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Originally Posted by Viper2000

Personally, I think it might have been more honest if the sim had been released as a cheap paid beta, with a cheap upgrade to the full version for those people who bought the beta. That way we would probably have avoided some of the angst, and a lot of the bad reviews.

In any case, I suspect that there are a lot of people out there who will suddenly return once the patches take us to "finished product" levels of quality.

+1 on the first paragraph and I hope you're right on the second.