Does this mean you're playing LoL Zen_God?

I'm so tired of people saying that DG doesn't have servers. Do you think that your game data magically posts to registers? Do you think the lobbies are stored on each persons computer and that magically we can all connect to everyone's computer while we get a game going?

There are no game servers that run the game and that people connect to, that is correct, but there are servers, and they are queried throughout the game. Please correct people that tell you the game has no servers.

The upcoming beta of impulse::reactor may actually solve this problem, if we can get SD's support btw.  In the elemental dev journals, Brad indicated this:

In short, I'd think we could potentially get them to use this tech, as its developed, to deploy mods directly.  Who knows, but it is something that adds some possibilities.

Thundercles makes a lot of good points though.  I would certainly buy demigod 2, if it was made.  Will they make it?  I doubt it.  If they made the first 1 again, they'd make A LOT of changes to the process and would have surely seen much more commercial success (though I believe Brad still considers the game a financial success due to sales).  Anyway, its pretty clear now where missteps took place. 

If I could change anything, the game would use a client server model (not just for stats), there would be a better support system in place to solve hacks (desyncs, etc), new maps would be created, items that are NEVER purchased would be tweaked, new items would be added from time to time, 2 more demigods would be created, a matchmaking system would be implemented, maps could be edited and created using a gui without a $10,000 piece of software, there would be an auto-balance option in lobbies, a more active banning system for abusers, and probably some other stuff I can't think of at the moment.

The servers don’t serve the game and have no relationship to performance issues as mentioned above.

There is obviously something bugged with the code that facilitates the peer to peer connections. When all the connections in the game are fine and all sim speeds are above 0 there shouldn't be as much lag as there is. But then again, are you really surprised? This game crashes at least once a day, it's about as stable as to be expected from a beta, not a fully released game.

You can't really argue that the P2P is fine compared to other games. Probably 1 in 3 games lag, and rehosting the game fixes the problem most of the time.

I've played other online games that use P2P instead of servers and they don't lag nearly as much as Demigod.

Oh but it does. In fact, if the server query fails because of discontinuity of instances, then you get an invalid state.

Low production values!? LoL updates the game 2x a month, including 2 new characters every month, compared to this stupid game, which has 10 whole classes, and gets updated about once a year, lol not to mention so slow paced and boring.

He still evaded my main point- LoL and HoN are built on craptastic engines, and look reeeeeaaaaaly bad.

For the love of god, THINK about making a sequel. Consider it a challenge... a chance to make it right from the get go.

The only genre that will be capable of flirting with WoW's success is going to be something dota oriented.

I was on tonight and people were anywhere from 10 to 15 games showing in the custom list. The game is selling.

Pretty sure LoL had an enormous budget compared to Demigod.

To make a Demigod 2 sell they need to not repeat what they did with patching and multiplayer, the fact that it takes them up to/over 2-6 months to fix hugely gamebreaking bugs and imbalances is just atrocious. Also far too many people had trouble with the dodge peer to peer.

Also Mike quite a lot of people don't just play games for super graphics, check out how many purchases Minecraft has, it's made by one man in Java.