@gekkostate: I missed that cutoff date by a month, but I don't find it saddening at all.  If you're really curious about LH and you thought the past games showed promise, I certainly recommend getting it sooner than later.  While I buy very few video games these days, very few have I enjoyed in the past few years as much as Legendary Heroes.  A well-made game that has devs actually listening to its consumerbase/fanbase, willing to learn from its mistakes/shortcomings and polish their product into something wonderful -- This is something I almost never see anymore in gaming.  So I'd consider this money well-spent.

Agreed completely with the OP.  I've had a similar experience to your own.  Got E:WoM some months after release -- I appreciated and enjoyed it for what it did well (mostly for its great level of customization) , but found its bugs and other shortcomings overwhelmingly frustrating.  I certainly agree that it's come extremely far, and it's officially a solid game now IMO, fit to compete with anything other game out there.  I only hope they strive to take this series even further in the future -- perhaps add dungeons, sea exploration/warfare, more polish across the board (collision detection in battles (aka obstacles and arrows that don't go through everything)), more in depth diplomacy with a far better dynasty system etc etc.  I could go on and go on.

The people who got LH for free pre-ordered E:WoM. If you fall into that category, send Stardock support an email, I'm sure they'll get it straightened out for you. If you pre-ordered FE, then yeah, a discount is all you have going for you there.

So you didn't like the beta (shocking, beta is beta, do not play beta if you don't like unfinished stuff) didn't play after they patched and fixed the game, and wants a free expansion because it wasn't meeting your expectations the first time you gave up. Then after testing LH you liked it, and feel entitled to a free expansion. Am I right so far?

Okay... We all would like free stuff, but the world doesn't work this way.

I understand that too, but why pollute an appreciation thread with it? You can make your own thread for stuff like that. 

Elemental: War of Magic was the first game set in this universe. It was a poorly received game at launch, thus shortly afterward Brad Wardell (Stardock CEO) promised those who had pre-ordered two free games. And those who bought shortly after release (and thus had a chance to read reviews before purchasing) one free game.