* BrokenBase:
** The Steam storefront page advertised that the game would ship with an offline single player mode after it got out of alpha. Fast-forward several months- the game has been officially released and is online-only. As of early September, the host servers are apparently unable to handle player traffic, leading to numerous connection issues and errors. Offline mode eventually came out in October.
** That the alpha cost an unprecedented 100 bucks on Steam and the final version launched at 30 has also raised some hackles. It was the amount that unlocked Alpha access on the original Kickstarter, but with none of the physical goodies.
** A decent amount of controversy occurred after the early access version of the game was released in retail stores, an act which many viewed as a money grab.
** Quite a bit ensued after it was discovered in a beta version of a build that a commander exclusive to kickstarter backers at $50+ and those who had purchased the $200 limited edition version of the game was being retextured and sold for $10 as a charity item. This was only worsened by the Community Manager denying that the model was identical even though users had access to the files, along with locking civil discussions on the topic and temp banning one of the more vocal forum members on this issue without warning.
** Releasing the expansion as a stand-alone game, rather than a free patch, was certainly contentious to say the least. Kickstarter backers got the expansion for free; but some of those paid a lot less than those that bought the game at it's initial high price range.
* FandomSpecificPlot: What if someone had their mind uploaded into one of the Commanders in the game and was sent across the multiverse? [[Fanfic/CommanderDrich The]] [[Fanfic/FaithInSuperiorFirepower first]] [[Fanfic/EscalationIsTheNameOfTheGame three]] examples of this story all have tropes pages.
* ObviousBeta: Quite a lot of promised features weren't available at release. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20231123233537/https://forums.planetaryannihilation.com/threads/missing-features-game-breaking-bugs-and-other-concerns.63014/page-3#post-980193 See this compilation post.]]
* SoOkayItsAverage: The game plays more-or-less like a bare-bones version of ''Videogame/SupremeCommander'' or ''Videogame/TotalAnnihilation''; it received lukewarm reception from game critics, [[DancingBear as aside from the "wow" factor from the planetary scale, there isn't much in the way of variety or depth]].

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