Before I get any ragers in here - I am not a fanboy, but rather a very grumpy DotA player. I was skeptical of getting the game at first, but decided to go for it.

Stardock and GpG - Thank you for creating such a good game. I truly hope that this eventually becomes one of the "legendary" games, it definitely has the potential.

I did not have any difficulties whatsoever - not in buying, not in registering, installing or running or even playing it. Amazing download speed of 11MB/s, quick installation and the game recognized all my video cards, utilized the quad core. Not many games/developers can reach that high quality on day/month, heck even year of release (*cough* gta iv anyone?)

I would also like to address the problems that people are having -> instead of blaming SD or GpG, look at your system, tweak it, take care of it. Just because you have 12 "spyware" detectors running - that does not mean your PC is safe, its actually the reverse. Most people here use firewalls or actual hardware firewalls (routers etc) and have their ports blocked! Same stuff is with WCIII where people cannot host. It is 100% YOUR problem, not developers.

I do admit that the whole "no kickable" if you are not connected sucks, but people whine here all the time calling Demigod trash etc. I just played with my friends an awesome game, a 3v3, no problems connecting/loading or anything else. And we did not use Hamachi, we just used the game as it is supposed to be.

So, thank you again Stardock for creating an amazing game.