Nice review though I'm not so sure that WOM was much of a "hit" for you guys..

His quote:

"Elemental was also the name of the world in Stardock’s 2010 hit War of Magic, however this has almost nothing to do with that game."

Pretty clear, give the date and the link to FE in his quote, that he was talking about WOM.  

Don't get me wrong.  I'm not crapping on the review.  It's a decent review (and any good buzz for FE is good in my book).  I just thought it was worth mentioning.  Might be the only time anyone ever called WOM a hit.  

This couldn't be more true... 

It's good they didn't make the same mistake (in my book).

Hence my mentioning of it.  

good review

players postt hose, but I think big named sites don't have attention spans to check such a game..

maybe users could ask them to , though?

Reviewers are not who you want to ask about a game before you buy anyway.  Just check the Support section of the forums and look at all the reported bugs.  That's all you should concern yourself with when buying a game these days, because whatever problems do exist you're going to have to live with them until they are fixed.  The sooner that reviewers start to pick up on this, the sooner it will become a priority for developers to ship a higher-quality product at release.

Of course you know that some reviewers are horribly biased or incompetent anyway and that won't change.

It's still useful as a gauge of how likely you are to have problems.

Maybe it's a typo and he forgot the s.

When you have a good game, and the mainstream sites are too busy to cover your game, you gotta go looking.  Also, the reviews are important in restoring Stardock's reputation after WOM.   It's not a conspiracy against Stardock, this is just the busy time of the year for reviewers.

Brad has always taken a long-term approach with Stardock in general from what I've seen over the years, it's his nature.  This game is more about helping the sales of future Stardock games than what it sells on its own.  Stardock's reputation took a huge hit in 2010 between WOM and some other incidents, and WOM was a very bad first impression for many folks.

Ironically, Impulse might have helped Stardock out here, because a large number of newer gamers didn't even consider WOM because it wasn't on Steam, so FE is their first exposure to Stardock outside of the bad press of the last couple of years.

If you want to see long-term damage, look at how much of a dive Capcom's taken this gen.  That's what Stardock is trying to avoid.  And Capcom's a company that deserves the damage it's getting.