This is just silly. Half the stuff you listed is coming, and alot of it isnt that big of a deal. They use IE because everyone has it, no one's gonna want to hafta download a new web browser if they dont have too.

And about the bugs, SD is nothing like EA in this regard, First of all, the bugs are pretty much on GPG's end anyways. Also stardock has been working extremely hard to fix everything and keeping us informed on what they've been doing. No other company (especially EA) Does this.

If you think Demigod is "lower" quality, then you simply do not play games.  At all.  Full stop.  Do not pass go.  Do not collect $200.  And passing judgement on Stardock is just silly; while it is true they recently have had a finger in Demigod's pie, you simply cannot blame them for any real or perceived faults with Demigod.  You can blame their service, their impulse client, what have you - but blaming them for somebody else's piece of work is simply stupid.

As for your wish list, it sounds good in theory.  Here is some news, however: most games' communities are not geeks that care about having a light weight, stand alone messenger.  There is little reason for it, from a business perspective.  If anything, businesses should be pooling together to have a standard client, instead of fragmenting everything into a bunch of clients.  Pick a protocol!

Finally, IE isn't slow.  This isn't 1995.  Now, IE definitely has faults (standards breakers, argh!).  It looks like Impulse's implementation is what is slow, not IE itself.  Switching to a different renderer isn't going to solve anything if they implement it poorly.  And yeah, this is one thing that drives me nuts - Impulse's web browsing is just so slow.  Again, place blame where it belongs and don't turn your rants into a different topic entirely.

Clan support, IM client-like functionality (Ready-to-Play), and VOIP are all things we've already said we're planning and working on for future revisions of Impulse and/or Impulse Reactor.

On the other hand, unless [insert favorite HTML renderer here] provides a complete drop-in replacement for MSHTML and System.Net (among other libraries), the chances of Impulse being completely rewritten to accomodate it are exceedingly slim to none. MSHTML is a fundamental part of Windows (used in explorer, help, etc), and though it may have flaws, it's easy to integrate and is present on all Windows machines already. But Impulse's using IE's engine or not doesn't really have any bearing at all on Demigod anyway.

Adding VOIP, which is a great idea, to Impulse will of course mean it's available to Demigod. What's the point in having a Digitial Distribution service with VOIP that doesn't work with the games it provides? Anyway, VOIP will increase the amount of upload required by Demigod which is already too much for some people - I'm sure it's already being looked at, I was just wondering is does anyone know by how much it would increase it by?

ok fanboy

1.1 was hyped to fix the dam game yet it created more problems

random does not work hmm how the hell does that pass test phases

name 1 major thing they fixed in 1.1. that would be 0

all that got fixed could have been implemented longtime ago. it seems they only have 1 person working on this game.

its already been stated that after 1.2 the rest of the patches will come out depends on sales of the game.

news flash alot of decent games are gona be out starting in september and all the way to december.

so i guess this game is done

@ZehDon

I just want them to fix the bugs.

ALL community features are to make the community grow better. It can't happen if the game is so buggy that people will just quit.