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The game was not ready for release. In a few words : The AI is terrible, lot of minor bugs, no polish, no balance. It looks like a single player only Dom3... Not really the good way to make it fantastic.
It looks great, graphic design is attractive but there is lot of work to get it enjoyable.
But Civ5 is released in 3 weeks, Stardock probably was in need of money and the next time for a release would be in months...
So lot of disappointment, hopefully the players will not disappear the next weeks until work will be done on the game...