Hello
I have been following Grimoire for some time seeing that nothing much happens. Perhaps it is different this time, but I must say that I remain pesimistic till the game is really released (it this ever happen).I have seen the DOS demo from 1998 and it looked good (I have not played it yet, but I plan to do it in future). So it seems that at least something really exists.
I am afraid of one thing - the longer time the game takes, the more probably it will never see the light of the day. It gets less appealing to current gamers, developers wants to move on something else etc. And it can end up in never finished game ending on some backup CD in a dusty company archive.
Perhaps this will not happen with Grimoire, but if it is a real danger then you could perhaps think about releasing the sources to public and I am sure that it would be possible to finish it somehow as an open source project (just look on magnificent work Exult team did rewriting Ultima 7 in Windows).
Nobody wants you to prevent from earning some money on shareware (as I remember this is how Grimoire should be release), I just do not want that the unfinished game ended on some backup CD without anybody having anything (neither developers money, nor players game).
Perhaps you could give a thought to this.
Mirek