Keep in mind that there is heavy overhaul of game-play mechanics, coding, etc, plus a whole more that hasn't been announced. Based on what is likely to be announced in the future prior to it's release, I believe it WILL be a good bargain for $40. Just keep all of that in perspective. I will buy the game.

Why announce you won't buy it and you feel there is a lack of content? Leave the forums then if you aren't interested

I for one preordered on March 3rd when all we knew was pretty much the title

Seemed a whole lot more of ranting and hating than helpful feedback. A lack of sales in general would prove that this "price hike" didn't work. People have the right to say what they wish but I think if you're only going to be purely negative get your ass back to /v/, that stuff doesn't belong on the developer's forum, especially when they do actually read it. It's insulting and childish and won't actually help transform the game into a better experience.

The preorder bonus has been around for 6 months now. Clearly the game is taking longer than expected, Ironclad games was 9 people last I checked and perhaps not all of them are working on Rebellion. Why is it that with these larger companies people are fine with saying "have faith" when they know little about the game? Take Skyrim for instance. You have a ton of things that you need to take their word for, you have some screenshots, and you have ONE highly scripted video of gameplay (it's been played through multiple times yes). I think that's very little information, especially when the game has 50 days till release. Yet people are preordering that in droves. Don't tell me if Valve released a teaser for Half-Life 3 that was literally nothing but a video with the text "Half-Life 3" and a preorder went up with it that you wouldn't preorder it on the spot. Ironclad hasn't lied to us before, big companies do all the time (intentionally or not). Ironclad has stated all the features that are going to be in the game, take it or leave it. But sitting and complaining won't do much. And it isn't really "I haven't seen enough" so much as "it doesn't have what I want." Hello Kitty Island adventure doesn't have what I want but you don't see me going to the developer's forum and complaining (if they have one).

I've been with Ironclad since before the betas for the original game and I'll stick with them, they stick with us and they haven't let me down yet. Last year at my college I worked at our IT helpdesk and a student was having issues connecting to ICO, so Ironclad emailed our helpdesk in an attempt to help them connect (and in the end the issue was fixed).

Back to /v/ with ye

By all means, if you hate stardock so much, stop coming to their forums! Amazing idea isn't it! You aren't helping in any way. Although I did not realize that IC was not doing Rebellion. Valve's track record isn't that great, plus their community fights them every step of the way any time they do anything, and usually they end up shutting up a week after whatever they were complaining about is implemented / gets released. So basically here's the 3 possible things you can do: Keep being a baby, leave the forums, stop being a baby on the forums (stay here for the mods or what have you) leaving the people who are working on this alone, and either end up buying it or don't! But yes I love the UGH MAN STARDOCK'S LAST GAME WAS SO HORRIBLE I'M GOING TO STAY ON THEIR FORUMS AND COMPLAIN FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE idea. Absolutely brilliant.

For the record, while Stardock Entertainment is doing the heavy lifting in terms of programming time and art for Rebellion, we are working very closely with Ironclad Games on the project.  The design, lore, look of the new content, etc. all derives from Ironclad. It is a collaboration between both companies and have regular back & forth on everything.

Yes, we are working on another project at the same time. Rebellion is providing a lot more than previous expansions - both companies need to work together to maintain a AAA product. I feel confident we've proven ourselves in terms of the quality of our games and our continuous support. You can expect the same for Rebellion and all future projects.   

Where did I say Sins was a bad game or this expansion would be bad? I thought I was pretty clear that right now we have nowhere near enough information to make an informed, rational decision about whether or not Rebellion is worth the money. Right now, the information points to it being about $20 worth of new content based on SoaSE's own pricing history. Putting $30 down so you only pay a 50% markup on the revealed content to avoiding paying a 100% markup later is ridiculous. The ONLY reason to put money down now is purely on faith that Stardock can deliver a quality product on release day and are intentionally withholding information about the scope of new content, and their recent release history does not support that assertion. Elemental was a disaster and Diplomacy didn't finally shape up to its goals until the recent patch.

I'd preorder the game now if they'd just TALK about the thing, but I'm not throwing my money away blindly when the past releases from Starock and Ironclad both haven't met expectations. Unless the content of this expansion somehow doubles from what's been announced, it definitely won't be worth it at the $40 price point. If (again, IF) there's more than big ship, little ship, diplomacy2 then I can see it being worth $30, but the chance to do so is going to close in just over a week. By the time the price aligns with what I have every expectation the content will be, I'll have forgotten all about it.

Elemental turned out so badly after getting so much hype that Stardock has taken to saying as little as possible. They've forgotten that a game needs SOME marketing so people know what the heck they're spending their cash on.

Ya know, the blue skinned fanboi up there is being abrasive and offensive. That a dev and a publishing rep have both come on and given approval to his comments by virtue of ignoring them is a sour step in customer relations that is affecting more than just those who are vocal here. It's also affecting those who are just readers, too. Potentially quite a few readers, at that, since this thread has a link on the home page.

I won't lie, my opinions have been lowered, and I certainly won't be preordering Rebellion at this point, and ordering it at all is now a question instead of a certainty. And yeah, it's mostly due to this thread.

Sorry to see you leave the entire community, but good to see you leave the thread (no offense). Again I don't know how you view what you said as "feedback." It was quite literally just unhelpful and mean. I would honestly think you'd be the type of person to go on SPUF and still complain about L4D2 coming out too soon

Nobody is charged until the beta is released, so you're not being asked to pay for anything up-front without getting something tangible.

I'm not really sure what you are talking about?

Again, this was just to notify people that the discount was ending.  If you want to wait until release, hey no problem.