Trust me Mulitplayer could be worse.....

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The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

 That game has the worst multiplayer ever. Considering I paid for it and have never been in a multiplayer game(I got the game mostly for multiplayer). I got it before Demigod... Demigod has never really gave me any problems. Besides the obvious random crashs / trouble getting into a lobby. This game still needs a lot of work. I'm just saying its bad...but but but!!! It could be 100% Crap. Right now I would assume the amount of crap we deal with is about 30%. 30% of the time I'm restarting the game from a crash/lock up. A player drops (Not rage quits) Can't connect to a lobby.

 

Tons of random BS with this game sure. Favor not working? No excuse...Am I standing up for Stardock? No, They need to fix this game. All "connection issues" put aside the game still has flaws that shouldn't be in the final version of a game. Like for example the GUI is extremely lacking. You can't boot feeders. People can't rejoin the game in progress if they get d/c'd. You can't "invite" and impulse "Friend" from your list to your lobby. The GUI isn't anything special at all. The random crashs annoy the hell out of me. I can't believe sometimes when I use impulse it makes my game lock up.

 

All that said I still love the game to some extent. I am human, I fall fast but lose interest faster.

 

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demigod
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Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Don't know might give them one more month before I lose interest in playing or maybe not. It does feel like I wasted my money though considering I could have downloaded the game off a torrent site and play this on gameranger where there are numerous games open. Pretty sad that there are less legit games within the client and outside it.Either way it looks bad that lan games work fine or gameranger and the rest is garbage.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Starcraft is over 10 years old and was better than this during it's in house beta. 10 years a very long time when you're considering technology.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

you said that correct 10 years old hmm gaming has come a long way.

I paid 40 dollars and IMO its not wasted but I am very dissapointed in the way the game is ATM.

There is no excuse that any company that would be good enough.

Yes they will be handing out a 50% off coupon for a 2nd copy for those that got the game before may 10th but is that good enough.Maybe for some and i am one of those that feel it is.

Look at most games that have come out the past 2 yrs or so the gamen companies push pc games out the door.

2 main reasons:

1 - they know they can patch the game. unlike consoles they can not.

2 - we as gamers accept the games faults and yet bitch about them. When its our dam fault for allowen companies to do this.

 

I do say this Frog has come out and said they screwed up and i can not name 1 company that would do so. Frog has kept us in the loop where as other companies would assume we would think they are trying.

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

Saying that crap could be worse doesn't help and just gives the devs the impression they can get away with even more crap. All of a sudden normal will turn into great and worse would be normal.

Like matchmaking suddenly started to replace the old and trusty server browser and everyone is ok with it. Left 4 Dead, GTA IV and other titles that use the Windows Live or whatever is called.  

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

I share the sentiment of the OP.

I've been in situations (at least for MMORPGs) where you wait for months for "promised" improvements ("This is an area we are looking to improve" etc). But the promised improvements never come.

I am starting to get tired of this "unable to connect" to multiplayer fiasco. No amount of (alleged) good corporate communications can really make up for the inability to connect online. :(