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It's good

Okay, it's a great game, one of the best in it's genre.
Why the negative review?
Because of the "Retire" button.
I thought it was something akin to the Mount&Blade retire option, where you get an epilogue based on your wealth, influence and performance. Wrong, it's a game over button, only worse. Much worse.
I expected the game to end, so I saved before clicking it, which was a smart thing to do because it's an auto-lose button, no prompts asking you are you sure or anything. You click it, you lose. "Well, that's why you saved, right? You can just reload and continue, right?" Wrong. The game misleads you by giving you the options to quit game and continue game at the lose screen, I thought to myself nice, I don't have to reload game. Wrong.
See, the game continues normally for the most part, except for the end - it disables victory conditions.
I was going after the spaceship victory but couldn't assemble it, after a short search on the net I discover that if you press "Retire" you do indeed lose the game permanently. A bunch of people had this "bug" where the "assemble spaceship" button doesn't work and I was confused as hell until I read someones comment asking if you pressed the retire button, it should be grayed out and it means you already lost the game.

So a recap:
The game has a "Surrender" button that misleads you by calling itself "Retire", not only does it not ask you are you sure, but if you accidentally misclick (it's right next to the "Options" button) on it you have automatically lost the game, and it will even take a step further by misleading you with the option to continue, only to tell you at the end "No-no, you can't win, you already lost" after you invested 10+ hours into it. And the great thing is even if you are aware of this due to having no prompt to ask you if you misclick on it you have to reload the game and if you haven't saved before, that's it. You lost. Permanently.
Doesn't matter how great your armies, how many victories you achieved.
No matter how smart and educated your population is, they will never see the stars.
Your civilisation? Your culture? Irrelevant specs of dust, you already gave up, remember?

I'm probably overreacting a little (or a lot) but having the ending soured like this left me feeling really dissatisfied (tried cultural and diplomatic victory too, I fulfilled what I needed but seems all victory triggers are disabled). Playing a lengthy game with a buddy can be fun and all but if he flips the table and starts screeching "REEEEEEE you lost REEEEEEEE I don't care about the end REEEEEEEEEEE you never won" it will just spoil the whole experience and because of some arbitrary crap.
Why even add a button that does nothing but disable victory conditions? There already is a quit game button and it works fine. Asks you are you sure, doesn't break the game, even asks you if you are sure. Was it that hard to implement? Actually no, was it that hard NOT to implement it?
I guess I should be grateful they didn't put the "Retire" button between "Save" and "Options" so it's easier to misclick.

Wow, just wow.

Game is currently spyware.
You go Take2/2K, you go.

It's nice

A top tier free to play game.

Buy it.

Yes