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Reply to Winter 2010 Q & A with Brad Wardell in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I'm intrigued by what you said about sleep. Do you mean you don't need to sleep much?

Reply to Forums go Boom in Everything Else Elemental Forums

agreed. I'll write something up and it'll just die.

Reply to Brad’s bookshelf: February 2010 in Books JoeUser Forums

I've read a little on Kurzweil. But all the ways of living a lot longer seem to give credence to the phrase "you aren't living longer, it just seems like it." Other than calorie restriction what sorts of age fighting advice does he give?

Reply to Elemental Multiplayer Revealed in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote]Am I missing something? I didn't hear anything especially new or unusual in the video, except maybe that they're providing official servers while still supporting private ones, instead of doing either/or like most companies. Other than that, it looks like the same multiplayer matchmaking used by pretty much every game ever.[/quote] You're kidding right? Name one strategy game that works like this. One.

Reply to August 2009 - The Monthly Demigod Community Question Thread in Demigod Demigod Forums

I wait with baited breath for HoN to syphon off players like you who inject the word "fix" or "bug" or "broken" into things that are subjective or thinly veiled feature requests (minion UI not being the way you want it is a bug? Really?).

Reply to August 2009 - The Monthly Demigod Community Question Thread in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]1. When will pathing be fixed? 2. When will items be fixed and not just removed from game? 3. When will login issues be fixed? 4. When will demigods be fixed? (ie oak spins in circles, tb cant auto attack in fire mode) 5. When will you actually fix the game instead of putting out new content? 6. When will minion control interface be fixed? (ie better interface) 7. When will auto matching be fixed? ie pantheion, skrimish automatching?

Reply to A Formal Apology to Frogboy in Demigod Stardock Forums

[quote]Well if you happened to pre-order early based on the design laid out for the game at the start it's quite a long way off what they aimed to deliver back then. That's fine in itself, stuff gets cut and changed in every project and demigod had a change of lead design mid way so it's understandable that it's changed a lot. Then couple that with a beta you couldn't opt out of without losing money but an apparent lack of any community input whatsoever about what gets

Reply to A Formal Apology to Frogboy in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]and customers like you are the reason why the quality of released games are constantly getting worse and at the same time we get blamed for complaining about roled products in beta status. but as it seems that's the feature. the software game industries has special role. no other industrie can afford releasing so unfinished products.[/quote] And how was Demigod unfinished? It had connection problems due to problems with server scaling that were fixed fairly quickly.

Reply to A Formal Apology to Frogboy in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]The developers need to work on a long term recovery plan (perhaps by the 1 year deadline) and completely overhaul the game, with massive content, connectivity support, new game modes etc. Much like Age of Conan have just done, they understood that their release was poor and unfinished and set a long term plan to revamp the entire product and then sent out free trials to former and prospective members once they are actually satisfied that the game is worth the player's time.[/quote]

Reply to A Formal Apology to Frogboy in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote] While connectivity may be much improved from launch (ie not working), it is not nearly "Problem solved". How often do you get a 5v5 up and running smoothly?[/quote] That has nothing to do with Stardock. It's call the Internet.

Reply to Possible refund? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote] And great games only come with steam, as my friend claims.[/quote] That's as intelligent as saying great games only come from Walmart. Steam is a store.

Reply to My thoughts on stats and new content in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

I could see being mad at Gas Powered but Stardock? Name a publisher in all gaming history that would have stepped up to help out as much as Stardock has? I've been playing Stardock games for years and one thing they have been great on is supporting their games. When they develop the game the support is amazing. When they publish it, it is still beyond what you'd expect. I would bet that without Stardock demigod would have been abandoned first week.

Reply to 1.1 What didn't get fixed in Demigod Demigod Forums

Kind of petty on the day of a major update that addresses things people have been making to make a post whining about things on your personal list. You couldn't wait until say, tomorrow?

Reply to After the Demigod Fiasco, are you likely to buy Stardock Products in the future? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]I know exactly how software development works and how bug triaging works (and yes, I know the difference between a publisher and a developer (rolls eyes)). I am a software engineer, I wrote a hit product, founded a software company and ran it for years before selling the company and retiring. I'm proud to say that I had some of the happiest customers that ever used a product, and it wasn't because I called them "ignorant" or "uninformed flamers". In fact, some of the best re

Reply to No Tutorial? REALLY??? in Demigod Demigod Forums

LOL. Team Fortress 2 doesn't include a Tutorial. Left 4 dead doesn't have a tutorail. Does this game need one because it's third person?

Reply to After the Demigod Fiasco, are you likely to buy Stardock Products in the future? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]I understand people who say "I don't purchase publishers, I purchase products", but the truth of the matter is that I do reward publishers that I respect by giving them the benefit of the doubt and trying out their new products. At the same time, there are companies who I know from experience I will avoid until I hear from the community that their game is worth buying, and then I'll put aside my feelings about the company and try the product. I don't hold grudges against companies, lol

Reply to After the Demigod Fiasco, are you likely to buy Stardock Products in the future? in Demigod Demigod Forums

Shouldn't the question be will you be likely to buy more games made by Gas Powered Games? SupCom: FA. Still no patch. Space Siege: Sucked. Demigod. Where the hell is GPG on the forums? With Sins of a Solar Empire I personally got to talk to Blair from Ironclad as well as Stardock people. If Demigod has taught me anything it is that Stardock can take what would have been a disaster and turn it around. Imagine if Demigod had been published only by Atari or

Reply to Will the community grow, or shrink? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]What an unbeliveable attitude, coming from noone else but the person in charge of things. *) You're basically saying with this "thank you for your money but we basically fucked you and gonna use that money elsewhere". How do you expect any success if you don't beleive in it yourself. The netcode fix is a basic functionality that is missing. Without it, you have falsely advertised and sold a non-functional product. I'm pretty sure you can be hold legaly account

Reply to Demigod: How games are made in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote]Well, isn't that the problem? We're 'complaining LONG after Stardock hears about he problems'. The most important part of the game is not working since I bought it (which was.. not sure how long ago exactly but it's more than 5 weeks.. I bought it pretty much first day it came out). So let's say that's 5 weeks (I think it's more but for ease of calculation). And they've been doing these mega-hour working weeks... let's say.. 50-60 hours a week? A

Reply to Demigod: How games are made in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote]I know that maybe i don't have the full picture, but as far as i know, publishers are responsible for the final quality of the game and it's their decision to postpone or not the release. And many, many times, the publisher is the one that rushes a game to the market, with bugs and unfinished stuff and then the devs are complaining that they didn't have enough time to properly finish it. I know that Frogboy said that from their point of view, the game worked and was finished when was r

Reply to Demigod: So what the hell happened? in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote]6 out of 8 pantheon games started in some form of 2v1 today. Don't give me that everything is working a-fkng-okay bs. Seems there is a lot of finger pointing and saying the beta didn't catch stuff, but cmmon - in more than 3 days there have been 3,5k played games in the current tournament. That gives less than 50 games per hour. 4 people per game = 200 people online playing tournament at the same time. Let's say 400 people peak. And this is a generou

Reply to Demigod: So what the hell happened? in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote]Is that the American Way?Cheating people and say: Yeah i´m Free i do what i want to do and bring uncomplete stuff out. And now i read these things that Stardock planing with Demigod.This should already in a Game for 50€. Now i am a dick to? [/quote] Yes. You're a dick. Do you know why you're a dick? Because you're screaming at the wrong people. Stardock is the messenger. They're the publisher. They didn't make the game. But they are the ones t

Reply to Is this game EVER going to work reliably? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]1 being leaving it all to gpg and raknet leaving them to do all the work then get the patch to fix it at a later date and keep the forum clear off all the bad things 2 being work on it with raknet and gpg too make the game better quicker while raising there reputation as a good game publishing group for the people there profit from this might go lower then from if they did nothing in the here and now but all the people who think

Reply to Is this game EVER going to work reliably? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]I wasn't the one making the original threat Only making the point that it could be done[/quote] Oh please. I'm not a lawyer but I know enough about the law that you have to show damage. Given that they provide refunds and that it's $40 it's a ridiculous, petty argument.

Reply to Is this game EVER going to work reliably? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]How can this NOT IMPACT THE BOTTOM LINE? It directly effects the bottom line, you are not doing this for free. Yes, you're private, but you're not a non-profit company. You might not need to answer to shareholders, but you do need to maintain a reputation of solid and respectable products to continue selling games with your name on them and pay your employees and reinvest into the company for future projects. Fixing this game is profitable, it keeps respect on t