Sorry you feel that way Nehanski.  This is obviously not the game for you.  I was in the beta for months and personally feel this is one of the best 4x games ever made.  Kudos to Derek and his team.  It has so much depth and strategic possibility!  But to each his own, I suppose.  Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

It sounds like OP wanted the game to do some things, and the devs wanted the game to do some other things. If you go into this game expecting MoM or AoW, you'll be disappointed.

As for mods, check out my mod Stormworld. Its intent is specifically to add the missing dash of high fantasy to the game.

if you don't care then why are you trolling with these long posts?

Your loss Nehanski.  FE, rocks baby.

If only there was a way to post "I'm not going to dignify this by replying" without actually posting

I like icecream...

With sprinkles...

I have the same feelings actually, I wanted something slightly different in a lot of areas.. But oh well shit happens, I am pretty satisfied with the current sandbox, I just hope the bugs go away (Like heroes multiplying in the scenario, when reloading).

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Obviously, you're entitled to your opinion.  But this makes me think that you came in looking to gripe.  The games are substantially different.  

When I read his comments I understood it like nothing has changed between last beta he played and version 1.0. 

I was a huge fan of Fall from Heaven and Gal Civ 2, so it was an easy choice for me to pre-order War of Magic when I heard about it. Unfortunately, the game ended up being a severe disappointment to me.

So getting Fallen Enchantress for free was a big opportunity to hopefully get the kind of game I would really enjoy, but I didn't get my hopes very high.

Will I like this game? Well, I find it very difficult to tell at this point because the feedback around it is such garbage. One one hand we have the initial poster who is a bit extreme in this language, but also has a lot of points within his post that sound like legitimate concerns to me (specifically the lack of depth in the tactical combat for one thing). On the other side we have posts like what I quoted which doesn't do anything to address the points but simply creates a culture of "if you have concerns, then you are not welcome here."

I'd like to be able to just play the game and determine for myself how good it will be, but the 1.0 version crashes to desktop during the tutorial for me. That doesn't give me a lot of confidence about the polish of the game, even though the brief amount of it I saw looked very promising. It probably needed to bake a little longer before getting the 1.0 label.

I find myself actually agreeing with the OP.

The engine, performance, graphics and sound are all good.

The design choices that have been made do not lead up to a game that is suited to my tastes.

The one redeeming factor is the ability to mod.

Therefore I still think this game is a succes, I won´t be playing vanilla but somewhere down the line someone will make a mod that I like (hopefully something very near to MOM) and then i'll play!