I beg to differ...I create my fair share of "this game is unplayable" threads the first week and they never got locked.  I'm sure as long as it is a valid problem and not presented in at "stardock is the worst company ever" fashion it wouldn't get locked.

Same here.

Failed for who? You maybe. The first update released about 24 hours after the game launched fixed it for most people.  There has only been 1 other public update.

You know what I get sick of? The entitlement generation. You bought a game. The game plays fine. The free match making in the game has problems for people who have connection types that weren't expected.

And the post is entitled "Frogboy = My Hero". Not GPG is my hero. What other game P-U-B-L-I-S-H-E-R would be out doing this? Did you buy Supreme Commander? Did you ever see anyone from THQ hanging around the forums let alone their CEO?  Do you think the CEO of 2K Games gave a crap that GTA IV for the PC had hideously broken for the first month? 

Why do you think people love Stardock? Because they are totally unlike other publishers. You'd almost think Stardock wrote this game. They are that involved. You can say that Stardock helped GPG with their P2P game by licensing Raknet (see the Raknet logo at the bottom of screen) but when things went sour, Stardock stepped up and has said "We'll take care of you." I can't think of any other publisher that does that.

btw GTA IV for the PC is still hideously broken for me. 

Compare Stardock's forums to the World of Warcraft and Spore forums.

At the World of Warcraft forums there are more "THIS GAME SUCKS" posts than any other kind. On top of that, Blizzard employees treat each post they make like they're taking time away from being Gods to mix with the mere mortals and underlings - it's almost as if they don't like their customers. They focus their community updates with talk on 'their vision' and 'their ideas' as opposed to actually talking to the community. Yes, Blizzard make some awesome games - but the LFG system in World of Warcraft was broken at Launch and it remained broken when I quit the game nearly two years later.

Spore is made by EA Games. Enough said.

It's hard to say whether Brad is just a great guy who works at a great Company, or if everyone else is just plain shit which makes Brad appear to be awesome. In anycase, Brad - if your reading - I think I have that same shirt you were wearing in your day 7 video. Just wanted to add that

Running Betas for patches is standard operating procedure - it's a good thing, not a bad one.

So far, I've been fairly positive, because it's mostly worked. Albiet with problems, but the game was playable. As of right now, I'm frustrated and a bit angry about the game, and patches that apparently break things.

Overall:

Bugs, that are related to Stardock/GPG:

It wouldn't extract. Apparently Impulse won't work with very deep directories. Also required a redownload after changing any of the directories.

Alt-Tab crashing, crashing in general.

NAT will when two players connect at the same time, not connect them, Leading to a lot of nil/unconnected players. Also, it seems to think players are still there after they have disconnected.

Impulse's GUI which has a lightning bolt for a main menu, requires right clicks even when in a mode which presents a lot of options, which LOOK like they are all the options for a game.

Achivements. Favor items. If favor items are enabled, roll the dice, and hope you have points. If you don't and the other side does...

Other problems, not Stardock/GPG's fault:

Cox redirects the dns for irc.stardock.com so chat didn't work until I overrode that today.

People thinking ping is such a huge deal that they'll kick someone for 125 ping or so.

Rage quits, and AIs that replace them being nice and easy to kill. (Though this overlaps with crashes.)

Things which are VERY good:

Stardock's communication, though I can't help but remember GPG early on having that level of communication about Supcom, to now just vanishing on their forums. (Granted the whiney nature after the countdown might have caused some of it, but official word from GPG hasn't really been heard in months.)Hopefully they don't do this.

All that was before This early morning, which added:

Update, which breaks the game, and forces me to reinstall.

Today, Straw. Camel's Back.

It's a fun game, I'm not going to ask for a refund. (Maybe some chocolate, because I'm a bit angry about it.) I hope that this will all be fixed. Frankly, I'd say Demigod might have been done, but the network was horribly horribly unprepared. There's no way to really blame the pirates, for the woefully inadequate. (Might be good PR, but it's not truthful as far as I can tell.)Part of that is due to how the Supcom/Demigod engine works with regard to the network. IMO, they probably should have kept the basic connect to everything model from supcom, and not forced the NAT facilitator. People figured it out port forwarding quickly there as I recall. Sure some people might not have been able to play, but it might have prevented it from being the problem this seems to have become.

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I'm not afraid to post this or anything. I just haven't felt the need to, until this morning. I think Demigod is a really fun game, when it works. On the other hand, I don't think Impulse is very good at all. Hopefully after it finishes reinstalling, the problems will be fixed, soon after. Hopefully I'll look back on this post and laugh about the early on problems Demigod had.

Very good and valid points, Deathstalker.

I like this newer genre of this RTS RPG. I first played it and I realized that it does indeed for you to plan out as well as having that fun 'tug of war' over flags and such.

This is my first game purchase from stardock, and even though it didn't start at first I was able to quickly find a solution via stardock/GPG.

I am very happy that theses guys actually talk and mingle with the community! I think it actually does the reverse than what schloob posted, It gives us the perception of more freedom to talk about probelms, because at that point we know that at the very least, our posts and thread are being looked at.

Not only to complain but to see all other customers and users that have experienced that are willing to wait and see that this gets fixed. That shows to me that stardock has a very high customer confidence placed in them. Unlike many other publishers that I can think of.

To answer ganKing, there are 'Betas' afterwords to test things and then get feedback from the community of what they like, didn't like, what balance issues could be, etc... It is very common practice. They seem to care enough to get preview of 'what may be', and so far they have been doing everything that they can to help fix this probelm by keeping us updated, releasing some fixes that hopefully has helped others, and by just talking to us with any other probelms.

I sent it because someone boldy stated in plain English that they have never seen a locked thread and there is one 8 spaces down the forum list.

I forget his name (I think it's Maliken or something), but the guy from S2Games is also very active on the forums and in game.

frogboy seems to be a great guy but i dont know him personaly  so  i5t seems saying he is a hero is a a bit over the top