Well, given the current state of MP for this game, I think it is safe to state that SD choice of waiting after release before making a demo was restropectively a wise one.
Agreed, I did not mean to criticize the beloved SD overlords, I just meant to say I'm looking forward to when they DO release a multi player demo so I can get more people playing, because more people playing means more fun for me.
How people would have reacted if they had a demo with the day 0 networking code ?
Hard to say. If a multi player demo was released a week or two ahead of the full version then stardock probably could have spun it as a beta and sorted out some of these issues before launch. People can sometimes be more understanding when they haven't given you money for a product.
On the other hand, people may have looked at the demo and been turned off buying regardless of the future patches.
The point is moot though as it's not what happened and I'm not trying to argue that it's what should have happened. I'm just looking forward to both my coupon and a muilti player demo so I can start trying to recruit more friends to play with.
