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[dennislp3]

It's a kickstarter game. The last thing I ever expect when I back a game is that it's going to be released in a timely fashion. :p

As long as we get a quality product in the end, I really don't care.

Thats the way I see it...sometimes I forget I backed something and when I get an email months later about a 1.0 release I am pleasantly surprised lol

[nenjin]

I wanted to get more involved in the forums over there but man....so many forums, subforums and topics! That's a big reason my attention swerved away from the game. If I wasn't willing to trawl the forums for info, I wasn't really trying to stay up to date with the game and just went into "wait and see" mode.

[gimli]

It's a kickstarter game. The last thing I ever expect when I back a game is that it's going to be released in a timely fashion. :p

As long as we get a quality product in the end, I really don't care.

Yeah, yeah, I guess everyone agrees on that. Let's hope that the beta test will go smoothly, since the devs are willing to listen. [..on a side note: I was beta testing many games, and the worst was the EWoM beta. Frogboy and Stardock gave no f*ck about any of our suggestions, so basically the whole beta process was all about fixing CTDs and bugs. It's funny that they finally released the game with tons of CTDs and bugs as well...as we all know it was a disastrous release.]

[ThtblovesDF]

While I don't like having to wait for gameplay because modding tools have to be finished, the screenshots and ideas in the dev-updates give me some hope.

[forsaken1111]

It's a kickstarter game. The last thing I ever expect when I back a game is that it's going to be released in a timely fashion. :p

As long as we get a quality product in the end, I really don't care.

Yeah, yeah, I guess everyone agrees on that. Let's hope that the beta test will go smoothly, since the devs are willing to listen. [..on a side note: I was beta testing many games, and the worst was the EWoM beta. Frogboy and Stardock gave no f*ck about any of our suggestions, so basically the whole beta process was all about fixing CTDs and bugs. It's funny that they finally released the game with tons of CTDs and bugs as well...as we all know it was a disastrous release.]

EWOM is the only game in the last 5 years which I have actually requested a refund on.

[Zangi]

What is EWOM?  I have too many acronyms in my life.

[Culise]

Elemental: War of Magic.  Kind of a total disaster, as gimli noted; they gave us the sequel for free in a desperate attempt to salvage something PR-wise. 

[gimli]

It's a kickstarter game. The last thing I ever expect when I back a game is that it's going to be released in a timely fashion. :p

As long as we get a quality product in the end, I really don't care.

Yeah, yeah, I guess everyone agrees on that. Let's hope that the beta test will go smoothly, since the devs are willing to listen. [..on a side note: I was beta testing many games, and the worst was the EWoM beta. Frogboy and Stardock gave no f*ck about any of our suggestions, so basically the whole beta process was all about fixing CTDs and bugs. It's funny that they finally released the game with tons of CTDs and bugs as well...as we all know it was a disastrous release.]

EWOM is the only game in the last 5 years which I have actually requested a refund on.

Well, Stardock acknowledged their error, so we -who bought the game at the beta phase- received all of the expansions for free. The latest expansion FE:LH is a decent game tbh, you can't even compare it to EWoM in quality. I would give EWoM a 2/10 and FE:LH should be around 8/10 on the fantasy strategy market.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah. Bad as Elemental was, Stardock certainly did their best to make it up to those of us who pre-ordered it.

[Nick K]

Agreed. I haven't bought one of their games since, but that's because none of them have piqued my interest, rather than that I feel cheated by the company. I'm not a huge fan of the sequel either, but FE is clearly better than EWOM and I appreciate them trying to make things right.
For fantasy strategy games though, my clear recommendation would be Age of Wonders 3 rather than FE. I played that recently and it really is very good indeed.

[nenjin]

I sorta regret writing off Stardock so thoroughly that I didn't pick up my copy of FE. Then again, so much shit changed from when I was last paying attention to them (they sold off Impulse and dumped their own forums for new ones) that it was going to be a royal pain in the ass to make good on it. So I just gave up.

[gimli]

For fantasy strategy games though, my clear recommendation would be Age of Wonders 3 rather than FE. I played that recently and it really is very good indeed.

Hm..I can't say that I prefer AoW 3. AoW 3. was extremely bland on launch, but it was much better than EWoM at release of course. Now with the latest expansion - Eternal Lords, the game is allright, I would rate it 8/10 as well...for some weird reason (?) I still prefer AoW - SM over these games. Sadly, the AI is mediocre or worse in all of these games, and since I never play strategy games online, it's kinda annoying.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Endless legend

[Retropunch]

Endless legend

Seconded, Endless Legend is very good. I did not like AoW3 at all really.

[gimli]

It's allright, and I must agree that there are some decent ideas in the game, but I don't like it that much. My biggest problem is that there isn't any magic/spell system in the game.