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EMAIL IS OUT!

from Elemental Forums

 

  Dear Stardock Customer,


If you're receiving this letter, it means you purchased Elemental: War of Magic before it was released.

Elemental: War of Magic was a game we had very high hopes for. Unfortunately, it was a disappointment both to us, as well as to many of our customers. Stardock's success in its nineteen years of existence has been because people know if they buy something with our name on it, it'll be excellent. With Elemental: War of Magic we failed that expectation.

For the past year, Stardock has been working on something new -- Elemental: Fallen Enchantress. We went back to the drawing board to create not an expansion, but rather a new game in the Elemental universe.

Fallen Enchantress is currently in beta. Both the beta and the final version will automatically be added to your Stardock account free of charge.

Tomorrow, January 19, at approximately 3:00 PM EST you'll be able to download the beta version by visiting: download.stardock.com.

We hope you find Elemental: Fallen Enchantress to be a game that lives up to the expectations you had for War of Magic. We thank you for your support and look forward to your feedback.


Sincerely,
Brad Wardell - President & CEO
Stardock Entertainment

 

 

 

 

 

Now it's time to wait for the download to show up in my account!

 

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Reply #26 from Elemental Forums Top

Hmmm, my original email account was hacked and lost. How do I change it to a different email?

Reply #27 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting James009D, reply 26
Hmmm, my original email account was hacked and lost. How do I change it to a different email?
End of James009D's quote

https://www.stardock.com/accounts/accountsetup.asp?SDID=1&Hide=True

 

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Reply #28 from Elemental Forums Top

AHAHAHAHAHA.... so what is this, now!??!

I just got the email.

 

I truly hope that Stardock delivers what it set out to with Elemental:WoM. It was very generous to offer Elemental:FE free of charge to those who trusted enough and wished to desire new voices in the game industry to buy WoM relatively early in its beta.

I'm not lying when I say this: I had concerns with WoM from the start. Why? Because simply there wasn't anything equivalent to a clear rubric to demarcate the vision the designers had in mind for the final game.

What was the result? Unfocused, ad-hoc development. Features that were added because maybe "they seemed cool" but derailed other aspects of the game or stuck out like a pimple, unable to incorporate into the structure of the game as a whole.

 

Demigod was designed in much the same way. The final product turned out to be alright, certainly not as great as was advertised, but still that was fortunate. I suppose in some ways its style of game was more forgiving of unfocused development than 4X style game Elemental was panning out to be.

 

So, my LOUD, RESOUNDING ADVICE TO STARDOCK, IN BOLDED CAPS:

KEEP DESIGN FOCUSED TO A PARTICULAR VISION. ALL THE GAME'S DESIRED FEATURES SHOULD BE DELIBERATELY CHOSEN FROM THE START AND INCORPORATED IN AN OVERALL, FRAMEWORK DESIGNED FROM THE BEGINNING, ONE THAT MAGNIFIES EACH FEATURE'S POTENTIAL AND MAKES THE WHOLE DIRECTED TOWARDS A PARTICULAR GOAL, MUCH STRONGER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS.


WHY WAS DEMIGOD ONLY OK? WHY DID ELEMENTAL:WAR OF MAGIC FAIL?


BECAUSE BOTH GAMES WERE DESIGNED WITH AN AD-HOC PRINCIPLE THAT ONLY CONSIDERED HOW FEATURES WERE TO INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER AND THE UI AFTER THE FACT WHEN IT WAS TOO LATE


ALSO MAKE SURE USER INTERFACE CONSIDERATIONS COME FIRST, NOT LAST!!!!! THAT'S WHY TRUE GENERALS FAILED IN DG!!! THAT'S WHY ELEMENTAL:WOM WAS A MESS!!!!!


Thank you, and I sincerely look forward to your FUTURE SUCCESS IN ELEMENTAL:FE.


Reply #29 from Elemental Forums Top

Mine was ordered on... Monday, October 11, 2010.   :thumbsdown:

 

What if the world ends before next week rolls around!?

The cruelty is unbearable.  

Reply #30 from Elemental Forums Top

ok so my stardock account shows my pre-order purchase at PAX in 2009, no email. Checked my stardock downloads page, doesn't show anything.

Reply #31 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Mulfia, reply 29
 What if the world ends before next week rolls around!?

The cruelty is unbearable.  
End of Mulfia's quote
LoL I've jokingly pondered that while awaiting the final book of the Wheel of Time series. Will it arrive before the Mayan calendar ends!?! Or before the radical oligarchs rip our world apart with their imperialistic and fascist aims?!? I read the first book upon first printing, 21 years ago.  I've gotten every following book as soon as it was possible. Finally, after all these years, the story is just one book away from reaching a world sundering climax that has been building from book one. 

Reply #32 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Island, reply 27

Quoting James009D, reply 26Hmmm, my original email account was hacked and lost. How do I change it to a different email?

https://www.stardock.com/accounts/accountsetup.asp?SDID=1&Hide=True

 
End of Island's quote

Thanks, woot!

Quoting scyldSCHEFING, reply 28


BECAUSE BOTH GAMES WERE DESIGNED WITH AN AD-HOC PRINCIPLE THAT ONLY CONSIDERED HOW FEATURES WERE TO INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER AND THE UI AFTER THE FACT WHEN IT WAS TOO LATE


End of scyldSCHEFING's quote

Hmmm... sometimes an ad-hoc can be a refreshing approach and can develop into very unique designs (see most indie games). The problem is when there is a first time engine without enough background in designing a particular type of game (going from space to ground environments).

 

A company like EA would be a great example of planning everything out ahead of time and not really doing much else.

Reply #33 from Elemental Forums Top


I got Thursday, September 17, 2009 order date. Not bad :) Havent gotten my email though. Waiting tfor the right batch :)

Reply #34 from Elemental Forums Top


I just checked details. I payed $50 bucks. wow, what a ripoff :)

Reply #35 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting joasoze, reply 33

I got Thursday, September 17, 2009 order date. Not bad Havent gotten my email though. Waiting tfor the right batch
End of joasoze's quote

 

I have the exact same date, so apparently they haven't gotten to us yet.  Judging from that email, we won't need the email to get the beta, but a little reassurance wouldn't hurt.

Reply #36 from Elemental Forums Top

What a day of expectation that was :d And what a let down the release was..

 

And now they have gotten our panties in a twist again...

Reply #37 from Elemental Forums Top

You don't need the email if you're here already.

The beta gets added to your account automatically. You don't have to do anything.

If you have any questions, just go to the download.stardock.com page and check your WOM data.

Reply #38 from Elemental Forums Top

Downloading the installer at full speed.

Let's hope this goes better than EWOM...

 

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T'was the old game

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Reply #39 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting scyldSCHEFING, reply 28
AHAHAHAHAHA.... so what is this, now!??!

I just got the email.

I truly hope that Stardock delivers what it set out to with Elemental:WoM. It was very generous to offer Elemental:FE free of charge to those who trusted enough and wished to desire new voices in the game industry to buy WoM relatively early in its beta.

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Thank you, and I sincerely look forward to your FUTURE SUCCESS IN ELEMENTAL:FE.

End of scyldSCHEFING's quote

While I agree with your point that UI design should be included from the outset (and should be iterated on consistently throughout the process) I find it a bit amusing that someone complaining about bad user interaction systems chose to write what they thought was the important part of their response in a manner that is more difficult to read than normal text.  It honestly caused me to skip what you said until someone else made an interesting comment in response to you.  

Anyway, EFE's interface looks to be a major improvement.  And the best part is that we'll get to find out whether it is or not in about six hours.   \o/

Reply #40 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting maniakos, reply 38
Downloading the installer at full speed.

Let's hope this goes better than EWOM...
End of maniakos's quote

Are you sure you're not redownloading wom? No FE on my download page yet. I am eager to see it.

Reply #41 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Xan, reply 40

Quoting maniakos, reply 38Downloading the installer at full speed.

Let's hope this goes better than EWOM...

Are you sure you're not redownloading wom? No FE on my download page yet. I am eager to see it.
End of Xan's quote

 

Actually you were correct...

 

Reply #42 from Elemental Forums Top

I gots E-Mail :). Where me game? Bizzaro wants play game!!!

 

er...wait a minute, been watching too many cartoons, my bad. I did get the E-Mail though :D

Reply #43 from Elemental Forums Top

Sigh, you know I am really regretting now ordering when I did, on August 28 :-/ Can't even remember why I didn't preordered it.

Saddest thing is I was half sure I had preordered due to a mail dated on sept 1st with the release add (I'll blame Google for storing my very old emails).

 

Still, guys let us know how bloody awful and chock full of decease (singular, but of variable nature, according to froggboy's post) the game is :grin:

Reply #44 from Elemental Forums Top

Well I expect the game to fail at a lot of things. Mu curiosity is how much better it is compared to the first.

 

 

Reply #45 from Elemental Forums Top

illauna: nice idea to use the fallen enchanteress as an avatar. I could also do that since it looks very similar to mine.

Reply #46 from Elemental Forums Top

So I got mine on the 28th of August, but it still says [pre-order] in the invoice, so I should be getting an e-mail today? Do I need to e-mail stardock or something? Is there a cutoff date for what pre-orders count?

Reply #47 from Elemental Forums Top

I am guessing if it says pre-order, you are good, after all that is the cut off (as far as I understand it)

 

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Reply #48 from Elemental Forums Top


Wow, must say I love Stardock Central. So practical and straight forward. Thumbs up. Can't wait for the download to arrive! :D

(Damn, it's hard to live in Norway when Stardock follow eastern US time...... still 3.5 h to go I guess.....)

Reply #49 from Elemental Forums Top

The email that was sent out yesterday went to those who pre-ordered Elemental: War of Magic (purchases before August 24, 2010). If you did pre-order War of Magic and did not get an email, don't worry....be sure to check your "My Downloads" page at 3:00 PM EST today. The Fallen Enchantress BETA 1 should be there, waiting for you.