Demigod Update - Go Stardock!

It's been an interesting week for the launch of Demigod. The Gas Powered Games-Stardock strategy game has suffered through an early release from GameStop that allowed a ton of warez users to gain access early and overwhelm the game's multiplayer servers. As a result some (but not all) of the game's early reviews have taken the game to task for the connection problems even as they also say the gameplay is excellent.

In his latest update post on the Demigod message boards, Stardock's Brad Wardell states that the launch issues of the past few days things have been dealt with: "As those of you who have the game can already see, the server issues are gone. We've recreated a duplicate of the server infrastructure we had but dedicated to users who have the most recent version of the game and a valid CD key (serial #)."

Wardell also wants to make sure people know that even with all of the pirate copies of Demigod out there, those players could not actually play the game online without a CD key: "What brought down servers was a lot more benign than that. It was the HTTPS requests to inform users if there was a new version along with checking the community features for info (friends lists, chat channels, etc.) and things like that. Things like that are pretty piddly. It's only when you get a ton of users doing that at the same time that it becomes a problem as we saw."

A new update for Demigod will be released via Impulse next week that will deal with various minor issues. Wardell states, "After that, we can look at the typical balance requests, cheese stuff, and whatever else crops up." He added, "Now, while the reviews are likely to have a pretty serious impact on sales, it does not affect our plans to continue to release updates and enhancements to the game nor does it affect our plans to release additional free Demigods.."