The moment I read the capitalisation error in the title I knew this was going to be a hoot.
A great game, completely ruined by an incredibly dated and ill-designed multiplayer system, that does not even allow you to play with your friends as a team. Warcraft III had this feature over 5 years ago, and no one's used p2p multiplayer in over 10 years. Time for the uninstall, and as a tester for the rest of my friends, I'll have to caution against them purchasing this.
Oh boy.
You are aware, of course, that Warcraft III is based entirely on P2P play? As is the entire system of Battle.net? There is no server/client model used at all - which is why you're able to host games. The function of Battle.net is to link players together using the service first and then once everyone is linked, Battle.net steps out of the picture and allows everyone to connect directly to everyone else. If a player is having trouble connecting, Battle.net re-routes their data through it's own network to ensure a speedy connection before the game has begun. What Stardock have begun doing is mimicing this system. Keep in mind that when Warcraft III came out, they had the entire life span of Starcraft and it's expansion pack as well as Diablo and Diablo II and their respective expansion packs to build upon the infrastructure of the initial service of Battle.net. They've had around the 11 years to perfect their service, and you'd better believe there were troubles when it first started.
Why, why, why was a multiplayer only game (don't even tell me there's a single player, becuase there's not, there's just AI) launched with such a pitiful multiplayer system? The game is great, but completely and utterly crippled...
During their initial testing, Stardock used what, now in hindsight, were a fairly limited sample size of players. What they realised after launch was that the amount of resources required for the service to operate smoothly increased exponentially with the amount of people using it as opposed to a linear progression as all exponential equations appear at first - and how it appeared in Beta. Now that the key problems have been identified, Stardock have been working around the clock - weekends and nights - to get their new service in place to allow us all to enjoy the game we payed for.
... and I'm not sitting around waiting for a patch, assuming one ever even comes.
You are aware the new patch goes live tomorrow right?
... that does not even allow you to play with your friends as a team.
A valid point, I also feel this feature should have been in the oobe.
... and as a tester for the rest of my friends, I'll have to caution against them purchasing this.
I think you'll regret that when Demigod is operating perfectly, however it's your money so spend it as you will. I'd begin writing my apology to my friends now for robbing them of such a great game; speed up the process once word gets around a little, ya' know?
Edit: Quote tags hate me. Again.
