That unique titel still belongs to MOO3, IMHO.

All I really care about is WoM. I wanted a great 4x game that revolves around magic and still do. The more I hear about FE and even more future plans for the franchise, the more convinced I become that WoM will get stuffed on to the back burner. It might get some DLC, but I don't see the game evolving much beyond this point. It was incredibly painful for it just to get here. So it's hard to maintain faith in the present when the big emphasis at SD now seems to be something other than WoM.

Why should anyone put faith in "thing that are not alive?"

Right, it's would be silly to trust in something, would be wise to trust in living thing, not that thing that are not alive? Just wonder and help your mind to understand if your mind bear and willing to face pain of turth...

Huh, you must be going deeper than I can go.  I guess Trust in Stardock, as Stardock is made from people, just like soylent green. 

LOL, but ask yourself, if you had a dream that you do not want, where is those dream come from? Surely it's might not from your brain. my terrible spelling and grammar is no pain to me, in fact people mocking me of my spelling and grammar that make me so used it, so I feel no pain of people mocking me spelling and grammar, it's been like this most of my life, a terrible spelling and grammar people telling me about me, though some believe I can get better, but I pity them because I knew I might not get better of spelling and grammar. LOL.

Not mocking you. I just have no idea what you're saying.

That and I saw an excellent opportunity to sneak in my awesome new catchphrase.

Haha.  I am Athiest and anit-Drug, so my mind is only fogged by the possible genetic passing of mental illness from parents, one Bipolar and one Schizophrenic.  That is how you make a Xia...

i haven't played the game since the first official release(haven't even tested the new magic system since it changed).  i decided to wait until v1.2 to give it a go.  i have tons of faith in stardock and the elemental franchise i just wanted to wait until it approached what the stardock team wanted it to be.  i have just about forgot how to even play the game lol.  i look forward to playing it once again.  my only wish at this point is for them to get multiplayer working well.  i have a couple of friends that i talked into getting the game before it came out and one of them hasn't even played the game because of the lack of solid multiplayer. 

I think the main problem with Elemental War of Magic was that even forgetting all the bugs and stability issues, the fundamental game design felt broken and not fun. That to me was the biggest worry when I started playing the game when it was released, because bugs and stability issues can be addressed, but core game design is not easily fixed once a game has been released. I was expecting large scale tactical battles with dragons and other fantasy creatures fighting with/against armies of men, so I was very quickly disappointed, especially considering the complete lack of depth to the tactical battles.

Thats why I think it was a smart business decision to focus all the major effort on Fallen Enchantress, going for a completely clean slate and with a new game design reworked from the ground up. Its good for us existing customers, as it lets stardock make major game design changes to address the faults of War of Magic. Its also good for new customers, because when its released and if they did a good job, they should be able to bring in a lot of new business without the baggage of the previous game.

So all in all, ive still got no faith in Elemental: War of Magic ever being much fun, but I have hope that FE willl actually be one of the best 4x fantasy games I will have played.

Very true, Lords of Magic was buggier (for me) than Elemental was when I first played it, but Lords of Magic was far more fun.

Specifically the Special Edition (there was a patch for that which I never got though). It was better on older versions of Windows, when the bugs mostly just caused wierdness that could be removed by saving and reloading rather than crashing out right.