I'm going to be locking this thread soon. I don't want this to turn into bashing of particular users or anything.

Like Sean said earlier, JU probably does have a right of center tilt (much like the blogsphere in general). But it's hard to really legitimately complain about that since anyone can blog there (your SDNET logon works there too and can create a blog in moments).   It's sort of like WoW where there are more Alliance players than Horde players. It's simply a matter of what msot people who choose to play end up choosing.

And one thing that I think sometimes gets lost is that Stardock isn't a normal company.  Virtually every PC game company (or console game company) that I know of is either a public corporation or a private corporation with many investors. 

Stardock is an anamoly in that I own it.  More than that, we are able to self-publish. So we have a lot more flexibility in what we do.  We can do things like keep releasing free updates simply because we want to.  We can put in far more features into the game because we want to.  We can interact with you guys a lot more because it's fun.  The developers directly talk to users and integrate your ideas into games.  And we have a lot of strange side-projects like a blog site or a customization community or a podcast  or a branded desktop company and so forth.   We also do a lot of unusual things at work (for instance, Stardock closed last Friday to go see Spider-Man 3 -- 40+ people just going to the movies during the day). 

In short, while we are a business and business is there to generate income. We factor in trying to do things we enjoy and believe in into that equation.  We aren't striving for optimal profitability but rather maximum freedom while still being able to be profitable. 

In other words, it's kind of like a hobby that just got out of hand.   But we do care about you guys a lot.  Your approval of what we do means a whole lot.  The free updates we do are driven largely based on wanting to please our users. 

Sorry to ramble but I guess my point is that anyone trying to relate Stardock to a traditional business is not likely to find the two very analogous.  I've seen people on-line over the years try to put together convoluted business justifications for what we do (I mean heck, why does JoeUser.com even exist?).  But often it's just driven by wanting to make cool stuff that people will enjoy.

It's kind of like a hobby