What the hell is up with Dominions 3???

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Gandalf Parker said:
I think that GalCiv is released under a different publishing plan. It doesnt work well for comparison. I know alot of game developers that dont want to go the big-layout/long-wait route.

Not initially - I mean some devs do not want to be slave to a publisher funding and marketing timelines.
I don't think it's the case for GalCiv, and would not for Dom2 either : in these cases the devs made the game as they wanted, and made it published without being publisher-dependent.
But I don't think there's that much people that doesn't want their games to be sold in larger quantity than they could just do themselves !