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I preordered this game tonight at the 11th hour. I always love trade and city sim building games. I am guessing this is like Port Royale 3.

I am hoping for the best.

Im hoping for a good trade/build game aswell. Been a while since I played anything good enough to swallow me :-)

What worries me is that games theese days seem to be released with more and more bugs, some even at beta level. Soooooo, im hoping this game will have few bugs :-D

Well, games get released with bugs because, most times when there are closed beta chances, majority of people use it to play the game for free.

I like how steam does the green light thing, I wish all developers did this type of thing for all their games, pre-order it, you get into the alpha and betas and then you get the game, atleast then people invest in it and so need to make sure they do something, other then just play it. you know what I mean?

yea, I get ya meaning, but it has to be company's that want to listen to the testers before it works good :-)

Well, most if not all companies tend to have this ego problem where they can't even admit to themselves, let alone everyone that there are consumers that know more about making a good game then someone with years of experience.

I thinks it's less an ego problem and more a lack of communication between knowledgeable consumers and game designers. The current system of beta testing is bordering on archaic and obviously not giving successful results.