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neilo we bought this game..... with our own money... we shouldn't do any extra work we're doing just to play 1 game in 2 hours... Such as configuring the ports in our router DHS, changing our IP, disabling our UnP and the rest of this things. Half of it I don't even know what they meant and I don't have the time to study about them.

LAWL thats you're problem. Get rid of your antivirus, your firewall, all that other junk you throw on to help 'protect' you. Demigod is trying to connect to certain ports and you're shit is blocking it NOT DEMIGOD. Do some research before you bash you faggot.

Neilo and /b/, you're not going to get much accomplished by trying to insult the OP other than starting a small flame war.  These forums are one of the few (reasonably) civilized beacons on the internet.  Please try to keep them that way.

As for the Demigod connection problem.  Yes, it sucks a lot; however, it does seem like GPG and Stardock are doing whatever they can think of to try to fix the problems.  They've personally apologized for the problems and have solved a number of them already.  If you're really frustrated, which is completely reasonable, I'd advise that you just leave the game alone for about a week.  At the rate they're going, the problems you're experiencing will hopefully get fixed by then.

Also, it's probably not a good idea to call the devs names.  A number of people on these forums are very supportive of Stardock - largely because they don't feel like the heartless mega gaming companies.  Insulting them here is likely to have a majority of people ignore you, insult you, or just be otherwise unhelpful.  Take it for what you will.

It's /b/ not /B/

Purchasing a product that does not function seems justifiable grounds for "Blasting SD" their game is broken. Its almost 2 weeks after release it is NOT acceptable.

plus i dont use a firewall and antivirus is closed

You have a router? Check that 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.2.1 or 192.168.1.1 (all the ones i've had) in the address bar then go to it.

Open ports from there.

Guessing you've never played Dota. In that case you fail sir.

What bullshit? the guy has a legitimite problem, he bought the game and can't play with it. Its not a single player game, its a multiplayer game but can't connect??? No bullshit here, just normal frustration! I would be very angry too if I was the one who had bought this game.

What's great is that when Starcrap 2 comes out, they'll have connection problems there too.  You just can't cure stupid from the back end...

Playing PC games come with a minimal cost factor regarding knowledge.  Every console game is working on a uniform hardware system with very few inconsistencies to work around.  Every PC is not.  It's all but impossible to code high performance networking systems that aren't defeated by at least one of the routers in use.  There are hundreds of them, and not one of them appears to have been designed with airhead users in mind.

If you don't want to run into problems every time you turn around, you actually have to know what you're doing.  In a perfect world your router woudn't suck monkey nuts and you'd be able to play games without changing settings on it.  It does, you need to, stop blaming the software for not being ridiculously accomodating and solving every potential problem caused by user error.

What exquisite crap. It is apologia like this that allow publishers to send out unfinished and unplayable games (E: TW anyone?) into the markeplace. (BTW, Stardock is far less guilty than most publishers, but they are not blameless here.) I think almost everyone acknowledges that there are inevitably going to be some bugs in PC games, in part because of the literally millions of configutations of individual PCs. It is unfortunate, but ineivtable, that a small number of purchasers of any given game are going to have major problems running it. But when that small number becomes a large percentage, or even a majority, of purchasers, it beomes time to cast blame on the devs or publishers.

I also get very tired of computer savvy users not just defending the publishers, but blaming less savvy gamers for daring to buy the product without sufficient knowledge to clean up the publisher's mess. The PC is no longer a geek hobby but an almost universal appliance these days. To expect or require all users to have the knowledge and expertise of the hobbyist is neither logical nor practical. Indeed, it is smug elitism. To use a somewhat tired (but still nevertheless correct) analogy, assume that these PC experts are somwewhat less expert on the internal combustion engine and have just purchased a car. Although the engine won't start because of a design defect, it would run perfectly after 30 minutes work by a knowledgeable mechanic. If they complained on the manufacturers' forums. I'm sure they would love being called ignorant by mechanic posters who state that they should not have had the gall to buy the darn thing unless they could get it to run.

Finally, the implication that all online games inevitably have similar connection problems is ludicrous. I generally don't play strategy games online (which, I admit, is why I did not purchase Demigod, since its SP mode seems to be quite lacking). However, I do follow PC gaming fairly closely, and problems such as this are the exception, not the rule. Moreover, I do play MMOs online (I've played at least a dozen in the decade since original EQ hooked me) and, although there have been some teething problems with some MMOs, I have neither experienced a problem as bad as this nor have I have been required to fool around with my router or other settings to connect (though I did have to turn off Vista's infernal UAC to update EQII).

boo!

yeah...I've got nothing better to say than check   here   and follow the steps in my guide (linked to from the OP) if you WANT, if you don't want to....then don't.

I'm not an "eliteist tech-savvy" person, I am a tech-savvy person who puts information "out there".  Take it or leave it.....