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Addendum - Starships on a tablet

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Hmm. I went on a short trip with my windows 8 convertible laptop (long story, my good win 7 one died).

I was astonished at how poorly the game worked with the touch screen interface enabled. It can't have been tested very well, because key buttons - like the ones to buy up the ship system you selected - didn't even respond to taps.

I'm wondering what's going on at Firaxis. When a one man shop like Zero Sum can produce both an excellent game and completely normal windows behavior, how come a place with years of experience on the platform messed up so badly?

Perhaps they are losing interest in the PC, and in the rich games that live on it. Although if that's the case, why are they doing so much on iOS and ignoring Android, which is both a much larger market and (in my experience) more attractive to high end geeks?

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