I must say, you are the minority here.

I know how to use a computer. I know how to forward ports. And yet, I cannot play the game. I can play MAYBE 1/10 games I try. I connect to people fine, yet can't enter the lobby. If I host a game, some people can connect to me, others fail to connect to each other. If I try pantheon, I'm stuck at the Connecting screen with no sign of actual connections taking places.

I don't know where people are getting this "I can play in 1-2 minutes, EASY!!" line. Because that is definately not happening here, on my end.

1. Bad multiplayer network

2. No tutorial

3. No campaign or story

If this game was like other multiplayer games like Team Fortress 2, Quake wars.   Then it should be a $30 game or less. 

So even if they fix the multiplayer issues, it'll give the game an extra 10 points in review, but no where near the 90s.

People buy and play games like this for the multiplayer.  Do you think people are still playing the human campaign in Warcraft III 8 years after it came out?  No.  But, people sure as hell are playing DOTA and ladder daily.  That being said, this game offers very little single player and an inoperable multiplayer system.  If they can fix the multiplayer and make it on par with industry standards and other games like Warcraft III and Starcraft, then I can see people playing this game for years to come.  It got hit because it does not deliver, period.  Not because of some industy conspiracy to give the best game on earth terrible ratings.

Game doesn't need a tutorial... Just play it and figure shit out in solo skirmish.  Thats not something ANYONE should complain about.  If you can't figure a game out playing solo skirmish vs easy AI... then you should probably stick to Tic-tac-toe...

As for the OP talking about how "People doesn't know how to use computers"

Are you kidding?  We downloaded this CRAP... and the only way to play it for shit was to hack a buncha bullshit and play lan over hamachi and such.  No.. the developers cannot use gamestop or any other "early release" or pirate as an excuse.  People pirate the CRAP outta starcraft and WC3.  Yet Battle.net has no issues. 

I'm sorry but there is NO excuse for how bad this is.  A pirated copy of the game should not be connecting to any servers to do anything.  In fact if the game is checking for updates when loading singleplayer that is damn close to some sorta privacy invasion...  Shit should not be doing ANYTHING unless you tell it to.. or it asks you to first.

I only felt ripped off when they did the 50% discount. The whole reason I preordered it off Steam was to get five bucks off, and three months later it's half off.

TF2 was 35 dollars at first if i remember correctly if purchased separately from the orange box, and quake wars was 40-50.  also, the original quakes and unreal tournaments were 40-50 dollar titles as well.  your standards don't match the market's.

First, I give the Lan gameplay a 9, and I can't imagine how good it will be with future patches.  But it's a lot of little things added together that are causing lower reviews. 

I didn't need a turorial (although I like them) and figured out the game slowly.   My friends do need one (and I mean they really NEED them).   And I would just tell them to read the rulebook, but it was pretty darn skimpy too.

Campains/Story line makes a sandbox game into a "world", I played the Starcraft and Warcraft III campains both at least 3 times, and that's what made me excited to try Wow (in fact, there would be no WoW without the campains in Warcraft 1-3).

No game replays.  Now I love replays, they are like sports shows to us.  A learning tool;  Watching top players battling; a hoot to watch after you just played an epic game with friends.

Lack of maps.  There are "enough" for us, but, they do seem to be very few, and many people love all sorts of maps.

Problems with online MP; they are working on it.  It's sad it happened.  Lets hope word of mouth counters the bad reveiws when MP is fixed. 

Whether you don't care for whats not included in DG or not, lots of people do like many of the things that where not included, and it just all added up.  I'm just lucky I mainly care about Lan, which is fantastic.

I wish more companys would make MMO's as a technology and not a genre, and stop making a game where "it's like WoW but..." or "It's like L2 but..."

Lol I wonder how would you put up tutorial, this game canot be tutored. Let me see

1. Capture obvious flags
2. Buy obvious stuff & raise obvious skills
   
3. Kill obvious creeps & obvious enemy demigods
   
4. Complete obivous game objective

I won normal tournament then custom game for each hero, took 1 day to know everything. And I didnt even lose.

well i dont care about a campaign.

I also dont care about a tutorial. Demigod is so self-explanatory. Its easy to learn, but hard to master. I cannot imagine why anyone, who can use his mind a little more than a cow, would need a tutorial.

multiplayer is the only critic point i totally agree w ith. Come on, they knew its a multiplayer only game, so why the hell can they be surprised with too many users?

What bugs and crashes?. I have played many games in my desktop and my laptop and no crashes.

A few of you guys are missing the point:  I didn't need a tutorial either, I figured it out. That does NOT mean there are'nt thousands of people out there the DO,  You don't tell any customer buying any type of product (even a toaster) YOU figure it out!  You can call them dumb, stupid, whatever you want, but they still NEED a tutorial. If just adding a simple tutorial makes new players go from frustrated and giving up on the game to leaarning, enjoying and loving the game, then HOW would it hurt in any way to put one in???  Especially since every game company knows reveiwers are going to take off points if there is not one.

Same with a campain; replays; very few maps; polished MP; I like campains, don't "need" one, but thousands do.  If adding even a bare-bones campain with even an unimaginative predictable plot would bring in thousands of new players/sales, AND, keep the reviewers from carving off even more points (not to mention give us something to do while waiting for the MP fix), then again, you can't lose by purting one in. 

You yourself may not like or need any of the above, but any game company worth their salt KNOWS lots of people do, and also knows reveiwers are going to, for certain, shave off point after point for each missing bell and whisle.

Don't assume, it makes an ass of you and me.  Personally, I don't see the need for a tutorial or a campaign for this game, and in fact don't see what you could make a campaign out of.  A series of 1v1s?  It just doesn't make sense.

Sins got hammered for lacking a campaign, but while I really don't worry about the lack of a standard campaign there, here I'd be more worried about the idiot who tried to fit one in.  You'd need something really original and creative to create a 'real' campaign in the traditional sense for this game.  What they did -- a tournament mode with a nice ending -- is perfect for the style and nature of the game.