I want the game to succeed financially because I think there's enough of a foundation here for some exceptional mods and expansions, even if the current game does have its share of flaws. More players = bigger community = more modders = higher demand for mods and a larger pool of feedback and available testers for the various mods.

Just so you guys are expecting it, it would not surprise me in the least if Fallen Enchantress got trolled pretty hard at Metacritic by folks still bitter about War of Magic and have a grudge against Stardock.  Even the mighty Blizzard is not immune from such trolling -- check out Metacritic's Diablo 3 user score, and it's one of the better games to be released this year.

Oh, yeah, and Romney is going to win in a landslide.  Just so you're expecting that, too.

I don't think the people who would be bitter about E:FE are the original Elemental purchasers, since they got a heavily updated and fixed game for free.

Now, if there were people who would be bitter and attack the game without providing *legitimate* criticism of the game, it would have to be the white knight to the rescue of a helpless damsel crowd. There's a lot of angry peeps out there who got it in their mind that Brad W. has a harem of chick slaves under lock and key at his evil, evil giant corporation. And they are the type who would go out of there way to discredit and slime anything associated with Brad W. in any way or forum, since hey, that's what white knights do: SLAY THE DRAGON!

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