Just signed up to quickly say that I've pre-ordered GalCiv2- something I rarely do. Here's why:
1. The game itself, duh.
2. The developers. They have a repore with us customers/fans. How used are we to faceless developers such as EA who release a game, patch it once, then concentrate on next year's version of the same game?
3. Anti-piracy. Or lack there of. You devs are real people who understand that we *do* genuinely lose CDs. I still remember spending 10 minutes trying to decode the "password wheel" used for the ancient game "Monkey Island 2" on the Amiga. And for all the money that other present-day developers pump into anti-copy software: at the end of the day, everyone eventually bypasses it.
I feel that my £18 are going to people who use money to pay for food, accomodation and maybe the occasional drink. Not some huge money-making machine.
...You understand what I'm trying to say here? That last paragraph makes it look as if I just called the developers tramps... It's a compliment, honest.
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