Strategy First controlled access to players. Pub a box would not quite sit well with give away. You can still do stuff offline from the full install. Since you post your experience, I will post mine. Sysgate works fine for me. I get 40+ FPS online in all fights. I could play it on a 1.3amd. Lower FPS. Then again this week should be the dx8.1 with T&L with fps increase. Since it was coded to help the low end guys out early on, that problem is being fixed. Acutally looks pretty good now.
Back to the box. Done in February, with SF input, and I believe CRS thought they could do it, with the time. The gold ship date surprised a lot of the beta and from I have been able to gather, it did some rodents too.
I am sorry that I have a better experience than you had.
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