......It did get fixed. Its not perfect but its very playable now. And if you see such tremendous potential then don't you think its worth the wait? At least checking in every few days to see if they fixed it (which IMO they have)

Given the improvements from Day -1 to Day 6, I'd say they've been doing pretty well.

Or they'll go back to DotA, or curl up in a corner and cry - any way you look at it, we all win!

(Seriously - is exercising patience a lost social skill?)

He was referring to content patches as well.

Who says we'll get more skills added to demigods or anything, or improved functionality for some of the current skills?  Or some of the worser items reworked?  Only thing we've been gauranteed is 2 new Demigods.

Theres lots of ames where you hope for future support, or it's even promised, and you don't get it.  But it's not like I returned my copy or anything.

Nothing but good things to say about stardock.  They stand behind their product and they have taken a LOT of my cashola over the years.  I fully expect them to get this fixed in short order.  Given my past experience with this company, I think they've more than earned a bit of leeway, especially given the situation with gamestop and all.

/signed. I have nothing but good experiences with this publisher so far. One of the few I might add.

All I am saying if it was as simple as simply patching the game, they would have done it BEFORE they released with so many problems.  Now they face an uphill battle because they got crappy reviews, rightly deserved, which will no doubt turn off many potential buyers, even further reducing the incentive of putting lots of effort into quality post-release patches. 

If more companies would take Blizzard's approach of "not releasing a game before it is done" this would be a non-issue.  Nor am I referring simply to online connectivity for those who claim that all problems have already been fixed.  This game has major balance issues/ai in pantheon/exploits/lack of single-player content/online issues/etc. 

If these guys are as good as everyone claimed, why were things not ready to go from the beginning?  Is this just how the industry is these days - we should be happy to buy a game & put it on the shelf for three months before we should actually expect a "full game experience"???  What are you all going to say if this game has nothing new in 3 months? 

Stardock NEVER abandons games. We still support online games for The Corporate Machine and that was 8 years ago.

We still do free updates to Galactic Civilizations II.

We don't look at our games as a product alone. We look at them as a service.  

There will be new updates to Demigod not just this week but probably next week and probably the week after that and the month after that and the month after that and so on.

Our first goal, of course, is to make it so that people with internet connections we weren't familiar with can connect to each other and of course connect to other players. That is what our goal is for this week - make sure people can connect fine.

Once we do that, we can start to talk about things peopel would like to see. New items, balance changes, new features, and so on.

As someone who's been with Stardock since The Corporate Machine and owns almost all the game titles, I can attest to these words. I mean, hear's Frogboy, CEO of the company, telling us these things, answering your questions. I don't know any other CEO of a game publisher/maker that interacts with the community on this scale.

And if in doubt, you need to see what they added with Gal Civ II's second expansion, when they added UNIQUE tech trees for EACH race.

Stardock is VERY responsive to the community, they listen and implement changes in a timely manner.

Jorune

I've been really content and impressed with how Stardock has dealt with their games old and new. I believe DG will get at least as much attention as their other games did, they're just more focused on fixes right now than on add-ons... Which makes a lot of sense.

I think all these topics need some cheese wth their whine.