Will We See Changes?

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I've been playing on and off since the game came out. I love the game and will continue playing it, but I have to ask:

Should we expect to see GPG continue adding Demigods and Maps as well as constantly reavaluating game play and making balances? This isn't a rant thread. I'm just curious because there are some things that I saw as problems when the game came out and they really haven't been changed at all.

Anyways, I'm hoping people will respond with "No, because..." or "Yes, because..." and not turn this into a "GPG SUX" or "WTFNOOBGAMEISPERFECT!!!" thread.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Stardock says: Yes, somewhat.

  • Impulse Updates: Very Likely
  • BugFix patches: Likely
  • New Demigods and Maps: Less Likely

If you want to help out and help make these things sooner, then I suggest helping out with the UberFix. The UberFix is a Community Patch collection which works to fix bugs in Demigods (not game balance). Frogboy has said that he will support adding it to the Demigods updates. Our job would be to make it as erfect as possible before they add it to the mainline patch.

GPG isn't making any money off the updates they would do. Furthermore making Demigods and Maps is extremely expensive (~$10k) given the large number of programmer hours they have to spend on it. Therefore they are unlikely to put in lots of money into it, because they aren't getting anything out of it. If Demigods had a huge popularity resurgence, then GPG would be getting more money for selling more copies of Demigods. If this happened, they would be much more likely to make more content (Maps & Demigods). So our best hope for getting new content is increasing the size of the Demigods community.

Stardock funded most of the post release Demigod programming. Brad has put a lot of money into Demigods because he supports his products. However, like GPG, they aren't making very much money off of Demigods anymore. Therefore it is hard to justify (other than a tax write off) more content, without something to make up for the loss. It would be akin to your boss telling you that you have to work all this week, but not get paid for your work.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Is there any speculation as to the release of newer Demigods or maps in an expansion?

And thank you for your reply. :)

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

This has been conclusively excluded. There will be no expansion.

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

I would actually be very surprised if there was any further content or updates, including patches.  I believe that Stardock has moved on, and certainly GPG has.  A shame really, since the core game and gameplay are quite good.