Well, my subscription expired. I've gotten two less
games than I was supposed to get, and I've gotten zero feedback from Stardock
employees since my previous post on this topic. I'm definitely not resubscribing
unless I'm properly compensated for this. |
Whoa, wait a second here. When you purchased Drengin.net, there was no talk
about games per month or anything like that.
I looked up your order. You upgraded to Drengin.net from Galactic
Civilizations for $30. You didn't buy Galactic Civilizations from Stardock
(Stardock didn't get paid royalties for most retail purchases of Galactic
Civilizations). We didn't have to provide an upgrade path to
Drengin.net for Galactic Civilizations users, particularly ones who hadn't
purchased it from us. But we did because we wanted to treat all GalCiv
players equally. I only bring this up because it means that you've spent
$30 with us.
And for your $30 you got a ton of games. We didn't mislead
you. You didn't buy Drengin.net way back when based on our intention to release
a game per month at the end of 2004 (a year after you purchased).
The only people, IMO, who would be justified complaining about missing the 2
games would be people who purchased TotalGaming.net this past summer. And they
will get those games long before their subscriptions expire.
For your $30 you received:
- Galactic Civilizations updates
- Galactic Civilizations: Altarian Prophecy ($19.95)
- World War II: Frontline command
- The Political Machine ($19.95)
- Robin Hood
- The Corporate Machine
- BaseGolf
- Discipleis II: Ultimate Edition
- ORB
- Celtic Kings
- Stellar Frontier
- LightWeight Ninja
That's TWELVE games. And some of them were brand new as they came out.
For your $30 you got all those games including Altarian Prophecy.
I'm sorry but I'm not going to just accept the argument that you somehow
didn't treated well here. You got a ton of games. Yes, we would have
liked to have put on two more games onto TotalGaming.net before the end of last
year. But delays are the norm in the game industry. All we can do is try our
best. If we had said you would get those games before you bought your
Drengin.net subscription, I'd be totally agreeing with you. But that's not
what happened. In reality, Drengin.net users made out really well. And you in
particular did very very well. For $30 you got a lot of games.
Now we're heading towards Phase 2 of TotalGaming.net which we hope will allow
us to get even more games on there: The phase 2 preview can be found here: http://totalgaming.stardock.com/forums.asp?MID=141&AID=65990