Has Illyriad met your expectations?

Far exceeded my expectations.

WoW held me for about 6 months. I've been in Illy just over a year. Reason: metagame. I do so enjoy the way Illy is so flexible and open to interpretation. If it were just a war game, or just a trade game, or just a build game, forget it.

I always liked playing Civilization and Age of Empires so Illy seemed like a good try, being free and all. After about a month, I was hooked. No end game, the possibilty of user content, alliances and their operation, the permanent map. All these things and more made my head spin, but in a good way.

Recently my activity decreased due to RL stuff and for any ordinary game that would have been the end. Illy is far from ordinary, so here I remain.

Rorgash wrote: incomplete?! you expecting it to ever stop getting new content?

Not at all! I'm just unaccustomed to developers including content that serves no present in-game purpose, like the final two magic schools and some of the harvest-able resources.

Far exceeded expectations. The game is complex in the right way, the way that makes you think about your decisions, and the metagame is a remarkable and unexpected aspect I am really enjoying.

The only negative is how much of the game isn't finished. Not that I can blame the devs, as there is only so much they can do, but all of the incomplete content sitting in the game makes me more anxious and impatient than if it wasn't there.

You both make valid points. For example after looking through the faction page if you get super friendly with the Centrum faction the Barbarians of Kal Turikan will dislike you and might start attacking your armies.

if you ally with a faction that isnt liked by the faction close to you now thats a bad idea.. if the information we have gotten is correct still.