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Klvino [ORB] said:
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.
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Enron is a recent example on a larger scale, but Strategy 1st being a gaming company it reminds me of the shenanigans around TSR when Dungeons & Dragons was the 'Next Big Thing'. He was screwed right & left by people who wanted to live the 'corporate lifestyle' just like those dot-con guys a couple decades later. His wife was actually bargaining with 'her half' of his shares in the company behind his back while their divorce was in progress. Gygax own website seems to be down or inaccessible, but here are some other accounts I've managed to find:
http://www.atlasofadventure.com/Archive/gygaxfaq.asp
http://www.rubycovenant.com.au/viewt...?t=830&start=0
I imagine that something very similar going on at Strategy 1st could produce just those 'impossible' results of non-payment to developers
and bankruptcy at the same time. All the money would be going into limousines, 'expense accounts' for free travel around the world, salaried 'jobs' for relatives who never show up to work, and etc. just like happened at TSR. This is not looking good for MM.
