A long time ago, I tried some free version of the first one, and got bored of it.
So later he released another free one of Battlecruier 3000AD v2.whatever, got bored of that too. Plus it crashed a ton.
Got a friend to, erm... "lend" me a copy of BCM he "had" and uh, surprise, got bored of that too. And it ran like crap on my 1.3GHz machine when it worked fine on a 200MHz... yeah...
Got tired of the series and tried out Privateer and SE:Starfury, might not have been as expansive, but were a ton funner.
I like the idea of the game, but its just too overwhelming, I kept needing to pause the game and look through some help files to figure out how to do stuff. And if that didn't worked, I just kept pressing buttons until stuff happened. Some tutorial would've been nice since we all know how many actually read those manuals.
