It's 3 months after we heard that it's going to take "a little longer" to get GC2 Gold to the European retail stores. 3 months is quite a long time in this fast-paced business, and long enough to ask will it ever come (or does it still make sense to release a European retail version at all, in business terms)?
Meanwhile the second GC2 add-on has been announced, which no doubt will also not appear in European retail stores, neither stand-alone nor in "platinum" (or whatever you call it version). Correct me if I'm wrong.
Looks like Stardock's and my business models are not compatible - a shame, for GC2 is a good game. We'll both survive it, I guess.
The only "add-ons" that have been announced since Dark Avatar are current PATCH v.1.61, and "near-future" (read: "in preparation, but we haven't reached 1st beta yet") PATCH v.1.7.
Now, in keeping with Stardock usual policies, the patches are about 10-15% fixes, 85-90% NEW content (no exaggeration), but part of Stardock's business model is that the PATCHES are NEVER available in retail, US, European, you name it. They are ONLY available as free downloads from Stardock, via the Stardock Central online service, for registered users. Its part of their alternative anti-piracy strategy, since they do not use disk-in, one-loaded-copy-only DRM.
There has been MENTION of a possible 2nd expansion down the road by Brad Wardell, in a fan site interview, but it is very unclear if that was a reference to a planned GC2 expansion, or a harking back to one of the GC1 expansions, since the title mentioned was exactly the same as one of the previos game's expansions. The context of the interview did not make it clear, and so far Frogboy/Draginol has not elucidated with direct commentary.
drrider
