Navagon: This reminds me of that Chinese DK MMO. I wonder what became of that?

Wishbone: Whatever became of it, we won't get to play it, as it was East Asia-only, as far as I know. Not that I would want to.
I suppose in a way it is fitting that I'm posting in a Dungeon Keeper thread when I realize that my rep is now 666 :-D

wpegg: Nah, That level was easy once you learn't to grow forests (not the forest miracle, I mean watering trees). The water spell could provide about 10 times as much wood as the wood spell if you used it correctly. At that point you could just build loads of houses, loads of fields, and set loads of people to breeder. By doing that you could free the creature in very little time.
It was a much overlooked game, on a first pass people only saw the surface game, but you could actually train your creature in quite a detailed fashion. And you could manage your settlements into very healthy communities. I liked the challenge of building a large healthy village on level 4, without stopping the fireballs - only managed it once.

Wishbone: Yes! YESSSSSSSS!!! MOOHAHAhahahaaaa!
Seriously, it's about goddamn time. Maybe if this becomes a success, EA will finally get off their asses and do something worthwhile with that IP again. Release the originals on GOG, for a start.
They were an amazing development house. For the life of me, I will never understand how EA managed to kill so many of those off. Or why. You'd think once they'd bought a brilliant developer, they'd endeavour to let them continue to do what they did best. But no, the corporate line was apparently "buy, stifle, maim, blame and kill". How that could ever be seen as a sound business strategy is beyond me.