To bad for this what happened to IR, I did really enjoyed the game ( over 5k hours) , not proud on that number .
Was the game worthy of my money, hell yeah , 10 times if you take in account my invested time and i would say there is still some stuff to explore but currently i have no time to do it.
Can it be better,? Potential of this game i amazing but , pdx simply tried to do too much in one game or to say they did flew to close to the sun , what i see where was the problem is few things. Its not that someone should care on what i think and maybe someone already mentioned something like it (my net is quite bad on the location where i am so im unable to read all the posts ). Also english is not my native language so ignore the mistakes if you can. First thing is gsg are short with playerbase (worldwide ) and mostly who played IR are players from existing PDX games so transfering player from one game to a new one makes no extra revenue in long run. Marketing issues obviously, 1500 hard core players are most likely deducted from some other pdx game eu4/hoi or something else so marketing failure again. Next thing is... how to say this without insulting someone , testing team which failed miserably in 1.0 version if there was one . Now dont get me wrong with this failed, i dont know actually was there some compesation involved but if there was some, they simply didnt do a good job.
But again potential of this game is amazing , i mean what you can do even now is amazing, how you can play it is amazing, you want megacity , you want world , you want continent only or island only, do it , you want higlanders to rule the world, just go and do it, not a problem. I know that people didnt discover all the things you can do , hell, even i didnt and i think i knew a lot about the game , or at least how to " bypass " some parts of it and thats the magic which i liked about the game, find some workaround for game to be easier , one click changes everything in next 50 years . my point is , IR was my most played game of all time !