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Well, so far im disappointed.  I can't get a multiplayer game going.  I host and only 1 person will join in a long time, but that's ok it's one day before official release.  So i try to join other peoples games and just about everytime it gives me the connecting to players, please wait... window and I'm staring at it for 3-5 minutes.  The one game I did manage to join it says the host timed out for me.

One other thing that bugs me is the insanely long loading times when I click to log in.  Then when I click custom games or leave a search it takes minutes to even load.  It's like my game freezes for that time because I can't click on anything.  Now I have a very fast computer and I never have problems connecting in other games.  I host dota games all the time and have no firewall issues.  So what's the deal?  It just seems like the netcode is terribad...

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

It's because so many people are starting to play the game and it gets too much. It'll settle soon. It's been mentioned before.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

That really doesn't make sense.  If the servers can't handle the player population a day before official release then it doesn't make sense that it will get better over time.  The only reason I would understand the long wait times is if the same server was uploading to people that were downloading the game but I can't see that being true.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Gamestop threw a wrench in the works by releasing this early. The servers weren't meant to deal with such a huge load today. Everything will be back to normal tomorrow.

People need to learn how to be patient.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

As we had planned to only have the beta testers online today (before Gamestop's early release and the resulting tens of thousands of pirates shortly after), we're still running with the beta servers. The production servers were not scheduled to go up until tomorrow.