You know, I'm not sure why it says that......

Today I played DG for the first time again since  I stopped playing back in 2009   so I'm sure those stats are still from back near the release. 

I'd be happy to be cannon-fodder for you and Kitkun sometime though.  hehe   Tonight I was just playing a few games with a bud (testing some of my "connectivity theories") but I should have sometime on the weekend for a few friendly games.

DG for free would be an interesting idea. It seemed to work for Steam when they put Portal for free last year. Brought alot of people to the system that hadn't origninally used it. It would also kickstart DG again as a game (assuming fewer connectivity issues).

I haven't played DG since the month it released. For a while I really wanted to. Then I was waiting for a few friends to try it, but they were waiting for things to be fixed first. Eventually we all kind of forgot about it. Then I went to try and play it again online and everyone pissed and moaned about how bad I was at the game. Eventually I couldn't find a team to join, so I just gave up. Tried again recently to play and there were like 3 games available and I didn't even bother trying to join them as the players were clearly quite experienced.

I think, from my perspective, a "Comp Stomp" mode would be fun (maybe there's one in there, I dunno). Something where I could join up with a friend and just play against AI's. More maps. I dont know the game well enough anymore to know what game mechanics need serious work. I remember I had camera control issues, but that was on my old computer and I haven't really tried the game on my new machine that can handle the graphics at a fair clip. Maybe have a "survivor" mode where your team is just getting mad rushed by enemies in increasing numbers as time progresses.

The more I think about it, the more I like the "Permanent Free Game" weekend where anyone who wants the game can get it for free for one weekend only after which it goes back to full price, just like Portal did.

That's my feedback on things.

I think putting the uberfix and ai mods into an actual patch would be enough to finish Demigod off as a veteran product.  

Connectivity, (client/server), would be a nice icing on the cake, but it would serve better as an addition to a sequel.  It should eliminate the problems with people disconnecting just before losing and such and would serve as a motivator for us to buy the sequel.

Demigod 2 would get me running to the shop to buy it. Some ideas:

Graphics are excellent already I don't think any improvement is needed there. Balance is excellent in my opinion too.

Items need a visit. Perhaps customisable items Like favor items would be a good thing. For example allow favor items to be built based on favor points - perhaps 20 "upgrade" levels with buff trees available for the favor item similar to the character build model - for example Blood of the fallen starts with only a small health buff and regen, but other trees could be passive aura health, life steal, or perhaps "health boost" - an instant ability that disables all other benefits (from the item) for a cooldown period in exchange for a instant HP. These different options in favor items would be purchased with favor points, and a "retrain" of your favor item would cost favor points too. This way people could experiment with different favor builds but limited by cost. As you build your favor item you increase it's buffs, custom it's attributes, and tweak it along the way.

Make people select their customised favor item in a profile "lobby" before they even join a game. Nobody else will know what they've got - it's a pain having to try and speed click your favor item at the start of the game when you just want to GO!

Allow gold gifting during a match, so you can help your teammates or pool resources for a cit upgrade. Just make a 'drop gold' option similar to dropping an item (allow them to specify an amount of course)

Another idea was mentioned once - Gypsies (or whatever you wanna call them), similar to monks but they regenerate your mana. Also allow a minion idol for these.

More Flag types! For example flags that affect agility and speed of the DGs.  How about a flag that's a Teleport flag. It's always gray, but upon capture you gain a warp or teleport in your inventory that expires after let's say 45 seconds.

Connectivity is an obvious "need fix" as is automatching.

Have a player level that reflects the player's skill rating. If you are level 50, you're bloody pro. If you stomp a noob, you don't increase your level. If you're level 10 and you win vs lvl 50, then you graduate a level. If your level 20 and get beat by a noob, you drop a level. This is a better system that win% and #games IMHO.

PLEASE PLEASE make DGII, or at least revive this best game ever made. I'm willing to buy it full price all over again if it works as originally intended.

Awesome

Hopefully Stardock is taking note of the strong trend in requests emerging here:

- Better connectivity

- Better matchmaking and ladder systems

- More/better maps and/or the ability for the community to make maps

- More (ongoing) attention to balance

- Mod auto-downloading

These five have been mentioned by almost everyone that's commented so far, and for good reason.  Many of these are the most important elements of a MOBA, and the reason why HoN and LoL have been so much more comparatively successful than Demigod despite not looking as nice nor having as much flexibility with hero skill choice.

Not to say that these two things should necessarily be sacrificed to focus entirely on the above, but if a huge art budget is encroaching on your ability to fix connectivity issues and fund patches and balance changes post-launch, it should be pretty clear which you should cut corners on.

I would.  Obviously, the pie in the sky would be to keep the level of "pretty" while enabling map makers to create maps that don't have giant gods in the background.  I'd think this would be possible.  Also, we need a few more colors, tbh.  The detail is awesome, but colors a bit bland. That said, I probably would have traded all the pretty for map making tools.  Game play is number 1 - and demigod has that in spades.

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It's not a big sacrifice that must be done. SC2 is really pretty too and it have map editor.

Yeah, Demigod is a little alike LoL, but is much more complete, and the Demigod's gameplay really rocks. I would say that LoL is played for kids too, Demigod no...

I absolutely HATED DOTA,LOL, and HON. I think DG is AWESOME. Yes, I too find it hard to believe there's not more people into DG. When I first played DG my first impression was "why do they move so slow?", But I soon learned that the realistic movement speed is actually more real time than any RTS I've ever played. I think the rapid pace and cartoon style of the other games is attractive to gamers these days.... But me, I'm a fan of chess so I guess I'm not in the majority of computer gamer types.

DG still gets my adrenalin pumping like crazy.

Tutorial and a better single player campaign .

I think the main issue has already been hammered home.  Connectivity.  Trying to play this game in any normal internet environment instead of a lan was such a painful experience.

I actually disagree on the "we have enough" demigods.  People need variety to stay interested; it is no small fact that the other games of a similar genre continuously output new heroes.  Even if you had 2-3 viable trees for each hero (didn't quite get there with DG1) people would still eventually bore of the same dozen visual choices.  Gameplay may be paramount, and everyone is quick to jump on the "I don’t care about graphics as long as the gameplay is good" but the reality is computer games are also a visual media and this genre thrives on diversity.

Graphics are stunning, I'd have been more than happy if the current engine/models were carried over and added to except for the exclusivity and inaccessibility to modding due to the granny stuff.  This game isn't dating even 2 years down the track from its release.

Items were generally one of the weaker points I think, there were just too many items that pretty much all DGs benefited from, and my friends also found that after a while you basically got two sets of items depending on whether you were more caster or more melee but that was it.  If i were to have another patch, I'd probably like to see some minor tweaks or variety put into the item system.

In a nutshell, if the connectivity was better, and there was a touch more diversity amongst the demigods I wouldn't change a lot.  I think the menus could have been a bit more streamlined but that wasn't game breaking by any means.  I never really had any serious balance gripes rather than queen feeling a bit weak even after her tweaks so no complaints there either.  All in all this game was my favourite for a long time, and it was disappointing to see it disappear into nothing whilst others in the genre have powered forward into what I wanted Demigod to be.  Better luck with DG2, here's hoping.