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[quote who="Lonemessiah" reply="80" id="2862318"]And again all of your reply is opinion You have no idea how much it cost, or how many sales worldwide there have been. You don't know whether they have alienated a significant amount of core fans (especially in relation to how many new fans they got). In fact surely by appealling to the casual gamer they have in fact opened up their market? You don't know that many others won't buy the DLC, you only know that you won't and

Reply to Is Elemental enjoyable now? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="30" id="2862457"]Ah shucks... I'm going to have to say something just to get it off my chest. EWoM is not a 7 nor will it be an 8 when 1.2 comes out. Gal Civ 2 in it's final state is an 8 out of 10 and you're saying that EWoM 1.2 is going to be as good as Gal Civ 2? No freakin way! As a point of reference, I'm suggesting Gal Civ 2 is an 8 based on games like Diablo 2, Civ IV, Starcraft, World of Warcraft, and others being better than Gal C

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that could do great things for elemental??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Lonemessiah" reply="78" id="2862311"]I never said i agreed with them, I am just saying that those are the facts. Therefore you cannot argue that CIV5 was and still is a commercial success. Just because some people don't like the game doesn't stop this from being true. And as for 'big game reviews', don't you find it strange that people only like reviews when they agree with them? Wouldn't it also be easy to argue that people are far more likely to submit a review themselves when t

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[quote who="Kravick3" reply="34" id="2862288"]For me its a toss up between Fallout 3 fanboys and Civ 5 fanboys. But the Civ 5 fanboys actually made me not want to buy the game period, so I have to give the award to them. I stopped by the 2k forums a few months back asking how the game compared to Galactic Civilizations 2 since I had never played any game in the Civilization series. I ended up getting flamed by a bunch of people for daring to compare a

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that could do great things for elemental??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Lonemessiah" reply="74" id="2862300"] Quoting mriguy, reply 73 Which game was that? One of (if not) the best selling games on the PC of 2010? The same game that received 90% plus on the over-whelming majority of reviews from the critics. The same game that is still riding high in the charts on Steam and still one of the top played games on Steam. As I have said use facts, not opinions.[/quote] If you trust those big game reviewers then I have a bridge

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[quote who="Lonemessiah" reply="71" id="2862283"]I am beginning to feel that hiring Jon was a bad thing. Not because of CIV 5 (I actually quite enjoyed it, and will go back to enjoying it when i have the time). But because it seems that the forums of Elemental are now full of the sort of people that the 2k forums were full of. Maybe one day we'll all understand the opinion is not fact, no matter how strong that opinion is. 'Jon Shafer was in charge of a team that made ba

Reply to Who is worse, Fallout fanboys, TF2 fanboys, or Civilization fanboys? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="InternetNerd" reply="29" id="2862253"] Quoting gyrate, reply 22 Quoting Thormodr, reply 13Dale is absolutely brutal. I cannot fathom how he can moderate or help run the We play civ forums the way he carries on on the Civ fanatics forums and the 2K Forums. He certainly has a hate on for Stardock and loves taking jabs at Brad, Kael, Sullla and other extremely talented people. He also says ciV is basically bug free and calls people that have problems w

Reply to Who is worse, Fallout fanboys, TF2 fanboys, or Civilization fanboys? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="gyrate" reply="22" id="2862149"] Quoting Thormodr, reply 13Dale is absolutely brutal. I cannot fathom how he can moderate or help run the We play civ forums the way he carries on on the Civ fanatics forums and the 2K Forums. He certainly has a hate on for Stardock and loves taking jabs at Brad, Kael, Sullla and other extremely talented people. He also says ciV is basically bug free and calls people that have problems with bugs "liars" or worse. Personall

Reply to Stardock hires Civ 5 lead designer Jon Shafer in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="161" id="2862048"] Marketing Buzz is a factor. Yeah. It's actually a negative factor, as far as I'm concerned. Let me explain where I'm at: I happen to be a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan right now. Why? Because they fired the big-name coach in mid-season, who couldn't win anything. Their big-name quarterback who dated two big-name singers got knocked out, and then even their second-string quarterback got injur

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Sounds good. Downloading now. Well done Stardock. [e digicons]^_^[/e]

Reply to Who is worse, Fallout fanboys, TF2 fanboys, or Civilization fanboys? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="gyrate" reply="8" id="2861992"]I don't see how Civ fanboyz couldn't be the worst. They are backed by 2k which I believe stacks the deck using shills. These people are there 24-7 to post immediately if you post a dissenting remark. Most aspire to work there, are beta testers, or other types of coders. I found one guy who was actually a beta tester there. His name is Dale. He can say whatever he wants to you in response to your post, but when you reply back even briefly it is t

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[quote who="Domicron" reply="50" id="2861809"]Ah the old "fun" argument. That's great. I mean, great that you are having fun with your toy but it's incredibly boring to those of us who like to be challenged. In this case, the broken gameplay mechanics mean that theres really not much room for strategies; it's all "infinite city sprawl." This in turn has gutted multiplayer because it turns into those who know the strategy and win and those who are "just having fun" and

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[quote who="dizzymonkey" reply="11" id="2861334"]No offense, but I and a number of other SD game owners I know are not happy about this. Civ 5 was (in my own opinion and plenty of others) watered down to the point of embarrassment and effectively killed the Civ series for a lot of old time Civ fans. Alot of us came to Stardock games since they are still one of the few studios making strategy games that require a bit of thought. Civ 5 is by all appearances a big com

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[quote who="ArcElement2002" reply="25" id="2861326"]Thank you for your post, it's good to see some optimism here [/quote] Indeed. With the all star team of talent that Stardock has assembled to improve Elemental, I am very optimistic for the future. [e digicons]:bebi:[/e]

Reply to where did all the resources go? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Just started a game where I had fertile land, a crystal deposit, an iron deposit, the +5 tech thingee, +5 arcane thingee, a water shard and an air shard. All close to my starting city. Fun. [e digicons]:bebi:[/e]

Reply to How do you get to an island in War of Magic Elemental Forums

You can raise land with a spell. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] It wouldn't be an island anymore though... I do hope that they have all kinds of ships, harbours and maritime stuff in the expansions anyway.

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[quote who="MichaelCook" reply="113" id="2861027"]I asked John to get an avatar and he did. I did not ask John for the life-vest, he did that himself. John responds to the masses. Vote 1 John for President. No actually demote Brad to postcard reader and make John the CEO of Stardock.[/quote] Just so you know, his name is Jon, not John. [e digicons]:bebi:[/e]

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[quote who="bryanw1995" reply="157" id="2860977"] Quoting brycex99, reply 141Okay, this is kinda confusing to me... Civ 5 has been out for awhile now right? Thing is, I've only heard good things about it. Where is all this Civ 5 hate coming from? I actually haven't played the game myself so I have no way to judge, but is it just a few people that loved Civ 4, so no matter how Civ 5 played it was going to be bashed by these people? Or was it one of those.. 2 months later

Reply to Elemental'ists that own GalCiv2 in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I quite enjoyed playing GalCiv II with all its expansions. [e digicons]:inlove:[/e] I've also heard good things about Distant Worlds. May have to check that out sometime.

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I am personally hoping for that old school fantasy standby, chainmail bikinis myself. [e digicons]:D[/e]

Reply to You Sir are Called in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Bah! Young people with high metabolisms! Age will fix that. [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] Hee hee...

Reply to Stardock hires Civ 5 lead designer Jon Shafer in War of Magic Elemental Forums

All the cool guys/gals are coming to Stardock/Elemental. [e digicons]:bebi:[/e]

Reply to Who is the mysterious third employee? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Sadly I don't know who this third person is. [e digicons]:'([/e] However, it sounds like another positive step for Stardock. So welcome back, old employee person.

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that could do great things for elemental??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Glad to have another talented person hired by Stardock to improve Elemental. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] I wasn't happy with Civilization 5 but I think 2K Games deserves a lion's share of the blame there. Also, no one is perfect. Lord knows, I'm not. So welcome Jon Shafer.

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Elemental is awakening indeed. [e digicons]:inlove:[/e]