John Hamp

I buy all of Stardock's products and have for years. Most gamers aren't familiar with Stardock...yet. But once they get "the treatment" it's hard to go back to being shit on by the typical developer and publisher who tosses out their half-baked game and throws a patch 3 months later to make it actually work. Getting a product (you should try their skinning stuff) from Stardock is a lot like how I imagine product service working in 5 years except I get it now. A time where custo

I would welcome AI replacing dropped players. I play strangers online and all too often someone has to leave for one reason or another.

So why has this game, that seems to have come out of nowhere, taken the PC game industry by storm? I have 10 reasons! #10 It's like a classic PC game concept made with 21st century production values. #9 It's got the strategic elegance of Europa Universalis but brought to the mainstream through high end production values. #7 It's $10 cheaper than similar new games. #6 It doesn't have any on disk copy protection or disk DRM. #5 It's very very innovative

I've been part of Stardock's community for a few years now...mostly from their skinning programs and it's a wonderful community. Stardock isn't a normal company, that's for sure. I am not sure what the reason is but I'd hazard to guess it's because it's run by one guy (Frogboy) who tends to look at things from the customer's point of view. Then, in turn, others who think like Frogboy tend to join in. Look at Ironclad, they're a lot like Stardock. You'd think they were seperated

? Front page of EB Games PC section has a big promotion of it. http://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=647253