Really? Is that why they all act like little shits and waste our time over Hamachi and Game Ranger when we ask if they're legit versions? Or make posts to the forum QQ'ing because Stardock won't support them and their pirated copies?

Dude, your age doesn't justify it. It's only proving that you want to be an immature brat over taking responsibility for yourself.

The piraters of games probably don't have any money left from buying porn and therefore must resort to pirating just so they can see Queen of Thorns and her girls...

Reading my mind...

You really are serious, aren't you?

A lot of the pirates I played with are having fun and will buy it once they fix the online play to an acceptable level. Especially since they won't be getting patches to further balance/improve the game.

The game price of $40 is actually a deal if you are thinking about the long run. Its a great pick up game to play whenever and yuo don't have to pay monthly.

In 6 months-1 year this game will really come into its own. If not sooner.

You know, I'll be honest, I pirate a lot of games off Demonoid and usually buy the ones that really impress me.  Unfortunately in this day and age, there aren't many impressive games out there.

This was the first game in a LONG time that I've straight-out bought on release.  I knew they were a small company and I figured they could use the help.  The trailers made the game look really enjoyable and I'm a big fan of DotA.

Well, as I should have expected, this game is -- currently -- shareware-quality junk.  EIGHT Demi-gods and a handful of maps?  Graphical glitches and a bare-bones GUI? Random freezes during loading screens and gameplay?  Nonexistent singleplayer? A completely trainwrecked network?  I acknowledge that the network problems are in large part DUE to the pirates themselves, but why on Earth design the game to make server contact just by opening the main menu?

A lot of people will pirate games regardless of quality, but a big part of it has to do with companies releasing things unfinished and at least a month before they're actually complete.  Charging $40 for this game right now is as bad a form of thievery as the pirates who are torrenting the game.  Both are unethical.

The funny thing is, the LAST game I paid full price for at launch was ... Hellgate: London.    I hope this company has better luck salvaging their product.  Unlike Hellgate, I think this game is actually structually sound, and has a lot of potential over the coming months.

This is obviously a multiplayer game, pirates that enjoy it will buy it. I think it is a good omen that 100,000 people d/l it since they will have a chance to try it.

It is sad that the piracy affected the game play at launch but now that it is corrected, the game will only be better.

Pirates are gamers like me and you and they probably buy more games then any "normal" person. At a certain point, you want to try a game before you buy it; the example of Spore above is correct: if you only look at the advertising any game is the best of all time...

Anyway, if you pirates read this, just spend $40 on this one, the single player portion of this game is nothing compare to the multi-player.

TeamFortress 2 has nine classes, no singleplayer, and had only six maps at release. I don't recall anyone saying such things about it.

I didn't ask for 90+ characters...  But eight characters and less than a dozen uninspired geometric maps is a little paltry for the price, don't you think?  I mean, this is the ONLY thing this game has, so I'm expecting it to wow me.  Do you realize that any of the maps would take a 3D modeler about 3 hours to build and texture from scratch?

I was a little harsh calling it shareware junk -- it's a fun game -- but honestly, $19.99 is a fair price.  If you don't think so, your standards are a little low and gaming companies in general probably love you.  I'm tired of games that are "just okay" and pushed out the door before completion.  Until that changes, I'll continue to pirate before buying.

EDIT:  And also, you're right, DotA borrows all of its models and engine from WCIII.  But WCIII at launch was only about 8 dollars more than the physical copy of Demigod you can buy now, and it had/has about 100x the content, polish, and development time.  I know it's a product of Blizzard so that's to be expected with their budget, but I think market price should reflect the product.  I don't believe in giving pity cash to smaller companies -- If they make an inferior product, for whatever the reason, I want to pay less for it.

Do they?  I haven't heard of them before.  I'll take your word for it and hold out hope.

I'm coming off a bad high from Hellgate London, so my trust is a little bent out of shape..

Ok there is one thing preventing me from buying the game, performance. On my AMD600+(2x3.0Ghz), geforce 9800gt(1gb ram), 4GB sys ram, cfi xtream audio; it's laggy as hell, sound starts to hiccup and at that time the game laggs out horribly. If i am to buy this game i expect it to work... according to recomended sys req it very well should. I'll test it with different drivers and see if that helps, but if it doesent i'll be glad i pirated it and saw that the game wasent for me.  There is always dota

I'll always try out games before i buy them, no matter what company it's from... if i like it and it works fine on my system i'll buy it. If not... delete! I dont care what you think about this, you probalby have enough money so you dont really miss 40$ if you screw a game up, but i'm a poor student who has to work his ass off for that money... so sue me if you can but i'll still try the games out first so i ensure my money is well spent.

I would not advise people to purchase the game as it stands. The most pain free way to find matches is to use hamachi with a pirated version. Purchasing a legit copy just isn't worth it.

Well, I hope that at least one thing came of this:  Those who pirate see that there actions sometimes do really effect others negatively; in this case, lower reveiws, frustrating legitimate paying customers, and, if you have ANY empathy at all, just imagine all the workers at SD losing their vacation (probably the ONLY time they would get off between the years working on this game, and it's post release), and working 12+ hour days to fix the mess.  Not to metion their families, who probably thought "Yay, Daddy can finally do stuff with us now!"  Then: "Sorry, daddy can't spend the week with you darling, he has to go work like a coal-miner till 2am for a week or two because of pirates".

Pirates = "Go look for your own Easter eggs little girl."