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MikeFrank

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In one of the posts Johan told that some people have not registered any game they seems to own...I personally saw that I just forgot to register some of my games bought via GG thus I should do so in the next days. Games from AGEOD I own were simply registered on purchase via the AGEOD Webshop. Not registering games by myself happened in the last decade mostly as result of some negative experiences. Sometimes Publishers seemed to sold my email adress or any related info to third party companies without my personal allowance as I recognized.
But for godssake this companies were a minority. I own personally most of the EU or HOI series and now even some of the EIC or Elven Legacy and such else games purchased via GG.
And i am very satisfied with most of the games thus I am a good ole Paaradoxian.
I for my own are very satisfied with the PDOX support and community and PDOX is besides AGEOD and MATRIXGAMES one of the only games publisher whom I totally trust. I was in the recent past very often disappointed by some Publishers and their behaviour related to the hardcore community or even the modders (TW...) thus I do not like to buy any game from them anymore.

As one of the first AGEOD fans I hope for a better interaction between PDOX and PDOX France in the future and thus for more turnbased strategy titles...

greetings

Mike
 

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Did Magicka sell more copies than EU3 and HOI3 combined?

No, but its going to soon unless Johan can muster more expansions for EU/HOI :)

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How/where did Shams learn English (Americanish)?

Was it really that thick?

I was born in Iran but grew up in Scotland, so when we moved to Sweden and I started kindergarten I spoke English (Scottish?). So english was actually my second language. As I grew up TV/Movies were a big interest (American influence). But then again I've always been able to change my accent. I do a fair Russian, British, Irish, German,French and Swedish accent. Up until recently I thought I had a decent Scottish, but then King and Darkrenown ridiculed me mercilessly, so I'm done with that.

Ill try to do another accent for the next interview.

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When we can make Apple make bigger screens!

Use your vast corporate and political clout! I know you keep it somewhere, maybe in the EU3 Strange Screenshots ghost pages?
 

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Nobody from outside Ireland can pull off a Dublin accent, so i'm guessing it's a quasi-culchie one

It's very much based on Marty McFlys relatives from Back to the Future 3.

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perhaps then mount and blade 2 on the wii 2? :D

That would either be very fun, or very, very frustrating.

Of course, put it on the Xbox 360 with Kinect. Player 1 is the horse, player 2 is the rider.