Hmm, ... I'm from old europe, and since several weeks I have the same imagination as you Oldstatesman.
In past I read the most of your, always substantial, posts.
And as I read in an online IT-magazine this 'company' in question (as a honestly salesman,
I have my serious problems to dubt this 'association' as a company) ought to be a multinational
german-ukrainian-russian-and the heck knows that else- thing, my paranoia grows immense.
Especially looking on the disastrous valuations of gc2, until the total ignoring of the success of the game
during last weeks, in german gamers magazines. I made my own thoughts about the reasons for that.
Otherwise I don't care really about these only subjective and
not measurable valuations of 60% or else to any game and because I'm a tight-fisted suebian I wouldn't spent
any dime to such magazines, for me thats always humbug, I always made my own opinion, why should I pay for good or bad propaganda.
From time to time I'm looking only in such magazines to see whats up with new game titles.
In shorter words, you are not alone with your 'paranoia' out in this dark, cold universe, with it's skin eating beings...
May be... im hearing the last decades too often 'Black Sabbath' and their 'Paranoid'
otherwise like Stephen King said it somewhere: '100 percent paranoid is 100 percent attention or interest'
Watch out...