Europe exists!

We don't need Europeans.

Some of them speak funny languages and the women don't shave their arm pits. This is a fact, btw.

Even if the retail release is not simultaneous (it rarely is since Europe requires a lot of localization, and that would generally mean delaying the English release in order to do a simultaneous launch), anyone can buy the download version direct regardless of location. In Sins's case, it has not been released at retail in Europe simply because none of the publishers there (we have to subcontract international publishing) agreed to take it, saying the German market would not support a game of that type. We certainly did try. With Demigod though, it should be no problem since it is a entirely different kind of game from a well-known studio.

Anyway, all it takes to get games from us online is a credit/debit card or paypal. No funny international prices either--you just pay in USD at whatever the going conversion rate from your currency is. For most people outside the US, it's quite a deal compared to local game prices due to the weak dollar.

There's simply no excuse to pirate the game. And if someone does, we honestly don't care if they think it's unfair that they can't play online, considering they're enjoying the fruit of our labor without paying us a single cent.

Fear not, I can virtually guarantee that Demigod will release in Europe at retail.

that's what you said about my 'happy ending'

So will there be a collector's edition like Sins had? and if so, the European release will ensure that we don't have to pay those damn shipping costs right?

oh wth, i preordered the game.
I will download it digitally because it seems Stardock release worldwide online. This should be pretty standard, but Stardock is actually the first publisher i see to do this. I tried to download Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance through D2D, but i had to wait one month until it was released in Europe officially. Pretty stupid.

Stardock is the only publisher that uses their brain?

yep

and two answers from Stardock themselves in this thread... i'm pretty impressed!
sorry if my first post had a negative tone, i didn't know better when i wrote it.

And Yarlen is the Director of Games Publishing at Stardock. So if anyone knows the scoop on where the game is going to be, it's him!

-HM

That you would release in Europe? hehe

Dear gods in heaven, do not egg Eets on. The last person to do so still can't sit properly...

Well, you'll learn about him soon enough. Too soon... far, far too soon...

i disagree with the title of this post /thread

We plan for the release to be in Europe and NA on the same day if all goes well.

Nice.

So long as the beta doesn't get delayed for localizations, anyway. Mee... want... beta!

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Sorry to say so but how would you like if i say we do not need any americans? who have their ancestors from europe(mostly)...

and btw. women in europe do shave their arm pits...

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i'm just glad that i can buy this game online and then download it
after all we are living in a digital world

Actually, it was released in retail in a Russian Federation by a publiser №1 in Russia. Russian Federation is in Europe. Though there was almost a 2-month delay compared to an US release. Right now SoSE is in the 6th place in game sales charts in a "Souz" shops (they sell movies, music, games, some popular books and other related stuff).

Actually it's great news that you will allow EU players to play straight off as long as they can purchase from US site (don't forget to add tha VAT, or sales tax).

I can almost guarantee a game will flop in EU if it's not released soon after US version. For example, the Mortal Kombat franchise was PULLED from EU due to poor sales. I'm a big fan of the series, but when the game is released 3-4 months AFTER, the whole "buzz" is gone.

It's disheartening reading new/forums about ppl who have completed the game, are moving on etc. 3-4 months later, you don't feel like getting it anymore.

As for retail, I don't really care so much about it, as long as ppl in UK can download a US English version and play straigh away that's cool. It's very annoying that compaines make ppl in UK wait for "localization", months of delays for some French translation that I dont give a rats about.

Shame about what you say about Germany, they are mad about games, they prolly have the most active fanbase for Diablo2 for example still going strong. Who the hell told you Sins would not sell in Germany, quite a large games market, bigger than UK I think.

Russia spans both Europe and Asia (mostly Asia) and is considered its own territory for sales purposes. We've had good results working with Snowball there so we'll probably continue to do so.

I'd sure hope you made it as clearly a joke as that guy did!

He's probably deformed: born without a funny bone.

United Kingdom doesn't need localisation, we can tolerate the American spelling! (just about)

I'd hope you could tolerate our spelling - its the right spelling, after all.

whoa whoa whoa! (there there betsy)

you have yet to provide evidence that europe is infact a place and not only a rock band. Therefore I say we withold release untill definate evidence comes in.

Now when I went to london, venice, paris, and amsterdam they were all speaking diffrent languages and english. now I'm no geolosopher, but I'm pretty sure that means you live in america, or maybe canada.

now I will admit I'm no expert, but I want to make sure we look at all possibilities.

Hey guys! I have a question about europeans players playing on US servers.

 

As I really really wanna play this game, will we europeans be able to play on the US servers, and if we can, how "good" will it be? Like how will the latency be?

Play across the not-as-big-as-the-other pond happens all the time. Latency tends to be around 200-300ms for me.