Xclaim, I'm from Bisbane and unfortunately pre-ordered the game. It arrived in the mail yesterday and I installed it then..... Have managed to play a couple of single player games, and grew quickly bored. The game is not that great even if it ran seamlessly....
Having said that, it does not run seamlessly. This is the clunkiest, buggiest, hunk of junk NOT WORKING game I have ever played. OMG I can't beleive it was released. The game lobby is garbage, there's no player stats visible, no pings visible, the refresh doesn't work properly. The lobby displays games that are expired, games in play, and games that are full, even immediately after refresh they're still there. It displays these games as not full though (Like 4/6 players).
When you attempt to join a game you sit there for about 5 minutes waiting in limbo, and then it FINALLY says game full, or game in progress.....
I tried for 1 hour today attempting to play JUST ONE SINGLE MULTIPLAYER GAME! Guess what? I could not even join one game. I tried in vain to squeeze some sort of value out of this game, and the only thing I can rate it on is the 10 minutes of gametime I got in single player mode.
Do not buy it! It doesn't have issues, it's simply not working. Broken. Junk.
I agree with bladen above on you selling a working product. Test your darn game before you realease it. I am so angry about the $50 I just threw away.... The game will now sit on the shelf and collect dust. This is not fair business, I also think you should be giving everyone a refund. I would not even bother playing this game even if it were FREE.
Now I have to cheer myself up by playing a game that does work : Company of Heroes.
I'll keep my eye out for games with the "Stardock" and "Gas powered games" logos on them and make sure I DONT BUY IT!