Aside from reviews and the banners of Shrapnel-aligned websites, I haven't seen ads for it.
But with this latest revelation about Strategy First.. One word comes to mind:
Enron
It actually reminds me to the dot com bubble burst too. I had a huge number of friends who had a 3rd party handle advertising on their site and paid them for those banner placements and then refused to pay the fees to the web master citing bankruptcy. Nearly all of them are website-less now or struggling.
As for GalCiv2, The reviews I saw of that game and the screenshots provided in those reviews are two seperate things. I felt like I was listening to a bible thumper in the reviews. I would give a game more serious consideration if it had a harsher, more realistic review. Hell, if I could I would give them. I'm yet to see a copy of GalCiv outside a last-chance, dent'n'bend bargin bin
I'm also yet to see more than one copy of the game at the same time in the same store.
This is the only time I'm glad bush's new bankruptcy law will prevent a company from escaping its debts.
And God, Satan, and Dick Cheney forbid that SFI Screws MM, and they'll be hell for them to pay from all of us.