Working hard for months to release a product only to see all the negative responses has got to be really demoralizing, no matter how correct, well-intentioned and non-aggressive the feedback is.
To then work hard for a year constantly listening to feedback and delivering updates without further guarantees of success requires resolve.
And now Imperator 2.0 has been released and I have to say I think it is a quality software product and a robust grand strategy game. I can clearly tell a lot of effort went into the development of the Marius update.
I don't know what the team's metrics for success are, but I sincerely hope you achieve them with this release.