Thank goodness, because writing posts on my cell is awful!

BTW how can I update my avatar to add the founders badges?

Thanks for checking on this. The sooner its clarified it will likely prevent issues if discussion is to be included in the NDA or not.

I'm Jelly.  Hope I get an email soon.

Complete this survey to have a chance of being selected.

Quoting cepheus42,

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Any chance they can RESEND the email?  I pressed "delete" on my spam folder, and just before everything disappeared I saw the email stating I had been selected.  Sigh... too late, it's gone, can't get it back from my webmail account. 

PM me your email address.

Was the selection process random?   

Just wanted to chime in to let you know that I am super excited about this! Thanks for running this program.

Was it really necessary to post the same thing in three different threads?

Get people excited, launch a survey to select the founders then tell them they've been selected!  OH JOY!

99$?  Sure, I'll pay 99$ for what *might* be another SC3-type flop.  I'll pay 99$ to see crash before others.  Or I'll pay 99$ to help steer it in the right direction; 99$ for the honor of working for you, sure.

You got a great read on the crowd, there.  So many people are excited about this, you get to really milk the *silly cows*.  99$, that's like 50$ (at most; when you look at the content of today's 50$ games, there'd better be a whole lot more material there was in SC2) +49$ in DLC's??  And absolute faith in Stardock.  I don't say you can't pull it off, but there's risk.  Just look at Creative Assembly and Rome 2.  Planned DLC's, always a big plus.

Early access is great, but usually, the "privilege" compensates for the risk.  Now it sounds like you evaluate there's no such risk.

Seriously, I'm disappointed, to say the least.  Maybe I would've bet some money on you, but this "YOU WON A CRUISE IN THE BAHAMAS!"-type approach + 99$ asking price?  It's a sad, sad joke.  You deserve all the *jumping in front* in the world.

This is an awful start, but I still wish you the best.

I feel like maybe there was some confusion about what a founders program is - if you've followed stardock it might be more familiar (though this was the first I was interested in) but this was a game I'd definitely kickstart (or something similar) and the rewards are also similar. This may be a favorite property for many of us but it's definitely not a well known one to everyone, a cash cow franchise or a gigantic production company. I'm happy to give them my support and the price tag is worth it - a new star control after all these years seemed like a dream that might never happen.

Yes, thank you very much for the invite.

^ I would gladly pay more if Stardock would throw in a loot crate with posters, toys, a making-of book with concept art, production notes, etc.

Might be out of their area of expertise as this is something usually done only by bigger companies, but I would buy it without any reservations.