Most of us already bought it

Buying the game now (and therefore getting access to the beta) doesn't mean you have to play it now. And it's not like you are 24/7 working, huh? Come on, the beta is not so bad as Frogboy claims. Just worse.

Now let's talk business:

• Civilization V on Impulse without regional restrictions.
• Civilization V without Steamworks* or similar... fertilizers. Could you use GOO? *points at Stardock*

I know it doesn't depend on you and the 2K forums already have threads about this but just putting some totally unnecesary pressure on a totally innocent man in a totally unrelated forum in a partially related thread. Good luck with Civ V in any case.

* Express to not buying the game. Sorry folks, but although you all deserve the recognition and money for your work, Steamworks is a no go. I wish executives were to accept DRM in their expensive cars equivalent to the DRM used in their games.

Mmm, well better have you concentrated on Civ V Btw, is the Civ team going to be in GDC?

You really remember me to some person ¬¬

But please, no King's Bounty, that's a pretty different type of game, if you want that ask Nival or Ubi for HoMM 6.

I'd be way more impressed if the game was actually played like that video, wouldnt that be awesome??  interactive board games... hmm, I'm gonna be rich

yea, no KB. More like Dominions! FTW!  

I wonder if you are the same person or it's just that King's Bounty brainwash players that plays it... In King's Bounty you can only have 1 hero, while here you will be commanding several of them, each one with each own army, you will be researching technology and spells, building cities, etc.

King's Bounty is far more simpler than Elemental in scope, which doesn't mean it's worse, is just that is a totally different type of strategy game.

But it has pretty animations.

There will be a few of us there, but I won't be attending.

Jon

I'd love to see Stardock making a Civilization game, A 4000BC to 2050AD, human history game. Firaxis need some competition, and I'm sure the Frog would make the greatest Civilization-like game ever seen, and he would really love the task.

Perhaps call it Frogboy's Empires or something. It's my dream for the next Stardock game.

That said, I love Firaxis, Sid Meier, and the Civilization games, but we can't get enough of this genre. Actually we are starved to death when it comes to games like these pearls.

Or better yet, another version of Alpha Centauri.  Sure, Alpha Centauri didn't have the best of best gameplay (though it was still good), but it had firm philosophical and intellectual roots that made the game stand alone.  I remember my father and I made a CD of all AC's quotes and we'd listen to them to spur conversations on long car trips

I enjoy real time 4X, when it's done right. In fact I enjoy it more than TBS in any kind of multiplayer because I finish most of my turns in under ten seconds. Waiting for the guy who plays at 2 minutes a turn is more difficult.

Thank god. No seriously. Someone that has passion for their work rather than viewing everyone as their competitors and enemies. That's a rare attitude in our ultra-super-competitive world we live in.

As far as "competition" between these games goes, there is a large number of people who will buy Civ 5 who never heard of Elemental. Civilization is in its own class when it comes to brand awareness. I'm not saying that it's great for Stardock that Civ has such comparatively wide awareness but a Civ 5 purchase does not really equate to a lost sale of Elemental. Of the people interested in Elemental who are also Civ fans I suspect a fair number of people will end up getting both Civ and Elemental.

Personally, I'll probably get Civ eventually but I have no real desire to jump in on day 1. Perhaps it is due to my undying love of Heroes of Might and Magic 2&3 but I largely prefer fantasy settings to the historical setting that Civ provides. I actually think the problem I have with Civ is the fact that the "realistic" setting clashes with the idea that my ten thousand year old avatar of Ghandi is fighting spear wielding warriors with nuclear submarines in 1832. I do get over that eventually but I prefer my timescales and events to feel a little less abstract.