This is awesome news man, I have never heard of such an offer.  I mean, two free expansions for free, that's KRAZY!!!   And yet, I can see how it makes sense business wise, entice customers to buy early so as to establish a nest egg for future development or whatever.

But surely we gamers have not grown so cynical as to suspect that 1.1 will be an "expansion."  Come on guys let's not be paranoid.

Just to avoid any misunderstanding (to all the people asking in this thread):

1.1 -> Free patch which leads to the final version of E:WoM and will be the basis for a demo.

1st expansion: Addon which will be free for everyone

2nd expansion: Addon which will be free for everyone who purchased E:WoM until the 31st of october.

Further expansions: ...will follow because Brad is addicted by its own Elemental universe.

I think there will be more than enough support for the game in the future. I am not afraid. Stardock isn't called Activision. And Brad isn't called Bobby...

Thank you JeffSteel and Tobear for clearing this up for me.

I wasn't being cynical, merely misinformed.  Whether that was because others were also misinformed, or I read something into certain posts that I shouldn't have, I can't say, but I'm leaning towards the latter.  Pretty heavily.

Account merges can be problematic at Stardock.  To this day, I stilll have to enter in GC2: Dark Avatar reg manually if I reinstall.

I'd definitely make sure your reg is there with Stardock (you can get an autoemail from support from within Impulse listing all your regs- it's the question mark on the top right, then look up serial number), and save that just in case, so if there's a problem you can be hooked up.

Any Word on a new Manual?

Doesn't matter how many free expansions you give me they won't get played unless I can understand the New Interface ... Cuz ya know i have completely given up trying to understand the old one.... Even though some people have put together a really nice faq, I still need a Manual or even at this point I would take a long tutorial readme. I know I'm in a minority here but I don't like to push buttons just for the sake of pushing buttons.... for example I still don't know how to access the new city screen because no where is it stated where the button for it is....

so for now the game is Installed, Patched, and NOT being played

Am I an idiot? Maybe, Maybe Not,

I understand that every game has a learning curve but come on a little help Manualwise from the experts (who made the game) would be the best freebie the company could give me at this point....  

Yeah, I know how it goes. Boy meets game, boy dumps game. Boy then hooks up with game's sister only to find out she's even more of a lying skank.

Many of these updates sound like they will be wonderful and I will certainly be looking to enjoy these goodies when they do hit.

I think the new emphasis on citizens will be very helpful in the spamming of cities etc.  

Question: Are there things that will be done to improve the end game scenarios in the near future?  I always feel like after turn 500 or so, it begins to get harder to determine what to do to actually win the game.

Also, Elementum?  How does one actually get this element in the game.  I always get to this point where I have soldier types that need this to be created but have never seen the resource in my games since some time abo.

Hey, I haven't complained about anything since the game came out. I really don't like this particular thing, the same way I don't like it in Civilization. It is not a silly matter to me! It's not going to make me hate the game obviously, but it is going to kill immersion for me.

SWEET! Muchas Gracias. Very cool.

Sigh, ok, guess you've got me.  Been following this game anxiously since the start of summer, but waited to see reviews first for confirmation and now... still waiting to hear this game has been polished into what I'd been hoping for.  Even if I wonder how that works from an economic standpoint, enough of a deal to get me to cave and go buy. 

That said, how exactly is confirmation of purchase date handled?  Specifically, if I'm going to buy, might just order the (apparently not too) Limited Edition; however, would do so off another site (Amazon) where I can get free shipping and save a chunk of change.  It obviously wouldn't be in my hands to register in the next couple days and not directly purchased from Impulse for your records there; would this exclude me from eligibility for the free expansion despite having actually purchased it prior to the deadline?

You see that's why I'm not too bothered by the poor state of the game at launch, I pre-ordered and was part of the beta so I just see this as an extended beta. I can fully understand why those who didn't want to take part in the beta would be upset about the launch. But we are where we are, Stardock have aknowledged their mistake and are making a pretty substantial gesture to those who suffered the poor state of the game at launch you can't say farer than that, (they also will give people who don't want to wait for patches their money back so lets move on and enjoy the goodness or call it quits and play something else).

Myself I'm sticking around becaue I like Elemental and like even more the game it's becoming.

Overall I much prefer games with tactical combat versus instantous combat, although this game and some others with tactical combat have trouble working with ranged units.  In the Disciples games Wizards are almost useless in quick combat compared to actually playing it.  This game, archers amd Catapults are iffy, I had a stack of peasant consistantly bet incoming catapults with the AI.  At first I did quick combat figuring I was going to get slaughtered and my peasants won and the kept winning v incoming catapults, the peasants should have got slaughtered like wolves v sheep. I would generally like to see a more aggressive computer AI in tactical combat games in general this one included.  What I miss about master of magic, is the computer was aggresive on impossible and surviving for 30 minutes in some games was a challenge.  You are shifting away from your original focus about micro managing when you first created this game, you were against it  you are shifting towards it.  I do like it enough though to try some of your other work like Galactic Civilizations II.  0000000000000..................