1. Balance hmm... from what i saw most of the games you get 3 items from each category in the shop. Rest of items are either overpriced or underpowered. Same with faovor items - only 30% of them are usefull. Citadel looks better with graveyard being buffed - which we yet to see. If u want to call this game rts i belive u got far more to do to beat Dawn of War 2 for that title. If someone wall call it rpg u got even more to do to beat Dragons age.

2. Is it? There is no toturial, no help screen, no thing to learn from. U have any idead how many noobs told me they dont know where is their favor item (how to choose one). Seriusly make a screenshot with pointy arrows explaining what does every thing do, it is maxx 2 hours job. I dont think that noobs got any chance againts experts coz they dont understand what items are good, when to buy urself item or upgrade citadel. Example i played 3v3, all noobs except me (i hosted the room they asked if they can stay, i said if u team is fine with it why not) we beat them on kills, and they had war rank 8 when we just get 6. If they would get catas then we would have no chance to recover, but they didnt know about it, coz no one explain what does warrank do.

3. 2-3 builds per demigod, which again if u noob and for example u dont stack speed as regulus or hp as rook u end up feeding. How many useless skills we get in the game such as yetis, regulus dead eye,qot tribute, best bestial wrath?

4. Graphics looks good, so does dragon age (u can zoom in and out too) But this is one of fev RTS that dosnt have any kind of click able minimap. Sure u can zoom out but it dosnt feel the same. Older games that looked tereffic and had free camera are: Black and white 1,2 (world was changing  depending how good or evil u have been - beat that!)

5. Shouldn't it be point 4.1? Again look at dragons age, rts: black and white 2, DoW 2, Tiberium wars - ohh and all of these games have storyline, cutscenes (tiberium wars got real actors) and ofcourse tutorials for noobs.

6. Not better - playable. And it still got lots to go. 'game been out 6 moths' - eactly my point, its shitload of time to fix bugs that people keep reminding you about. 6 months to put in missing fire tb attoatack animation (or more coz patch 1.2 is delayed). What about desync exploit, What about pantheon (playing vs ai gives u expierience points example- Prussian Havoc), What about patching (i died countless times coz i couldnt move when creep was blocking my way or bad cornering, or stopping on the tower). Where is clan wars, where is matchmaking system, where are fixed notes?

seriusly think about making fev slideshows for noobs to explain them what does citadel do, where to buy equipment, what is favor points, what is warrrank points. I mean something is better  then nothing right?

Oh one more thing, I dont want to hear from ZhenDon or Spooky how hard you have been working on this thing and how gratefull i should be. Thanks i see that in almost every post. If u have something constructive to say for a change please do.

I know you guys belive stardock is next IBM and it will change the way people think about computers, but u dont need to remind me that. I also know how rude, impatient, stupid, hopeless and bad people who ask for something to be done are.

Ready to Play has nothing to do with Demigod statistics.  Good grief, how many times do we have to say:

To get counted in online stats you have to have Demigod itself loaded and be logged into it.

You tell'em Frogs!

or maybe they chat on irc?

or maybe ur stats are bugged?

I'm one of those people who's guilty of lurking, actually. I run DG in windowed mode and when I'm not playing I often just click on a browser or whatever and DG sits behind my other applications idling.

I wonder if a certain amount of them are trying to sort out connectivity, port forwarding issues?  And how much % time does a normal user spend in lobbies rather than a game?  Still seems wierd though.

Now that is odd.  Certainly ties in with statistics of Sins but Demigod to me screams multiplayer.  Does make you think that more should have been put in for the single player game though and the AI should get more love.

Ack, sorry this goes off topic in a lengthy way, but you asked:  I posit there are four general categories of gamers, and they tend not to move out of their category.  This is their gaming preference and they tend to stay there regardless of what the game wants.  They are:

1. Single player.  Only play against computer opponents.

2. Cooperative multiplayer. Play with others against computer opponents.  Though you are all working together against an AI adversary, it is still competitive, with each trying to contribute the most to in terms of DPS, or the most creative use of support functions.  Here is where MMOs found a highly addictive gameplay style, which before them was rare.

3. Casual competitive multiplayer. Prefer human adversaries to AI, but avoid leaderboards. They are looking more for a little fun after work rather than training for competitive match-ups.

4. Hard-core competitive multiplayer.  Enough said.

For example, World or Warcraft, which I pull out of the hat as a successful game I am familiar with, caters strongly to each of these four types.  For type 1 you have quests, type 2 instances and raids, type 3 battlegrounds, and type 4 arenas.  You have different gameplay types each specifically targeting different gaming preferences.

While people may say Demigod caters to 3 and 4, as a 3-type player myself, it feels skewed to 4.  But all of the gaming types are possible here.  The strengths of Demigod (as mentioned on this thread) are such that it is fun even if playing outside of its focus.  For the type 1 and type 2 players, Demigod caters to them much better than its emerging competition (LoL and HoN).