@Mike: Reading on the Deep Shadows English forums, it sounds like it was a bug-ridden mess (w/ obvious potential). At least one person said that it was buggier than Boiling Point when it first came out. Now these could just be a vocal minority, but since these were people who liked the game enough to do things like modding, I'm thinking it's likely true.
If true, we can hope the English release is just on hold until they fix things up. I just worry about the lack of Deep Shadows' involvement in the White Gold forums. They used to go in there and ask for comments and such, which I found very promising. Their sudden silence, therefore, is equivalently discouraging. And it bodes poorly for Precursors indirectly, I think.