These guys can bugger off.
It is not that I did not enjoy the original game. But one day it just stopped working. It turns out there is a bug in the original that does not allow it to be launched from the Steam client and causes issues connecting in MP. It is a pinned topic on the forums (pinned by the devs) from 2014 with them “working to resolve this problem as soon as possible”. Except they never did. As I am one who was impacted by this bug with no apparent workaround and no response to support tickets input to the developer, I will not support their future products.