Demo Release?

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Yar, I'm one of those try-before-you-buy people. My experience with two Stardock titles so far, though, leaves me no doubt that GalCiv II will be exactly what I wanted. Plus, tech support doesen't suck either. I had problems on Stellar Frontiers, and they got fixed in a bare hour because of speedy e-mail tech help.

But, I need to know if GC2 will even work on my computer. My computer acts very oddly, even though it never has serious/active spyware or viruses, so specifications set aren't always accurate for it. It'd be awesome if you put out a program that you could download and run, that would say whether GC2 would work or not.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Nothing short of a demo would let you know that, if your computer acts so oddly (which, I may add, is probably something that could be cured with enough persistance ). They've said that a demo release will likely happen some time in March, since they've been focusing on the initial patch/bonus pack first.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
What the guy with the polysyllabic way of saying "eaten seafood" for a nickname said. From the IRC chat with Brad yesterday:

[18:43.20] (GreenReaper) (noodle) When is a demo going to be be released? (paraphrased)
[18:43.45] (Frogboy) Probably mid March.
[18:43.51] (Frogboy) Typically game development goes like this:
[18:44.11] (Frogboy) You go gold, then spend a week or two on a demo, then the guys go on vacation during the intial release.
[18:44.28] (Frogboy) With GalCiv II, we went gold, the guys took a few day soff, and then we focus on the BOnus Pack.
[18:44.38] (Frogboy) Then once things are launched, some of us will take some day soff, come back and do the demo.

- Ash