Frogboy

i didnt ask can you quote me frogboy for 5 times. i asked does anyone know when patch 1.2 will be released. understand that i already read frogboy quote before.

80 games is nothing, some people would still call you a noob and you would be kicked from pro games.

So again if u dont work for stardock or gpg or have any knowledge about how much work for patch 1.2 is completed i dont need your opinion/quote or anything that dosnt contain reliable facts in it.

i just hope they spending time deleting that stupid item:

                Spirit of the Fallen: Assassin only

                5000 Favor Points

                1000 Health

                8 Health Per Second

Imagine someone who buys this game, how long would it take him to get any favor points (not to mention 5000) to cope with beast who will have almost 3000hp at the start +15% hp flag on cataract= 3450 when you can only get charm of life +400 hp

In this case, I have no definite answer. I would say this month, based on FB making a list of changes in v1.2, showing off a few of the changes, and the fact that they were considering releasing it the past Wednesday. That, however, is mostly opinion based and wishful thinking. But as I explained before, I doubt your questions or anyone elses will be provided with a specific answer when it comes to the release status of v1.2.

hmmm.... so thats why demigod was released early? (with bugs, connectivity issues etc).

if im not wrong, demigods release date was changed twice and still the game seemed to be unfinished.

guess this moto dont work too well...

so why is it taking so long to dish out the new demis in that case?

umm ... why are u trying to defend something that was clearly released at an unsatifactory level? the proof of satisfaction is here in the forums. By unsatisfactory, im talking about the amount of bugs, connectivity, lack of content etc. (Quality of gameplay is very satisfactory though.)
They are still developing the game, are they not, with things that shouldve been in from the very start. I just think it was pushed onto the shelves a lil too early (even though it was delayed several times).

im not saying every game out there is perfect but they tend to be more stable with a minimal amount of issues.

but anyway, im just hoping that when the new demis are officially released to the public, they have VERY minimal amount of issues.

I agree that the launch product wasn't tested thoroughly enough, and a lot of the game's issues could have beena avoided entirely if an open beta, or extremely large, international closed beta, had of been conducted. However, hindsight is 20/20. We can argue the bleedingly obvious - that Demigod wasn't released in tip-top condition, and that the game currently has a few issues that are frustrating the percentage of the player base that they affect - however this simply uses up forum bandwidth and doesn't serve any purpose because no one is saying anything new; we're just seeing repeated posts over, and over, and over.

Demigod will never set the world on fire, it will never take over the world and become an online sensation - it's far too niche for that, as the less cerebral HoN has shown. Every issue could be corrected this very second, and people would still bitch and complain, and Demigod still wouldn't become the highest selling game of all time. But, we've seen things improve drastically from launch and we'll see things improve over time further still. No one - including me - is saying Demigod is perfect, however stating the game has issues, making the same 'points' over and over and continually reminding everyone of what we already know is annoying, plain and simple. I'm fairly sure all of this is well understood by the people who need to know for things to happen. If it's not, and judging from Frogboy's posts it most certainly is, then Demigod would have larger issues than simply glitches and bugs.

Iv put in bold everything important out of this.

The only real problem Demigod had on release was that its servers couldn't handle the amount of MP traffic.  

The game wasn't "rushed" to release. It had a public, open beta program where the consensus was that the game was ready.

No game is perfect. People tend to have an exagerated sense of what constitutes a "buggy" game.

My estimate is this Wednesday.

We could have gone out last Wednesday but given the amount of effort that's gone into this, we didn't want to go out as long as there were any question marks. The weird slow down I mentioned only happened on one machine (not even a QA machine) and cleared up after updating its video drivers.

But looking at the posts, sometimes you'd think Demigod was released as some sort of bug fest.  That's like saying World of Warcraft or any other game that has ever been released without sufficient server side support was somehow a bug fest.  

The only way Demigod's launch would have gone smooth really (with hindsight) would have been to have a very very large open beta with a MP stress test.  

It was certainly a problem for people for the first few weeks but anyone describing Demigod as "buggy" in the bigger scheme of things needs to get out more.  I can list hundreds of little imperfections in any game I play but that's the way it is on anything that's remotely complex.

If you go back and read forum posts labeled "this game isn't done!" most of them have to do with people who just lost online complaining about how some other demigod is over powered.

Then you get the people who complain about the net code. And nearly every time we debug it, it turns out that someone in the game had bittorrent or something going in the background.  

The reality is, and I say this as a game developer of going on two decades, there are just a lot of whiney people online who just like to bitch.

Even when I say "and to be clear, I'm not promising" you'll still get people saying "he promised!" (like us saying we were going to release v1.2 last week - we NEVER said that. On the contrary, I explicitly said that we hoped to but we weren't promising since it still had to go through consumer QA).

The reality is that Demigod is a fantastic game. It does what it is supposed to do. I play it almost every day and it's still incredibly fun even after all this time.  That doesn't mean it'sperfect or it's all things to all people. But it is a really good game.

hey any news is better then no news at all. so keep us updated. thanks

i completely agree with this. ppl do tend to take things way out proportion and context, and then exaggerate on top of that.
players are complainers, until they know what 'game making' involves.

The only thing that i was trying to point out was that it seems like everything thats about to be released to us gets delayed, and for some unknown reason. All ive been asking for this whole time is for more communication from you (telling us whats going on). Not saying you havent alrdy but there are times when we have been left in the dark, trying to seek out answers.

i hope you know where im coming from now.

and btw, demigod IS a fantastic game to play. i wouldve even loved to have been apart of its development process (getting into the games industry is my ambition).
- the pace of the game is nice
- not such a huge learning curve
- graphics are AWESOME (big fan of this department)
- and all-round great concept