DarkMere wrote: Its difficult to compete with other games that seemingly offer more and advertise more,
Exactly. It is not that hard to promise golden castles to get someone into bed, but to hold to your promises after that is quite a different matter.
In that respect, ED has build quite an impressive house, made a nice lawn, even planted an interesting forest ... and if some doors are still creaking, the water pipes are not finished in every single room, and some animals haven't yet populated the woods, well, that's a fair deal I guess.