[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="96" id="2860817"] Quoting rebelito, reply 95 Quoting Jon Shafer, reply 16 Greetings all! Proud to be joining the Stardock team, and expect to work on a lot of great projects here in the future. There's been some assumptions here about what my joining Stardock will mean for the games the studio will be putting out from now on. Fear not all - they'll be clearly recognizable as Stardock games.
[quote who="Jon Shafer" reply="16" id="2860255"] Greetings all! Proud to be joining the Stardock team, and expect to work on a lot of great projects here in the future. There's been some assumptions here about what my joining Stardock will mean for the games the studio will be putting out from now on. Fear not all - they'll be clearly recognizable as Stardock games. One thing that I will say though, is that Stardock's games are awfully complex, and probably need to be streamli
[quote who="Jon Shafer" reply="11" id="2860725"]Thanks all, looking forward to helping make Elemental and future Stardock games amazing. And stirring up a bit of trouble on the forums from time to time, of course. Jon [/quote] Interesting... you show up here, which is good, as opposed to that other forum I am also part of... I am one of your most emphatic, harsh critics. I will never hide behind a veil of hipocresy, so that is that. I still think yo
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="2859941"]Don't be insane. Do you have any idea how much of the design process as well as scheduling is altered when you're dealing with a publicly traded company? Seriously. If you don't like Civ V, think carefully about what it is you don't like about it. Seriously. Moreover, as some have already observed, Kael is the one taking over design on Elemental from me. We desperately need someone who has AAA
Dear FrogBoy, I have owned most of your titles since GalCiv1. I enjoyed your creations thoroughly. Now, I was about to buy Elemental after reading how much better it became with patch 1.1. I wanted to buy Elemental because the lead designer of Civilization 5 ruined my civ experience after 20 years of loyal support. Not anymore. I will not buy any other game that this person touches. I know of many that were thinking along the same lines, and were about to put money into Elemen