Demigod Launch Let You Down? Stardock Offers Free-ish Stuff as Apology
Posted 05/22/09 at 10:52:21 PM by Nathan Grayson
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In the beginning, Gas Powered Games created RTS/RPG hybrid Demigod, and all seemed pretty good. However, fittingly enough for something called Demigod, the game’s launch was far from perfect. Servers gasped and sputtered under the weight of literally hundreds of thousands of pirates, and legitimate customers just got a big, fat Out of Order sign for all their troubles. Thankfully, publisher Stardock promised a few goodies to those who weathered the storm, and now, the developer’s delivering.
First up, Stardock’s mailing out discount coupons that knock 50% off the price of a second copy of Demigod. You know, for friends or family. Something like that. At the very least, that’ll grant you the opportunity to tell said recipient of your miserly gift about how, back in the day, you paid full price for Demigod and walked 15 miles through unstable servers to play it. And you liked it.
There’s a catch, however: the clock’s ticking on this coupon, and it finishes “early next week.” Really though, it’s not like you’re making a tough decision or anything. Demigod, Demigod, or Demigod – which is it gonna be?
Don’t start badgering Stardock into apologizing for their apology just yet, though. Next week, the publisher’s sending out a second batch of apology coupons, this time good for 20% off any game from its Impulse download platform. Should neither coupon be enough to douse the flames of your fury, Stardock’s also promising more deals down the road for regular Demigod players.
And if you still aren’t satisfied, just look at it this way: Stardock didn’t have to do any of this.
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Submitted by jwoelich on Sun, 05/24/2009 - 9:28pm
Stardock is just awesome...at getting paid forum posters to spew thinly-veiled advertisements and postive reviews wherever they can. I lost all respect for them years ago, and they've done nothing to improve that sentiment since.
Submitted by Digital-Storm on Sat, 05/23/2009 - 7:15am
Woo! "You had a bad experience, now have all your friends buy our game and have one too!"
Submitted by KaylaKaze on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 10:11pm
Considering you have to have a registered account with a valid, unique serial number to play online, I think they're flat out lying about the servers being crushed by pirates.
Well, you happen to be
Submitted by StormEffect on Sat, 05/23/2009 - 10:15am
Well, you happen to be wrong. And luckily you aren't any source of valid information on the internet, or else we'd be in trouble!
The servers that were overloaded with pirates were the update and login servers, dumbass. The ones that check to see if you have a valid serial number before they respond, get it now? When over 100 thousand pirates started wanting updates and online play, the login server had to check and deny every single one of them, which is what brought down the servers the *first* time. The login server didn't have the same issues after that, because they added a beefier system, and sent flagged pirates over into a shittier server network so their DDoS could affect something unimportant and sandboxed.
I recommend you go read the Demigod blog if you actually want to know what is going on, but you could also continue spewing your uninformed idiocy, that might be fun too.
Submitted by MeTo on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 8:21pm
What they need to do is when somebody goes online to play With an illlegal copy block it and make there game unplayable. I would think this would not be to hard to do.
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Submitted by luke01215 on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 10:20pm
Stardock in my mind is one of the best developers ever. I would say right now they are only second to Valve. The one thing that I do think they beat Valve in is customer - developer communication. It seems like Valve likes to take information from the result(as in observing which games are played the most via Steam) whereas Stardock wants direct communication with the customer (take a look in the forums...the devs are there).
In any case, I can attest to the bad Multiplayer in Demigod. I was expecting it to be like DOTA (a Warcraft 3 mod) but better. Instead, the multiplayer made it much tougher to connect and it left me frustrated.
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