I'm hoping so, but I don't really have any idea.  Though, since DG and Sins are both Stardock, and you could do it with Sins, you can probably do it with DG as well.

Someone will likely track down the post later, but yes. Demigod is confirmed for having open LAN.

Sorry to make a big deal about this, but I want toss out a huge "Thank you" for this because so few others will. It's something I honestly wish would become standard, and it's quite annoying because it's not. I have a group of friends that I play with, it's annoying that we all have to buy a game for just lan. For online play and single player and all the other goodies, fine, I understand, but for lan at least let us have our fun! I remember the days of split screen gaming, which are sadly no more.

Anyway, continue to rock on Stardock.

Forgive my ignorance, but could this be done with digital distribution?

Say, like, I get my friends to download Impulse prior to a LAN, give 'em my login details and tell them to install Demigod... Would this work? Furthermore, if I were to do this, what's in place to stop my friends from abusing this, afterwards? If they like the game, I'd like to encourage them to, y'know, BUY IT. But if they have a completely functional copy on their PC already (well, excluding online multiplayer functionality), I suspect some of them would be less inclined to do so.

Any PC game can be copied with a disc and given out if you only want the single player. Thats piracy for you

Well thanks everyone for posting, if they come out and say for certain it'd be nice though.  I totally agree with you Cerulean and Thavian, it should be a standard feature.  Sadly, EA has phased it out in almost all of their games (i'm talking to you battle for middle earth 2). With other, more consumer friendly companies it's still hit or miss though.  I don't think any company really acknowledges LAN play in their business strategy.  With Sins, we've played it LAN a bunch, and more people have bought it out of my friends than would have bought it anyway.  Hopefully DG will keep up tradition, if so Stardock definitely has my money.  And to any LAN enthusiasts out there, let me suggest swat 4.  If you can still find it, and the expansion, you can have 10 player coop LAN with one cd, and it's one of the best made games ever in my opinion.  AI is great and graphics still hold their own.

I called gamestop to preorder before I knew i could have done so here and they told me they had it in stock (2 days ago). I have the game installed and have been trying to figure out how to make lan work. Any tips? I tried hosting a game but no go. I dont see a multiplayer option that would work outside of Impulse

Is this a feature that will become available after "launch"?

There is a Local Network option if you click Multiplayer from the main menu.

If we chose the digital download option and take the game to a LAN is it possible to just copy the folder amongst the PC's or is there an installation file downloaded?

I plan to go to a LAN this week and just wanted to make sure I had a working copy to show off, maybe even persuade a few to buy it

I have to say, having this feature really helps seal the deal in my book. Games that don't allow LAN play with only one serial tend to piss me off (I'm looking at you DoW 2!).

To the guy who couldn't find the LAN option, you have to patch the game before it is there.

Can you patch before registering a cdkey on a Stardock Impulse account? The reason I ask is in the near future I'm looking at a six person LAN with 3 copies of this, and am trying to figure out how to get everyone to have the same version.

And to clarify, since you said a 2:1 ratio is fine, you guys wouldn't have a problem with this, right?

And to clarify again, this would be a non-commercial LAN between friends at a private residence with no profit incentive.

Since the game isn't officially out yet, who knows?!

There was a slow down bug, but it was supposed to have been fixed in the patch.