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Stardock, that's a bit harsh

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Stardock, that's a bit harsh

from Demigod Forums

Quote from Istari

The announcement and store link were scheduled to go up today but the plan has changed to simply add it to everyone's accounts with the consequence being that there will be no additional demigods or maps added since it is pretty clear that the amount of hostility would overcome any value of the additional content.
I am almost speechless o_O

If Istari is really being serious here... I mean... he can't be... but if so, Stardock is actually actively destroying Demigod and the Community by letting the hostile trolls who whined about the DLC system get to them. This just can't be true? I mean that's simply military style punishment. A few guys are hostile and you guys decide to punish the whole community.

 

After all, if this is the response of a free Demigod being added to the game one can only imagine what the response would have been to content that cost money.
Again, I can't believe that I am reading this from a Stardock employee... Istari, you seem to have completely misjudged the situation. The exact opposite would happen, if there was content that cost money. People were complaining that they had to go through this procedure for free content. They simply did not understand why they have to do this, since they got Demon Assassin automatically too. If you offer DLC that cost money in the future there would certainly be not such an outrage about the system. The system is perfectly fine and simple for DLC that cost money. In the eyes of the complainers the hassle of adding Occulus manually to your account for free was simply pointless.

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Reply #76 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 71

Yes, I understand and accept the business decisions. But you are still mentioning the "hostility". It just bugs me that you are letting the forum trolls win, so to speak.
It's a PR issue. Good will. Plus, it's a hassle to deal with people like Ferazel. If you think the forums are rough, you should see the kinds of stuff support has had to deal with.

What Ferazel says is partially true imo. The games support in form of updates have been lacking. I still don't understand why many bug fixes haven't been released since they seemed to have been fixed by the community already! As a developer/publisher I would just see if that part of code work and if it did I would incorporate it into the game.

I must say I like Frogboy's presence here on the forums though. I don't know many else developers/publishers who tries to be so close to the community as you are. Unfortunately that seems to get you a lot of ill will. Stardock also get a lot of the ill will that should be blamed on GPG, but since they are rare you get all the shit. I do respect Frogboy and Stardock for putting up with that.

Having that said, Demigod is really the most fun and balanced multiplayer game that originates from DotA that exists today. It is so good I can mostly oversee the bugs and problems. However from a customer perspective I'd be happy if I could play the game without having to oversee the problems.