Yes I will.   It depends on the games mostly.  I'm not interested in gal civ, sins, or elemental.  I realize they would have more control of the game if they developed it.

If they were to publish demigod 2, I'll buy it right away.

Honestly?  Yes, I am less likely.

Probably not.  Stardock promised us a Sins ladder and matchmaking "in the very near future" over a year ago and never delivered- seems now like it was an EA-type marketing snipe for the Entrenchment release.

Impulse is alright, but it's inferior to Steam and the fact that Stardock games go out of their way to block Steam Community functions from being accessed ingame (yes, even with changed hotkeys) is a page right out of Microsoft.

And while I'm very happy with Frogboy's community updates, finding a functional Pantheon game still takes me about a half hour of retries and restarts every time.

Elemental LOOKS fantastic- reminds me of the Dominions line of Illwinter games that never got the love it deserved- but I'm not willing to suffer through EA and Microsoft tactics for a product that barely functions.

Why is this question centered arround stardock products? In my eyes is GPG responsible for all problems beside the connection. And that the connection problems can't be solved in a week is understandable.

BUT I would really avoid GPGs games if they don't deliver what they promised.

E.g. at least 2 demigods! While I would even stay away from them if they only support demigod for so long that they only do to the script what they promised. Means 4 demigods should be in.

While the release and first month of connection hell were pretty horrid they are getting things back on track now, so I don't really see why I wouldn't buy an SD game if it is one that interests me.

And Elemental looks pretty amazing, so I'm quite sure I'll be buying it.

I will definetly buy more Stardock stuff. In fact, I already have. Elemental and ObjectDock+ FTW!

huh? stardock doesn't make demigod. 

don't you mean vivendi, thq?

It's episodic, *and* full priced

Simply put....

I will never second-guess purchasing another product that has the Stardock name attached to it!  

Why?  

Because I'm a fanboi

Why am I a "fanboi"?

Simple really.  They (unlike most other publishers) actually stand behind their products 100%.........100% of the time.  No exceptions.  That gets my vote 100% of the time.    

the Monk

stardock did not make DG GPG games did and i will think twice before buying a game from them. stardock has my respect due to the only time you could point the finger at them was last saturday fiasco

Stardock provides quality customer service and has a great distribution platform. i would buy from them again. 

GPG is a talented design studio that has made some mistakes on some of their products. i feel no particular loyalty to GPG because they're so hit or miss. from GPG i'd buy the product if i wanted it, the GPG name-tag on a product isn't gonna convince me to buy it though.

but with Stardock i feel confident that buying a product PUBLISHED by them means i'll get the best support in the industry and an open communication channel with the CEO of the company who publishes and distributes the product. thats what i love about Stardock. 

Stardock is a good company, this game just failed. It's fine, a company can't be perfect ALL the time. See Space Siege.

but who failed, GPG as a game studio or Stardock as a publisher? SD can only be blamed for the multiplayer part, and though yes it sucked they ARE working hard on it. combine that with the reason it failed (something that was only 50/50 testable) I think Stardock failed at nothing, they just made one bad choice (being Raknet). So your comment needs a bit of nuancation, and I bet that's not an english word