well I have seen only 1 failed connection (where the connectivity window said "connecting failed") with a single guy yet in like 20 games I played and a lots more I tried to join yet. The majority of the problems seems to come from a error where the NAT Server doesn't recognize connected players as connected or when it says that people are connected to all they don't get into lobby. Those are probably quite easy fixed which should increase the success rate for the players a lot.

Fair enough post.

Give it a week and if its still as terrible as you make it out to be then Stardock have to up their game. Reason I say give it a week is because games are always filled with problems on the day of release as no matter how much they test it, they never get to test it with a scale of thousands and thousands of people.

As with the whole "shutting out the bad connections" there is not much they can really do, is there? Its the same as if your computer has very low specs and runs the game at 5 fps. When you join other peoples game you will slow their speed down to 5 fps and make it unplayable - would you still be angry if they had to shut them out?

I think all that Stardock have said are that they are going to fix the majority of people's problems first, THEN they will move onto fixing the people who have the weaker routers etc. etc.

gonna give it a week then sale my copy with my impusle acc if the game is not shaped up.

if i wanted to play a game vrs bots i would have pirated the game, but i bought it for MP with PEOPLE that does not work, who ever thought of peer to peer should be shot IMO i would rather have lag problems with commands and lose to a player with better ping just to be able to play rather then be told i cant get a single game in.

tried 40+ games i have gotten 6 to load  that is horable ratio.

People you exaggerate....

Which game runs perfect these days direc after release? None!

And demigod has quite good ingame balancing and is playable for most people ( my guess 80%).

And like it is with every online game there are people which have problems with connection.

If someone buys World of Warcraft and isnt able to connect everyone would blame him for being unable to open the correct pors or setup his router correct at all.

No one would get the Idea to blame Blizzard for making a crap game since its obvius that it is your fault.

And only because demigod is new there is no reason why they should be the source of all connection problems.

This is the problem, ah well everybody else does it, lets release an unfinished game too. As a consumer you need to set a standard. When we buy a game, for us in europe this game costs about 40 eu, we want to be able to play it. That's it. The problem is that companies need to release the game at a certain date (investors etc). My point is that they probably lose money in the end because when the word is out people will start having second thoughts of buying the game.

companies that sells hardware need to perfect the product beforehand, same thing for most products. Why not computer games? the beta is there for a reason. Same reason cars are being tested before shipment etc. this is a phenomenon in the software industry just because of updates. updates makes the game releasable to the public before it is finished because it can be fixed later on.

As I have said before, I love the game, when it works.

I had the same kind of connection issues with Sins of a Solar Empire when it was released. I'm hoping this game gets fixed sooner (I don't know if sins ever did get fixed for me, I never went back)

If my linksys router, the most common router brand sold in america is to difficult to traverse, then it's your issue not mine. Fix it please.

I do enjoy the game, I just am frustrated having bought the last 2 of stardocks products both having issues with me because of multiplayer.

You are the one exaggerating.  Every game will have its fair share of bugs on release, but I can't think of any that were pretty much unplayable to start with. 80% working is a massive overexaggeration.

Your analogy to WoW is also completely flawed - that works on a client/server basis, and one player with a bad router doesn't fuck the whole game up for everyone else.

Not that its good excuse - both Company of Heroes and DoW2 handled P2P 100 times better than this on their release. Sure, they both had their fair share of problems, but at least if you wanted to get in a game you could.

800 vs 200 = 80%?  

Day 0: Hooray it's the start of a new beginning... Except Gamestop customers started before me.

Day 1: OMG! The world is ending... Fix it... Fix it... Fix it...

Day 2: Why isn't it fixed yet? I want a refund... To be continued?

Anyways, I found that every MP games I actually played was perfectly playable, with the exception of a fast speed setting game. The server overload resulted in "ghost" images of games that don't exist and it created a lot of confusion. Then, there are a select few people that can't join games, and thus hold everyone else up. So, what will happen is that the game will boot those people that fail to connect so that others may join. Those that wind up booted, likely, need to fiddle with their firewall and/or router.

There are very few that are actually fail to connect to a match; most are just impatient and leave too soon.

Your personal experience doesn't mean everyone else is wrong, you have probably just been very lucky, or have an open NAT (Most have moderate NAT)

That wouldn't do squat, console games still have to go through the router.

WHy is this in ideas?

After performing the networking setups that are detailed in "The Monk's guide to demigod networking" or some such title, I have yet to have a problem.