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[quote who="Zubaz" reply="3" id="1928977"] Those reasons sound like choices to me.[/quote] Buying a game based on its supported platforms is a choice. Announcing the 2.0 patch as available on that platform and then dropping it right before launch is just mean.

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[quote who="Zubaz" reply="25" id="1928961"] all it's customers[/quote] Indeed.

Reply to 2.0 update must be made available on Stardock Central in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="25" id="1928961"] Now you know the new policy. Install Impulse, patch up, uninstall Impulse, go on with your life. It'll be fine.[/quote] Unless, of course, you can't for any of the reasons mentioned in this thread.

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[quote who="CariElf" reply="4" id="1928236"] If, for a legitimate reason, you can't install Impulse (example, you have Win2K), we may be able to work something out if you contact support, but we'll probably want to give it a week or so to make sure that no bugs crop up now that there are a lot more people playing 2.0. In the meantime, if you have a friend or relative who has XP or Vista, you can always download the files on that computer and then manually activate on you

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Yes, but we're not talking about new games. We're talking about a game that was released to run on 2000, purchased by people who have 2000, for the purpose of playing on 2000. And as for the history, 2000 took NT's stability and multi-processor support and added DirectX. So for many gamers 2000 was the logical upgrade path from 98, not ME. And why are we still using it? There was nothing in XP to justify the price tag. We just keep it around to du

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from: https://www.galciv2.com/Purchase.aspx Dark Avatar - Minimum Requirements Windows XP/2000/Vista with emphasis on the 2000. Also, TA works just fine on 2000, so why not Impulse? As for why people like us don't have XP, take your pick: -product activation (deactivation) -M$ tax -use linux for work, and browsing, and pretty much everything else actually