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[quote who="Badbonez" reply="12" id="3684560"] Polish doesn't make a developer money, DLCs do. Spending time on polishing a game costs money in staff time, so unless they sell new products, they are just spending money. And no one will buy a DLC that is just bug and UI fixes. There has to be new content, which means they spend time on that, not fixing bugs. Personally, I wish they would just start GalCiv4 and do it right from the ground up. It's obvious

[quote who="SilasOfBorg" reply="7" id="3680999"] I'm gonna keep voting for games that arrive in only moderate shape, as long as I'm confident that they'll get cleaned up afterwards.[/quote] Me too. I would rather have a fully flushed out product however I can forgive lack of polish and some bugs if I believe the dev's are going to stay dedicated to there game and patch it. That bein

[quote who="Ryat" reply="2" id="3684385"] This game will be polished for years to come. It still has a lot of planned expansions. And the devs appreciate any constructive criticism given. [/quote] I would be happy to buy expansions if the base game is fixed first. Whats the point of expansions if the base game is not on par. As the OP has stated on many points that the AI needs a lot of work. To add to his points the AI(if you can call it that) is too hard at start and

[quote who="Rovert10" reply="203" id="3413405"] Quoting NitroX infinity, reply 202 Renaissance? You assume it was at a low-point before Steam? I'm sceptic about that because I've heard the "PC gaming is dead" routine since the first Playstation came out. And I have not seen a single year that didn't have some good games appear. True, there may be an influx of developers but most of them seem to be the casual-gaming kind and usually don't last

Not true that 98% of gamers use steam . I have used steam in the past for games and quickly dumped it. It is a heavy weight program that is some what glitchy, intrusive, and annoying because it requires the program to run and an internet access to play the steam game in question. There are plenty of us gamers that hate <str