April 18th, 2009

Demigod Failure!?!

God has failed, at least if we talk about consistency. Some call it(for me, it's more of a concept, than a being) a name, other call it another name, some say it's white, others it's black, and so on. No need to say how far is this going, because we're only talking about half of a god today. Yupp, you got it right - it's all about Demigod, the latest game coming from Stardock!

One of the things that I really appreciate, when it comes to BitTorrent trackers is the fact that you can see early user feedback on a game that gets pirated even before the official release, in most cases. This way, I usually end up with a good choice in my hands, when it comes to buy a new game(no, I am NOT using pirated games) and I have a bunch of alternatives...but a smaller budget.

Unfortunately, not all gamers think like me, and this seems to hurt some of the smaller players of the gaming industry - for example, as Demigod's official servers started to receive connections, the number of connections climbed up to 140,000. Why call Demigod a failure, in this case?

Well...out of those, only 18,000 connections were using the original(validated) game, and the remaining 122,000 were pirates who weren't able to update their copies, but managed to "touch" the servers somehow.

Now, Stardock only needs to enforce server security with some new patch that's harder to crack, and they can easily turn the Demigod failure into a success, at least that's how I see it.

According to Stardock, after two days, everything started to work normally. "Now today, day 3, it's pretty much taken care of. Users are connecting in multiplayer, the servers are pretty responsive and we're adding more in preparation for the weekend."

These being said, if you're bored of playing DotA or WoW...Demigod is another choice you should take into account!