a lot of those posts I didn't mention the word it was in the reply I was quoting. And all of those in the last few months. So what if I like Steam? I don't

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="52" id="2710874"] Quoting Dale_, reply 41 Quoting AndyBarrett, reply 36Hi everyone, just to let you know that in my lastest update from Dells Alienware site there's a nice little ad for Elemental on their M15x laptop. Nice one guys! I was at EB on Saturday putting money down for my Civ5 Collectors edition, and the guy at the counter said, "Big half-year for PC: Starcraft, Civ and the Warcraft expansion. Civ is also picking up

[quote who="AndyBarrett" reply="36" id="2710510"]Hi everyone, just to let you know that in my lastest update from Dells Alienware site there's a nice little ad for Elemental on their M15x laptop. Nice one guys![/quote] I was at EB on Saturday putting money down for my Civ5 Collectors edition, and the guy at the counter said, "Big half-year for PC: Starcraft, Civ and the Warcraft expansion. Civ is also picking up a lot of pre-orders so seems you're joining a popular g

[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="9" id="2687477"] Quoting blix2006, reply 6i pitty people who think steam is this big evil intrusive program.sure if you wanna whine about games for windows live im right there with you...but steam?great program Yeah, awesome, and when steam is integrated to windows, it'll be a great windows service. [/quote] Microsoft has already said that "Windows Marketplace" for people to sell Windows games/apps will be bundled in the upcoming W

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="29" id="2692216"] Quoting Dale_, reply 26I really do wish Stardock well with Elemental, but the game won't be a "hit" at the level of a top-selling game for some very important reasons. Take the Elemental trailer someone linked to up above. It's been on YouTube for almost two years and only had nine and a half thousand views. Popular game trailers get that in a day. Do a search on Google first for Elemental war of magic, and th

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="28" id="2692208"] Quoting Dale_, reply 26If this game is going to be one of the top selling games of all time, marketing should've flooded the Net with Elemental talk. Aren't you exaggerating more than a bit with that?[/quote] Read the OP. He set the scope, not me. ;)

I really do wish Stardock well with Elemental, but the game won't be a "hit" at the level of a top-selling game for some very important reasons. Take the Elemental trailer someone linked to up above. It's been on YouTube for almost two years and only had nine and a half thousand views. Popular game trailers get that in a day. Do a search on Google first for Elemental war of magic, and then Starcraft II. Note the difference in results. 930,000 versus 23

I find Maxis/EA's continuation of the Spore theme personally insulting. I purchased Spore after reading advertising material and seeing demonstrations of the game promising evolution in a box from a science perspective. Instead I got a basic creature editor and a simplistic world to walk around. EA is on my ban list because of that fraud.

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[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="7" id="2685065"]These companies get what they pay for. Employees that know they're going to be canned after the project are not going to put much effort into things. I think C&C4 is a pretty good example of quality suffering in this regard. The managers can try to hide the layoffs of course, but if it keeps happening so consistantly it's not hard for the low ranking employees to know their fates after the bulk of the work is done. Dispo

Anyone interested in seeing David Edding's World of Belgarion/Mallorean as a mod theme?

[quote who="Tridus" reply="547" id="2660031"]Edit - According to this news story and the Steamworks page, Steamworks itself is free. So yeah, I can comfortably say the cost of using Steamworks is considerably less then rolling your own solution. It's hard to beat $0. The 30% cut is typical of the Steam store and doesn't depend on Steamworks. What does Valve get out of it? Well, every game with Steamworks increases the value of Steam as a platform, and drives more users (in particu

[quote who="KillzEmAllGod" reply="531" id="2659782"]unless it gets really great reviews and is praised for bring something new[/quote] Is 8 "Best of E3" nominations enough? [img]http://www.weplayciv.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=46&pictureid=818[/img] [quote]though some how i am getting the feeling that even if its not that great that it still will out sell Elemental even though Civ 5 comes out almost a month later.[/quote] I know Brad is optimistic,