I hate to be the one to tell you guys but Demigod is over. GPG and Stardock both have their own issues- GPG needs to finish Kings and Castles and support SupCom 2 and Stardock needs to focus on the flop that was Elemental.
Black Ops is a really good game.
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X may do Y is never a good argument -_-
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="3" id="2816719"] Quoting Annatar11, reply 1Generally speaking, all the DD platforms get their own set of keys, and retail keys (unless the game uses Steamworks or Goo) and especially for old games, aren't recognized by the DD clients. So, basically, you can't convince Steam that you have the game because you can't get it to recognize the key. On top of that, Steam uses its own directories for games, sometimes has separate Steam-only patches, and
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Steam MAY screw up is not a good argument >.>
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At this point, competing with Steam is like competing with Walmart. You can do it, but you'll never get there. I gave up on the whole anti Steam thing a long time ago.
Dial up is irrelevant in game design.
Digital distribution is pretty much all good. I can't stand having to worry about boxes and CD kets and discs.
[quote who="qrtxian" reply="9" id="2787577"]Unfortunately, it looks like I'll be getting the Impulse version after all. The CD does not have an option to run with DOS, making the DOS Box useless, and the Windows version categorically does not work. At least it only cost about $5 or so.[/quote] Digital distribution is the future, sorry.
I completely agree about stupid pre order perks. I don't agree that DOTA is a welcoming game. It never will be. Not ever ever ever ever.
Its DOTA. It has a negative connotation to all but those that play it. Its nearly impossible to bring in tons of new sales from people who have not played it.
I don't think even Valve can pull in people to a game like this.
Again, our definitions are just different Annatar =P I don't consider the DOTA genre saturated because there are only 2 games. There were dozens and dozens of WWII games releases, regardless of which of those were relevant or not. LoL and HoN are shameless rip offs of DOTA. At least Demigod was different. There's a lot of room here for innovation. DOTA 2 probably won't be that though.
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="10" id="2802780"] Quoting Polynomial, reply 5The genre isn't saturated! Modern shooters are an example of saturated. 2 games is not saturated. (Demigod didn't count) It is when you consider that both of these games are very recent. Even though there are lots of modern shooter games, only 3 are now the "primary" ones - Modern Warfare 2, Bad Company 2, and the new Medal of Honor. Before MoH, there were also two, and MoH is being highly compared to b
The genre isn't saturated! Modern shooters are an example of saturated. 2 games is not saturated. (Demigod didn't count)
I really like this game. The shooting feels way better than in BC2.
I'm not sure what this is. I need to see the PC version. I wasn't very impressed with Dragon Age 1 from a Bioware fan's perspective. Mass Effect was just leagues ahead of the game.
We're still waiting for those budgeted Demigod tournaments Stardock promised to hold for us.
[quote who="arstal" reply="107" id="2756873"]Is there any way to keep these people? Sorry if that sounds Pollyana-ish. Didn't the game nearly break even just from pre-orders? I know if you lost coders- another person I know who is similar personalitywise to you is trying to make a PC/Mac fighting game and is looking for coders (He has done a couple projects for XBLA for Capcom), so I'm trying to direct over to him, I think he has some budget- it might
[quote who="fatindian" reply="28" id="2755925"]What do you guys think of making high quality casual games? They may not be grand-scale epic strategy, but games like Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled are fun and don't cost nearly as much to make. They can supplement Stardock's revenue and help you guys get that second games team back one day.[/quote] Might be a good idea. Stardock has never showed us a real high end graphical capability like Demigod or Sins or Sup Com etc. iP
He has legitimate complaints though. Awful UI, multiplayer STILL not turned on, crashes etc.
This game has just been a disaster =/
This is scary. I feel really bad about this. But at the same time I still don't know what to do with Elemental. I've tried really hard to get into it. This makes me sad. Is the games studio on a separate budget then?
[quote who="kryo" reply="5" id="2751302"]The point was to reassure people that we're sticking with the game and not moving on immediately. It's not a subscription and I'm sure we'll be doing elemental-related stuff for well more than a year. It could have been worded better though, certainly.[/quote] Society is going to be subscription >.>
[quote who="solidsmooky" reply="23" id="2748663"]It's actually really racist and it makes me wonder about Brad.[/quote] Loooooooooooooooool